Artist in Residence Program Launch
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22nd, 2009
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Entry fee: 1 piece of styrofoam.
John Ross Plaza Studio
3623 SW River Parkway
Portland OR 97239
RSVP appreciated but please feel free to stop by: communityrelations@southwaterfront.com
Art professor Michael Salter will take his Styrofoam creations and visual art to a new neighborhood this spring. Salter is living and working in Portland as an “Artist in Residence,” a partnership established by the South Waterfront Community Relations program and the UO’s Department of Art. Salter will also be teaching at the UO in Portland.
The Department of Art’s digital arts program has developed this new faculty residency with the UO in Portland and the South Waterfront Community Relations program. The South Waterfront 20/20 Art, Culture, and Science Committee, a resident committee in the neighborhood district, advised on the goals of the “Artist in Residence” program. Salter’s new residency coincides with his teaching in the bachelor of fine arts digital arts program at the White Stag Block.
The South Waterfront’s innovative architectural vision of an urban community provides these artists with live/work space in its soaring, LEED-certified glass towers. Digital arts professor, Michael Salter, whose work often employs recycled materials and is grounded in street culture, will spend his residency creating an artwork at South Waterfront and preparing for an exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. His residency demonstrates the university’s commitment to contribute to regional and global conversations in art, design, and sustainability.
Each term a new artist will live and create in the South Waterfront neighborhood while teaching at UO in Portland. Artists have access to a ground floor studio space and will host open events and studio hours for the neighborhood residents.
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