Portland Art Center is pleased to announce the call for submissions for 2008. Each year, PAC invites members of the local arts community, both artists and arts administrators, to sit on our submission committees. These committees then help sort and choose from the submissions. This process is intended to directly engage our arts community in our programming for the coming year. It is important to Portland Art Center’s mission, that the programming is a reflection of ideas and concepts important to our community. We encourage you to submit. Last year we received over 150 submissions. This year, we are hoping for an even better response. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Gavin Shettler
Executive Director

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 6pm, June 30th, 2007

The Portland Art Center is a nonprofit exhibition space and resource center for the contemporary arts. Its mission is to cultivate informative and innovative interactions between the art world and the public. Portland Art Center serves as a support network and information hub for the contemporary arts in Portland, Oregon and the Northwest. Our dynamic programming offers unique opportunities to contemporary artists whose work is outside the commercial gallery system.

THE PROGRAMS
The MAIN GALLERY exhibits cutting edge contemporary art with a focus on Installation and Site-Specific work and ranges from individual artists to guest curators. Our goal is to bring thoughtful provocative installations into this space that challenge and push beyond the boundaries and conventions of traditional art. We strive to be a flexible gallery used to maximize artist’s creativity by providing a space where local and national, emerging and established curators and artists are shown side by side.

The LIGHT & SOUND GALLERY is a new space dedicated to the exhibition of video and sound-art installations. Our intention is to create a focused space for listening and viewing. The program features installation-based audio and/or video pieces, with an emphasis on multi-channel and sculptural work. We are seeking proposals that fully explore the spatial potentials of sound and image while challenging the conventions of narrative and viewer/listener orientation. Surround-sound and multi-speaker compositions, multi-screen video works and intersections of the two mediums are welcome.

2008 Curatorial Committees
Main Gallery
Bruce Conkle, MaryAnn Deffenbaugh, Kelly Rauer, Gavin Shettler

Light & Sound Gallery
Dan Senn, Mack McFarland, Gretchen Hogue, Kelly Rauer, Gavin Shettler

Thank you to our 2007 Curatorial Committees for helping make this year's programming a success!