North View Gallery PCC Sylvania

08/21/2025

Shana Palmer | Full Circle: The Harmonic Sum of Current and Light

Exhibition Dates: September 15 - October 23, 2025

First Thursday Performances featuring Wild Strawberry, Francisco Botello, Stars without Make Up and Shana Palmer performing with The Tenses: Thursday October 2, 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Closing Reception with Music and Sonic Arts student performances: Thursday, October 23, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Full Circle, an installation by the artist Shana Palmer in collaboration with Portland Community College’s Music and Sonic Arts program, immerses viewers in multiple feedback loops, foregrounding the importance of interconnection and the impact we have on each other and on our world. Circles are evoked throughout the gallery, via the quadraphonic sound that fills the space and the way viewers create new sounds as they close open loops.

Learn more here: https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2025/08/20/7435/

03/08/2024

Godhead Preview and Spicy Webmaster's Intro to Interactive Webcomics

Thursday, March 14, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
North View Gallery PCC Sylvania

Bring your story ideas and your imagination to this workshop about making interactive webcomics led by Carmi Tronci Bell, author of Godhead and creator of the Spicy Webmasters Discord. We’ll be creating a choose-your-own-adventure style webcomic together in real time using nothing but the stuff that comes free on your computer.

This event is free to all and organized in conjunction with a preview of Carmi Tronci Bell’s solo exhibition Godhead, which will open in the North View Gallery in January 2025. Visit the gallery windows from March 11-15, 2024 for a preview of the exhibition and come back on Thursday, March 14 for a workshop with the artist.

03/08/2024

David Torres II
Sunkeepers 2 screening

Wednesday, March 13, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
PCC Sylvania, CT 214, North View Gallery

Sunkeepers 2 is part of an Afrofuturist video series set in a fictional world that is trapped in perpetual war and suffering from historical amnesia after the fall of the Sunkeeper empire. Artist David Torres III draws on wide-ranging influences from anime, video games, Alain Resnais and his father's middle school drawings to immerse audiences in a world where the lines between good and evil are blurred and inhabitants struggle to find their purpose governed by rules that are built on a forgotten past.

This event is part of the Refractions Screening Series made possible through a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council

The Refractions Screening Series features artists who use video, animation and performance to refract or bend narrative directions by exposing the complicated realities of cultural myths, colonization, protracted international wars, migration and the implications of past violence on potential futures.

01/29/2024

Thank you to everyone (including colleagues and former and current students) who visited Una Kim’s opening this past weekend!

We have extended the exhibition until March 8, so if you have not yet spent time with Una’s new work, we’d love to see you in the gallery soon!

01/19/2024

❄️PCC remains closed today and our colleagues are working hard to clear the ice and trees that have made the roads on our campus impassable. Due to still treacherous conditions on Mt. Sylvania, the gallery will remain closed over the weekend and reopen on Monday. ❄️

❄️Travel is still dangerous in many parts of the city and we want everyone to be able to visit the gallery safely, so we are exercising an abundance of caution and rescheduling our Opening Reception for ‘s epic show one more (last) time!❄️

✨Please Join Us ✨
✨Opening Reception✨
✨Next Saturday, January 27✨
✨From 3:00-6:00 p.m.✨

❄️We can’t wait to celebrate Una Kim and her new show Battlegrounds together with you next Saturday!❄️

Image: Una Kim, Inward, 2023, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 44x30”, courtesy of the artist.

Una Kim | Battlegrounds
Extended Exhibition Dates will be announced soon!

01/18/2024

Thank you for promoting this outstanding exhibition by Una Kim, Portland Community College ❤️

Our hearts are with all of our operations, facilities, and IT colleagues who are working hard to get our campuses open again.

We’ll continue to share updates about our postponed reception and some extended gallery hours, once the college has reopened.

Stay safe everyone!

The last artist in residency for HARTS initiative features her De Kooning-esque paintings invoking capitalist and colonial influences in education

01/12/2024

Due to inclement weather and the North View Gallery are closed through Sunday. Visit alert.pcc.edu for more info.
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Because of this closure, we have rescheduled the opening reception for BATTLEGROUNDS, new work by Una Kim.
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🟪Please join us NEXT Saturday, January 20 3-6🟪
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The gallery will remain closed next Monday, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and will reopen Tuesday, January 16, weather permitting.
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Stay warm if you’re in the Portland area and we can’t wait to see you back in the gallery soon!
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Image: In Pieces, by Una Kim, 2023, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 40x30 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

01/08/2024

Artist welcomes us back to winter term with her new show BATTLEGROUNDS. (January 8th - February 8th)

❌Please join us for the Opening Reception - This Saturday, January 13 from 3-6❌

BATTLEGROUNDS features recent mixed media paintings of figures that dance and struggle against forces both internal and external. A new series of rice paper banners additionally investigate the tension between the liberatory and colonizing practices of formal education.

Una Kim is the last of six artists and writers selected for an innovative residency program at inspired by an Obama administration laureate program. The residency was recently defunded, which makes this our final Artist in Residence exhibition.

In Korean, Una means embrace the world. And while the figures in Una Kim’s new work bend and twist to fit into the limiting structures of oppressive systems, they also open their arms to the world that surrounds them. Much of the work in this show is a response to the trauma of navigating battlegrounds built by others. Kim’s gestural marks create openness, even spaces of freedom, amidst the demands, rules and marching orders that bind so many in Kim’s universe. In this new body of work, Kim creates a visual intensity that expresses her feelings about the battlegrounds historically marginalized people in the US navigate on a daily basis.

Graphic design: Aaron Vonkauer

07/29/2023

We are excited to share with you our first open call for exhibition proposals!

⚡️Deadline: August 31, 2023

The North View Gallery is accepting proposals from artists, collectives and curators. All mediums and genres are encouraged to apply. Selected installations/exhibitions will be woven into our 2023/2024 season.

⚡️Read all the details here:
https://forms.gle/bq7yvo4jWUY4UZMPA

05/27/2023

The gallery directors from all four art galleries are excited to welcome you to our annual student art show featuring work by students from all four PCC campuses and our centers and juried by the great Yaelle Amir.

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WHERE ARE WE NOW
PCC Art Student Exhibition 22|23
May 18-June 15
North View Gallery
PCC Sylvania
M-F 8-4

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Awards Reception
Saturday, June 10
12:30-1:30

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Evening Hours until 7pm
Thursday, May 18
Monday, May 22
Wednesday, May 31

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We can’t wait for you to see this stunning student work!