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Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality.

Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space. The Paragon Gallery is an educational and community space located in PCC’s Paragon Arts Resource Building. We are committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality and cultural relevance. We are proud to be part of the Humboldt community and are particularly committed to engaging community members in our space.

04/16/2026

🍭🍬CANDY TASTING EVENT🍬
SATURDAY, 4/18 from 12-3 PM🍬🍭

This Saturday, please join artist Marsha Mack for a free candy tasting event! She will be giving out a wide variety of candies, snacks, and treats sourced from local Asian grocery stores. This event is designed to be a light, unstructured event that connects to themes within the exhibition. We hope to see you there!

03/10/2026

WE’RE CLOSED!!

As of tomorrow, March 11th, the Paragon Arts Gallery will be closed in support of the PCC Faculty and Staff strike. We are striking for a better future at the college for our students and workers. Please follow, boost, and support and The strike will begin tomorrow at 10:30am at the Sylvania and Rock creek campuses, so please show support if you can by meeting us at the picket line. There is also a strike fund where for lake can donate to, which will help our most vulnerable members. For more information, go to www.pccstrike.com

Solidarity Forever!

02/26/2026

🍬 OPENING NEXT FRIDAY FROM 5-8P🍬

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Memory Palace, a solo exhibition by Marsha Mack. The exhibition opens Friday, March 6th, 2026, and runs through Saturday, April 11th, 2026.

Please join us for the opening event on Friday, March 6th, 2026 from 5-8p. The gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

Drawing parallels between mixed-race identity and formative memories in Asian grocery stores, Marsha Mack’s Memory Palace is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, installation, and imported candies. Imagined as a surreal retail environment where aisles hold handbuilt ceramics and found object alongside the artist’s favorite childhood candies, Mack creates mixed-media snapshots capturing moments and ideas tracing back to the formation of her Vietnamese American biracial identity - one that is sentimental, at times problematic, and actively evolving. Arranged in altar-like tableaus on commercial gondola shelving, memory and fantasy blend, revealing an underlying logic where the potential for curiosity, delight, and personal mythology is present throughout.

As part of the programming for Memory Palace, Mack will host two free public candy tastings in the gallery, one coinciding with the opening reception on Friday, March 6th from 5-8pm, and the second to take place on Saturday, April 4th from 12-3pm.

Memory Palace was made possible through support from RACC and the Office of Arts & Culture.

*Artist Bio in Comments section*

02/10/2026

✨THIS SATURDAY-Closing Reception w/Artist Talk ✨

This Saturday, February 14th from 5-8p, the Paragon Arts Gallery will have our closing reception for Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death, and Transitions. Please join us for an artist talk from 6-7pm with the artists- Shelley Chamberlin, Marne Lucas, and Dardinelle Troen, followed by a Q+A session.

*Documentation photographs will be taken during workshops for the facilitators and artists’ websites.*

Thanatopsis is a premiere three-person art exhibition that explores the end of life, the grief that accompanies death, and conceptually addresses impermanence and transformation beyond the physical form. Death is a taboo subject, yet we all eventually arrive there. The aim is to allow for the tangible feelings, the vastness of empty space, the sparse moments of sublime beauty in these difficult places, and honor the memory of those who have died. Death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and each individual’s work places aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical value on this inevitable transition. These three artists have found community in each other through their lived experiences with grief, loss, and transformation. They share the desire to illuminate and connect through their creativity, and find new direction in unexpected transformational paths. The audience can share their own experiences and stories in community, where together we heal.

01/29/2026

✨THIS SATURDAY- WHAT IS YOUR LEGACY? COLLAGE WORKSHOP - 1/31 FROM 1-4pm✨

This Saturday, January 31st, the Paragon will be concluding the workshop cycle for Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death, and Transitions. What is Your Legacy? is a collage workshop facilitated by one of the current exhibiting artists, Marne Lucas/Bardo Projects.

All events are free and open to the public, and we hope to see you there :)

Saturday, January 31, 2026 @ 1-4pm: What is Your Legacy? Collage Workshop. 3 hours. Drop in, all ages.

A collage on paper workshop exploring one’s own or a loved one’s legacy, all materials are provided. Enjoy a relaxing, meditative experience while creating a beautiful personal collage to explore your life’s path and honor your legacy. Participants may keep their creations. Participants keep their creations. Free. Drop in, all ages.

Marne Lucas (she/her/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and death doula working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, and mortality, in social practice investigations. Lucas’ long-term projects are informed by the events and emotions of the community around her, and are inspired by the death doula and palliative care movements. An infrared thermal video pioneer, she uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the magic and fragility of human life cycles. Founder of the ‘Bardo Project, Lucas explores creativity as a form of spiritual care in collaborations with terminally ill artists to establish their legacy. Lucas received training via INELDA as an End of Life Doula, a role that supports the dying and their families, and has been a practicing EOLD since 2016. Marne has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, s*x workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large. www.marnelucas.com

01/10/2026

✨SATURDAY, 1/17 AT 1PM + 2:30PM- ANCESTORS IN TRAINING + YOGA FOR GRIEF✨

Hello everyone! Please join us on Saturday, January 17th for two public events at the Paragon Arts Gallery.

All events are free and open to the public

1PM- Ancestors in Training- A meditation on end-of-life and what comes next… by Dardinelle Troen/ Vie Mor Doula

Join us for an afternoon of guided meditation focused on cultivating mindfulness and awareness of our mortality. We will draw inspiration from Maranasati, or The Nine Contemplations of Death, a Buddhist meditation practice designed to help us confront and overcome our resistance to death and dying. The primary purpose of these practices is to face our own mortality, similar to traditional meditation, intended to enhance our appreciation for the richness of everyday life. Dardinelle Troen will guide participants through a meditation that explores the nine contemplations, incorporating visualizations that reflect on our role as future ancestors.

2:30 PM- Yoga for Grief Relief facilitated by Rebecca Méndez

The Yoga session is suitable for all levels and is done seated on a chair and/or standing. Accessible options offered. Grief touches all of us. Sometimes in life-altering ways, other times in subtle and surprising moments of change and transition. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, experienced a major life event, or are simply navigating the everyday rhythms of letting go/holding on, grief is ever present. And just as love does, grief transforms us. Yoga for Grief Relief class offers a safe, compassionate space to be with your grief. Through gentle yoga movements, visualizations and breath awareness practices you can calm your nervous system, ease tension, and have intentional time for reflection, release, and healing. Rebecca will read some poems as an offering for tender hearts. With these yoga tools and mindful practices Yoga for Grief Relief offers ways to meet yourself where you are, soothe and soften the edges of loss—so you can find more compassion, presence, and understanding, not just during class but also to be called upon as needed.

*Bios for facilitators in comments section*

01/02/2026

Happy New Year from all of us at the Paragon! We are kicking off the year by announcing our next open call cycle.

We wanted to also remind everyone that what you are doing as artists and curators is so vital during these unprecedented times. Your voices are so much more powerful than what the world may tell you, and if it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be living in a time where art is actively being censored. We look forward to seeing what stories you are telling, and we wish all applicants the best of luck in this cycle!

The Paragon Gallery is an educational and community space located in PCC’s Paragon Arts Resource Building along with PCC Cascade’s printmaking studio. We are committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality and cultural relevance. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community we are especially interested in proposals that will engage and welcome community members into our space.

The Paragon Gallery will be accepting proposals for installations/exhibitions to occur in 2025-2026, and the deadline will be February 21,2025

*If you are a PCC student, and you wish to participate in future student exhibitions, we will post updated information in Winter/Spring term 2025 for our end-of-the-year exhibition.

Submission proposals are evaluated based on
conceptual relevance to curricula and to the community surrounding Portland Community College Cascade Campus:

technique and ideation
dynamically related programming/events
variety in overall exhibition schedule

*Proposal details in the comments section*

12/13/2025

✨SCHEDULE UPDATE FOR THE WEEK OF 12/15!✨

Hello everyone! We are excited to share a revised open hours schedule for this coming week. had kindly offered her time to gallery sit for this coming Monday and Tuesday-12/15 & 12/16- from 12-6. We will be closed for the remainder of the week, as PCC prepares for the school to close for the holidays. Please come in and say hello and chat and take a look at amazing art!!

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12/10/2025

Thank you to everyone that came out to the opening of ‘Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death, and Transition’. We had a fantastic turnout and are so humbled by the community support.

We wanted to give you some quick updates:
The gallery will be closed from Saturday, December 20th through January 4th. We will be having special hours next week, so be on the lookout for that update!

Another update is that we have finalized dates for upcoming workshops in the New Year!

January 2026 Workshops: End of Life and Grief related arts and healing workshops, open to the public.

Saturday, January 17th, 1p Ancestors in Training- A meditation on end-of-life and what comes next... by Dardinelle Troen/Vie Mort Doula. 45 Minutes

Saturday, January 17th, 2:30 Yoga for Grief Relief facilitated by Rebecca Méndez. 60 Minutes

Saturday, January 24th, 1p Write Your Own Obituary by Katherine Annala. A one hour workshop on writing one’s obituary is an illuminating exercise to learn about our own life and legacy.

Saturday, January 31st, 1-4pm What is Your Legacy? Collage Workshop by Marne Lucas/Bardo Project.

Please see comments for details of each workshop. We hope you all have a restful holiday break, and we look forward to sharing more art in the Portland community in the coming year!

11/22/2025

✨OPENING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 5-8p✨

Thanatopsis is a premiere three-person art exhibition that explores the end of life, the grief that accompanies death, and conceptually addresses impermanence and transformation beyond the physical form. Death is a taboo subject, yet we all eventually arrive there. The aim is to allow for the tangible feelings, the vastness of empty space, the sparse moments of sublime beauty in these difficult places, and honor the memory of those who have died. Death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and each individual’s work places aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical value on this inevitable transition. These three artists have found community in each other through their lived experiences with grief, loss, and transformation. They share the desire to illuminate and connect through their creativity, and find new direction in unexpected transformational paths. The audience can share their own experiences and stories in community, where together we heal.

*artist bios in the comments section*

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