2012 Year End Letter - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

SUPPORT PORTLAND
INSTITUTE FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART
AT YEAR END
YOUR DONATION NOW COUNTS TWICE
For a limited time, all new and increased
donations are matched dollar-for-dollar up
to $1,000 by the Maybelle Clark
Macdonald Fund.
WAYS TO GIVE
+Online at pica.org
+By phone: 503 242 1419
MORE WAYS TO SUPPORT PICA
+Give a gift of stocks or securities
+Donate your old vehicle
+Give a PICA membership to a loved one
+Check with your employer to see if they will match your gift.
+Contact Roya Amirsoleymani for details at 503.242.1419 x18
MATCH YOUR PICA DONATION WITH A GIFT
TO THE CULTURAL TRUST
Make a donation to PICA and match that amount to the Oregon
Cultural Trust by December 31st to claim 100% of your Trust
gift as a credit on your Oregon State income tax. Visit
culturaltrust.org/give for details.

“MACH 10: HAIR ON FIRE!”
A LETTER FROM THE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
That’s how Kristy Edmunds, our
fo und er, once described PICA’s
ambition. We have always lived on
the edge; that thin line between
the pres ent and future. Propelled
by fiercely loyal supporters like
you, we have ne ver been afraid to
step off that line and into a new
world that builds on our strengths
and challenges our as s umptions.
This year, drawing on the wisdom
accumulated over our 17-year history;
guided with thought and care
by our Board, staff, and fun ders;
and propelled by the expl osive energy
of our artists, we leapt into
the next chapter of PICA’s ins piring
story.
We have a new home imagined by
dreamers, designed by believers,
and built by the sweat of a community
that is eager to play a role
in the creation of what comes next.
We welcomed a new resident Art istic
Director, Angela Mattox, who is co-
m m itted to making Portland a hub
for international discussions about
the direction of contemporary art.
We inaugurated a year-round pro -
g ram of events with exhibitions,
residencies, and a symposium designed
as a platform for the world’s
most daring artists and most curi -
ous audiences to gather.
And, we celebrated a decade of the
most vibrant, challenging, and reward
ing art festival in this hemi sphere.
After 10 years, the Time-Based Art
Festival continues to be an anchor
cul tural event for Portland and
rem ains one of the few truly interdisci
p linary contemporary art festivals
in the United States.
PICA is supported by a small staff
of fanatics, carried by an army of
volun teers, and sustained by a core
of life-giving visionaries. It is your
un-wavering belief in PICA’s mission
that allows us—year after year—
to realize the impossible. Your
support extends to artists from
North Portland, West Africa, South
America, and East Asia. It allows
them to create the work that defines
the world we live in today and proposes
a vision of tomorrow. Your
generosity drives the engine that
propels us forward.
As we stride boldly into PICA’s future,
your continued investment is
essential. This year you can leverage
your gift to accomplish even more.
Give generously now and your donation
may be matched by a challenge
grant from the Maybelle Clark
Macdonald Fund for new and increased
contributions!
PICA is not for the faint-of-heart. It
is for lovers of ideas and dialogue,
confrontation and beauty, challenge
and inspiration. It is for people of
vision and imagination. It is for you.
PICA will continue to dream, but it
is only with your generous support
that we can continue to turn those
ideas into reality. Thank you for moving
with us into the future.
See you tomorrow,
Victoria Frey

PICA 2012: A LOOK BACK (AND AHEAD)
January-March
415 Construction
April 27-28
Low Lives 4
Featuring Linda Hutchins,
Future Death Toll, Austin
Adkins, and Robert Tyree
June 21
Performance
Keith Hennessy
Crotch
August 2
PICA’s 17th Birthday feat.
MAXXXIMUM Volume
October 13
Lecture
Susan Rosenberg on Trisha
Brown’s Visual Art Practice
April 13
Grand Opening
May 14-19
Residency
Big Art Group
The People—Portland
June 21-24
PICA Symposium:
Bodies, Identities & Alternative
Economies
September 6-16
10th Annual
Time-Based Art Festival
November 29
Oregon Mushroom Stories:
Mushroom, Mold, and Yeast
Feast with EcoTrust
April-June
Exhibition
Glen Fogel,
My Apocalyptic Moment
May 19
TADA! Annual Gala
June 23
Screening:
A.L. Steiner & A.K. Burns,
Community Action Center
September 1-29
End Things at TBA:12
December 8
Prints For PICA
April-June
Resource Room Residency
Alex Felton
I Don’t Want to Work. But I
Love the Workplace
June 6-7
Exhibition
Alex Felton
As The World Churns
July-September
Resource Room Residency
Claudia Meza
Ditch
October-December
Resource Room Residency
Lisa Radon
WHITE MOUNTAIN
December 18-19
Justin Vivian Bond
Snow Angel

AN INVITATION FROM THE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
As I mark my first anniversary here,
I would like to thank you for being
part of a profound year of discovery
and change for PICA as an organization,
and for me as Artistic Director.
It is an exciting moment for us as
we settle into our new home, open our
doors to the public, and launch annual
programs that demonstrate our
continued commitment to supporting
artists and creating a dialogue
around their work. I’m thrilled to be
part of this 17-year legacy of embracing
experimentation and investing
in artists, and I look forward to
on going conversations about contem -
porary art and PICA’s role in the
community and larger field.
Coming off the tenth anniversary
of the always-epic TBA Festival, I’m
still responding to the myriad complex
ideas and experiences. The artists
we present continually help us to
navigate our world and ins pire us with
their courage and vision. This year,
artists from around the globe shared
their insights into this current moment
through astoun d ing works of
fearless inquiry, resoun d ing humanity,
and deep artistic vulnerability.
Not only was 2012 an important
milestone for the Festival, but we’ve
also spent this year mounting pub-
lic programs in our new home, where
we are creating a platform for rich,
dynamic experiences and inter actions.
We opened this facility in April
with an exhibition of paintings and
a five-channel video project by
Glen Fogel entitled My Apocalyptic
Moment. Building on our expan -
ded library space, we laun ched a
Resource Room Residency prog ram
with artists Alex Felton, Claudia Meza,
and now Lisa Radon, exploring our
collection of books and recordings.
In May, we held a weeklong residency
with Big Art Group to develop The
People—Portland, which opened this
year’s TBA Festival. And we hosted
Keith Hennessy’s company in June
to develop Turbulence (a dance about
the economy) for its TBA premiere,
and convene a weekend symposium
of rigorous conversations and perform
an ces around the themes of the
work. These programs are emblema tic
of our year-round work supporting the
creative process and connecting you—
our audience—with artistic practice.
PICA is a hub for the development of
new work by some of today’s most
compelling artists. How can we con-
tinue to create public forums in
which artists, audiences, academics,
activists, and others can come together
and delve deeper into urgent
issues? What role can PICA play in
responding to our cultural moment?
These questions guide our future and
I’m looking forward to exploring
them in the year to come. I invite you
to renew your commitment to what
we stand for and help us build upon
on our legacy of inquiry, provoca tion,
and artistic discovery.
Angela Mattox

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