Dorothea Lange, c.1939

PSU's Littman Gallery is exhibiting Dorothea Lange in 1939, a collection of FSA photographs presented by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. During the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) hired photographers like Lange to "portray the suffering of rural Americans in terms understandable to the urban middle class." Lange became known for her extraordinary work as an American documentarian, and this series has an obvious and important relevance to our delicate economic situation today. The show will run through November 25, 2009.

Reception • 5-7pm • October 8
PSU Littman Gallery • 1835 SW Broadway • Smith Building Rm 250



Mack McFarland

PSU's White Gallery is showing Ten Foot Pole Drawings by Mack McFarland. Through October 28, 2009.

Reception • 5-7pm • October 8
PSU White Gallery • 1825 SW Broadway • Smith Building 2nd Floor



Mary Warner, "Wilt"

PCC Cascade is beginning the 2009-2010 exhibition season with Flower Shower by Mary Warner: "The fragility and short life of flowers can seemingly be averted through the perceptibly permanent medium of oil paint on canvas. What prevails in today's star struck art world are the use of computer generated tracings, color field silhouettes, doodle stylized interpretations, reductive and slacker aesthetics. Warner's paintings of chrysanthemums, roses, thistles and rubbery bubble flowers are for those who want close up depictions of floral contemplation, compositions working to overcome the limitations of two-dimensional surfaces, and a stirring up of their senses." The exhibition runs October 7 - November 12, 2009.

Artist lecture • 11am-12pm • November 12
Closing reception • 5-8pm • November 12
PCC Cascade • 705 N Killingsworth • Terrell Hall Rm 102