Oregon State University - Cascades’ Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Caldera Arts will showcase their ongoing collaboration and focus on the artist’s life during an open house from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 14. The theme of the event is “Art, Amnesia, Education”.
Artists and non-artists are invited to participate in guided and informal discussions on living life as an artist and explore a variety of perspectives, including the practical, economic and spiritual. Visitors can choose to listen to readings from faculty, join an art installation experience led by a visual artist, participate in an interactive creative exercise with students, or chat and respond in a reception area. Participants are free to come and go, sampling the various activities and art forms.
Participating artists include OSU-Cascades MFA faculty Arielle Greenberg, TC Tolbert, T. Geronimo Johnson, Kristiana Kahakauwila, Emily Carr and Beth Alvarado as well as artist Horatio Law:
- Arielle Greenberg’s poetry and creative nonfiction explores feminism, birth politics and back-to-the-land movements.
- Poet and LBGT activist TC Tolbert’s award-winning collection “Gephyromania”, which means an obsession with bridges, explores boundaries, territories and gender binaries.
- Novelist T. Geronimo Johnson’s “Welcome To Braggsville” is, according to the Washington Post “the most unsettling, must-read novel this year" and is longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction 2015.
- Radcliffe Fellowship recipient Kristiana Kahakauwila is an inventive writer whose debut story collection explores the paradoxical aspects of Hawaii’s island life.
- Poet and program director Emily Carr has been a finalist in seven national book contests. Her interests include ecofeminism, contemporary North American poetics, the Eco-Gothic & the fairytale, dreamwork, and the literature of body image.
- Beth Alvarado's second book "Anthropologies: A Family Memoir" is a vivid archive of memories that layers scenes, oral histories, portraits, and dreams in a dynamic cross-cultural mosaic.
- Interdisciplinary artist Horatio Law was born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents and moved to the United States at age 16. He explores issues of identity, memory, and the loss and gain of cross-cultural struggle in the evolving global community.
To register for the free open house click here.
Established in 2013, the OSU-Cascades MFA in Creative Writing incorporates instruction in the craft and profession of creative writing. Students each embark on a long-distance and individualized course of study with a faculty mentor and twice a year join fellow students for intensive 10-day residences of craft workshops, literature lectures and professional seminars at Caldera near Sisters, Ore.
Caldera Arts is a catalyst for the transformation of underserved youth through innovative year-round art and environmental programs. Caldera operates on the simple notion that when you show someone the power of their own creativity, it suddenly feels like anything is possible.
About OSU-Cascades: Located in Bend, Ore., Oregon State University’s branch campus features outstanding faculty in degree programs that reflect Central Oregon’s vibrant economy and abundant natural resources. Eighteen undergraduate majors and four graduate programs include Energy Systems Engineering, Exercise and Sport Science, Hospitality Management, and Tourism and Outdoor Leadership. The branch campus expanded to a four-year university in fall 2015.