Visiting Artist Lecture: Emily Counts

For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest College of Art has served as a dynamic creative center for emerging artists, designers, and creators with an educational philosophy that emphasizes individualized curricula, independent inquiry, and cross-disciplinary exchange. PNCA students explore, experiment  and reimagine the world. At the creative heart of Portland, PNCA is a center for artists, designers, and scholars, presenting  a wide array of free public programs and exhibitions for our community.

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CCAC at PNCA proudly presents an artist lecture with Emily Counts!

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<a href="https://emilycounts.com/" title="https://emilycounts.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Emily Counts</a> was born in Seattle, WA and currently lives and works in Tacoma, WA. She creates ceramic and mixed-media sculptures that engage with craft traditions while exploring femininity, matriarchal identity, memory, and nature. This work is personal but ultimately suggests open-ended narratives, creating space for the viewer’s own stories and meaning. Electricity and illumination are often incorporated into ceramic pieces as she aims to merge nostalgia and historical aesthetics with a futuristic sensibility.Counts received her BFA from the California College of the Arts and studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Torrance Art Museum in California, Oregon Contemporary in Portland, and in Washington at the Museum of Museums, the Bellevue Arts Museum, and the Museum of Northwest Art. She has received grants from Artist Trust, The Ford Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council. She was an artist in residence at Raid Projects in Los Angeles, Plane Space in New York, and at the Varda Artists Residency Program in Sausalito, CA. Counts has works in the collection of the Port of Seattle. She is currently represented in Oregon by Nationale and in Washington by studio e gallery. This lecture is free &amp; open to the public! UPDATE 2/18: This lecture will be in-person only! Pacific Northwest College of Art In the First Floor Mediatheque 511 NW Broadway

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