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Artist Spotlight: Brendan Hanna

  • Sarah Applin
  • February 5, 2025

PSU Graphic Design Alumni ‘24 Brendan Hanna is an artist specializing in design and screenprinting. Hanna’s work takes on a fast-moving style, blending pop, music and skateboarding culture and spins…

Nafziger’s writing is largely inspired by the rural Mennonite community that she grew up in. Courtesy of Rosanna Nafziger.
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Artist Spotlight: Rosanna Nafziger

  • Macie Harreld
  • April 15, 2024

Rosanna Nafziger—an alum of Portland State’s MFA in Creative Writing Program—has been awarded a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. This fellowship is considered one of the most prestigious literary awards in…

“The Seer” is one of Rios’ pieces from 2023. Rios often takes inspiration from nature in her work. Courtesy of Adalia Rios
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Artist Spotlight: Adalia Rios

  • Macie Harreld
  • October 12, 2023

Portland State senior Adalia Rios is a BFA student who specializes in oil painting. Her art blurs the boundaries between horror and fantasy, giving life to otherworldly creatures with a…

Mirrors by Forest Wolf Kell at One Grand Gallery. Macie Harreld PSU Vanguard.
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Artist Spotlight: Forest Wolf Kell

  • Macie Harreld
  • September 14, 2023

When Portland-based artist Forest Wolf Kell was asked what inspired his work, he answered everything.   “It’s hard to explain because I don’t know if inspired is the right word,”…

Textile from How We Hegemony. Macie Harreld/PSU Vanguard
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Artist Spotlight: Angela Anh Nguyen debuts How we Hegemony

  • Macie Harreld
  • May 3, 2023

Through lofty graffiti-smudged windows at One Grand Gallery in NE Portland, a spectacle of rugs splatter the walls and floor. The textiles take shape in whimsically exaggerated anatomies and bursting…

Eli Durst next to one of his photos at The Blue Sky Center. PSU Vanguard/Jesse Ropers.
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 Artist Spotlight: Eli Durst

  • Jesse Ropers
  • January 18, 2023

Throughout the past few years of pandemic isolation, the value of in-person community has become more apparent than ever. Eli Durst’s photography project, The Community, explores a variety of gatherings…

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PSU Vanguard Creative Spotlight

  • Olivia Lee
  • August 22, 2022

This spotlight video explores the creation of ‘Front Yard Parking + Real Clean’ a gallery exhibition by multidisciplinary Portland artist, Isabeau Waia’u Walker. The show is a capsule of Hawaii…

The 13-stringed koto instrument. Tanner Todd/PSU Vanguard
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Creative’s Spotlight: Mitsuki Dazai

  • Tanner Todd
  • June 1, 2022

Despite its minimalist, 13-stringed structure, the Japanese koto is a surprisingly versatile instrument in the hands of an expert like Mitsuki Dazai.   “This is a very simple structured musical…

Emily Miller at work/Shelby Silver. Courtesy of Emily Miller
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Creative’s Spotlight: Emily Miller

  • Karina Agbisit
  • March 7, 2022

With bright blues, vivid yellows and mossy greens, artist Emily Jung Miller’s hand-woven baskets immediately catch the eye.   The baskets are part of Miller’s Ghost Net collection, an ongoing…

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