Micro-Manifesto

Location:
Microgalleries

Showing:
10.27.26 - 12.08.27

Featured artists:
Soap Laos
Mark Strehlow 
Isabel Almejo
Sarah McCully-Posner
Claire Mishimbu
Fatma H.M.
a*dande
Kevin LaRose
Gage Landauer
Rosalyn Daniel
Makenzie Hodges-French
Jules Raedeke
Jesse King
Scout Mann
Ora Koeder Hill- No Safe Harbor
Cat Prescott
Ella Peterson
Madeline E Baird

Taught by:
Anna Gray

Show Statement

A manifesto is a declaration of public importance. It is often a forceful, poetic, rallying cry that summons a future we have yet to fully imagine.

This fall, a group of students wrote their own personal artistic manifestos inspired by sculptor Claes Oldenburg’s 1961 statement “I am for an Art.” The microgalleries will feature a rotating set of visual and textual excerpts from their works until the close of the term. Check back to see new work each week and stay tuned for a forthcoming publication collecting all the manifestos in their full form.

Featured This Week

Sarah McCully-Posner, a Portland-based handweaver invokes memory and nostalgia into her designs using natural fibers and bold color while nodding to the long and complex history of weavers and textile creation. This piece references a carved wooden door, stained glass windows and bronze Stumbling Stones she saw on a trip to Florence, Italy in 2025.

Kevin LaRose makes art in paint, word, sound
With a focus on narrative paintings
About what it is like being alive
Within a world cruel beautiful and strange.

Jesse King is an artist from Chugiak, Alaska, working with themes of craft, land, home, and heritage. Metal, fiber, ceramics, photography, and paint combine in her practice to capture the overwhelming love and simultaneous grief that comes with being a good steward of one’s own memories and community.

About the Microgalleries

Our Microgalleries are three small circular windows next to the front door of the Littman Gallery. The spaces are curated monthly by our curator and are dedicated to showcasing up and coming PSU student artists.

Microgalleries Submissions

Are you an artist or aspiring artist who is currently enrolled at Portland State University? Littman & White invites all PSU students to submit small-scale artwork for an exhibit in our Microgalleries! If you would like to be considered for an exhibit, please email us at curatorlw@pdx.edu to hear back from us!

Please be prepared to submit the following information:

Images of artwork (max 6 per artist)
Artist Statement/Show Statement
Name your images “LAST NAME_TITLE”
Title of works
Dimensions (no larger than 14 x 14”)
Media
Year Created

For a diagram of our microgalleries, click here! Excited to hear from y’all!!

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