You in Mind
A SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS ORGANIZED BY GUEST ARTISTIC DIRECTOR KRISTY EDMUNDS
Featured Artists: Ann Hamilton, Brian Droitcour, Catherine Opie, Chris Doyle, Chris Johanson, Claire Pentecost, David Horvitz, Demian DinéYazhi’, Drew Cameron, Ellen Lesperance, James Lavadour, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Jessie Henson, Jim Hodges, Laurie Anderson, Lita Albuquerque, Melody Owen, MK Guth, MSHR, Robbie C. Williamson, Sharita Towne, Stephen Hayes, Storm Tharp, Tannaz Farsi & Yassi Mazandi
2018 Programs
Converge 45 2016–2018 Guest Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds selected the title YOU IN MIND for the theme of her three-year Converge 45 programming. YOU IN MIND focuses on artistic practices that have a public in mind, giving artists the opportunity to discuss critical issues of aesthetic, societal, and global significance. Kristy Edmunds is the Executive & Artistic Director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
2017 Programs
Converge 45 is a curatorial-driven arts platform that engages audiences and artists in Portland, Oregon, connecting the city in a global dialog through the vision of leading curators. This multi-year cycle and four days of extended programming (August 9 – 12) has been lead by Guest Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
26 artists working in the United States have been invited to present new and existing works throughout eight venues and the public realm, each responding to Edmunds’ framework of “YOU IN MIND.”
2016 Programs
The 2016, 2017, and 2018 years of Converge 45 are guided by Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds’ intellectual framework and theme of YOU IN MIND.
The three core components of Converge 45’s 2016 first year were 1. an Artists’ Congress, 2. Partnering Exhibitions, and 3. a Visitors’ Weekend.
