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Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellows

Since 1977, the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Program has honored Oregon’s professional artists. Fellows are competitively selected through an application process that recognizes outstanding talent, demonstrated ability and commitment to the creation of new work.

Graphics: Posters + Cards

Selected examples of historical and contemporary graphic design of posters and exhibition cards for Oregon visual arts happenings.

Selected Catalogs

Oregon institutions support artists by documenting their work. This can be equally impactful as a first publication or a major retrospective catalog, and often allows some of the few opportunities for scholars, writers, and fellow artists to expand and contextualize our understanding of the artist’s work.

Recent Critical Conversations Arts Writing

Critical Conversations is a collaboration between The Ford Foundation’s Visual Arts Program and the University of Oregon, in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College.

Critical Conversations provides a space for artists and cultural producers that is rooted in exchange and inquiry. Organizing partners facilitate a year-round calendar of studio visits for Oregon artists by prominent visiting curators and arts writers, who also offer public lectures and other forms of engagement to our community. Recognizing the nexus between artists and those who reflect upon and present their work, Critical Conversations also sponsors a series of convenings, commissioned writing, and an annual publication that specifically engage Oregon’s curators and arts writers around currents in society and the field. 

Ludd or Lucifer: Felicity Fenton Considers Whether to Abandon the World Wide Web or Strike a Deal with the Devil and Use the Internet to Critique the Internet 
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Ludd or Lucifer: Felicity Fenton Considers Whether to Abandon the World Wide Web or Strike a Deal with the Devil and Use the Internet to Critique the Internet 

by Richard Speer  To post or not to post? In light of the “delete-Facebook” and anti-social-media movements, an increasingly vocal contingent of visual artists is […]