Mona Lisa Ali
Ali, Mona Lisa. steady echo, 2017. 2018 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published February, 2018 “I attempt to reconcile the notion of belonging […]
Oregon Arts Commission Fellows
Jess Perlitz
Perlitz, Jess. Barely There, 2017. 2018 Individual Artist Fellow and Joan Shipley Award recipient, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published February, 2018 “I am equally interested […]
Tannaz Farsi
Tannaz Farsi. 2016 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens Originally published January, 2016 At PICA’s TBA Festival last year, Tannaz Farsi’s work […]
Elizabeth Malaska
Elizabeth Malaska. 2016 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens Originally published January, 2016 One can’t study Elizabeth Malaska’s painting without finding […]
Erik Geschke
Erik Geschke in his studio. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 Erik Geschke’s most recent work is […]
Laura Fritz
Laura Fritz. 2014 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2014 One critic has fittingly called her “a poet of […]
Anna Fidler
Anna Fidler. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 Anna Fidler works big. She made a splash with […]
Erin Rose Gardner
Erin Rose Gardner. 2010 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Little House. Originally published March, 2011 The same ring appears again and again in […]
Modou Dieng
Modou Dieng. 2014 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2014 The material of Modou Dieng’s works, both literally and […]
Nan Curtis
Nan Curtis in her studio. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 For her solo exhibition, The Rekindling, […]
Bruce Conkle
2010 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. 2010. Photo: Conkle, Bruce. Friendlier Fires. 2008. Originally published May, 2011 There are certainly many artists in Oregon […]
Karl Burkheimer (2)
Karl Burkheimer in his studio. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 “I’m about making things, not the […]
Marie Watt, By Lisa Radon
Photo: Marie Watt in her studio. Originally published November, 2012 Blankets-wool, solid and plaid, banded in satin bindings or sewn edges-are the primary material artist […]
Stephen Slappe
Stephen Slappe and Actors on Set. 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published April, 2011 You are standing in the middle of an […]
Samantha Wall
Samantha Wall. 2014 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2014 The subjects of Samantha Wall’s finely wrought portraits in […]
Terri Warpinski
Terri Warpinski. 2014 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2014 Terri Warpinski is a celebrated photographer and the most […]
Cara Tomlinson
Cara Tomlinson. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 Cara Tomlinson works in paint, drawing, sculpture, video and […]
Jack Ryan
Jack Ryan. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published January, 2012 Curator and artist Jack Ryan’s sculpture, drawing, sound, and video works often […]