Artists Spotlight
The RACC Artists Spotlight honors and supports individual artists from throughout the tri-county Portland area. Their success and accomplishments are our inspiration, and we are proud to share them with you. Artists that have recently received grant support or public art
commissions from RACC will be featured throughout
the year on a rotating basis.
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Born in Grenada, WI, Lorna Nakell has been a professional artist for over twelve years. Nakell received her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA in 1994. Although she has lived many places in the Northwest since her childhood, Portland, OR is now her home. Nakell considers herself a “project based” artist. She is mainly focused on building collections of paintings centered on a theme or event. Her work, Flying at Night, is on exhibit at Beppu Wiarda Gallery from July 1-31, 2009.
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Tim Stapleton lives in Portland, Oregon and has been a professional Scenic Designer for thirty years. He came to the Pacific Northwest in 1986, and has since designed scenery for several Theatre Companies in the area. From May 28-June 20, 2009 Tim will mount a project about his memories of growing up in Applachia at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC), which includes photographs, paintings — Black Ribbon Roads — and a performance piece called Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. (Photo: Dale Peterson)
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As a choreographer, teacher and performer, Mary Oslund is one of the Northwest’s leading dance artists. Throughout her career, she has advanced the discipline of contemporary dance through the exploration and creation of new work with choreography marked by compelling and expressive physicality, movement invention, specialized group work, and a unique approach to partnering. May 14 and May 28, 2009, Oslund's Anatomica will be performed. (Photo: Julie Keefe )
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Since childhood Remedios has endeavored to become a museum quality artist and an activist saving our world from the destructive activities that threaten our natural earth. With these high ideals she finds the inspiration and discipline to move her work in that direction. Remedios' work will appear in Switzerland for the Landscapes/Dreamscapes exhibit at the JayKay Gallery in Carrouge, a suburb of Geneva from April 4-May 30th, 2009.
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Mack McFarland is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who makes his home in Portland, Oregon. He works in many mediums, with a particular focus on video and drawing. McFarland was awarded a 2009 RACC Project Grant for U-color-Topia in the exhibition SRO Video: Guys Doing Guy Things which runs April 6- May 14, 2009 the Marylhurst Art Gym.
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Using diverse media such as found objects, industrial cast-offs, live-feed video projections, and computer-controlled lights and motors, Dan Gilsdorf creates large-scale sculptures and multi-media installations. Gilsdorf's work explores the perceptual and cultural impact of image technology and popular symbolism. His work can be see at SRO Video: Guys Doing Guy Things which runs April 6- May 14, 2009 the Marylhurst Art Gym.
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See Artists Spotlight Archives (previously featured):
| Lava Alapai, playwright, actor, designer
Susan Banyas, writer and performer
Rose Bond, director, animator & educator
Christine Bourdette, sculptor and multidisciplinary artist
Michael Brophy, painter
Stephen Cohen, musician and visual artist
Bruce Conkle, installation artist
Judy Cooke, painter
Fernanda D'Agostino, public artist
Akbar DePriest, musician and teacher
Myra Donnelley, producer and playwright
Sarah Ferguson, visual artist and educator
Sally Haley, painter
Chisao Hata, performer, choreographer and dance educator
Kirby Jones, multi-disciplinary artist
Adam Kuby, public artist
Horatio Hung-Yan Law, installation and public artist and educator
Brian Lindstrom, filmmaker
Dana Lynn Louis, sculptor and public artist
Marne Lucas, photographer and installation artist
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Rebecca Martinez, actor, director, choreographer, dancer, singer, instructor
Thara Memory, musician, composer and educator
Bruce Orr, puppetteer, painter, cartoonist, educator
Mary Oslund, choreographer, dancer and educator
Zen Parry, sculptor, performer, and writer
Hilary Pfeifer, mixed media artist
Joanna Priestley, animator & filmmaker
Remedios Rapoport, Visual artist, painter, sculptor, fileteadora, poet and lettering artist
Dmae Roberts, playwright, actor, radio artist
Ethan Rose, musician and composer
Gwenn Seemel, artist and portrait painter
Terry Toedtemeier, photographer, scholar and photographic historian
Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya, Newar priest, dancer, choreographer, educator, director, and meditation teacher
Shu-Ju Wang, painter & book artist
Marie Watt, multidisciplinary artist
Linda Wysong, artist and teacher
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RACC Staff to Contact
Mary Bauer
Communications Associate
503.823.5426
mbauer@racc.org
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