Meredith Andrews is an artist currently based in Palo Alto, CA.
Vanessa Nix Anthony has been declaring herself a writer since the rough and tumble age of six. It was at this time, while DIY plagiarizing Peter Rabbit for her first grade class (complete with crayon drawn illustrations and wallpaper board cover) that the writing bug bit. Since then, Vanessa has spent her time writing notes, grocery and to-do lists, poems, letters, emails, articles, short stories, allegories, blogs, white papers, press releases, resumes, donation solicitations, grant applications, excuses for school absences, music & food reviews and pontificating on the state of technology vs. spirituality today and how much she still loves and misses the 80’s. She is on her second husband, fourth last name, first child, 13th hair-color and her 24th homestead. Thusly, she considers her mind ripe for the ever-changing demands and deadlines of a freelance life. nessnixtony.wordpress.com
Tiffany Lee Brown was a founding member of the dUdU art collective. She makes art, performance, music, and writing. She is also the director of New Oregon Arts & Letters and an editor of PLAZM magazine, neither of whom should be held accountable for her apparent inability to hold her virtual tongue when presented with the opportunity to publish a bunch of ill-thought-out stuff online as she has done here. Last year she penned the "Against Participation" manifesto and proceeded not to do anything with it.
Sean Joseph Patrick Carney is a Portland-based visual and performing artist who holds an MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Patrick Collier is a visual artist and creative writer holed up somewhere in rural Oregon. He accepts the fact that 'google' is now a verb.
Artist Jay Critchley's visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism has traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany and Columbia. A longtime Provincetown, MA resident, he created and directs Theater in the Ground@ Septic Space in his backyard septic tank. He founded the patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation, which won a controversial three-year legal battle for its US Trademark. He produced, wrote and directed two movies in 2002: Toilet Treatments, HBO Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival, and Providence Dirt Newsreel. He produced a CD, Big Twig Tunnel Tapes – Boston’s Big Dig Sings, recorded 125 feet below Boston before the tunnels opened for traffic. He is artist in residence at Milepost 5, spring 2010. www.jaycritchley.com
Liam Drain is a Portland-based artist and writer. He has shown at venues around Portland, most recently a solo show at Tractor Gallery, and has performed at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time Based Arts Festival. For two years he collaborated with the arts group Oregon Painting Society. He holds a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. liamdrain.com
Chelsea Erhart is a fashion designer who works on her own line, Erhart, and contracts her skills to other apparel companies. With ten years of apparel production, she has developed an innate sense of efficiency and craftsmanship. She focuses on timeless and genderless pieces that enhance the mood and inner vision of the wearer. She likens her work to street art and graffiti, in that the piece is completed when it is 'spotted' walking in the city. Her favorite thing is to see a piece on a stranger and tell them they look nice. Her clothing is carried in stores in Japan, Canada, and across the United States. erhartstreetwear.com
Jeffrey Gormly is a writer and cultural producer. Associate Artist with Daghdha Dance Company that included being Project Leader of Framemakers: Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change, a project that included a month long public Thinktank, a symposium remarkably similar to Open, and produced two publications: http://www.daghdha.ie/007/001.htm Experienced writer/director/producer of plays and bespoke theatre events. Currently developing a lot of projects that could be understood as Social Sculpture or Social Choreography. editor@choreograph.net
Scott Wayne Indiana is currently living and working in New York City. His thoughtful art projects attempt to engage the general public, inviting participants to re-think various ideas about life and reality. With a background in mathematics and philosophy, Indiana is largely a self-taught artist, though a passion for interactvity led to his current place of graduate study: ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. 39forks.com
Arnold J. Kemp is chair of the MFA in Visual Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Victor Maldonado is a visual artist, freelance writer and curator of art from the Pacific Northwest. He is currently faculty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in the Thesis, Intermedia and Painting Departments.
Sarah Meadows is a Portland-based artist with a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. sarah-meadows.com
Teresa Morani is an artist from Seattle with a BFA from the University of New Mexico. teresamorani.com
Lisa Radon writes/edits the Portland arts website ultra (ultrapdx.com), launched the Culturephile blog for the Portland Monthly and has contributed to Drain, Oregon Humanities, Surface Design, FLAUNT, and Portland Spaces where she was assistant editor. Recent catalog essays include those for The Quadratic Logogram of Almost Everything at Half/Dozen Gallery and The M.O.S.T. Box Set: Remixed at PSU's Autzen Gallery. She recently did Shuffle: Eight x Eight, an eight-hour performative conversation in writing with Tim DuRoche and is working on her first book. lisaradon.com
Matthew David Rana (US/PK b.1981) is an artist and writer based in Oakland, CA. Part of a broader investigation in to counter-narratives, his comics, newspapers, videos and zines deal with issues surrounding economic participation and involvement in public life.
He is a contributor to the online journal Art Practical and his writing has appeared in There is No Two Without Three, published in 2008 by the Social Practice area of concentration at the California College of the Arts. Matthew’s most recent project, “The Autobiography of Ernest Patrick Butler: His Battles with God, Life and Self,” is a 16 page autobiographical comic book co-authored with Rick Butler, a man who sells crocheted hats at the MacArthur BART station, where he lives. Matthew’s work has been shown nationally including Los Angeles and New York, and internationally in Sweden and Italy. He holds a dual MFA/MA in Social Practice and Visual & Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and a BFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico.
Alex Rauch was born and raised in the rain forests surrounding Lebanon Oregon. He received his BA in Studio Practices from Linfield College. Currently he writes for PORT, makes art, and curates the occasional show.
Alyssa Reed is a narrative artist. She participated in a danceresearch, a collaborative reflection on dance theory and practice, facilitated by Tahni Holt. She has recently performed solo in people's houses and at a tea party, with the CCCP (Creative Composer's Collective of Portland), and in Eet (with Ryan Stuewe). Her work in progress is a dance that is becoming a novel.
Jen Rhoads was a member of the arts group The M.O.S.T. from 2003 to 2008. http://mostlandia.com/ Jen contributed to There is No Two Without Three, published in 2008 by the Social Practice area of concentration at the California College of the Arts. She holds an MFA in Social Practice from CCA.
Khris Soden was a member of the four-person arts group The M.O.S.T (2003 - 2008). He is a comics artist, an amateur historian, and technology tinkerer who does sporadic projects on the rare occasions that he sees himself as an "artist". He spends a lot of time thinking about the concept of "place" and how the past of a place informs the present and future of the place. He views cities as people, and probably spends more time with cities than actual people. His favorite projects that he's done are his "City of Roses" historical comics (2003 - present), his You Were Here city-based installations (2004), and The Portland Tour of Tilburg/The Tilburg Tour of Portland walking tours (2008). He often wishes he had more than a high school education and keeps telling himself he'll "take some classes".
Matthew Stadler is a writer and editor who lives in Portland, Oregon. He has written four novels and received several awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. More recently, he has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life. His essays have been published in magazines and museum catalogs around the world, and focus on architecture, urban planning and the problem of sprawl. He directs Publication Studio with Patricia No. publicationstudio.biz and matthewstadler.org
Randall Szott embodies the spirit of an old Dennis Miller joke in that he doesn’t know enough about anything to impress strangers and just enough about everything to annoy his friends. Or is it the reverse? He spent 11 years in college at 7 schools in 5 states and has 3 degrees. He has been cooking professionally for around a decade and has prepared everything from Thanksgiving dinner for over 300 to multi-course wine tasting menus for 12. His life is a series of three week cycles on land and three at sea working as a cook aboard the largest US owned hopper dredge. Inexplicably, institutions occasionally invite him to present his thoughts and activities in a public setting, even ones that should know better like SFMOMA, basekamp, The University of Houston, The California College of the Arts, and threewalls. In addition to tricking these folks into taking him seriously, he runs He Said, She Said with his wife in Oak Park, IL and is a Founding Editor for 127 Prince.
Gabriel Widing, member of Interacting Arts, co-author of Deltagarkultur, based in Stockholm, Sweden. interactingarts.org
Sue Bell Yank organizes, educates, enacts, reads and writes about social practice in contemporary art. She works on the Watts House Project and is head of Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among various other independent endeavors. suebellyank.com
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