Browse the Videos by Artist Name
Number of artist records found: 100
Lonnie Alexander, Photographer
Ethnic artist and member of the Nez Pierce tribe, Lonnie Alexander, lives on the Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton. For 35 years she was a nurse but when her mother died she filled the void with art. She now spends most of her time involved in photography and painting. Lonnie uses photography to record lives and customs of her people. She then chooses a few photographs to paint. Her goal is the documentation of the tribe elders.
Related Lesson Plan: Family History Through Art
Steve Allely, Mixed Media Artist
Steve Allely, of Sisters, Oregon calls himself a Renaissance man. Drawing since childhood he has developed an interest in art, archeology and history which reflects his love for the Oregon High Desert. If he is not painting landscapes such as Broken Top or Mt. Hood, he is researching and replicating ancient tools, weapons and implements used by the native people of the high desert and plains areas.
Related Lesson Plan: High Desert Archaeology Painting and Toolmaking
MJ Anderson, Sculptor
MJ Anderson carves stone, mostly womenís torsos. It is important to her that her work looks like it was created by her, and to note that her work is about how it feels to be a woman.
Related Lesson Plan: Women of Stone
Chester Armstrong, Sculptor
Chester demonstrates how he sees the sculpture as line and how he creates a sculpture by working around the form changing the design as he works with the unusual qualities of each piece of wood. Working with various sizes of chain saws he first roughs out his pieces, gradually adding more and more detail as he uses smaller and smaller pieces of equipment. We see the finished forms through out the video.
Related Lesson Plan: Find the Animal Within the Material
Adam Arnold, Clothing Maker
This video follows the development of a clothing maker and designer, from his childhood interest in sewing to his debut show of new handmade clothing.
Related Lesson Plan: Fashion and Functionality
Art House, Architectural Interest
This is about the evolution of a home that was designed by architects. It is a special project in that the architects not only designed a state of the art home, they designed all the furniture within it, much is built-in.
Related Lesson Plan: The Evolution of a Home
Kate Aspen, Painter
Kate Aspen, an eastern Oregon artist draws inspiration from the wild beauty that is east of the Cascades. She desires to have nature all around her and it is indeed right out her studio door. She has no art school training but looking at her sketchbooks one would think otherwise. She had been on a quest for the right vehicle for her work, finding the flatness of a canvas not to her liking. She discovered gourds.
Related Lesson Plan: Painter of Gourds
Astoria Fisher Poets, Poet
This video features members of Astoriaís fishing community gathering to recite and hear poetry at the Annual Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering.
Related Lesson Plan: We of the Sea
Rick Bartow, Painter
Rick Bartow is a visual artist and musician whose work is a response to his own personal struggles and triumphs. His work reflects history, culture, and contemporary issues. It combines images of animal and human traits, and explores the idea from both ancient and modern cultures that humans and animals "share the same bed".
Related Lesson Plan: Dramatic Art as a Healing Mechanism
Alice and Ray Beard, Weaver
Alice Beard fell in love with Navajo rug weaving and asked her husband, Ray to try it. To their surprise, he loved it too. Now, they weave as a team; Mr. Beard does the weaving while Mrs. Beard dies the wool using traditional plants. While Mr. & Mrs. Beard are not Navajo, studying the art form of traditional Navajo rug weaving has brought them a great deal of appreciation for the craft and the Navajo people.
Related Lesson Plan: Traditional Methods of Navajo Rug Weaving
Pete Beeman, Sculptor
Pete builds kinetic sculptures so that he can be engaged with his art. He wants some movement in his sculptures that transform the sculpture from what you see at first to a new shape, then back to the original shape. The work has qualities that he finds in all human beings; we are both elegant and awkward and our usefulness may be in question.
Related Lesson Plan: Kinetic Sculpture
Nathan Bello, Musician
Nathan Bello is a 15 year old Portland boy with interests and abilities in a number of musical areas including composition, piano performance, piano restoration, conducting and teaching. He is fortunate to have the support and encouragement from his composer-violinist grandfather and his piano technician father. The video shares musical talents and explores Nathanís future aspirations.
Related Lesson Plan: Follow Your Passion
Benson House, Architectural Interest
This is a narrative about the historic Simon Benson House in downtown Portland, Oregon built in 1900 exemplifies the tone of an era when Portland was young and growing. Simon Benson was a wealthy philanthropist who funded many other projects in Portland such as the drinking fountains in the Park blocks, the Benson Hotel, and Benson High School. The video documents how this building was left abandoned and was then was saved, moved and restored and is now the Portland State University alumni building. The building has many design elements typical of Victorian Age buildings and other design elements that are unique to the Simon Benson house.
Related Lesson Plan: Victorian Age Architectural Design
Stan Beppo, Painter
The paintings of Stan Beppo are large abstract color fields that are bright color contrasting against fields of black. You can see in the video how beautiful his drawings are. He was also a potter and created beautiful ceramics for many years. He decided to change to painting because he wanted to use more color. There is an emotional quality in Stan's abstract work that can be a surprise to the viewer. Abstract art also provides a universal quality, which appeals to all cultures because it isnít cultural specific.
Related Lesson Plan: How and Why to Look at Abstract Painting
Sister Mary Bertoli, Mixed Media Artist
Sister Mary Bertoli spent much time doing holy work for her order in Mississippi. In the midst of ongoing poverty, injustice and apathy sister Mary was happy to do what she could for the people in her community. She found that the creative process in any culture or environment is powerful. The lack of materials and teachers in her area led Sister Mary to what was available and cheap tissue paper and glue. She found that tissue paper translates simply into art, the art of collage.
Related Lesson Plan: Collaging with Sister Mary
Jeff Bizzell, Photojournalist
Jeff Bizzel, a photojournalist, enjoys photographing musicians and watching people interact. When asked, ìWhat is the first thing you look for when photographing?î Jeff Bizzel says that light is the first and most important part of his photography.î Jeffís action-based compositions make him one of Portlandís outstanding photographers.
Related Lesson Plan: Lighting The Way
Body Moves, Dance
This video is about a studio in Portland that blends exercise workouts with dance and guided meditation.
Related Lesson Plan: Move Your Body!
Body Vox, Dance
Body Vox is a modern dance troupe from Portland that relies on collaboration and improvisation to devise their dances.
Related Lesson Plan: People Moving
Terry Bostwick, Mixed Media Artist
Furniture craftsman turned artist, Terry Bostwick, uses furniture pieces to create works of art. Some retain their original shape and usage but are really works of art and some take on a completely new form. In one series, Terry uses pieces of a chair to create the figure of a human female. He then collaborates with a fabric artist to dress her. These pieces are unique, highly creative and are a great lesson in thinking outside the box or outside the chair as the case may be.
Related Lesson Plan: Transformational Art Using Furniture
Breedlove Guitar, Guitar Builders
Takes the viewer through the process of making a high quality acoustic guitar. Explores regional and international issues such as logging and rainforest conservation.
Related Lesson Plan: Luthier: Craftsmen of Stringed Instruments
Kevin Burke, Musician
Kevin Burke is an Irish fiddler who lives in Portland. Although most of the music is Irish he also plays a beautiful Yiddish tune he learned from a Scandinavian band. On the video he plays a series of tunes and answers questions such as how he got to Portland and the difference between a fiddle and a violin.
Related Lesson Plan: All That is Irish and More.
Dave Carter, Musician/Songwriter
Songwriters Dave Carter and Donna Jose reflect daily life and life experiences through their music, but their writing styles are vastly different.
Related Lesson Plan: Life Reflections in Songwriting and Poetry
Stephen Cohen, Instrument Builder/Musician
Stephen Cohen makes musical instruments out of unusual materials, and works with students, including students with disabilities, to make and perform with their instruments.
Related Lesson Plan: Making Musical Instruments
Patrece Conoy, Weaver
This video documents Patrece Canoyís story as a weaving and fabric artist, describing how her cultural background and necessity of making a living shapes her artistic work.
Related Lesson Plan: Doing What You Love
Country Fair Vaudevillians, Theatre Performers
This video follows the process of creating a new vaudevillian performance for the Oregon Country Fair, while illustrating what the event is all about. The video shows performances, parades and rehearsals.
Related Lesson Plan: Vaudevillian, Here We Come!
Catherine Crozier, Musician
A pioneer female concert organist, Catherine Crozier is an inspiring senior (87 year old at the time of the filming) who had only recently retired from concert touring. She has an amazing joie de vivre and still sees herself as still learning and growing.
Related Lesson Plan: Musical Pipes
Adriene Cruz, Quilter
In this video, Adriene Cruz, explores the artistís work as fabric artist and muralist by illustrating her cultural, artistic and family background.
Related Lesson Plan: Cultural Influences
Michael Curry, Puppeteer
Michael Curry Spirits illustrates the collaborative process in Michael Curry's theater production, including performing, choreography, crating puppets, music and dance.
Related Lesson Plan: The Spirit of Puppetry
Jim Denney, Painter
Jim is a native of the Pacific Northwest and studied in the Northeast. After working in New York very successfully for many years and traveling to the West for the summer to get the material for his paintings and work for the US Forest Service, he decided to leave behind his lucrative career to be close to the subject matter that he loved. Now he works full time for the U. S. Forest Service and is very interested in the environmental issues that have had a powerful effect upon the West. His paintings include dams on our rivers, the effects of fire on the landscape and animals.
Related Lesson Plan: Why We Paint From Our Heart!
Magda Druzdel, Painter
Magda Druzdel is a painter. After leaving Poland she moved to the Oregon coast. She is fascinated by what she observes as she sits on the sandy beach looking out toward the water. Druzdel spends hours observing the light, color, texture and mood of a place and is never satisfied to paint a place just once.
Related Lesson Plan: Look and Look Again
Inga Dubay, Calligrapher
Inga is a Portland artist whose life was changed by taking a calligraphy class. She melds her calligraphic skills with her background in painting. She also has become an expert on Italic handwriting, a writing system given to us from the Italian Renaissance. She sees handwriting as having a voice; it is very personal, it is what we are about, it identifies us as does our walk or our thumbprint.
Related Lesson Plan: Calligraphy, Handwriting and the Alphabet
Martin Eichinger, Sculptor
Martin thinks of his work as being Romantic, Mythical and Narrative. He works sculpting clay by hand in his studio. When he was younger he worked with abstraction in sculpture, partly as a way of responding to Abstract Minimalism, the style of the time he was living in. He was never satisfied with the abstract pieces and so he went back to figurative work. He does use models but he is telling a story and uses a model so that the story looks believable to the viewer.
Related Lesson Plan: Storytelling Through Sculpture
Tim Ely, Bookmaker
Tim Ely makes his own books, which are one of a kind. The visuals within his book express his own ideas, including a language he constructed himself. He explores the various levels and styles of books that exist.
Related Lesson Plan: The Language of Books
Devin Field, Sculptor
Devin Field makes public art for communities looking to enrich the experience of its citizens. It is not always an easy job; there are many things he must consider when planning a sculpture that will be public art. In order to be successful, he must balance his own artistic vision with the wishes of the buyer while considering the citizens who will be viewing the art in their community. There is an art in creating public art and Field has mastered it.
Related Lesson Plan: An Investigation of Public Art
Leon Flick, Poet
Leon Flick is a working cowboy from Plush (Lake County) Oregon. He uses his working life as a basis for the poetry that he writes and recites at cowboy poetry festivals.
Related Lesson Plan: I See By Your Outfit That You Are a Cowboy!
Chuck Franklin, Glassmaker
Stained glass artist, Chuck Franklin, talks about his life and his art. Once a NASA engineer, he now devotes his life to art. His first commercial piece was for Jake's Restaurant in downtown Portland, Oregon. He shows his viewers some of his other stained glass artwork: a chapel, another restaurant. He is very creative and a perfect artist to view before launching into a stained glass art unit.
Related Lesson Plan: Stained Glass Art
Lorenzo Ghiglieri, Mixed Media Artist
This video shows Lorenzo using animals to draw from while thinking about their structure and characteristics. From the drawing stage, the piece moves through many stages. Lorenzo will start carving Styrofoam, and then the piece is cast in clay, and wax, eventually cast in bronze.
Related Lesson Plan: Drawing as a Foundation
Michael Gibbons, Painter
The painter Michael Gibbons is shown painting a scene in nature near the town that he lives in, Toledo, Oregon. His preliminary work on his painting is done out of doors. He has his own unique way of choosing where he paints and whether he wants to change the composition by adding or deleting objects.
Related Lesson Plan: The Magic of Composition
Pat Courtney Gold, Weaver
A Native American woman who is a basket weaver talks about her ancestors, the Wasco Indians that lived along the Columbia River, and their philosophy of basket weaving. In particular she talks a lot about the designs that are interwoven into the baskets and has created many of her own designs as well. Pat Courtney Gold discusses the many uses of baskets, the kinds of natural materials used to make them and shows a variety of weaving techniques.
Related Lesson Plan: Indian Basket Weaving
Good Sista/Bad Sista, Poets
Two Women African-American poets create and perform hip-hop poetry in tandem.
Related Lesson Plan: Women of Words
Randy Gragg, Writer
Randy Gragg, architectural critic for the Oregonian, takes us on a tour of some Portland buildings: The Portland Building, The Wyden Kennedy Building, and the Commonwealth Building (formally the Equity Building). He explains why these buildings are important architecturally.
Related Lesson Plan: Portland Architectural Tour
Hardanger Fiddle, Norwegian Folk Instrument
The video follows a craftsman and a player of Hardanger Fiddle, a Norwegian folk instrument.
Related Lesson Plan: The National Folk Instrument of Norway
Don Hunter, Audio Collector
This is about an elderly man, Don Hunter, who is an audio recorder. He collects sounds and has for 70 years. The video shows him setting up his equipment in preparation to record a train blowing its horn before it passes over a bridge. Don started collecting sounds in 1932. He says "sounds bring back memories". He plays some sounds from his collection and tells stories about them. He has also composed some music using his sounds and does slide shows.
Related Lesson Plan: Sounds and Stories
Inkling Studio, Printer
Inkling Studio is an independent co-op studio for printmakers, which historically may have been know as a workshop or atelier. A master printer is in residence (Liza Jones), on hand to help and advise newer craftsmen. This is a working community that affords printers financial relief (presses, inks and other materials, as well as space, available on a shared cost) and an atmosphere of camaraderie and discourse.
Related Lesson Plan: Printing Through a Master
Jim Jackson, Sculptor
Jim Jackson is a Native American sculptor, specifically of the Plateau Indians of Oregon and Montana. He uses a very modern style in both bronze and ceramic. Faces and expressions specifically interest him.
Related Lesson Plan: Expressions
David Jensen, Photographer
David Jensen is a landscape photographer and he lives in Enterprise, Oregon. His interests include geology, photography, and rock climbing. Using a large format camera, David captures the mood of the landscape by studying the light and impact of the subject. It takes a big investment of time to get the right image for the golden moment. Itís like being a prospector - you hope to make a discovery or photo opportunity around the next bend.
Related Lesson Plan: Three Viewpoints
George Johanson, Painter
George Johanson invites Oregon artists to sit for him and creates a series of portraits of these well-known artists. The sitting time is short and informal. We see George in his studio talking to them while doing a gesture drawing in charcoal. Later, we see how he goes back into the drawing and finishes the work. Some time later, we see the art show opening where the artists come together to greet each other and see his portraits of them.
Related Lesson Plan: Portrait Drawing Using a Model
Stewart Jones, Jeweler
Stewart Jones makes gold jewelry from casting grade gold at Indigo Gallery in Joseph, Oregon. He studied architecture originally, at the time he found jewelry making, which still influences his work. He has won a worldwide award, and every piece is fabricated / handbuilt and original.
Related Lesson Plan: Jewelry Everywhere
Nancy Klos, Fiber Artist
Nancy Klos is an artist "under construction". A weaver in the French Pictorial style, she crafts tapestries for clients integrating her knowledge of art history, design and fiber arts as a vehicle for her own work. She finds weaving meditative, peaceful and healing.
Related Lesson Plan: Investigating the Craft of Weaving
Herman Krieger, Photographer
Herman Krieger's photo essays tap into the essence of rural life and the people living there. The community is the people. Heís a perfectionist in the darkroom: cropping, framing and dodging until he gets it right. He doesnít sell or display his work; many times he gives it away. Photography is his passion but he does take time to ride his bike on the Eugene streets to look for new photo essay ideas.
Related Lesson Plan: Photo Essays
Ernie Kunze, Carver
Ernie Kunzeís father, who was from Germany, carved a Christmas town of animals, people, angels, and other objects, in wood. Ernie has turned his entire house into a creative place, including indoor waterfalls and rock walls. One entire room is taken up with his fatherís carvings, and Ernie is learning how to make similar pieces using tools such as a lathe. Ernie also has a master plan for his own town!
Related Lesson Plan: Folk Art For All Folk
Dan Kvitka, Wood Carver
Dan Kvitka turns and carves wood to create a variety of modern and abstract objects. Dan is of jewish heritage, which enters into his work.
Related Lesson Plan: Wood Stories
Mary Katherine Lamb, Fabric Artist
Mary collects vintage fabrics and turns them into creatively unique works of art. She also collects may other vintage objects of which will eventually be found in her art work. She demonstrates a wonderfully artistic use for her unique collections.
Related Lesson Plan: Fabric Art
Last Thursday, Art Event
In Portland on the last Thursday of each month, artists display their work along the 15 block stretch of Alberta Street. This event encourages emerging ethnic and local artists to strut-their-stuff in this "fair like environment". Passer-bys may view street theater, music, poetry readings and all kinds of art.
Related Lesson Plan: School Art Night
James Lavadour, Painter
James Lavadour is a Native American Oregonian. His paintings are descriptive of the Eastern Oregon landscape he roamed as a child. He has had no formal art training but grew up in a very creative and artistic family. He calls himself an abstract expressionsist and quotes Max Beckman in describing his own paintings as transfigurations of nature.
Related Lesson Plan: Landscape Painting Through the Ages
Margarita Leon, Sculptor
Margarita seeks to create a form that she can put her arms around, something that she and the viewer can touch and feel. She prefers wood because it is a material that grew and she is just helping it grow a different way. Each of her sculptures has symbolism, which relates to a theme. The sculptures viewed in this video show birds that represent dreams and the leaves in the sculpture symbolize stoppages that represent what gets in the way of our dreams coming true.
Related Lesson Plan: Myth and The Human Form
Shawn Levy, Writer
Shawn Levy is a movie critic for the Oregonian. He is also a published author. In the video, Shawn discusses writing techniques he uses to create movie reviews.
Related Lesson Plan: Reviewing the Movies
Liminal, Theatre
This is about an experimental theatre group in Portland that incorporates theatre, technology and fine art in their interactive performances.
Related Lesson Plan: Creative Dramatics in the Classroom
Charles Littleleaf, Traditional Instrument Maker
Describes the circuitous life path which led Charles Littleleaf, a member of the Warm Springs tribe, to play and create Native American wooden flutes.
Related Lesson Plan: Native American Flutes
Kirk Lybecker, Mixed Media Artist
In this video, Kirk's subjects vary widely from flowers to cars in a junkyard. In the video he demonstrates watercolor techniques, airbrush and detailed painting as the last layer. Use of light gives an impression. It is what allows us to see beauty in all kinds of things. Sometimes you feel like painting death and destruction and sometimes the light shinning on objects makes them beautiful no matter what they are. The use of an airbrush intensifies the watercolor. He implores, use the right tool for the job. Going back into the piece with a fine brush to create more detail creates the final layer. The painting should say come hither from across the room.
Related Lesson Plan: Painting The Urban Environment
John Maher, Photographer
John Maher's photos take you back to another place in time with a misty, romantic quality. At 15, John's interest was sparked by a school project at to make a pinhole camera. He eventually became a professional photographer working in corporate photography for 15 years. Wanting to return to fine art photography, he decided to hand tint black and white photos, a very popular art in the 1920's.
Related Lesson Plan: Making a Pinhole Camera
Bill Martin, Square Dance Caller
Portland's vibrant music and dance scene is taking a big step back in time. Veteran caller Bill Martin mentors a new generation of square dancers.
Related Lesson Plan: Swing Squares
Klezmer Band Mazel Tov, Klezmer Band
Mazel Tov is a Klezmer band hailing from Portland. Klezmer is an Eastern European music based on music from the synagogue and Yiddish folk music. Instruments in Mazel Tov include clarinet, trombone, string bass, and piano and drum set. Violin can also be part of Klezmer music as demonstrated by paintings by Marc Chagall (a Russian Jewish artist) and the musical by Harnick and Bock, Fiddler on the Roof.
Related Lesson Plan: The Influences of Music
Mural Painters McMenamins Artists,
McMenaminís artists talk about their artwork and the McMenamin philosophy of art as being an integral part of McMenamins properties. Artists demonstrate mural painting and decorative painting.
Related Lesson Plan: Mural Painting
Thara Memory, Jazz Musician
Thara Memory is a multi-faceted musician. As a jazz trumpeter, orchestral conductor, and composer, he is passionate about many styles of music. He also models a continuing quest for knowledge and an expanding of his abilities. Already well-respected in the jazz world, he returned to college to receive a degree in conductor. His compositions reflect historical research and understanding of his subject, as well as skill in musical composition.
Related Lesson Plan: Conductor, Composer and Jazz Trumpeter
MetroArts's Young Artist Competition, Music Education
The goal of MetroArts's Young Artist Competition is to offer dedicated young artists a chance to perform with high caliber, professional musicians. Two young and gifted artists are highlighted as finalists in this annual competition produced by MetroArts, Inc. based in Portland, Ore. They demonstrate discipline and dedication as they prepare for their public performances.
Related Lesson Plan: Young Artists Compete!
Misty River, Bluegrass Band
Misty River is a bluegrass group consisting of four women who sing and play traditional acoustic instruments. Although Misty River members describe their style as where folk and country meet bluegrass, their vocal style seems more choral than anything else.
Related Lesson Plan: Where Folk and Country Meet Bluegrass
NW Academy, Arts Education
Students in an art-based high school in Portland, Oregon convince their administrator that the hip-hop style of music and dance is a legitimate art form. Classes are then offered in the various forms.
Related Lesson Plan: Up From the Streets: Hip Hop as a Recognized Art
Jack Ohman, Illustrator
A political illustration artist, Jack Ohman, discusses his art. Many illustrations are shown. Jack describes how he gets his ideas and the kinds of work that goes into making quality political illustrations.
Related Lesson Plan: Political Illustration
Oregon, Musical Ensemble
Oregon is an eclectic quartet that lives in the state after which it was named. Their music has been described as New Age and World Music as well as Jazz, although two of its members, Ralph Towner and Glenn Moore, claim to be inspired by Jazz pianist Gil Evans.
Related Lesson Plan: Oboe in Oregon!
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Costumer
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Costumer explains the process of theatrical costume creation, from sketches to fabric selection, to the sewing of costume and how it appears on stage.
Related Lesson Plan: Costume Design as a Career?
Lillian Pitt, Sculptor
Lillian Pitt is a Native American artist who has worked with many media, largely ceramics. Her ceramic masks were her first success. She is involved in many collaborations.
Related Lesson Plan: Expression
Portand Institute for Contemporary Art, Arts Organization
The video is Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). It illustrates how the organization came to be, how it provides exhibition for artists and the genre of artwork PICA supports.
Related Lesson Plan: The Art Space
Lam Quang, Paper Maker
Lam Quang makes paper, which he uses for lanterns. He was born in Vietnam, and the lanterns reflect memories of his childhood there.
Related Lesson Plan: Paper and Light = Lanterns
Steve Reinmuth, Sculptor
Art Bells is about Steve Reinmuth of Springfield who makes metal sculptures, incorporating bells, that are a marriage of sculpture and sound.
Related Lesson Plan: The Physics of Art Bells
Charles Reynold, Painter
Charles Reynolds is an oil painter, who started painting when he was 40 years old. He was previously in the forestry profession, which translated into his landscape paintings. He is now in his 90's.
Related Lesson Plan: The Artist and Their Environment
Mike Rich, Screenwriter
Mike Rich is Portland radio news reporter who taught himself screenwriting. His first major movie was "Finding Forrester".
Related Lesson Plan: Living a Dream: Writing for the Movies
James Robinson, Sculptor
James demonstrates how to create a large hollow sculptural form in clay. He loves to use the Polar Bear animal for his sculptures but any animal; any size can be created with his technique of coil building. This is a fine example of additive sculpture. James also makes thrown pottery and feels that both venues are of equal value. His explanation of where he gets glaze materials and how he creates new glazes for his work is both informative and inspiring. He is enthusiastic to tell the viewer about his work and the reasons why he stayed in the Jacksonville area. His explanation of his preference to make each sculpture by hand rather that using a mold, is a perfect transition into a discussion around the value of one of a kind objects.
Related Lesson Plan: Additive Clay Sculpture
Sasha Samuels, Painter
Sasha Samuels grew up with art in a family of artists. Jewelry is her livelihood but painting is her passion. She paints every day even if for a short time. Her paintings of the female figure even though not for sale are very important to her jewelry design. She draws inspiration from her paintings and incorporates shapes she finds in them into her jewelry.
Related Lesson Plan: Designing Jewelry by Using the Human Form
Linley Schetkey, Mixed Media Artist
Using found objects, Schetkey creates beautiful works of art. Her sculptures are created from steel and other metals found in recycling centers here in Oregon. Using found objects is a way to reduce the cost of materials but thatís not why Schetkey does it. Instead, the activity of searching and finding interesting objects helps her creative juices flow. Shiny and new is not nearly as interesting as worn out and rusted to this artist.
Related Lesson Plan: Beautiful Junk
David Schiff, Composer
David Schiff is a local composer who writes contemporary concert and theater music. His music although dissonant at times, is extremely melodic and lyrical. It has an eastern European flavor. The video concentrates on two of his works: Gimpel, an opera like work based on an outcast character with high moral values, and a fanfare for Conductor Carlos Kalmar.
Related Lesson Plan: Contemporary Music With a Classical Flavor
David Schwartz, Glass Artist
David Schwarz uses blown glass and other techniques to create glass artwork that is largely like a kaleidoscope or miniature graphic world.
Related Lesson Plan: Another World
Cal Scott, Composer
This video explores Cal's profession as a composer for mainly film scores as well as other ways of making a living using music. Cal's original career goals were heading him into a totally other direction but this video shows how hobbies and interests can help you find your passion.
Related Lesson Plan: Film Scoring: Living a Creative Life
Duff Severe, Craftsperson
Duff Severe makes miniature models of beautifully crafted horse saddles. He used to make saddles for horses but because of his severe arthritis, he can no longer work on the larger saddles. Now, Duff enjoys making the smaller saddles for collectors. Duff calls what he does a craft but his admirers view him as an artist. Through discussion, activities and a mini lesson on historical events students will work toward their own definition of art.
Related Lesson Plan: You Call That Art?
Minerva Soucie, Weaver
Known as a fiber artist, Minerva Soucie uses willow and cattail to weave baskets and creates in the tradition of the Northern Piute. Minerva currently serves as the educational specialist for the tribe and uses her knowledge to teach the younger generation about weaving and duplicating the techniques of the elders. When teaching children, she uses cotton twine because it is more pliable than willow.
Related Lesson Plan: Weaving Traditions
Donna Steger, Painter
Donna likes the out of doors and nature but what really is exciting to her is the world of industry. She grew into being an artist after not taking it very seriously. She applied for and received a scholarship in art and then she began to value her ability. Her art has a quality of the WPA mural paintings from the 1930's where workers have a heroic quality. She depicts the power and the emotion of the work place.
Related Lesson Plan: Photography in The Industrial Work Place
Jeffrey Stolet, Musician
Avant garde composer breaks away from "traditional" patterns of music and music composition, using computer-generated and computer manipulated sounds, infrared beams, as well as traditional instruments.
Related Lesson Plan: What is Music?
Kumiko Sudo, Seamstress
Kumiko Sudo uses her knowledge of quilting, origami and the Japanese kimono to create unique collages in silk. As is true with most Japanese art forms, nature plays a powerful role in Kumikoís work - inspiring her in innumerable ways. While cutting an antique kimono is often painstaking, Sudo knows the final outcome will be a beautiful work of art worthy of the textiles she is using.
Related Lesson Plan: Silk Dragons
Taiko Drummers, Drummers
This video highlights the artform of Taiko drumming and showcases a very well known traditonal Taiko drumming group here in Portland.
Related Lesson Plan: Taiko Drumming and Folktales
Tears of Joy, Puppet Theater
This video illustrates programming from the Tears of Joy puppet theater company, including building puppets, recruiting performers, animating puppets and their live performances.
Related Lesson Plan: What is a Puppet?
The Peanut Butter Co, Barbershop Quartet
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is a Barbershop Quartet that has been together for more than twenty years. Barbershop is unaccompanied four-part harmony for menís or womenís voices. The quartet, which specializes in comedy as well as close harmony, discuss the problems and joys in getting these two specialties to work "harmoniously" in the same act. This award winning quartet has a rehearsal problem as they live in four different cities in two states.
Related Lesson Plan: Barbershop Quartet
Nancy Thorn, Craftsperson
Nancy works with gold leaf and the restoration of objects. The storyline touches upon history of gold leaf, current uses of gold and aluminum leaf, process of using sheets of gold leaf, and restoration of frames and sculptures.
Related Lesson Plan: Gold!
Edward Vliek, Photographer
Edward Vliek is passionate about preserving and photographing the Oregon Dunes. He feels there is more control over the medium by using only black and white film. Using a large format camera, Vliek hikes into Oregonís dunes as often as possible to photograph this ever changing landscape.
Related Lesson Plan: The Power of an Image
Margot Voohies Thompson, Painter
Margot is a visual artist that creates a sense of history in her work. She works with layers as she is very interested in the layers of civilization. She incorporates painting, printmaking and collage with her unique calligraphy and markmaking. She encourages an aura of mystery and wants the viewer to see something new each time.
Related Lesson Plan: Get Up Close and Personal
Baba Wague, Potter
Baba Wague grew up in West Africa listening to his grandmotherís stories. When he moved to the United States, he didnít forget those wonderful stories of his childhood. Instead, the folk tales became the inspiration for his unique pottery work.
Related Lesson Plan: Grandma's Stories
Chel White, Filmmaker
Chel White is an independent short filmmaker. He also works making commercials. His work often involves animation and alternative filmmaking processes. The finished result offers a different perspective in storytelling and visual interpretation.
Related Lesson Plan: Film Making:Visual Storytelling
Rob Wurzer, Carver
Rob Wurzer was a logger for many years. He spent a great amount of time in the woods and often came across antlers or other animal bones. For years Rob collected these antlers and bones keeping them in his garage not knowing what else to do with them. After having a terrible nightmare, Rob quit his job as a logger and began carving the antlers and bones full time. Rob claims the antlers speak to him and his job, as an artist, is to listen.
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Christy Wycoff, Printer
Christy is a man who likes to print. He likes the technology of printing and uses both traditional (historical) and new techniques (computer and photography) to achieve his printed images.
Related Lesson Plan: A Man Who Likes to Print
Young Composer Camp, Composers
Jeffrey Payne runs a camp for adolescent composers. The young people have a professional ensemble to write for and Payne volunteers as a conductor. Although we hear from several young composers the one we follow the closest is Jessica, who has written a hauntingly beautiful melody called Night Without Moon.
Related Lesson Plan: Camp for Composers.
Zines, Writers/Self-Publishers
This video introduces 'Zines, self published magazines that are created as personal writing and for some, research.
Related Lesson Plan: For the Love of Publication!