Fellowship Profiles

The Arts Commission recognizes the achievements of outstanding Oregon artists through annual Individual Artist Fellowship grants. Fellowship Profiles introduce featured artists and provide a description of their work. 

Michael T. Hensley
2016 Fellowship Recipient

For Michael Hensley’s most recent series of paintings, he threw every available material into the mix, including house paint, spray paint, pencil, collage, crayon, paint pens and even dirt from the garden.

Laura Heit
2016 Fellowship Recipient

In Laura Heit’s Two Ways Down, shadows and hand-drawn animations played across the walls in an installation that combined projection and almost lace-like intricate figurative cut-paper sculptures (human figures, towers, ladders, arches) o

Julie Green
2016 Fellowship Recipient

Born in Japan and raised in the Midwest, Julie Green knew by age four that she wanted to be an artist. From her childhood, Green recalls, “Growing up, there was no distinction between the family quilts and ukiyo-e prints in our home.

Tannaz Farsi
2016 Fellowship Recipient

At PICA’s TBA Festival last year, Tannaz Farsi’s work And Others consisted of a large LED display of a short text from Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera: “Some are in the dark and others are in the light we see them in the light

Laurie Danial
2016 Fellowship Recipient

An unshakable commitment to process and instinct is what Laurie Danial will tell you characterizes her practice, which results in prints and paintings featuring complex layerings of organic and architectural forms.

Fernanda D'Agostino
2016 Fellowship Recipient

Portland audiences had the chance to see Fernanda D’Agostino’s work in full flower at her 2013 exhibition, The Method of Loci at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University.

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