Community Day
Are you curious about our partner campus Camp Colton? We’re co-hosting a free community day event and you are invited!
There will be opportunities to learn more about this unique site via a guided tour with longtime Colton community member, Jarred Lundstrom. You can also check out Stelo’s letterpress and papermaking studios and meet the current artists in residence (see schedule and bios below).
2020 artist in resident, Alejandra Arias Sevilla in our letterpress studio at Camp Colton
1-4pm: Open studio visits
Stop by both our letterpress printmaking studio + hand papermaking studio to meet our current artists in residence and our staff members who are working with them, Rory Sparks and Jenn Woodward.
About the letterpress artist in residence:
V. Maldonado is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance curator, and writer who lives and works in Portland, OR. Born in 1976 in Changuitirio, Michoacan, Mexico, Maldonado grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California in a family of migrant field laborers. They received their BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Art (2000), their MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (2005), and is exclusively represented by Froelick Gallery, Portland OR. Maldonado’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR. Deploying both traditional media including painting, printmaking and drawing alongside contemporary strategies such as performance, installation and intervention, Maldonado expresses the power of identity to author experience and perception.
About the papermaking artist in residence:
Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan is a first generation Malaysian-Chinese artist, writer, and educator from the American South. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape and the excluded histories of the displaced Chinese diaspora. She researches the political, historical, and environmental heritage of the landscape and its material elements, incorporating their elemental properties into her processes. Working across disciplines, she combines experimental alternative photographic processes and ceramics with video projection and archival photography. She is deeply fascinated by how the not so distant histories of racial exclusion, erasure, and extractive environmental capitalism lay the foundation for everyday, lived contemporary experiences of the Asian American diaspora. By untangling the roots of our origins, her work seeks to revive and reckon with lost histories and lives, and their implications on race and environment, so that by knowing where we come from, we can envision a new future for ourselves.