Half 24 • Oregon ArtsWatch

As with the portraits within the earlier installments of this collection I’ve centered on the gifted, devoted, and inventive individuals who have made important contributions to the artwork, character, and tradition of this metropolis and state — on this case a author, a museum curator, a visible artist, a musician, and a poet.  

 My aspirations have remained the identical: to doc the modern cultural panorama and to provide an honest {photograph} — {a photograph} that acknowledges the medium’s allegiance to actuality and that preserves for myself and others a novel and trustworthy sense of the topic.

The environmental particulars have been stored to a minimal. The topics have the body to themselves and don’t compete with context for consideration. This offers for a less complicated, blunter, extra intense encounter with character. It is character that animates the picture.

Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed is the writer of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was made into an Oscar-nominated movie. Her bestselling assortment of Dear Sugar columns, Tiny Beautiful Things, was tailored for a Hulu tv present and as a play that continues to be staged in theaters nationwide. Strayed’s different books are the critically acclaimed novel Torch and the bestselling assortment Brave Enough. Her books have bought greater than 5 million copies all over the world and have been translated into forty languages. Her award-winning essays and brief tales have been printed in The Best American Essays, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, and elsewhere. Strayed has additionally made two hit podcasts: Dear Sugars, co-hosted with Steve Almond, and Sugar Calling. 

Lloyd DeWitt

Lloyd DeWitt is the Portland Art Museum’s Richard and Janet Geary Curator of European & American Art Pre-1930. He has labored in main artwork museums throughout North America for greater than 20 years. As Chief Curator on the Chrysler Museum of Art he was instrumental in growing the Works on Paper Study Center that’s now underneath building. DeWitt served as Curator of European Art from 2011 to 2016 on the Art Gallery of Ontario in Ontario, Canada, the place he organized exhibitions on Michelangelo, J.M.W. Turner, and Wilhelm Hammershøi. DeWitt additionally beforehand held curatorial positions on the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2003 to 2011 and is now a visiting adjunct professor at Old Dominion University. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park; an M.A. in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Laura Domela

Laura Domela is a painter, photographer, and mixed-media artist. She earned her B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the Oregon College of Art & Craft in 1999. Her work explores the complexities of human emotion by means of layered compositions that merge natural varieties and festive colours with darkish shapes and stark geometries. Her work is in quite a few private and non-private collections together with the Portland Art Museum, Meyer Memorial Trust, Schnitzer Investment Corp., and The Neon Museum in Las Vegas. In addition to portray and drawing, Domela studied portrait pictures with the famend photographers Platon and Max Vadukul. Her photographic work has appeared on journal covers, e-book covers, CD/album covers, billboards, and posters for quite a few stage productions. She is represented by the Russo Lee Gallery.

Adam Eccleston

Adam Eccleston is the Executive Director of Orchestra Nova Northwest, a flutist, a conductor, a radio host, and an educator. He is a recipient of the distinguished Miller Foundation Spark Award. He additionally presently sits as Chair of the Recording Inclusivity Initiative, which brings to gentle music of underrepresented composers. He has performed orchestras all through the United States in addition to ensembles in Panama, Dominican Republic, Belize, and Canada. He holds Master Degrees in efficiency and schooling and teaches flute at Reed College. He is dedicated to youth growth and has labored with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony and the Portland Youth Philharmonic. As a radio host and producer, he will be discovered at All Classical Radio and guest-hosting for WQXR based mostly in New York City.

Brittney Corrigan

Brittney Corrigan is a poet and short-story author. She is the writer of the poetry collections Daughters; Breaking; Navigation; 40 Weeks; and, most just lately, Solastalgia (a group of poems about local weather change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age). She is the recipient of a 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship and the C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship. Her current debut short-story assortment, The Ghost Town Collectives, gained the 2023 Osprey Award for Fiction from Middle Creek Publishing. A former editor with Airlie Press, Corrigan is an occasion planner at her alma mater, Reed College.