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As with the portraits within the earlier installments of this sequence I’ve targeted on the gifted, devoted, and artistic individuals who have made vital contributions to the artwork, character, and tradition of this metropolis and state — on this case a musician, an actor/director, a multi-disciplinary visible artist, a playwright/actor, and a author/editor.
My aspirations have remained the identical: to doc the up to date cultural panorama and to supply a good {photograph} — {a photograph} that acknowledges the medium’s allegiance to actuality and that preserves for myself and others a singular and sincere sense of the topic.
The environmental particulars have been saved to a minimal. The topics have the body to themselves and don’t compete with context for consideration. This supplies for a less complicated, blunter, extra intense encounter with character. It is character that animates the picture.
James Shields is a clarinetist, composer, and educator. He joined the Oregon Symphony as principal clarinet in 2016. Before relocating to Portland he served as principal clarinet of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto in addition to the New Mexico Philharmonic in Albuquerque. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he studied with Ricardo Morales, principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Shields has appeared as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Interlochen’s World Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra. He has additionally appeared as visitor principal clarinet with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, and Santa Fe Pro Musica. A passionate performer of chamber music, Shields is the Artistic Director/General Manager of Chatter PDX and a core member of the Portland-based chamber music collective forty fifth Parallel Universe.
In addition to his performing actions, Shields holds a Master of Music in Composition from the University of New Mexico and continues to compose often.
Meghan Daaboul is an actor, director, producer, and the founding father of Tour de Force Productions. Her stage work contains A Streetcar Named Desire (Imago Theatre), ‘Night Mother (Chehalem Players), The Shadow Box (Sandy Actors Theatre), and CLUE (Experience Theatre Project). Her movie credit embody My Face (Nova Studios, LLC), Secret Life (Steven Perkins Productions), A Quick Connect (Harter Creative), and The Hag of McMinnville (Crescent Skulls Cinema). She has a B.A. from Whitman College with a significant focus in performing and directing.
Melissa Monroe is a multi-disciplinary artist recognized for her playful and expressive work in acrylic paint, textiles, and sculpture. Her work focuses on vulnerability, transformation, and self-reflection. In 2021 she started experimenting with handmade rugs and shortly grew to become an innovator in a method that blended painterly abstraction with fiber-based work and sculpture.
Her performative practices embody mask-making and video installations. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and artwork gala’s throughout the U.S., together with exhibitions at Brassworks Gallery in Portland, Hey There Projects in Joshua Tree, and Mortal Machine in New Orleans, in addition to exhibiting on the Seattle Art Fair and the Scope Art Fair in Miami.
Francisco Garcia is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator. His current playwriting commissions embody Maya Ruiz Rises for Oregon Children’s Theatre, 545 for Portland Playhouse’s Wonderland Festival of New Works, and Sube y Baja for Artists Repertory Theatre.
His current work as a director contains the world premieres of Swimming While Drowning and Broken Promises (Milagro Theatre), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Stumptown Stages/Portland’5 Center for the Arts), Tomás and the Library Lady and Diary of a Worm (Oregon Children’s Theatre), 24 Hour Play Festival (Profile Theatre), Sequestered Soliloquies (Bag & Baggage), and Anon(ymous) for Lewis &Clark College, the place he was a visiting professor.
As an actor his current credit embody It’s What’s Inside (Netflix), Lean on Pete (A24 Film), Portlandia (IFC), and Nassim (Portland Center Stage/Boom Arts). He is a member of LineStorm Playwrights, SAG-AFTRA, and Actors’ Equity Association.
Marcelle Heath is a short-story author and editor. Her tales have appeared in Joyland, Kenyon Review, Little Fiction, and elsewhere. Her assortment Is That All There Is? was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Fiction. She has been an editor for Atomic Ranch, sequence editor for Wigleaf, managing editor for VIDA Review, and editor-at-large for Luna Park Review. She was the curator of the long-running interview sequence Apparel for Authors and is a present editor at matchbook.
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