Faculty Profiles
Cascade Faculty
- Sam Morgan, Department Chair
- BFA Studio Arts, U Colorado Boulder - CO 1993
- MFA Ceramics, Alfred U - NY 1996
- Jacqueline Ehlis
Central
to Jacqueline Ehlis’ teaching philosophy is that the experience of making art
as a practice within an aesthetic context contributes to the invaluable effort
to put the individual in possession of all of one’s powers. Ehlis believes in
the worth and creative power of any individual. Jacqueline Ehlis received her
M.F.A. at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; her B.F.A. at Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland, Oregon; and her A.A. at Portland Community College.
Selected solo exhibitions include; Couture, Stipend Exhibition Award, New American
Art Union, Portland, Oregon, Juror: Ruth Ann Brown and selected group exhibitions;
Las Vegas Diaspora, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, Curator: Dave Hickey. www.jacquelineehlis.com- Roxanne Jackson
Roxanne Jackson received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2004). Since graduate school, she has had many solo shows and has exhibited her work in both national and international exhibitions. At the recent NCECA* Conference in Portland, Oregon, Roxanne was awarded an "Emerging Artist" title; this award offered her the opportunity to lecture at the most recognized national ceramic conference in the United States. Her work has recently been published in the book, 500 Animals In Clay: Contemporary: Expressions of the Animal Form, the NCECA Journal, “Explorations and Navigations,” and other newspapers and magazines. Additionally, she has been awarded a Professional Development Grant from RACC (the Regional Arts and Culture Council). Recently an Artist In Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, she has also been a resident at Oregon College of Art and Craft and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts.
Jackson teaches ceramic sculpture at Portland Community College and Oregon College of Art and Craft. She’s part of a collective artist studio in Portland, Oregon. Before attending graduate school, she lived in Aspen, Colorado where she taught snowboarding and worked as a studio artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. A river guide of 14 years, her wilderness experience on rivers throughout California, Alaska and Nepal has certainly affected her work. www.roxannejackson.com
- Kicki Masthem
Kicki Masthem teaches drawing, sculpture and clay and works out of her studio in Portland, Oregon. She has received awards such as the "Individual Artist Fellowship" from the Virginia Commission for the Arts (1999), "Halvorsen Residency" at Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery (2001), "Artist in Residence" at Watershed Ceramic Center for the Arts, ME (2004) and at The Clay Studio in Missoula, MT(2007). Her work is featured in "500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form", Lark Press (2004) and "Image Transfer" by Paul Andrew Wandless (2006).
- Marlana Stoddard Hayes
Teaching Philosophy: As an artist I have always been interested in making work that is thoughtful, generous and organic in quality (meaning growth over time)…also accessible to most people and hopefully, beautiful. As an art instructor, I also hold to these beliefs and strive to embody them in my manner as a teacher and mentor to aspiring artists.
Since all of us come from different perspectives and life experiences, I do wait for each person to tell some of who they are before I make suggestions for growth or change. My manner is gentle and quietly persuasive, but mature in focus and honed through years of practice. I feel it is my privilege to help a person unfold in their artistic search and sincerely look forward to every single class I teach; to learn and know about the many varied people in our world. Since I am very interested and concerned about the natural world and its challenges and sensitivities, I do use materials that are from nature as source materials for drawings and paintings and for course problems. http://www.beppugallery.com/index.php
- JulieAnne Poncet
Hello, my name is JulieAnne Poncet and I have been teaching art history courses at PCC for six years. I was born in Portland, Oregon, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, returning to Portland in 2002. I have an AA degree in Fine Arts from Ohlone College, Fremont CA, a bachelors degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, and a masters degree in Art History from University College, London, England. I teach a sequence ART101, 102 and 103 as well as ART204, 205, 206, and ART215. I have also taught at PSU and Marylhurst University, as well as spent three years working as the curator's assistant at the Portland Art Museum.
Rock Creek Faculty
- Mark Andres, Department Chair
- Richey Bellinger
- Alissa Clark
- Donna Cole
- Julia Grieve
- Vicki Wilson
Sylvania Faculty
- James Hicks, Department Chair
- Elizabeth Bilyeu
- Gene Flores
- Kim Manchester
- Mark Smith
- Mary Stupp-Greer
- Charlie Washburn
- Marie Sivak
BFA, Sculpture University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), MFA, Sculpture & Extended Media Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond,VA)
Marie teaches Sculpture and Three Dimensional Design. Locally, solo exhibitions have been mounted at Laura Russo Gallery, Blackfish Gallery, Contemporary Crafts Museum, and the IFCC. Marie’s work has recently been shown nationally and internationally at the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Itami, Japan), Nancy Margolis Gallery (New York), Art London with Panter & Hall Gallery (London, UK), The Drawing Gallery (London, UK), Kunstihoone, (Tallinn, Estonia) and Palazzo Pretorio (Volterra, Italy). Her sculpture was featured in a solo exhibition entitled Ephemera: Recent Work in Video and Stone at A.I.R. Gallery in New York (April 2008). Marie has won many grants and awards. She was the 2005 winner of the Yeck National Young Sculptors Competition and an Artist in Residence at the Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop, (Wales, UK). She has been the recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, a grant from the Ruth Chenven Foundation, and two Regional Arts and Culture Council Grants. Marie’s work has been collected internationally and may be found in the public collections of Miami University (Oxford, OH), the municipality of Volterra, Italy, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK).
Philosophy: At the heart of my creative practice is a respect and awe of the beauty and conceptual power of materials. My interdisciplinary work combines stone carving, fibers, video, drawing, and performance. I have traveled to the mountains of Carrara and the Tuscan hills of Volterra in Italy to learn techniques of master stone carvers, artisans, and artists, which I share with my students. I believe in teaching both traditional techniques and experimentation so that students may begin to move fluidly from one medium to another to express their ideas.