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Brittney Connelly is a sculptor and photographer living in Portland, OR. She received an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a B.F.A from the University of Houston. Her work is influenced by critical theory revolving around the photographic medium and often mines imagery that is widely accessible on the internet. Her large-scale photographs are constructed from low-res jpegs and studio artifacts built in real space, her work is then photographed, flattened and digitally manipulated relishing in the low-quality editing tools of photoshop. Her work has screened at museums, galleries and film festivals, such as COCA Seattle, The Blaffer Museum, Site:Brooklyn, FOTOFEST and The Cranbrook Art Museum.
Alongside exhibiting her work, in 2018 Connelly co-founded Carnation Contemporary, a contemporary arts space located in Portland, Oregon.
Learn More: www.brittneyconnelly.com
Anna Gray has worked in an artistic collaboration with Ryan Wilson Paulsen since 2009. Together they make project-based work, using art as an extended form of study and a testing ground for ideas about language, politics, and social life. Utilizing a range of media and contexts, their pieces and projects are often grounded in translating the individual act of reading into a collective and visual one. Their work has appeared in many public places as well as at institutions such as The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL); The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA); SPACES (Cleveland, OH); Locust Projects (Miami, FL); Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR); and on the pages of NOON Literary Annual.
In addition to teaching at PSU, they enjoy growing things and spending time with their son, (a sometimes chipmunk by the name of Nutmeg Elements Bridger).
Learn more: www.ryannaprojects.com
Michelle Illuminato creates events, public-exchanges, and artworks to help reveal the complicated and often contradictory relationship between people, their culture and the land they live on. She works individually and with the collective next question on projects that have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
She counts her Key to the City of Aliquippa Pennsylvania as her most treasured public award and has been recently honored by Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review for her 2015 project The Lost & Found Factory. She is the Head of the CORE Program at Portland State University and was recently honored with the Master Teacher Award by the Foundations: Art, Theory, and Education at the national conference. Her recent exhibitions include: Tripoli Street BakeYard, Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, Pittsburgh, Lost & Found Factory, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, The Neighborhood Revisited, Open Engagement 2015, Pittsburgh, Pop Rocks, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institute, NY, Lenz, Vogelfrei 10, Darmstadt, Germany.
Learn More: www.nextquestion.org www.michelleilluminato.com
