PNCA Alumni Selected for Rainmaker Artist Residency
October 04, 2015
Congratulations to the PNCA alumni selected for the Rainmaker Artist Residency, a 12-month program that provides studio space and professional development to support recent MFA recipients from Oregon colleges and universities. The Residency was founded by Jane Schiffhauer, who received her MFA from PNCA.
Jonathan Gann is an interdisciplinary artist and musician living and working in Portland, Oregon. He received his BFA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012 and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2014. Jonathan has shown internationally and is currently a lead coordinator in No Laws No Fear of Death (NLNFOD) and Take Down Your Art (TDYA).
Michael Horwitz is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. He received his BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work has been featured in the Time Based Arts Festival, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, PDX Contemporary Art, Disjecta, ‘Mo-Wave Queer Arts Festival, the Independent Print Resource Center, and The Projects PDX.
Leif J. Lee is a multi-disciplinary queer feminist artist born in the Pacific Northwest. She received BA from the Evergreen State College and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2014. Her studio practice includes creating hand drawn patterns in ink on fabrics that are then hand dyed for custom clothing, soft sculpture and wall hangings. Her collaborative performances have shown at multiple events including the Time Based Art festival and PICA’s Resource Room Residency.
Kaila Farrell-Smith is a Klamath/Modoc visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Kaila Farrell-Smith received a B.F.A. from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004 and a MFA in Contemporary Art Practices Studio from Portland State University in 2014. She works as a mentor and art instructor for Journey’s in Creativity, a pre-college Native/Indigenous art camp via OCAC, is an adjunct professor of art at Portland Community College, and the Development Coordinator for the artist residency program, Signal Fire.