PACT offers ongoing monthly events for artists to meet and have conversations about our art practices and careers. Each month a new topic will serve as the springboard to start a dialog about ideas and issues that impact our lives.  PACT is about creating an opportunity for artist to connect with each other in an open and supportive environment.

Amy Bay (b. Elkhart, IN) is a painter based in Portland, OR. Bay holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Winchester School of Art. She also completed the London-based Turps Banana Correspondence Course for painters. Bay’s heavily worked paintings use motifs and imagery that draw from decorative sources. She values the subjective, the emotional, error and mishap. She is interested in the mutability of the picturesque and conventional feminine imagery. Bay has exhibited her work at venues in the Pacific Northwest including UNA and Occasional Gallery as well as throughout New York City at Peninsula Art Space, The Painting Center, The Drawing Center, Printed Matter, Brooklyn Public Library, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has shown internationally in group and solo shows and has been awarded grants and projects from the Regional Art and Culture Council, The Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donné Papermill and Women’s Studio Workshop. She teaches at Portland Community College and Village Home Education Resource Center. Bay will have a solo exhibition at Melanie Flood Projects in August of 2018.

Kendra Larson grew up in Salem, OR. She received her MFA in Painting at University of Wisconsin, Madison and has shown her work in venues including Swarm Gallery (Oakland, CA), the University of Minnesota’s Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Boise State University (Boise, ID), Overture Center for the Arts (Madison, WI), and bG Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). Her work explores contemporary notions of place and touches on historical ideas of the Landscape. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Bear Deluxe and Tree Sap Magazine. Larson is a past Signal Fire , Caldera (Sisters, Oregon), Sitka Center (Otis, Oregon), and New Pacific Studios (Masterton, New Zealand) artist in resident who teaches at PNCA and PSU. She is represented by Augen Gallery in Portland, OR.