Our Board
Douglas Burns is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician living in Portland, Oregon. He is the Founder/ Director of Souvenir, an experimental art space in the Alberta Arts District. He has worked as Preparator of Collections at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and as Collections Specialist at Pittock Mansion. Over the past twenty-five years, his bands Red Dons, Revisions, and The Observers have released multiple albums and continue to tour worldwide.
In his visual art, Burns explores themes of identity and social unconscious through collage, assemblage, and video. He holds a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art Practice from Portland State University.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including New York, Chicago, Berlin and Munich. Recent Oregon exhibits at One River School and Well Well Projects.
Burns joined the AiO board in 2022.
Jeremy Okai Davis was born and grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, receiving a BFA in painting from the University of North Carolina (Charlotte, NC). Davis relocated to Portland, OR in 2007 where he has continued his studio practice in addition to working as a graphic designer and illustrator.
Davis’s work resides in public and private collections including the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, the Port of Portland, the Multnomah County Courthouse, the Ledding Library in Milwaukie, the Seaside Public Library, Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School in Portland, and Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA.
His work has been shown nationally at the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York, THIS Los Angeles, Wa Na Wari in Seattle, and The Rotating Art Program at Portland International Airport. Davis is part of the traveling exhibition Black Matter, curated by Tammy Jo Wilson. Elizabeth Leach Gallery began representing Jeremy Okai Davis in 2019.
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Kendra Larson is an artist based in Portland, OR with a primary focus on the ephemerality of Pacific NW landscapes. Her work explores historical ideas of the Landscape and subtly supports ideas around environmentalism as well as contemporary relationships with the natural world.
Larson grew up in Salem, OR. She received her MFA in Painting at University of Wisconsin, Madison and has shown her work in venues in the United States and New Zealand. Larson is a past Signal Fire , Caldera (Sisters, Oregon) New Pacific Studios (Masterton, New Zealand), Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Oregon), and Fish FactoryCreative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður (Iceland) artist in residence.
Larson teaches at Clark College and is the Archer Gallery Director there.
She is represented by Augen Gallery in Portland, OR and AMcE Creative Arts in Seattle, WA. She has been on the AiO board since 2018.
Pamela Hadley is a time-based light artist that creates immersive environments using projected minimalist abstract animations, while considering or constructing architectural forms. Believing that phenomenological experience can be an agent of social change, Hadley seeks to make these experiences freely available to their community.
Originally from Washington, DC, Hadley has participated in exhibitions and residencies across the US, including at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, where they received a Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Award.
Hadley is a RACC Arts3C Grant recipient and has upcoming shows with The Vestibule, Seattle, WA, and Terrain at Building 5, Portland, OR. Hadley is a member of Carnation Contemporary, a collectively-run art space where, in addition to mounting solo exhibitions, they play a large role in curating open call shows and collective organizing. She also belongs to the groups WAVE Contemporary and Borderline Salon in Portland, OR.
Hadley earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC.
Amanda Triplett is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator who practices, shows, and teaches in the Pacific Northwest. Using primarily recycled textiles, Amanda creates craft-based, fiber sculpture, performance, and installation about human relationships to biological, ecological, and cultural narratives. Currently Amanda is making work around the narratives of ecological hope and resilience.
A recipient of an array of residencies, grants, and awards, Amanda is currently an artist-in-residence with Friends of Pando and showing regularly in the Pacific Northwest. As a member of the cooperative Shift Gallery in Seattle and the larger art community of Pacific Northwest, Amanda is committed to the cultivation of community engagement by hosting and facilitating conversations about creative cultural resilience.