Our Staff
Tammy Jo Wilson
Founder
Tammy Jo Wilson is a black artist, curator, and arts organizer in Portland, Oregon. Wilson received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and her MFA from San Jose State University. In 2017 Wilson co-founded the arts organization Art in Oregon with artist and curator Owen Premore; a statewide visual arts non-profit working to foster culturally rich regional communities through partnerships, advocacy, and investment in artists, businesses, educational spaces, and community spaces. In recent years Wilson co-curated the exhibit An Artistic Heritage in 2019, Art Makes History and You are Not a Robot in 2020. Wilson curated six iterations of the traveling exhibition Black Matter from 2021-2022, featuring all Oregon-based black artists. Currently, Wilson is co-curating the second iteration of the ongoing land art exhibit Terrain with Kendra Roberts and Clairissa Stephens, continuing to curate Black Matter at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in 2025 and Black Fish Gallery in 2026. She is also working with artist MOsley Wotta and Wake Creative on an artful docuseries Sketch & Release about Black artists working in rural Oregon.
Additionally, Wilson serves as Director of Exhibits & Programming for the Bush House Museum in Salem, Oregon, and as Visual Arts & Technology Program Manager in the art department at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. In her art practice, Wilson has exhibited her work nationally and was awarded the Leland Ironworks Golden Spot Artist Residency, performed in the SALT: Above a Whisper at Shaking the Tree Theatre, and was featured in the two women exhibit Biological Dissonance at the Parrish Gallery in Newberg, Oregon in 2019. In 2022 she had solo exhibitions of her artwork in Salem at the Gretchen Schuette Gallery and Roger Hall Gallery at Willamette University. In 2023 she had a retrospective of her work at the Truckenbrod Gallery in Corvallis, Oregon. She recently had a solo exhibition of new works at Souvenir Gallery in Portland in May of 2024.
Erinn Kathryn Hatter
Director of Programs
Erinn Kathryn is a practicing artist working in a range of media, including sculpture, mixed media, painting, installation. Originally from Pennsylvania, Erinn obtained BS and MA degrees in fine art and education on the east coast, and slowly made her way west.
As part of her practice, she collects, hordes, and augments found materials of all kinds, ranging from mass-produced goods like postcards and blister packs, to natural materials like bones and lichen, to literal street-side garbage. By re-contextualizing existing such objects, Erinn reframes long-held perspectives and examines intersections between the ‘natural’ and ‘constructed’ within which we exist.
Erinn has been awarded many grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and Oregon Arts Commission for her projects on landscapes and environments of the West/Pacific Northwest. She as traveled to Alaska, Vermont, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and across Oregon and Washington for artist residencies.
In addition to her work with Art in Oregon, Erinn teaches youth and adults in painting, printmaking, book arts, and 2D mixed media at Ulna Studio and Independent Publishing Resource Center.
Erinn is a member of Carnation Contemporary artist collective and Borderline Art Salon, both in Portland, OR.