Artslandia at the Performance: Portland Playhouse Nov/Dec 2014 | Page 15

CONTRIBUTORS
A.L.ADAMS

BARRY JOHNSON

MATT SMITH

Taking "write what you know"
to heart, A.L. Adams has
been writing about Portland
life and art in all its forms for
more than ten years. Adams'
hands-on experience includes
producing music used by Nike
and Oregon Public Broadcasting, presenting at Wordstock,
performing as a solo musician
and actor, helping found PDX
Pop Now!, and working on
animated feature film Coraline.

Now editor of Oregon
ArtsWatch, Barry has written
about and edited arts and
culture stories of various sorts
since 1978, when he started
writing about dance for The
Seattle Sun. He edited the arts
section of Willamette Week
and wrote a general culture
column in the early 1980s,
then started at The Oregonian
as arts editor in 1983, moving
between editing and writing
(visual arts, movies, theater,
dance) until leaving in 2009.
Since then, he’s been thinking
about new ideas to help make
arts and culture journalism
more useful and engaged than
ever before. Oregon ArtsWatch,
which he started publishing in
2011, is one of those ideas.

Matt is proud to write
performing arts reviews for
Artslandia. He was previously
organist and choir director at
St. Stephen’s and St. Timothy
churches, both in Portland. To
gain respite from artistic temperaments, Matt is a technical
communicator and software
trainer. He lives in Portland
with his wife and kids.

M’CHEL BAUXAL-GLEASON
M’Chel is a celebrity makeup
artist and hair stylist, as well
as the reigning Ms. Oregon
Plus America 2014. She’s
styled the Obamas, Heather
Graham, Alicia Silverstone,
Dakota Fanning, and Dr. Oz,
and has worked with Emmy
Award-winning show Portlandia, Grimm, Leverage and
Good Morning America. M’chel
won Best TV and Film Hair
Stylist (2013) and Makeup
Artist of the Year (2012) for
the Portland Fashion & Style
Awards and was also Volunteer
of the Year (2013) for the
Hillsboro Chamber School
to Work Program.

MARTY HUGHLEY
Marty Hughley writes about
theatre