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CONTRIBUTORS A.L. ADAMS STEPHEN MARC BEAUDOIN A.L. ADAMS 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. STEPHEN MARC BEAUDOIN Winner of the Skidmore Prize and the Rob Delf Award, Stephen Marc Beaudoin is recognized as a next generation arts and culture leader in Oregon and beyond for his work advancing equity and inclusion in the arts, as well as his writing, organization leadership, advocacy and performance. Beaudoin is executive director of PHAME, an accomplished singer, and has contributed writing to Willamette Week, The Oregonian, Portland Business Journal, Portland Mercury and more. GRAHAM W. BELL Graham W. Bell is an art historian and arts writer living in Portland, Oregon. His research and interests lie in contemporary theory and practice, and new media. He teaches Contemporary Art and general MARTY HUGHLEY GRAHAM BELL art history survey courses at several local universities, and is also a frequent contributor to Oregon ArtsWatch where he acts as a visual arts critic and writer. He holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Oregon. BRETT CAMPBELL Brett Campbell has been classical music editor at Willamette Week since 2008, Eugene Weekly’s music columnist since 1996, and a West Coast performing arts correspondent for The Wall Street Journal since 2000. He’s also a frequent contributor to San Francisco Classical Voice, Oregon Quarterly and Oregon Humanities, and a former editor of Oregon Quarterly and The Texas Observer. Campbell’s writing has appeared in The Oregonian, West: The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Salon, Musical America and many other publications. He has taught news and feature writing, editing and magazine publishing at the University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication, and he currently teaches journalism at Portland State University. AMY GRAVES Amy Graves is a native of Portland, Oregon. She has always remained close to her roots in the Northwest photographing landscapes, portraitures and capturing images of the BARRY JOHNSON CAROLYN MAIN BRETT CAMPBELL American family. Her ongoing projects include documenting the daily lives of her three children and collaborating with her husband on photo shoots. MARTY HUGHLEY Marty Hughley writes about theatre, dance and performing arts. A Portland native, he joined The Oregonian in 1989 and served as pop music critic from 1990 to 2006, then became paper’s principal performing arts reviewer for several years. In 2013, he was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame for his journalistic contributions to the industry. BARRY JOHNSON 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. RAINA STINSON AMY GRAVES CAROLYN MAIN Carolyn Main is an illustrator and Portland native with a penchant for the absurd. She utilizes wild lines and color to depict the humor in everyday life. She’s currently writing a graphic novel and designing too many video games along with one great card game. She’s also way into singing Billy Joel songs and wearing jumpsuits. RAINA STINSON Raina Stinson is a Portland-based fine art and commercial photographer who specializes in conceptual photography. She enjoys creative collaborations with her clients that result in artistic portraits, which not only capture and document significant times in their lives but render beautiful pieces of art to last for generations. CLAIRE WILLETT Portland native Claire Willett is a playwright, arts administrator and former Catholic youth minister. She is a proud member of Playwrights West, received the 2011 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama, has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Whitman College and is obsessed with Liberace. CLAIRE WILLETT ARTSLANDIA AT THE PERFORMANCE MARCH | APRIL 13