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
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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
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CAROLYN MAIN
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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.
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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.
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ARTSLANDIA AT THE PERFORMANCE MARCH | APRIL
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