Join us to meet our session two Print + Paper artists-in-residence, Kristi Chan and V. Maldonado, and take part in other fun activities at this free community event!
Camp Colton is excited to be partnering once again with our nonprofit sister organization in Portland, Stelo, to offer 2-week artist residencies in our papermaking and letterpress printmaking studios. Learn more about the residencies HERE.
Come for all or part of the afternoon to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
12:00 pm - Gates open - Guests are invited to arrive and stroll the campus, or enjoy lunch purchased from our food trucks at the Gathering Hall
1:15 pm - Artist talks in Camp Colton's historic chapel by Kristi and V. (see bios below)
2:00 pm - Walking tours of Camp Colton with co-owner and Lead Re-wilder Shir Ly Grisanti
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Demonstrations and work samples in the paper and print studios
Our thoughtfully restored Gathering Hall will have tables and chairs set up for you to enjoy lunch or snacks available for purchase from Kellan’s Dogs and Bobablastic .
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the papermaking artist-in-residence:
Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan is a first generation Malaysian-Chinese artist, writer, and educator from the American South. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape and the excluded histories of the displaced Chinese diaspora. She researches the political, historical, and environmental heritage of the landscape and its material elements, incorporating their elemental properties into her processes. Working across disciplines, she combines experimental alternative photographic processes and ceramics with video projection and archival photography. She is deeply fascinated by how the not so distant histories of racial exclusion, erasure, and extractive environmental capitalism lay the foundation for everyday, lived contemporary experiences of the Asian American diaspora. By untangling the roots of our origins, her work seeks to revive and reckon with lost histories and lives, and their implications on race and environment, so that by knowing where we come from, we can envision a new future for ourselves.
About the printmaking artist-in-residence:
V. Maldonado is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance curator, and writer who lives and works in Portland, OR. Born in 1976 in Changuitirio, Michoacan, Mexico, Maldonado grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California in a family of migrant field laborers. They received their BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Art (2000), their MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (2005), and is exclusively represented by Froelick Gallery, Portland OR. Maldonado’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR. Deploying both traditional media including painting, printmaking and drawing alongside contemporary strategies such as performance, installation and intervention, Maldonado expresses the power of identity to author experience and perception.