Lisa artist acrylic 50 x 50 pink
New 50x50” “Brighter Days” original acrylic on canvas.!
Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator.
She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University. Jarrett exhibits nationally and co-founded/co-directs KSMoCA (Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art); the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice; and Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century.
Her intersectional (and often collaborative) practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses.
NIGHT CALLS acrylic on canvas 50x All paint Ten years in the making and it is my VERSION of the Rose (Project)at the Whitney Museum.
She exists and makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions. Lisa lives and works in Portland, OR.
Lisa Jarrett - Bi