“I am grateful for the years of formal training at Pacific NW College of Art and Studio Art Centers International which culminated in my BFA. I am equally grateful for a deep desire to question my decisions in life and in the studio, and then to take responsibility for them.
Count me among the painters who, following the impulses of their eyes, find a painting in the act of its own making. My understanding of works which thrill me is that they do it first by grabbing my eyes, but at the same time offer windows into that other world of the credible imagination. This isn’t a process in which you’ll find the seven steps to connubial bliss, with exercises to simultaneously tighten your buttocks and open your third eye. But it is an invaluable opportunity to learn about ourselves and each other. Art is not food… but art feeds me.”
Coralee Popp
coralee popp
2141 SW Locust
Madras, Oregon 97741
(541)475-6317
EDUCATION
| 1997 | R & F Encaustics | New York, NY |
| 1986-91 | Pacific Northwest College Of Art, BFA | Portland, Oregon |
| 1989 | Studio Art Center International | Florence, Italy |
| 1984-85 | Oregon School of Arts & Crafts | Portland, Oregon |
| 1981-84 | Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon |
| 1979 | Southwestern College | San Diego, CA |
EMPLOYMENT
| 2000-06 | Director, Art Adventure Gallery |
| 2004-06 | Site Coordinator, CAFÉ arts enrichment program |
| 2000-04 | Substitute teacher for 509-J school district |
| 1993-98 | Director of Continuing Education, Central Oregon Community College |
ONE PERSON SHOWS
| 2009 | Outside The Box | Janovec Gallery Portland, OR |
| 2007 | There Are Lives In The Balance, prints & paintings | Janovec Gallery Portland, OR |
| 2005 | There Are Lives In The Balance, woodcuts | |
| 2003 | In The Deeps Of Us | Art Adventure Gallery Madras, OR |
| 2002 | Works Of Faith | Portland, OR |
GROUP SHOWS
| 2009 | Printmaker’s Hand | Corvidae Press Port Townsend, WA |
| 2009 | Cultural Sensibilities | Littman Gallery Portland, OR |
| 2007 | Spirit Of Our Northwest Forests | Rotunda Gallery Bend, OR |
| 2006 | Nexus, PNCA | Portland, OR |
| 2005 | Educators In Art | Art Adventure Gallery Madras, OR |
| 2005 | Bill Rhoades Collection | Willamette University Salem, OR |
| 2005 | Works On Paper, 1956-1996 Prints & Drawings from the Pacific Northwest | Rock Creek Gallery |
| 2005 | Ray Trayle Print Show | Blackfish Gallery Portland, OR |
| 2005 | Nexus IV PNCA Alumni Open Hanging | Portland, OR |
| 2002 | Heart to Heart, Women In Conversation About War | Rapid City, SD |
| 2002 | Oregon Sculpture 2002 | Grants Pass Museum Grants Pass, OR |
| 2002 | Art About Agriculture | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR |
| 2002 | Traveling exhibition | |
| 2002 | Oregon Landscapes | Mirror Pond Gallery Bend, OR |
| 2000 | Cascades Aid Project | Portland, OR |
| 2000 | Gifts Of The Spirit Invitational | Portland, OR |
| 2000 | Collage Of Culture juried show | Madras, OR |
| 1999 | Works Of Faith | First Presbyterian church Portland, OR |
| 1999 | Collage Of Culture juried show | Madras, OR |
| 1999 | Directors Show | Jefferson County Art Association Madras, OR |
| 1998 | Collage Of Culture juried show | Madras, OR |
| 1998 | Jefferson County Show | Art Adventure Gallery Madras, OR |
| 1997 | Collage Of Culture juried show | Madras, OR |
| 1997 | Jefferson County Show | Art Adventure Gallery Madras, OR |
| 1996 | Collage Of Culture Show | Madras, OR |
| 1992 | Sunriver juried art competition | Sunriver, OR |
| 1991 | PNCA Thesis Exhibition | Portland, OR |
| 1991 | sculpture installation | Portland Art Museum Portland, OR |
| 1990 | PNCA Print Portfolio | Portland Art Museum Portland, OR |
| 1989 | PNCA Print Portfolio | Portland Art Museum Portland, OR |
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Museum at Warm Springs, Warm Springs, OR
Chief Delvis Smiling, Portraits of Three Tribal Elders, Olney Patt, Delbert Frank and Jacob Frank
Portland Art Museum, Gordon Gilkey Collection, Portland, Oregon
Peter and Susan Belluschi, Portland, Oregon
John and Janet Stahl, Tillamook, Oregon
Dr. & Mrs. Bud Beamer, Madras, Oregon
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Christy & Laura Wycoff, Portland, Oregon
Dennis & Anne Cunningham, Portland, Oregon
Michael Hannond & Rebecca Hendrickson, Palm Springs, CA
Marion Lashbaugh, Burns, Oregon
Fred Ross, Portland, Oregon
Bob & Sylvia Blair, Portland, Oregon
Ken & Jeanie Smith
AWARDS & GRANTS
| 1999 | Works of Faith cash award for excellence | First Presbyterian Church Portland, OR |
| 1999 | Collage Of Culture “best of show award” | Madras, OR |
| 1999 | Collage Of Culture “best of show award” | Madras, OR |
| 1996 | Collage Of Culture “best of show award” | Madras, OR |
| 1993 | Regional Arts Council of Central Oregon Faces Of Three Races sculpture grant | Bend, OR |
| 1990 | Mary L. Peterson Memorial merit scholarship | |
| 1989 | Mary L. Peterson Memorial merit scholarship | |
| 1989 | Business & Professional Women’s scholarship | |
| 1988 | Nancy Tonkin Scholarship | |
| 1988 | Oregon Association of American Mothers scholarship | |
| 1987 | Dora Haskell Johnson Memorial merit scholarship |
LECTURES & VISITING ARTIST APPEARANCES
| 1992 | Oregon Art Education Association conference, Eastern Oregon St. College |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Jefferson County Arts Association
President, Board of Directors
Portland Art Museum
Smithsonian Art Museum
Coos Art Museum
Museum at Warm Springs