This site serves as a portfolio for my work as an artist, organizer, and arts manager. I am an advocate for the arts as a means for realization and action in service to contemporary issues.
I was recently asked to design a wedding invitation with sketches and hand-drawn text, including two well-known natural landmarks (associated with the home towns of the couple) printed on vellum. I do not have significant formal education in design so…
This summer I interned at PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) in Portland, Oregon. I met Roya Amirsoleymani, PICA’s Community Engagement Manager, early on in my graduate studies and worked with her on public programs during my summer internship, specifically in…
Problem Statement: Experimental contemporary art and artists in general are not associated with rural place nor do they seem well supported in rural America. There seems to be a general lack of connectivity between artists, lack of understanding and exposure…
I finally cataloged all my artwork on this ePortfolio. Sketchbooks, photography, and select works from art school. Now I have ALL of my work in one place! My artist & arts admin identities have officially been integrated…just as they are…
It is hard to explain the spirit of over 360 people brought together from rural place, with rural stories, and with playfully imaginative ambitions for transformation and positive change. Such a gathering creates a palpable, contagious energy disseminated through excited…
Stacey Ray_Comp Tech Final Review
This video was the final project for my Comparative Technologies course during spring term of 2015. I taught myself stop-motion animation, filming, and video editing with Adobe Premiere. I am also now the proud owner of a new HD video…
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