![Welcome](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/staceyray/files/2015/04/cropped-Undulations-1a4dthn.jpg)
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.
![Wedding Invitation Design](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/staceyray/files/2016/05/MTWedding_Cover-1jswora.jpg)
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…
![Internship Blog - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/staceyray/files/2015/10/PICA_TheWorks_23-zwlbcn.jpg)
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…
![Can't Fuck Up_2012](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/staceyray/files/2015/07/Anxiety_StaceyRay_72dpi-1mxxchs.jpg)
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…
![Reflecting on RAC: The 2015 Rural Arts & Culture Summit](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/staceyray/files/2015/08/RAC-2015-Sketchbook-Notes-1d8k9ow.jpg)
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
![The Sketchbook: Fearless of the Blank Page](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/staceyray/files/2015/06/DSC_0202_ED_FB-vsfuiw.jpg)
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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