mmmmHmmm (No. 2)
2019
Lisa Jarrett
Portland, Oregon
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Lisa Jarrett
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 (King School Museum of Contemporary Art)—a museum inside a K-5 public school—in Northeast Portland, OR. Her intersectional 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. She exists and makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2022
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2018
Website / Social Links
My work contemplates the necessity of imagination as a person whose history, to a fault, is untraceable due to the violence of slavery in the United States and the ongoing attempts at cultural erasure that colonialism demands. My practice is a site of humanity and an act of resistance.”
