ultra Q: Kristan Kennedy

2006 was a good year for Kristan Kennedy. Her work was again in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum as well as in the Fresh show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. And Leach, who represents Kennedy, also took her work to Aqua Art in Miami. Meanwhile, as Visual Art Program Director for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Kennedy brought the visual arts roaring back into the center of PICA’s programming with the visual arts component of the TBA Festival that she curated (“I live in a magical world….”). Kennedy’s been active as an artist (she co-founded the artist collective Swallow Press (x2) years back) and with PICA for a number of years now. As PICA prepares for its gala TADA and the announcement of the lineup for the 2007 Time-Based Art Festival, Kennedy took a moment to answer the questions of the ultra Q.
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POSTED: April 13th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: ultra Q | TAGS: art, ultra Q | No Comments »