Join us this Third Thursday for a gallery talk with artists from the exhibition As We Are. From 6 to 7 p.m., we’ll have artists Elana Adler and Oscar Chacon in the gallery to share insights into their artistic practices, as well as those of their peers.

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About the Artists

Elana Adler (born 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and currently based in Portland. She received a BFA in textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and an MFA in fibers and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. While in Chicago, Adler co-organized an artist-run gallery called Adler & Floyd and managed a studio collective in the Industrial Clocktower Building. Her residencies include Surf Point Foundation, Haystack, Monson Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, and Hatch Projects through the Chicago Artist Coalition. Adler has exhibited her work nationally and has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Illinois Art Council. In addition to her studio practice, Adler teaches at the Maine College of Art and Design and works as a studio assistant.

Oscar Chacon (born 1984) is a Texas-based artist whose creative practices and processes focus on producing mixed-media, paper-based drawings. His art draws inspiration from photography, performance, film, video, and nature. Oscar will often begin a drawing by deciding what it is he wants to see, then gathering as much reference material as he can in order to realize that vision on paper. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Maine College of Art and Design. In 2022, Oscar was nominated for the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship. In 2023, Oscar was part of a group exhibition titled Evening Botanist at SPACE gallery in Portland and was selected to attend the Alumni Artist Residency at the Maine College of Art and Design. When he is not in the studio, Oscar is a special education teaching assistant at Anderson Elementary in Arlington, Texas.