Dana Lynn Louis has been named one of ten artists selected for the Oregon Arts Commission's 2024 Visual Artist Fellowship. 

The Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Fund is pleased to announce that Dana Lynn Louis has been awarded the 2023 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship.

Dana Lynn Louis recently received a Career Opportunity Grant from The Ford Family Foundation for a six-week residency at Thread in Senegal, West Africa, a program and cultural center developed by The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. The program aims to bring together artists from around the world, and within Senegal, to advance their own work and provide the opportunity to collaborate with the regional population to renew artistic practices and facilitate new ideas and artistic endeavors.

Gather: Make: Shelter is founded and organized by artist Dana Lynn Louis and is a response to the current housing crisis in Portland. The project culminates in a celebratory public event where the hand-painted bowls will be available for sale and the money raised will be given to local organizations who support urgent housing needs for the upcoming winter.

Dana Lynn Louis

La Grande Robe: A Salutation to the Women of Sinthian

Opening September 22, 5–8 pm

September 22 – November 17

Front Of House Gallery

Jessica Helgerson Interior Design

112 SW 1st Avenue, Portland OR 97204

This last Fall-Winter visual artist Dana Lynn Louis spent 9½ weeks traveling to Senegal for Thread, an artist residency sponsored by the Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation. The Alberses—artists from the famed Bauhaus school and refugees from Nazi Germany—spent a lifetime revealing the wonders of color, textiles, and artistic process so that they could be enjoyed across the planet. The Albers Foundation established Le Korsa in 2005 to provide medical care, education, nutrition, and cultural enrichment in some of the poorest and most isolated regions of the world. Louis' sojourn also included a site visit to the Cultural Center Ko-Falen in Mali, West Africa.

The San Juan Islands Museum of Art presents As Above, So Below, a site-specific installation by Portland-based artist Dana Lynn Louis, recipient of the 2016 Contemporary Northwest Art Award. Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum states, “Creating spaces with intimate and large-scale drawings, light projections, and sculptural objects, [Louis] uses glass, light, and shadow to achieve a glitteringly magical environment.”

The Regional Arts & Culture Council recently announced 56 artworks by 39 artists that were added to the Portable Works Collection of smaller scale artworks that rotate through City and County office facilities.

We are pleased that Laura Russo Gallery artists Judith Poxson Fawkes, Fay Jones, Dana Lynn Louis, Jan Reaves, and Samantha Wall were included in their selection!

Congratulations to gallery artists Dana Lynn Louis and Samantha Wall! Both are winners of the 2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards presented by the Portland Art Museum. They will be featured in the 2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards exhibition opening in October 2015 at the museum.