Artists Thrive at 54th Annual Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts

Artists at work! Lisa Jensen's work will be featured in Artist's Vision: The Skies Opened, and boy are we excited. Here's a little about Lisa... While completing her BA and MA in Art Education through Brigham Young University, Lisa Jensen worked for the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, as an Outreach Educator. There she was a member of Utah’s State-Wide Art Partnership (SWAP), and also the Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools (POPS), where she collaborated with other arts and science organizations (ie, Ballet West, Utah Symphony & Opera, Repertory Dance Theater, Clark Planetarium, etc.) to take outreach programs and teacher professional developments to every elementary, middle, and high school in Utah. This job took her on the road almost every day, traveling to nearby city schools, rural schools, and schools off of dirt roads in the far corners of the state. She regards that time as such an incredible experience, as it allowed her to see a wonderfully broad diversity in teachers and schools (and landscapes!). When she wasn’t traveling, she enjoyed working on shows and writing educational materials for the museum, teaching an Art Education course part-time at BYU, and of course, PAINTING. Although it was hard, she left the museum—and the Utah mountains—when she had her first baby, and moved to Oregon with her husband ten years ago, where she fell hard for the Pacific Northwest. They currently live in Wilsonville, where she is blessed to have her studio right in their home so she can still keep an eye on their three children while she paints (and make sure they get their piano practice done). To learn more about Lisa and Artist's Vision: The Skies Opened, visit https://www.lakewood-center.org/pages/Artists-Vision-call-for-entry-2017