Past Exhibits
Josephine Cameron
“Works in Wood”
June 12th – July 9th, 2005
Josephine Cameron is an accomplished artist with a life-long history as an art teacher. A Portland native, she completed a four year program of study at the Portland Museum Art School and later studied briefly with Mark Tobey and Lloyd Reynolds. Among her studies were painting, printmaking, calligraphy and scientific illustration.
Jo taught art classes at the Portland Art Museum, Portland School of Arts & Crafts, the YWCA, Portland Zoo, Oregon Primate Center, St. Stephen School, and high school 
art in Miacatlan, Mexico. She and her husband joined the Peace Corps in 1987, and spent two years in a remote village in the Solomon Islands where she taught art, sewing, hygiene and compost gardening. She currently volunteers as an art instructor at the Metropolitan Learning Center and the Community Transitional School in Portland.
“Materials called ‘found objects’ are commonly used (recycled?) by folk artists all around the world, and made into a form of art. With discarded objects there are no rules. I began using recycled wood scraps in the early 1990’s to carve small animal forms with a bow saw.
I used the saw because I dislike using power tools. Recently, I began doing colorful acrylic folk art paintings of animals and birds on wood, some influenced by my travel experiences.”
