PNPA Board Members
Bill Rhoades
Art collector Bill Rhoades was born in Hood River, Oregon on September 9, 1950 and grew up in Southwest Portland with his brother Steve, and parents Murna and Vay. He was part of the first class to graduate from Jackson High School and later obtained an associate’s degree from nearby Portland Community College. An avid outdoorsman, Bill moved to central Oregon, where he worked at the Madras Pioneer newspaper as a sports and outdoor editor, and later became a media advisor and writer/editor in the Natural Resources Branch of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, retiring in 2012. Over the past 25 years Bill has placed approximately 1,000 art objects in over 30 museum and public-access institutions across the country. He resides in the Madras suburbs with his long-time girlfriend, artist Coralee Popp, attending frequent happy hour sessions in their backyard with neighborhood deer, hummingbirds, quail, lizards and other wild friends.
Stewart Harvey
Stewart Harvey holds an Master of Arts degree from Portland State University and has been a professional photographer for forty years. A veteran Burner since 1989, his documentary photography has centered on Burning Man as well as an extended exploration of New Orleans and the Pacific Northwest.
Stewart’s photographs have been widely exhibited, and are in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, The Visual Chronicle of Portland, Universities of Oregon and Colorado, The Nevada Art Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, and the State Museum of Louisiana.
His work has appeared in many books including: The Burning Man Book, On the Edge of Utopia; Burning Book, Katrina Exposed, and the covers for The Road to Zena and Yoga for People Who Can’t be Bothered to Do IT. In 2011, The University of Washington Library purchased his hand-bound artist book, I Am What I Need To Be. Publications in 2014 include Playa Dust: Collected Stories of Burning Man (Cover and Photo Essay), and his artist book: Conflagration: Pyro-Inspired Rituals at Burning Man.
In 2017 his photo/memoir Playa Fire: Spirit and Soul at Burning Man, was published by Harper One. It details over thirty years of photographing the iconic event that his brother Larry founded in 1986.
Stu Levy
Stu Levy is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He has led photography workshops on the Oregon Coast for over 30 years. He studied with Ansel Adams and was an assistant instructor for Ansel’s workshops in Yosemite and Carmel; he was also an instructor at the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops.
His photographs are in many public and private collections including The Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman House, the Portland Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Museum of Photographic Arts, San Francisco Civic Center, Portland Visual Chronicle and the Wilson Centre for Photography.
He was one of the founders of the Photography Council of the Portland Art Museum and was the Council President from 2003 to 2006.
He is also on the Board of Directors of Photolucida and the Pacific Northwest Photographers Archive.
Publications:
Cranial Czar, Eh? (One Picture Book #30) Nazraeli Press 2005
Grid-Portraits (Monograph) Nazraeli Press 2010
Honk If You Love Stieglitz (Jerry Uelsmann) (One Picture Book #75) Nazraeli Press 2012
Photographs 1979 – 2013 (In Search of the What Else) LensWork Press 2014
Magazine Articles:
Camera And Darkroom May 1993
Lenswork #59 Jul – Aug 2005
View Camera Magazine September/October 2007
Photographers Forum Fall 2013
On Landscape #201 March 2020
Jim Lommasson
Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and former department chair at the Pacific NW College of Art.
Books and major exhibitions:
"Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice and The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms" received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
"Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan" (and traveling exhibition) is about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and their lives after their return from war.
“What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization" an ongoing collaborative storytelling project with displaced Iraqi and Syrian refugees. “What We Carried" was exhibited at the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration in 2019.
"Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory" (exhibition and book) about genocide and Holocaust survivors was created in cooperation with the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
"Stories of Survival and Remembrance: A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention” was exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in Spring 2023.
Lommasson’s work is represented in the permanent collections at The Library of Congress, University of Washington, SF MoMA, Portland Art Museum, Yale University, Reed College, University of Oregon, George Eastman Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Hallie Ford Museum, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL, University of Denver, Ohio University, University of California Irvine, University of Colorado, Baylor University, and Emory University.
Ann Kendellen
Ann Kendellen moved from the midwest to study photography at the University of Colorado. Following graduation her work as a docent at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego greatly expanded her understanding of the medium. After moving to Portland, Oregon she served for over thirty years on both on the Exhibition Committee and the Board of Directors of Blue Sky Gallery. She additionally served as a board member of Photolucida. As a member of the Portland Grid Project she photographed in every square mile of the city. Her work has been exhibited in local galleries and the Portland Art Museum, as well as in institutions outside the state. Images are held in private and public collections.
Nicolette Bromberg
Richard Brown
Susie Morrill