THE PATRICIA CLARK STUDIO
ABOUT THE PATRICIA CLARK STUDIO:
Patricia Clark, founding Board member and driving force behind Scalehouse, was more than a master printmaker, professor and arts advocate – she pushed us to learn, to grow and most of all, to believe in ourselves. She was a dedicated artist and educator and mentored many prominent artists in Central Oregon with a film belief that artists of all levels benefit from exposure to studio time with other artists and the exploration of the process of making and discussing art.
In Pat’s memory, Scalehouse Collaborative for the Arts is honored to offer a 6-month Artist in Residence program by providing FREE STUDIO SPACE to support artists, creative thinkers, designers, and the curious to explore the process of creativity connecting artists and audiences alike to boundary-pushing ideas, experiences, and expressions.
The Patricia Clark Studio is located next door to the Scalehouse Gallery in the Franklin Crossing Building, in the Tin Pan Alley. Scalehouse Gallery is the home to the contemporary art space presenting bold, new work by artists representing a broad range of identities and perspectives which might not otherwise be seen in Bend. The Patricia Clark Studio and Scalehouse Gallery will connect audiences to boundary-pushing ideas, the creative practice, experiences, and expressions through direct access to artists.
Pat gifted Scalehouse her collection of sketchbooks and selected arts which are housed at the Studio, and available to view or rent. Learn more about renting or viewing Pat's journals here.
CURRENT RESIDENTS:
Shere Coleman (she/her) is a lifelong working and exhibiting artist whose work includes, painting, wood sculpture, theater, poetry, puppetry and more. Shere has a deep engagement with our oldest forms of human expression worldwide. Oral storytelling and puppetry stir her imagination and curiosity and guide much of her creative work. Her career includes Teaching Artist, and faculty member in Foundation Art Department at Art
Institute of Portland, LAIKA Animation Studio prop builder and costumer: The PJ’s, Coraline, numerous commercial projects. Shere presented a TEDx talk in 2012, Journey to Purpose.
Covid-timeout brought a multi-weekly poetry practice where the discipline of picture-making words became the pallet and the canvas. Writing remains a core practice. Travels have taken her to kneel before world class puppeteers and mythologists.
She holds a BFA in painting from PNCA, and a MAEd, her thesis titled, Intercultural Diversity for a Global Perspective in Design College Education 2005. Shere has taught in after school programs, inner-city programs and more recently, OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Shere is an active member of CTTT, and local DEI
groups in Bend. She considers this essential work with or without the title. Shere is a lifelong learner.
Lona Owemo (they/them) (b.1981) is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer exploring fragmentation, transition, and the quiet weight of lived experience. Midwestern by heart, their path has been shaped by a restless pursuit of snow and creativity, often landing somewhere in between. Their work draws from observation, memory, and the emotional residue left behind by everyday encounters.
Working across graphic design, painting, drawing, writing, and print-based forms, they approach creation as both documentation and excavation. Their work, expressed through various mediums, resists a singular style, instead embracing inconsistency as an honest reflection of inner flux. Graphic design remains a foundational discipline—informing a sensitivity to typography, space, and structure—while language becomes a vehicle for vulnerability, humor, and self-interrogation.
Themes of identity, love, addiction, creativity, and gender expression surface through raw, diaristic fragments that oscillate between intimacy and cultural critique. Ordinary moments—a passing interaction, a stranger’s comment, a fleeting crush—are elevated into symbols of broader human longing and disconnection.
Across all mediums, the work remains deeply personal yet unmistakably communal. It reflects a belief that meaning is often found not in polished narratives, but in the unfinished, the inconsistent, and the moments we almost overlook. Their practice invites viewers and readers to sit with uncertainty, to recognize themselves in disorder, and to find beauty in the act of paying attention.
PAST RESIDENTS:
J Long (b. 1976) grew up in a Mississippi family devoted to the land on which they lived. Creativity and culture were celebrated; a sense of adventure burned bright. Making has always been an innate instinct for J, thus her multifaceted studio practice of painting, ceramics, and mixed-media pieces. Her art is the confluence of color, materiality, and a deep love for process.
J earned a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and has spent the past 20 years designing and making spaces that improve people’s quality of life. Having returned to her art practice, J explores conceptual themes that process emotion; producing layered multi media pieces.
J is a native of Greenwood, Mississippi, living in Bend, Oregon, with her husband and two sons. They enjoy spending time outdoors as a family, creating memories, and having adventures.
Learn more about J here.
Hannah Jensen:
Hannah Jensen is a contemporary western landscape artist currently active in Central Oregon. Jensen's roots lie in Golden, Colorado and the surrounding Rockies, where she has spent her life on mountains and in canyons, immersed in nature and community. From guiding backpacking trips to rowing down the Grand Canyon, the outdoors have always been about more than a good time for her- nature is a place to cultivate simplicity, friendship, joy, to share stories, and to become intertwined with Something Greater.
In her paintings, she recalls connections found through her roamings in nature. She aims to elevate the sacredness of the outdoors and fellow human beings through paintings that capture storied landscapes, rich with memory, beauty, and nostalgia. Jensen believes these connections are what will carry us into a future where we increasingly view wild places as holy ground, worthy of protection and abiding care. She now explores the ever-changing nature of these landscapes after loss—how familiar places become haunted with the presence of those who can no longer stand within them, yet remain woven into their essence.
Learn more about Hannah here.
Gonzalo Benavente:
Born in Cusco-Perú, he completed his studies at the School of Fine Arts of Peru in Lima. Specializing in sculpture, his work focuses on integrating technology (3D sculptures and 2D designs), exploring new techniques to enrich his sculptural practice.
His art reflects a strong influence from Japanese art, particularly origami, using folded paper as the primary medium of expression. He was a member of the Gallinazo group, managed the Hogares de Memoria project, and founded Orilab, a laboratory dedicated to the study of folding and paper art.
Nació en Cusco, Perú, y realizó sus estudios en la Escuela de Bellas Artes del Perú en Lima. Especializado en escultura, su trabajo se enfoca en integrar la tecnología (esculturas en 3D y diseños en 2D), explorando nuevas técnicas para enriquecer su práctica artística.
Su arte refleja una fuerte influencia del arte japonés, especialmente del origami, utilizando papel plegado como principal medio de expresión. Fue miembro del grupo Gallinazo, gestionó el proyecto Hogares de Memoria y fundó Orilab, un laboratorio dedicado al estudio del plegado y el arte del papel.
Learn more about Gonzalo here.
Kate Weatherholtz:
Kate Weatherholtz is a multimedia artist. She is known for her innovative and experimental use of bold colors and found textiles to create whimsical products. Her past work includes everyday items from quilts to handbags and scarves, all made with distinctive and sculptural vividness. Kate honed her point of view working as a commercial graphic artist, creating electric marketing collateral as well as large-scale murals for commercial buildings and custom homes. Since 2023 she has lived and worked in Bend, Oregon, supporting herself through her artwork, graphic design commissions, and work as a line cook at Sparrow Bakery. She has roots in Georgia and Idaho, and is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Learn more about Kate at: kateweatherholtz.com
Allie Blanchard:
Allie Blanchard (she/her) grew up in Florida, receiving a B.F.A. in drawing from the University of Florida in 2011, and an M.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. Her mediums of focus are drawing and painting, but she has also worked in printmaking, collage, and occasionally sculpture. Her work focuses on portraiture as an exploration of mental health and the mind, and as a reflection of social justice. Her work was published in the SF Chronicle in 2012. She currently lives and works in Bend, OR, working as an interior designer, and drawing creative inspiration from her love of nature, live music, mutual aid and protest.
Learn more about Allie at: allieblanchard.com
Bergen Bock:
Born in California and raised in the Bay Area, Bergen has been influenced by the folk and street art of their youth, using vivid hues and movements to convey emotions. After spending fifteen years in the rugged north of Alaska, they now reside in Bend, Oregon.
Love of the human form, bold mark making, polychromatic schemas, and overlapping artistic inspirations have all guided them throughout their artistic journey.
Erin Bodfish:
Erin Bodfish is a painter, florist, and writer based in Oregon. Her work is largely influenced by the conceptual deconstruction of traditional methods of painting, and the use of the body as a tool in art making. She is drawn to the use of raw materials, and conceptually focuses on the in-materials, those materials in which we do not see. Bodfish completed her dual Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Studies and Masters of Arts in Critical Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Oregon State University along with a minor in applied visual arts focused in painting. Bodfish is currently an instructor of Art and Art History at Oregon State-Cascades in Bend, OR.
Learn more about Erin at: erinbodfishart.com.
Maija Kellner-Rode
Maija is a painter, illustrator, writer, dancer, maker and mentor. Growing up in Alaska, Momma Earth became her main muse from a young age. Living in such a wild and untamed place gave her an undeniable appreciation and love for our planet and the deep knowing that our Earth heals. From solstice to solstice, as the seasons change, she is inspired by Earth’s broad landscapes and micro eco systems. Each reality birthing new life full of color and texture. Flora continuously emerges throughout her art in metaphor. Finding inspiration from found objects in nature, stringing them together to make mobiles, wall hangings and collage.
Maija’s creative practice is rooted in the somatic and intuitive realm. Where mindfulness, messiness and the body intersect. There is no right or wrong. Using layers of color and texture, scribbling over and etching away; she explores her surrounding environments, her mental, emotional, physical and spiritual states. Self reflection, curiosity & personal development guide her process. The past, present and future collide as she scrubs away at layers of paint previously applied while reapplying fresh coats of possibility. Constantly aware of her response from the previous artistic choice; Maija strives to create interdependent art work, each choice dependent on the next to create a whole. Through creative exploration, she unravels the nuances of joy, struggle and the invisibility she feels in her queer identity as a cis-femme queer woman, her connection to her Latvian and Jewish heritage, and to the trauma and grief centered around her relationship to her father and his passing.
Maija recently relocated to Bend to be closer to family in 2021. She is currently enrolled in the Expressive Arts and Somatic Therapy Certificate program through Tamalpa Institute and is the owner and designer behind Maija Rebecca Hand Drawn, a paper goods and design company.
Learn more about Maija at: maijakellnerrode.com and maijarebecca.com.
Jake Kenobi:
Jake Kenobi, working under the moniker Spring Break Jake, is on a mission to make the world more fun than he found it without shying away from the many issues facing us today. He creates illustrative abstract art with a message, putting a special focus on challenging our notions of patriarchal masculinity and reducing the stigmas around vulnerability when it comes to mental health. Best summarized by simple skulls & palm trees, he uses the juxtaposition of darker, macabre imagery with bright, tropical iconography & color palettes to encourage the viewer to embrace the good & the bad, as well as our inner & outer worlds, in the hopes of making the heavier parts of life feel conquerable.
Learn more about Jake at springbreakjake.com.
June Park:
June expresses in their art the energy between the natural world and their identities as a Korean, American, immigrant, non-binary femme, and lover of outdoor/rural life. They hope their flavor of "just being" encourages others to acknowledge and celebrate the multitude of identities we each hold. None of us wants to be boxed into stereotypes that don't fit.
Their family immigrated to Moscow, Idaho from Seoul, South Korea when June was an infant. June ran wild outdoors throughout their childhood, and now continues to run wild in Central Oregon. As a life-long creator, artist, and writer, most of the inspiration for their art is drawn from the rhythm and energy of the natural world, and the perspective they've gained moving through this world as a queer person of color who grew up in rural America.
Harnessing energy for their creativity also means making sure to give back to the communities and landscapes that inspire their art. Growing up in a small town and being raised with Korean values have given them a strong sense of respect and love for the outdoors and communities that take care of each other. They commit to always give a portion of their revenue to supporting the local communities and preservation efforts in the places that inspire them.
They currently live in Bend, OR with their husband Chris and rambunctious rescue dog Leche. The trio can be found wandering around the trails, lakes, and rivers in the surrounding area.
Learn more about June at junelparkart.com.
About Pat:
After a celebrated career as Chair of the Art Department at California State University, Long Beach, Clark retired and brought her passion and advocacy to Bend. The master printmaker founded Atelier 6000 in 2007, a center for printmaking and book arts, and Bend Art Center. Clark quickly endeared herself to the arts community as she continued her work in uniting and building support for the community.
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