Jan Camp is a graphic designer in Portland, OR with a background in fine art and writing. From 2007 to 2016, she exhibited in and curated shows at Oakopolis Gallery in Oakland, CA. In Chicago in 1994, she completed a series of silver print photographs, still life with figure, that are represented by the AfterImage Gallery in Dallas, TX. In 1995, she was in residence at the MacDowell. Her 1997 series "Night Garden" broke creative ground in the early use of the desktop scanner as a camera. It was represented by the Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Los Angeles, with a review in the LA Times, and the Solomon Dubnick Gallery in Sacramento, CA. She then self-published a history of hoopdance. With over 25 years working in traditional and digital publishing, Camp created Arc Light Books as a publishing imprint to help others with book design, editing, and managing the self-publishing process.
Jan Camp
Studios
Putnam
Jan Camp worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…