Studio Tours | 10.6.2026

Join us for a Studio Tour during the 2026 PMRCAA Residency season. Featuring Irene Cooper, Jake Kenobi & Jess Volk. Date: October 6, 2026 Time: 5 - 6:30 p.m. Location: Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture invites all community members to come and engage with our current artists in residence. During this event, you will be guided on a tour of the studios where the residents are experimenting, doing research, and working on projects here at the Ranch. Their mediums range from writing, music and various visual artistic mediums. The event starts promptly at 5 PM, followed by light refreshments in the classroom. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited so registration is required. For ages 16 and older. Those under age 16 may attend accompanied by an adult. About the Residents: Irene Cooper wrote the poetry collections spare change, finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award; even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety; octets, winner of the Spoonfuls Chapbook prize; & a chapbook forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press. She is the author of the novels Found, winner of the North Street Prize, & Committal. Essays, reviews, poems, & short fiction appear in print & online. Irene supports AIC-directed writing at a regional prison, co-hosts Raging Writers/Spoken Words, a free monthly writing opportunity and open mic, & teaches in the middle of Oregon, where she lives with her people & Roxy. Jake Kenobi is a self-taught painter and mixed media artist based in Bend, Oregon. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. West Coast, including solo exhibitions in Bend, Portland, Encinitas, and San Luis Obispo, as well as group shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Bend. He has also participated in juried art fairs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Seattle, and Reno. His work and practice have been featured in a range of media, including an interview on The Seen Podcast and publications such as Vanity Fair UK, British GQ, Create! Magazine, Visual Art Journal, and Bend Magazine. Jake has participated in artist talks and panel discussions focused on the intersection of art, health, and well-being, including a live interview at The Purple Door Gallery and a panel at the Reno Tahoe International Art Show. In addition to his studio practice, he has led youth art workshops in collaboration with the High Desert Museum and served as a guest speaker and panelist in Oregon State University–Cascades’ art program. He currently serves as a Founding Board Member of The Open Arts Center, a Bend-based nonprofit supporting multi-generational access to arts programming within the Central Oregon community. Jess Volk is a lifelong Oregon resident, currently based in Bend, Oregon, where she owns Camp Clay, a community ceramics studio. Jess believes ceramics is a team sport and loves that she gets to teach both formally and informally, while continuing to learn alongside her members. Jess worked as a small-production ceramic artist for over ten years, beginning while she attended Southern Oregon University. Her work focused on layering and marbling slip, using slip casting as a means to explore ideas rooted in printmaking—building the foreground first and working backward toward them background. Now that she wears many hats at Camp Clay and no longer has to commit to a single body of work in order to earn a reliable income, Jess is enjoying a more exploratory chapter in her creative practice. She has taken up knitting and sewing, while also returning to ceramic projects and ideas she has been chewing on for the past ten years. Note: By registering for this event, you have opted into receiving our email newsletters. You may opt out at any time.