Jtown • 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA • October 2009
I live in a space where the physical and non-physical meet. Everything is alive. Everything trembles with frequencies of emotion. My quest is to explore metaphysical potential through imagery.
Janice Porter
lives in Chico, California, where she completed her MFA degree at California State University. She teaches drawing and painting at Shasta College in Redding, CA. She served as the interim director of Chico's 1078 Gallery and has also taught at CSU Chico and Butte College.
Janice was born and raised in Highland Park, Illinois, and completed her BFA in painting at Kansas City Art Institute. She lived for many years in Minneapolis, where she worked as a painter, graphic designer, stage set designer, workshop teacher in drawing, painting, and book arts, children's book illustrator, and community organizer in the arts. She is the mother of 3 sons: Jai Henry, Ade Porter, and Joe Porter, and is married to writer Anthony Peyton Porter.