Ken O’Connell

Ken O’Connell is an artist and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Oregon, where he was also head of the department of Fine Arts. 

For the last 20 years people have associated Ken with sketchbooks and Workshops along the Oregon Coast and in Italy. But he was also a painter, photographer, printmaker, animator, potter, and pastel and charcoal artist. He worked and taught all these art forms and was Head of the University of Oregon’s Fine and Applied Art Department for 12 years.

As of August 2021 he is working on his 100th sketchbook – evidence of and testimony to a life in art.  Find out more in this article in Oregon’s largest daily.