American Artist, Dana Lynn Louis, is a visual artist exploring themes of interconnectedness.  She works in multiple mediums to create intimate drawings, paintings, textile and sculptural artworks, interdisciplinary performance collaborations, and large scale public installations. 

As a response to tenuous political and environmental climates worldwide, Louis seeks commissions and projects that allow her to imbue spaces with beauty and hope and open a window into a world of calm contemplation.  Louis creates visual worlds that help us perceive the beauty, levity, and wonder existent in the natural world and in our own bodies and minds.  Dana Lynn Louis has received awards from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Ford Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Precipice Fund of The Andy Warhol Foundation.  Her Artist-in-Residency Awards include the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington; Bullseye Glass Factory; Ohio State University; Oregon College of Art and Craft; Sitka Center for Art and Ecology; and THREAD, a project of the Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal, West Africa.