Three Old Town Neighbors Featured in Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts Open Show 2026
- Derrith Schmidt
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Updated: 3 hours ago
Old Town is well represented at this year’s Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts.
Three of our neighbors—Carrie Kaufman, Jordana Perman, and Michael Schmidt—are showing and selling their work in the Open Show, located in the tent in the parking lot at the Lakewood Center.
If you’re heading to the Festival this weekend, be sure to stop by, support local artists, and take a look at the incredible creativity coming from right here in our neighborhood.
The Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts runs Friday - Sunday June 26-28, 2026.
The Lakewood Center Tent where the Open Art Show is hosted is open Fri/Sat: 9am-6pm and Sun: 9am-5pm. Art is sold on first come, first buy so go on Friday to see the most art from all the artists exhibiting in this show.
There's also live music, food carts and art booths in George Rogers Park.
More information about the Festival here: https://lakewood-center.org/lofa2026/
Carrie Kaufman is exhibiting this work at the show
Jordana Perman is exhibiting this work at the show
Michael Schmidt is exhibiting this art at the show
About the Artists
Carrie Kaufman ►Mixed Media
Carrie Kaufman is a native Oregonian. Art was very much a part of her early life. Her father, an architect, and her mother, a multi-talented visual artist, encouraged Kaufman’s creative pursuits from an early age.
Kaufman lived in Hawaii for many years where she owned a fabric boutique, taught
contemporary quilting, and manufactured a line of art to wear clothing and accessories.
The rich colors of Hawaii and the Asian culture influenced her style.
After returning to Oregon, Kaufman moved away from working exclusively with fabric and developed a distinctive approach to mixed media. She incorporates unusual embellishments and found objects, layering them with colorful papers, fibers, paint, -- and anything else that catches her eye -- to create her unique artwork. Her work is an exploration of color and balance, order versus chaos that is continually shifting and evolving.
Kaufman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Linfield University. She has a strong desire to make her community a better place and worked in nonprofit management for 30 years. She is the mother of two grown sons and a delighted grandmother of two. She currently lives in Lake Oswego. And she's a Director on the Old Town Neighborhood Association Board.
Carrie wants to invite art lovers to this event at LO's Lawrence Gallery
Jordana Perman, analog collage and mixed-media artist
Jordana's work frequently explores intricate, layered textures—frequently utilizing materials like graphite, acrylic, Japanese kozo paper, and embroidery on watercolor paper.
Perman is an active member of the Pacific Northwest creative community. She has exhibited her work in regional shows across the Pacific Northwest, including the PNW Collage Collective exhibitions, such as the No/Stalgia show at Art at the Cave in Vancouver, Washington, where her piece "Hidden in the Linen" was featured.
You can view examples of her mixed-media tiles and daily creative projects via her Jordana Tatar Perman Instagram Profile
Michael Schmidt, watercolor artist
Also fun, our neighbor Michael Perman (Jordana's husband) will be doing wine tasting at the Open Show.
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