Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – multimedia installation

Kaj-anne Pepper

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – multimedia installation
Region: Portland, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Kaj-anne Pepper AKA Pepper Pepper is a multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, video, drag, installation, theatre, and dance.

"So Spice They Named Her Twice" Kaj-anne's drag persona "Pepper Pepper" is a humorous yet thoughtful gender bending MC and entertainer. Together they explore vulnerability, artifice, and identity while turning tragic into magic and trauma into drama.

Studios

Firth

Kaj-anne Pepper worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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