About
LMyra Artist Residency
LMyra Artist Residency, just outside Port Townsend, Washington, was established by two artists, pamm hanson and Alexis Kane, to offer fellow writers, artists, musicians, dancers, and other creatives in their extended community a place to step away from the demands of daily life and immerse themselves in their work.
Creatives of all persuasions are invited to this light-filled oasis in the Salish forest to bask, rest, muse, and be inspired.
Just six minutes from North Beach and downtown Port Townsend, the residency provides a quiet setting for exploration, reflection, and focused work.
This house and property were purchased in late 2019 with the intention of stewarding a restorative environment where artists can spend uninterrupted time with their practice. We honor that there are many ways to create and that meaningful work does not always result in a finished product. There are no expectations of productivity or outcome.
Through our own experiences as artists, we know the value of dedicated residency time. Welcoming others into this space brings creative energy and connection to the land. It is a gift to be able to share this place of beauty and peace.
Alexis Kane (she/her)
I am a multimedia conceptual artist and artisan living and working in Seattle and Port Townsend, Washington. I am also the owner of Alexis Kane Studios, Inc., an art and antiques restoration and architectural finishing business.
My socially connective project, Thoughts in These Times: Pandemic-Era Collaborative Art, was presented at Seattle’s S.O.I.L. gallery in January 2022. The exhibition featured a chronological series of forty portraits of friends and family members drawn on pages of The New Yorker, each portrait collaged with a personalized thought cloud. I began the project in early June 2020, four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and two weeks after the murder of George Floyd.
I launched my current project, On Beaming a Poem, in May 2025. Friends share poems with me that are meaningful to them, I memorize each poem and create an artwork in response, I recite the memorized poem to the person who shared it, and I send the artwork out into my community. Through this project, I am exploring how words and visual art can be used to invite contemplation, call attention to beauty, and create a communal ritual. I see these exchanges as one way to process, respond to, and counter the accelerated, increasingly amplified social, political, and environmental violence and trauma of our time.
With Pamm Hanson, I cofounded two ongoing artist collectives, The Painting Group (1993) and Mark a Day (MAD, 2012).
Pamm Hanson (she/her)
Since 2024, I have been working on a series of paintings, The Boatyard of Broken Dreams, depicting objects discovered and photographed in an open storage area of Port Townsend, Washington. Like images that arise together in the dreaming mind, these disparate objects, juxtaposed in paintings, embody interconnections and meanings that are implied but not consciously known.
A longer-term project, consistently maintained throughout my art practice, is my series that focuses on the aging female body, especially as perceived against the backdrop of US culture. These paintings—some as small as 1 by 2 inches, others as large as 6 by 15 feet—capture what I’ve seen in the mirror over the years while my body has been changing.
As a teaching artist, I am an instructor at Path with Art (pathwithart.org), a Seattle organization that offers arts education to adults who are in recovery from living unsheltered and other kinds of trauma. The adversity my students have survived is a reminder of my own privilege, and their courage is a model for me as I work in my studio.
In addition to my art practice, I have had a full and rich career with an MA in Psychology (1980) as a licensed psychotherapist in private practice,
MFA, Painting (2007) | MA, Psychology (1980)
Land Acknowledgment
The land that we know as Port Townsend was first known as a thriving village of the S’Klallam People; this village was called qatáy (“kuh‐tai”). The S’Klallam’s well‐known chief, čičməhán (“cheech‐muh‐hann”), or Chetzemoka, was born at qatáy in 1808. While this area belonged, and still belongs, to the S’Klallams, it is acknowledged that other local tribes camped along the beaches as they visited or moved along in their travels. We honor the sovereignty and treaty rights of the three S’Klallam/Klallam Tribes that are tied to this area.