Jo Bee S.

Punch Drunk Stone
Credit: Jo Bee S.Artist Bio

Jo Stone is an MA student at Lewis and Clark Graduate School and is interning at the community living center in the VA hospital for 2024-2025, working with long-term inpatient rehab, hospice, and palliative care. Clinical experience includes working with military veterans and service members, immigrants and refugees, youth in transition from incarceration, and crisis stabilization for adults. She volunteers for the Portland Air National Guard base working with families of deployed service members, and works as a professional face painter entertaining local parties and events.

Artist Statement

punch-drunk stones
acrylic painted rocks in electric punch bowl fountain

punch-drunk (adj):

1: confused & unable to speak or move normally because of being punched too many times in the head

2: unable to think or act normally because you are very tired, excited, etc.

a stone is a day at the VA hospital

3 academic years of training

punch bowl is the art therapy

liquid flowing is intangible:

knowledge, community, experience, respect, ethics, meaning