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Jordan Plotner

Portland,OR

Summary

I am a multidisciplinary artist, committed to using my skills and experience in different media to foster love and community in the great city of Portland.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Performing Artist

Ned and Wendy the Band
Portland, OR
03.2020 - Current
  • Perform original music in venues across the city and beyond
  • I have produced, mixed, and mastered all three of our albums, and I am currently working on our fourth.
  • 2025 Easy Folk Featured Artist
  • Sofar Sounds Artist
  • Recipient of 2025 Portland Arts Project Grant for the creation of our fourth studio album / music videos.
  • Recipient of 2023 Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts3C Grant.

Painter/Visual Artist

Self Employed Web
Portland, OR
01.2021 - Current
  • Primary mediums are acrylic, scratchboard, marker, pen, and photography.
  • Exhibitions of my visual art include:
  • BodyVox Dance Center, Portland, OR, 2023
  • Clinton Street Coffeehouse, Portland, OR, 2023
  • Anna Bananas Coffee Shop, Portland, OR 2023
  • Lela's Bistro, Portland, OR, 2023
  • Grounded, Portland, OR, 2022
  • Los Feliz, CA, 2022
  • M.A.D.S Art Gallery, De.Mo Exhibition, Milan, Italy, 2022

Independent Filmmaker

Ned and Wendy the Band
Portland, OR
07.2020 - Current
  • Filmed "Disco is Dead" music video, which won the International Music Video Award for "Best Horror Music Video" in October, 2024.
  • "Disco is Dead" was publicly screened at BodyVox Dance Center in Portland, OR on October 12, 2024
  • "Disco is Dead" was publicly screened at Cinema 21 in Portland, OR on October 25, 26, 27, and 28, 2025.
  • Directed and edited 'WELCOME HOME NED AND WENDY' a short documentary musical about our love story, which premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as a finalist in the Emerging Young Voices Film Festival in 2021.
  • Co-director and cinematographer of 'GARDEN PARTY', a feature-length documentary about a magical backyard concert extravaganza (in production).

KXRW 99.9 FM

City Hums Radio Show
Vancouver, WA
01.2024 - Current
  • We interview local musicians around the city, and feature their music in our 60-minute episodes.
  • I record and edit all of the episodes

Freelance Composer

Jordan Plotner Music
Los Angeles, CA
08.2017 - Current
  • My music has appeared in over fifty films, tv shows, and commercials
  • Wrote the book, music, and lyrics for "Jetty Chronicles", a full-length musical about my grandfather learning to paint as a child during the Great Depression.

Writer

Self-employeed
Portland, OR
09.2017 - Current
  • I am currently editing my first book, The Unfolding, a poetic memoir epic about my medical/artistic/spiritual odyssey, and our musical love story.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - American Studies

Yale University
New Haven, CT
06-2017

Accomplishments

  • Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts 3C Grant, 2022
  • Los Angeles Film Awards, Best Romance Film, 2021
  • Honorary Patient Speaker, Chiari and Syringomyelia Foundation, 2019
  • National Arts and Disability Center Grant, California Arts Council & UCLA, 2019
  • The Children of Difference Foundation Grant, 2019
  • Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award in Music and the Humanities, Yale University 2016
  • Best Narrative Film, Yale Student Film Festival, 2013
  • Yale Creative and Performing Arts Award, 2013

Timeline

KXRW 99.9 FM

City Hums Radio Show
01.2024 - Current

Painter/Visual Artist

Self Employed Web
01.2021 - Current

Independent Filmmaker

Ned and Wendy the Band
07.2020 - Current

Performing Artist

Ned and Wendy the Band
03.2020 - Current

Writer

Self-employeed
09.2017 - Current

Freelance Composer

Jordan Plotner Music
08.2017 - Current

Bachelor of Arts - American Studies

Yale University

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