Austin Turley grew up in Dallas, Texas where his interest in materials and composition led him into drawing, painting, and music.  After receiving an AAS he met sculptor Robert Winslow.  Two months later, Turley moved to Chicago and for two years was Winslow’s apprentice.  There he learned a new skill set that informed his relationship […]

Amanda Triplett began her career in performance arts, directing her creativity and need for self-expression into dance and theater. She discovered painting at Sarah Lawrence College and fell deeply in love with art making. After a move to the West Coast, she became more ecologically responsible and grew to loathe the idea of creating waste. […]

Dan Pillers has exhibited in California at the San Francisco Main Public Library, San Francisco Center for the Book, and Works Gallery, San Jose, and in Oregon at Mark Woolley Gallery and Mile Post 5 in Portland, and River Sea Gallery in Astoria. He curated Life after Death: Embracing the Queer Widow for the 2001 […]

Multi-disciplinary artist Hilary Pfeifer has been a self-employed artist for over 25 years and has her own related business, Bunny with a Tool Belt. She creates permanent artwork for clients such as TriMet, the Randall Children’s Hospital, Oregon State University, and Home Forward. She was featured in an article in American Craft Magazine in 2014, […]

Erinn Kathryn is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installation. Her work has been exhibited in Portland, Oregon galleries including Guardino Gallery, Good: a gallery, Lightbox Kulturhaus, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Multnomah Arts Center, and in Fairbanks Alaska at Bear Gallery and Alaska House Gallery. She was a 2012 Regional […]

Sculptor Rio Wrenn has devoted the last 14 years of her art practice to rust printing and using natural dyes in her work. She combines her own processes with traditional practices from Japanese, Indian and Native American cultures and grows and harvests many of the materials she uses—plants, insects, rust, trees and berries—to dye her […]

Artist Brenda Mallory is an eco-conscious, recycler and composter who often works with found materials. Using cloth scraps from commercially sewn products, her mixed media work is often made from duplicating forms and repetitive processes, transforming materials that have been deemed worthless into thought-provoking and beautiful. Mallory’s exhibition history includes solo shows at fine arts […]

Multi-disciplinary artist Brian Hutsebout has a foundation in traditional craft processes and graphic design, both of which influence the aesthetic and functional decisions revealed in his sculptural and socially engaging work. He is interested in giving value to the discarded object while emphasizing the extent at which objects are simply thrown away instead of being […]

Schel Harris works in both two-dimensional painting and graphics as well as three-dimensional, mixed-media sculpture. Largely self-taught, Harris uses his creative skills in many different areas including film and stage production, signage and display, photography, painting, illustration, book design and robotic sculpture. Since moving to Portland in 2007, he has participated in several group and […]

Multi-media artist Beckey Kaye studied mask carving in Indonesia and performed as a fire dancer and puppeteer with Circus Discordia. She is interested in the concept of shelter and what makes a Home as it relates to notions of identity, property and safety as well as its imbued emotional factors of comfort and peace. Her […]