Asa Mease is an artist from Williston, Vermont. He received his BA in studio art and biology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. His work in printmaking, book arts, textiles, and sculpture explores the production, re-production, and collection of objects in the Anthropocene. He currently lives and works in Milwaukie, Oregon and is a […]

Jeremy Okai Davis was born in Charlotte, NC in 1979. From a young age art was an outlet and way of existing in the world. His passion for art and painting led him to college. After graduating and receiving a BFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 2002 He spent 5 years […]

Vanessa Calvert is a mixed-media sculptor and installation artist living and working in Portland, OR. Calvert received her MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in 2009 and her BA at Whitman College in 2003. Calvert addresses subjects including domesticity, consumption, and identity. She has exhibited in spaces around Oregon and Washington including […]

Miel-Margarita Paredes is a metalsmith, jewelry maker and stop-motion puppet skeleton builder. She was born in Suva, Fiji, where her neighbors owned a pig named Houdini because of his frequent attempts to escape into the mangrove swamp. Memories of that large smelly animal and the delicious dinner he became have stayed with Miel through her […]

Born and raised in sunny California, Lauren Prado spends most of her free time sewing in 75 degree weather. Prado uses fiber, yarn, and needles to create representations of the digital images/products that flood our online feeds. Prado was a high school teacher for three years, and that experience largely influenced her interest in pop […]

Ricki Dwyer’s work combines sculptural practices, printmaking, and ceramics to reflect the potential of cloth as an embodied form. Excited by notions of temporality as reference to bodily growth, decay, and transformation, the work is often figuratively posed as a momentary performance. As a weaver their sculptures are in part produced on the loom and […]

I work in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us. Informed by the sciences and the examination and undoing of cultural narratives I am interested in humans as vectors affecting ecosystems both positively and negatively. My work addresses issues of species-loss, the processes of commercial mediation […]

During his 30-year-career in the Bay Area, Kal Spelletich has been a pivotal figure in the machine art and robotics community. He frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, musicians and audiences to realize projects. His machines address the poetic nature of technology, scientific discovery and metaphorically illustrate how, just as movement, light and sound waves can […]

Through performance, sculpture, and video my objects and narratives reference historic and speculative visual technologies, science, and science fiction. With materials and aesthetics from industrial design, I posit visual technologies that are unnecessarily mechanically complex, yet technologically simple. My narrative videos and performances feature a cast of fantastical characters—including an astronaut, scuba diver, narwhal, unicorn, […]

My practice explores the various factors associated with assimilation narratives, particularly as they pertain to language, labor and notions of visibility. I am interested in communicating how these components have contributed to the formation of my family’s identity as it transitions into a second and third generation of U.S. citizens. Inspired by first-hand experiences and […]