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2025 AWARDED RESIDENCY CURATORS

 

Jerri Bartholomew

she/her

Jerri is a fisheries microbiologist and glass artist. with an interest in exploring the intersection of these disciplines. As a microbiology professor at Oregon State University, she and her team researched diseases that affect wild Pacific salmon populations, focusing on how human alteration of ecosystems and climate change affect disease interactions. A long-term project in the Klamath River integrates research and monitoring to predict disease effects on salmon both before and following removal of four dams on that river. Since retiring, she continues to direct the Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, but increasingly spends time coordinating an Art-Sci Interdisciplinary Fellowship for students at Oregon State. This fellowship challenges students to explore how creative artistic practices can not only illustrate, but inform science.

www.jerribartholomewglass.com

 

 

Shelley Etkin

she/her

(photo by Tom O’Doherty)

Shelley Etkin is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, gardener and herbalist. Her work engages with relations between bodies and lands through the intersections of place-based and multi-local knowledges, particularly through the plant world. Integrating somatics and herbal medicine-making in socially-engaged practices, she asks questions about land stewardship, migration, ancestral knowledges, and social-ecological transformation. These are also core to her practices of political healing and anti-zionist solidarity — raised in a Jewish Israeli family from the land of historic occupied Palestine, growing up partially in Boston/Shawmut, Massachusett and Wampanoag territory, and based in Berlin Germany since 2012. Shelley initiated the Garden as Studio platform for artistic research into garden as body and body as garden at Ponderosa — a rural arts centre in Germany. She co-facilitates the Social Body Apothecary, working with plants as allies for marginalised communities in pedagogical, gardens, and free clinic modalities. Her teaching methods are hosted in a range of contexts, from urban to rural, in community organisations, artistic institutions, and universities. Shelley holds an M.A. in Ecology & Contemporary Performance (Finland), a B.A. in Gender Studies (USA), trained in permaculture design with Earth Activist Training, and is a student of homeopathy. Shelley will begin a PhD in Sociology in 2025 (UCC Ireland), addressing medicinal herbologies of repair in Palestine/Israel and multi-species justice frameworks on the land.

www.shelleyetkin.com

 

Emily Bixler

she/her

Emily Bixler currently lives and works in Portland, OR, where she graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004 with a BFA in Sculpture. Her practice includes sculpture and large scale installation as well as her accessory line BOET, a working investigation of fiber and metal, in operation since 2010 and sold internationally. Particularly interested in the conversation that is made when soft forms are limited/enhanced by rigid structures, Bixler’s work investigates relationships and relational aesthetics. Her sculptural work is not about exerting power over the materials but rather seeks to understand their nature and personality, trusting the creative process to unfold and later see what unconscious truths have been revealed; this process, Bixler finds, leads to a way of understanding self, and our layered interdependence with the natural world around us. Exhibiting predominantly along the west coast, Bixler was an artist in residence at Playa Summer Lake and Wildlands in Healdsburg, CA and has a permanent installation at the W Hotel in San Francisco. Bixler has been awarded grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Stumptown Artist Fellowship. Recently designing and opening a restaurant with her husband – Old Pal in SE Portland – Bixler is the director of a bimonthly art program run in conjunction with the space.

www.byboet.com

 

Shane Koehler

he/him/nature spirit

Shane Koehler Currently living in the wonderful city of Portland Oregon, artist Shane Koehler draws inspiration from the stunning wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Painting watercolor on wood panel, Koehler uniquely blends together flora and fauna creating “flauna”. He shares with us new dynamic wildlife scenes and colorful beings that highlight nature’s intrinsic and profound interconnections. Koehler’s art is a growing together of all life, displaying unity consciousness and an awareness of our true natural oneness.

www.Shanekoehler.com

 

Andrea Stolowitz

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(Photo by Michael Morrow)

Andrea Stolowitz is a playwright and librettist working in traditional and experimental theater and opera, nationally and internationally. Andrea’s work embraces bold theatricality ranging from intimate portrayals of the human condition to the intersection of national history with private lives. Andrea is a three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award in drama. Her play, The Berlin Diaries was the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts/Mayor’s Award for Theater, Film, and TV and will have four national productions in the 2024-25 season. Stolowitz has served on the Willamette, Duke University, UC-San Diego, and NUI-Galway faculties.

www.andreastolowitz.com

Brittney Corrigan

she/her

(Photo by Nina Johnson Photography)

Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Daughters, Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks and most recently, Solastalgia, a collection of poems about climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age (JackLeg Press, 2023). Brittney was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland, Oregon for the past three decades, where she is an alumna and employee of Reed College. Her debut short story collection, The Ghost Town Collectives, is forthcoming from Middle Creek Publishing in October, 2024.

www.brittneycorrigan.com

 

Alice Langlois

she/her

Alice Langlois is a stop-motion animator and musician from rural Western Massachusetts, the place which fostered her deep love for nature and the environment. From leaves and seed pods to feathers and scales, elements of the natural world are an integral part of Alice’s artistic process, making their way into her films, music, and sculptures. Currently living and working in the animation industry in Portland, OR, Alice can often be found discovering strange creatures or gathering moss in old-growth forests.

www.alicelanglois.com

 

 

Ruby Hansen Murray

she/they

(Photo by A. Mathiowetz)

Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage Nation News. She’s a MacDowell, Storyknife, and Indigenous Native Poets fellow with work in Cascadia: A Field Guide (Tupelo Press), Ecotone, Pleiades, The Hopkins Review, River Mouth Review, Under the Sun, the Massachusetts Review, and has been nominated for Push Cart prizes, Best New Poets and Best of the Net. She’s a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations with West Indian roots, living in the lower Columbia River estuary.

www.rubyhansenmurray.com

 

ariella tai

they/them, he/him

ariella tai (b. 1987 queens, nyc) is an experimental filmmaker, artist and independent programmer currently based in Portland, OR. tai is one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of black women and femmes in film, video and new media art. They have shown work at Anthology Film Archives, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Northwest Film Center, Wa Na Wari, the Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, MOCA and Smack Mellon, amongst others.

www.ariellatai.com

 

Renee Couture

she/her

Motherhood is the current focal point of Renee Couture’s work. Created from her mothering experience, her diverse practice encompasses sculpture, photography, and drawing. Couture’s work has been exhibited nationally in group exhibitions and as solo artist. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship and three Career Opportunity Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, and four Project Grants from the Douglas County Cultural Coalition. Couture has been granted residencies at Ucross, Djerassi, and PLAYA, to name a few. She lives on seven acres in rural southern Oregon with her husband, daughter, and dog. She works out of a retrofitted 20-foot camper-turned-studio space located in her garden.

www.rcoutureart.com

 

Elizabeth Helman

she/her

(Photo by Bryan Bernhart)

Elizabeth Helman earned her BA in Theatre Arts and English (Creative Writing) at Santa Clara University. She received a Graduate Teaching Fellowship and earned her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2006. She is the Theatre Arts Area Coordinator and University Theatre Artistic Director at Oregon State University where she teaches courses in directing, playwriting, theatre history, dramatic literature, devising, and acting. Since 2000, she has directed over 70 plays for university and professional companies. She was nominated for Outstanding Director of a Drama in 2014 for Topdog/Underdog and Outstanding Director of a Comedy in 2015 for All in the Timing by the St. Louis Theatre Circle. She has written, adapted, and devised multiple works for the stage including a The Blazing World Inside, a commission by the International Margaret Cavendish Society in 2009. Recent directing work includes Julius Caesar, Sunday in the Park with George, Ape, and Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. She has been the Associate Artistic Director for Theatre 33, a new play development company in Oregon, since 2022. She enjoys cooking, long distance running, various needle crafts, and making the most of her life in Oregon with her husband, two dogs, and many chickens.

 

Nina Elder

she/they

(Nina Elder with blackhole sculpture in her studio at PLAYA, spring 2024 )

Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates deep time perspectives where planets, geology, and ecosystems are in constellation with social issues and personal narratives. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. Her work takes many forms, including drawings, murals, performance, pedagogy, and long term community-based projects. Recent solo exhibitions of Nina’s art have been organized by SITE Santa Fe, Indianapolis Contemporary, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and university museums across the US. Her work has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, Hyperallergic, and on PBS.Her writing has been published by Routledge Press, American Scientist, and Edge Effects Journal. Nina’s research has been supported by the Warhol Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.

www.ninaelder.com

 

Kathryn Maxwell

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Kathryn Maxwell (b. 1959, Centralia, IL) creates playful abstract collages that evoke a wonder for nature that subtly acknowledge humanity’s environmental impact. Maxwell received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has participated in exhibitions at the Detroit Institute of Art; Denver Art Museum; Dundee (Scotland) Contemporary Arts; China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhao; International Print Center, New York; and Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, among many others. Deeply influenced by her travels, Maxwell has participated in artist residencies in China, Belgium, Greece, Scotland, and the U.S., allowing her to merge her passions for travel and art. Originally from Illinois, she lived in the Midwest and Alabama before moving to Tempe, Arizona, in 1988. She is Professor Emerita in the School of Art, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University and now maintains a full-time artist practice in Tempe.

www.kmaxwell.net

 

Patrick Kikut

he/him

(Photo by Benjamin Kraushaar)

In 1987 at the age of 21, Patrick Kikut was in Boulder, Colorado when he started thinking of himself as an artist. It was there where he developed an approach to his studio work which usually begins with a desire to learn (and experience) a particular landscape. Kikut’s priority is to explore landscapes as much as he can. This tactic has provided him an expansive and unique “artistic neighborhood.” This “artistic neighborhood” reaches from Great Falls, Montana in the North, to El Paso (or Marfa) Texas, in the South, and from Dodge City, Kansas, and West to Reno, Nevada. This is where he has primarily operated for the last 35 years. Kikut is keeping an eye on the less protected landscapes. Developments come and go through boom-and-bust cycles. He is a witness to Iandscapes being encroached upon and in other places development dissolving back into the land. It is his hope that his work is represents the enduring beauty and fragility of the everchanging West. Kikut earned his BFA from the University of Colorado and my MFA from the University of Montana. He has taught at the college level for over 30 years at Highlands University of New Mexico, University of Texas El Paso, and most recently the University of Wyoming where he taught for 17 years. His work can be found in the public collections of, Nevada Museum of Art, Eiteljorg Museum, Art Museum of Missoula, and the Nicolaysen Museum among others.

www.patrickkikut.net

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