* Photo by Tender Heart Productions Bridgette Hickey is a multidisciplinary archivist exploring interspecies communication with her ancestors. She works in repetitive time intensive traditional mediums to weave fragmented and disembodied themes and materials. They are...
Sharita Towne is transdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR, born and raised on the west coast of the U.S. along I-5 —from Salem, OR, to Tacoma, WA and down to Sacramento, CA. She is a research based video artist and printmaker most interested in creating...
Ella Ray is an art historian, writer, and curator who produces texts, objects, and exhibitions that center Black artists and histories, archival material, and world-building practices. After graduating from Portland State University in 2018, Ella Ray mounted...
Ahsante Sankofa Foree (Dhey/Dhem : It/its) is an iteration of Black existence making home in occupied lands of Cowlitz, Multnomah, Kathlamet and many other nations of the Nch’i Wána (“The Big River”) aka Portland, Oregon. Dheir works is focused on the inarticulable...
Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator, and writer. She is the creator of the graphic novel series, WaterShed, and the co-founder and co-curator of Nat Turner Project, a fugitive gallery space that provides funding and spaces for artists of color to create or...
Jaleesa Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work explores the black female body as both subject and material through...
