Klamath and Modok storyteller Paul Robert Wolf Wilson has focused his lens on the confluence of place, peoples, and time. As climate crises impact lands and waters and indigenous communities, Wilson works to bring light to the renaissance of place-based peoples...
Originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, Kanani Miyamoto currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she practices art, teaches, and curates. She is of mixed heritage and identifies most with her Hawaiian and Japanese roots, celebrated in her artwork. Miyamoto holds a Master...
Lofanitani Aisea is a Black Indigenous interdisciplinary multimedia experimental performance artist, writer, filmmaker, and storyteller who is Modoc, Klamath, Tahlequah, Black, and Tongan. Her practice fuses film, movement, sound, and performance to uplift and explore...
Ian Madin (he/him) grew up spending summers backpacking in California’s Sierra Nevada, and in later years rafting and kayaking rivers in California, Oregon and Idaho. His love of the outdoors led him to study geology, earning a BA from UC Berkeley in 1980. Ian...
Barry Baker (he/him) is a forensic biologist and the Deputy Director of the U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon. As a scientist, he supervises an interdisciplinary team of biologists and forensic experts in combating international...
Kirstyn Wright (she/her) is an artist working with the land, animals, and other people in rural areas to investigate how society creates value systems based on an entity’s productivity. Her interests and interrogations deal with the lore surrounding The American... 