Bridgette (Bird) Hickey is an emerging self taught multidisciplinary archivist exploring interspecies and multidimensional communication with her ancestors and beyond human beings. She works in repetitive time intensive traditional mediums to weave fragmented and...
Sharita Towne is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland. Born and raised on the West Coast of the U.S. along Interstate 5 from Salem, OR, to Tacoma, WA, and down to Sacramento, CA. She is most interested in engaging local and global Black...
Ella Ray is a sister, friend, and an auntie based in Portland, Oregon. Ray uses critical writing and library work to honor and investigate the abundant forms of black femme communication. Ray made their curatorial debut in 2021 with the group show...
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. Its works focus on the inarticulable miracles...
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 migratory gallery space that grants artists of color the freedom to create or express their own...
Jaleesa Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and independent curator currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a BA from Vassar College, an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA from the University of Bergen in Norway....
