Current Residents

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...

Sasha Michelle White (she/her) is an artist, ecologist, and interdisciplinary researcher who engages the aesthetic ecologies of the Pacific Northwest’s fire-prone landscapes. As a child growing up in rural Michigan, Sasha wandered through fields and forests,...

Sarah Grew (she/her) is a photographer and painter based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work expands into installation and environmental art, or contracts into collage and printmaking. Infused in ideas bridging art history, philosophy, and the natural sciences, her art...

Michelle Swinehart (she/her) is an avid fan of all things story. She's had the pleasure of living stories through her work at StoryCorps, Narrative 4, Object Stories and The Right Brain Initiative. Michelle received a MAT from Lewis and Clark College and a MFA in Art...

M. Michelle Illuminato (she/her) creates socially-engaged events, public-exchanges, and artworks to help reveal the complicated and often contradictory relationship between people and the land they live on. Her works start by slowing down, asking questions, gathering...

Sabina Haque (she/her) is a multimedia artist whose work explores the transformation of place and identity. Her new exhibition, The New Abnormal 2.0, on view at Waterstone Gallery, examines the interconnectedness of global environmental crises.Raised in Pakistan by...

Suze Woolf (she/her) studied ceramics and printmaking at the University of Washington. An early adopter of computer graphics, her career has included print and interface design. Though known as a watercolorist, she explores a wide range of media from painting,...

Working in a range of digital media, Julia Oldham (she/her) visualizes the uneasy collision of nature and technology in a world on the edge of environmental collapse. With tenderness and humor, Oldham explores her own conflicting feelings about human progress through...

Daniela Naomi Molnar (she/her) is a poet, artist and writer who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her paintings are created with pigments she has made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater and glacial melt. Poems and essays are created alongside the...

Emilie Lygren is a poet and outdoor educator whose work is grounded in curiosity and reverence. Emilie’s poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She’s also developed dozens of publications focused on nature journaling, outdoor...

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 West...

Jessica Reisch is a new media artist, designer, and educator with an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Education Studies from Brown University. Her interdisciplinary practice draws on networked connections between art, technology, and the...

Adie Steckel (they/she) lives in Portland, Oregon where they are an editor of the small press Fonograf Editions and work for an HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ+ health and social services organization. Their writing appears in Action Spectacle, A Dozen Nothing, Afternoon...

Maria Pinto (she/her) is a Boston-area writer and educator. She teaches creative writing through various community organizations and fosters outdoor literacy as a board member at Hale Education. Her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Necessary Fiction, and Frigg,...

Paul DeMarinis (any) has been making noises with wires, batteries and household appliances since the age of four. He studied film with Paul Sharits at Antioch College and electronic music with Robert Ashley at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and...

Dana Morrison (she/her) lives and works in San Francisco, California. She obtained her MFA in Studio Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016, and her BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. Dana has been recognized through a...

Brie Schettle (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art and ecology with a background in painting, printmaking, installation, photography, and video. Schettle holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Boise State University and a BFA in...

Rebecca Cummins (she/her) is inspired by science, its history, and instrumentation. She explores the possibilities of light, optics and natural phenomena in installations that have included a machine for making rainbows, a photographic rifle, sun and moon pointers,...

Ari Laurel (she/her) is a fiction writer in Seattle who writes about decolonial futures, climate, and the Pacific Northwest. She primarily draws from her experience as a racial justice community organizer in Missoula and a labor organizer in Seattle. Her stories are...

Julia Solano (she/they) is a vaguely nomadic plein air landscape painter, participatory researcher and designer, natural builder, and risograph printmaker from Oakland, California of Ilokano and Bisayan descent. She studied Design through Engineering and Architecture...

Alex Arzt (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, gardener, and grant writer based in Oakland, CA. Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, she facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of...

Jaclyn Moyer (she/her) is the author of On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family from Punjab to California. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Guernica, Orion, Ninth Letter, The Normal School, and other...

Holly Devon (she/her) is a New Orleans based writer, editor, and collaborative artist.

Katie Miller (she/her) was born and raised in the wilderness of Northeastern Minnesota's Iron Range, but is now deeply rooted in the Pacific Northwest. Miller’s interdisciplinary practice is situated at the intersection of art, architecture, and science, and is rooted...

Scott Kildall (he/him) creates artwork that transforms hidden data from the natural environment, such as water quality, air quality and plant data into sculptural sound installations and performances. He uses custom electronics to create generative, data-driven...

Anna Leahy (she/her) books include the poetry collections If in Some Cataclysm, What Happened Was:, and Aperture and the nonfiction book Tumor. Her work has won top awards from Mississippi Review, Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, and Dogwood and appears at Aeon,...

Kerry Davis (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation and assemblage. His work often recontextualizes mainstream imagery to critique sociopolitical views and the commodification of the natural world. By delving into the...

Charlie Wilcox (he/they) is a designer, animator, embroiderist, musician, artist, collaborator, and friend who hails from Lindstrom, Minnesota, also known as “America’s Little Sweden.” Charlie’s social practice involves exploring what it means to turn the creation of...

Christopher Rose (he/they) is originally from Seattle, Washington and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. He has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Jade District/Midway Artist Placemakers Project, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and is a 2019...

Jim O’Connor (he/him) is a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland, Oregon. He is a Pacific Northwest native long interested in the processes and events that shape the remarkable and diverse scenery of the region. Following this interest with a Geological...

In love with the wilderness, and with the equally complex and lonely terrain of the human heart, Cedra Wood (she/her) makes paintings and drawings that marry the elements of both worlds in unlikely ways, creating narrative metaphors for humanity’s relationships with...

Hannah Perrin King (she/her) is a 2022-23 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA where she was the inaugural Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow. King is the winner of The Georgia Review’s 2020 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize as well as the winner of...

Anna Daedalus (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation and book arts. Her work draws upon deep ecology and phenomenology to respond to the enveloping plenitude and multiplicity of the more-than-human world. Her ongoing...

Isabella (she/her) is a neuroscientist and artist studying the neural basis of sensory perception. She received her B.Sc. from Florida International University, her Ph.D. from Tulane University, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University. She is...

Heather Goodwind (she/her) is a visual artist in Portland, Oregon. She has received awards, grants, and residencies from the Oregon Arts Commission, The Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, the U.S. Department...

Bethany Laranda Wood (she/they) was born and raised in West Texas. She earned her BFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from Texas Tech University and her MFA from the University of Iowa. She is now a working artist in Cedar Rapids, IA. Her work has been featured in...

Originally from southeastern Indiana, Joshua White (he/him) received his BFA in Photography from Northern Kentucky University, and his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. From cell phone photography and wet plate collodion to woodworking and mixed media,...

Alleen Brown (she/her) is an independent investigative journalist and a senior editor for Drilled. Her reporting on state and corporate repression of Indigenous-led Dakota Access Pipeline opponents at Standing Rock has been cited in civil rights cases, reports...

Alicia Jo Rabins (she/her) is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” Alicia is the creator and performer of...

Mychelle (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working from a sculptural base of clay. Her art explores the natural world, connection, loss, and mending as well as a fair bit of humor. Mychelle draws from observations, in-depth research, lived experiences, and...

Marne Lucas (she/they) is a Portland, Oregon based multidisciplinary artist and end of life doula (EOLD) whose practice spans photography, video, sculpture, and collaboration. Lucas places her work at the intersection of art, science and health, using conceptual...

Adriana Barrios (she/her) is a queer, multiracial Latina artist who grew up on the coastal borderlands of San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from...

Born in Danbury, CT, 1973, Melissa Desmond Mohammadi (she/her) currently works in Oakley, California. She earned a BFA with a concentration in painting and printmaking from Rhode Island College (Providence, RI) and an MFA from Southern Methodist University (Dallas,...

Based in Oakland, California, artist Adrien Segal (she/they) embraces elements of scientific rationality and human emotion to create forms that echo landscapes of the inner and outer world. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007 and is published in...

Khaila Batts (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural narratives within the Black American experience. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn, Batts merges traditional and contemporary...

Erinn Kathryn (she/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist working in a range of media. She examines intersections of constructed and natural systems within which we exist, translating elements of cartography, topography, ecology and history into her art objects. Her...

Claire Fall Blanchette (she/her/hers) is an artist working across multiple disciplines including sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Using organic and unconventional materials, Claire investigates the boundaries that humans have established between the built world...

Jerri Bartholomew (she/her) is an emeritus Professor of microbiology at Oregon State University and director of the JL Fryer Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory. She is also a glass artist who incorporates ecological and scientific imagery into her art, exploring how art...

Ania Upstill (they/them) is a queer and trans performer, theatre maker, teaching artist and clown. A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (ProfessionalTraining Program), Ania’s recent work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on...

Throughout her career, Dede Lucia's paintings has embraced nature culture as the primordial touchstone incorporating all systems of birth, growth, change, and death, fulfilling an existential call to both resistance and acceptance of life’s audacious purpose. Through...

Danielle Shi (she/her) is a writer from Dalian, China. She spent her formative years in Irvine, California, going on to study English at the University of California, Berkeley and the Humanities at the University of Chicago with W.J.T. Mitchell, focusing on Media...

Thomas Dai (he/hime) teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho. His first book, Take My Name but Say It Slow: Essays, will be released in early 2025. His writes primarily about the ambiguities of personal identity and its intersections with ecology, place,...

Edem Soul Music (Edem K. Garro, she/her) is a World-Class Vocalist, Performer & Multi-Instrumentalist currently living in Omaha, Ne. Originally from the East Coast, a large part of her music focuses on the ‘Creative content’ that comes from a place that can only...

Sadie Wechsler (she/her, Seattle, WA) is an artist working with photography based out of Portland, Oregon. Wechsler received a BA from Bard College in 2007 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. In the fall...

Kyle Reynolds (she/her) is a biologist and self-taught artist born in New York in 1971, living currently in Seattle. She earned her MS in Marine Ecology researching the evolution of deep-sea organisms at CSUMB-MLML. This marked a culmination of a lifelong interest in...

Barbara Holmes (she/her) is a Southern California-based artist and educator with over two decades of experience in the arts. She holds a BFA from Brigham Young University and an MFA from San Diego State University and is currently a professor of art and design at...

Ameera Godwin (she/her) is co-founder and artistic director of Myrtle Tree Arts, a collaborative based in the Sierra Foothills of California. Her creative works include public events and multimedia performances and installations, including FIRE/LAND: Knowing the...

Paul Godwin (he/him) is an experimental composer and sound designer who collaborates with nature to create ambient and surround installations. His recent work integrates bio-electric plant and mushroom sensors, allowing him to compose alongside living plants and the...

Perri Lynch Howard (she/her) is a socially-engaged artist exploring sense of place in a changing climate. Informed by a meticulous process of place-based listening, recording, and analysis, her expansive visuals and immersive soundscapes map the shifting edges of...

Edith Romero (she/her) is a Honduran poet, researcher, community organizer and interpreter. Edith's poetry is inspired by her deep love of her land and people, and a cosmovision of interconnectedness between struggles and the earth. From US imperialism in the banana...

Jules Ohman (they/she) is a novelist and writing teacher based in Portland, Oregon. Jules has taught for Literary Arts, the Attic Institute, and recently served as the Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. Their debut novel Body Grammar...

Isabel (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo examining the tradeoffs of conservation and development. Her work focuses on terminal lakes (lakes without an outlet), like Summer Lake, and the drivers of their decline. While at PLAYA, Isabel will be...

Lynette K. Henderson (she/her) is a visual artist in drawing, painting and mixed media, with a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1986), MFA from the University of Minnesota (1989), and a Ph.d. in Art Education from Arizona State University (2006)....

Born and raised in the mountain town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Emily Poole (she/they) has been exploring the wild spaces of the western United States since shortly before she could walk. In childhood she harbored an intense desire to become an entomologist, but a...

John Oakes (he/him  b. 1961) is a writer whose first book The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without was published in 2024 by Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster and was translated into several languages. He is now working on a book...

Siobhan McClure (she/her) was born in England to Irish parents she is a narrative artist who lives in LA with her husband and sometimes collaborator the painter, Greg Rose. She has had solo shows in Los Angeles at Rory Devine Fine Art, 101/exhibit, Roswell Space,...

Julia Bradshaw (she/they) is Professor Emerita in the School of Visual Arts at Oregon State University where she taught photography and video art. Her video-art and photography projects exhibit throughout the United States, Guatemala, The Netherlands, Poland, and...

catana joy is the creative practice of Ana Catalina Vázquez Ramírez (she/her). Ana playfully inquires about the ancient and emerging stories a given time and place hold. She embodies the name joy in honor of her maternal lineage which carries the name Alegría (meaning...

Anita Carraher (she/her) researches through the mediums of written word, visual arts, performance and data visualization. Her topics of interest are self-identity, Chinese-American heritage, and transformative grief. She is currently working on her first collection of...

Molly (she/her) investigates the universe from a child-like perspective of wonder. Observation is at the root of her practice. She receives the majority of her inspiration from looking deeply at the world, and asking herself questions about what she sees. She bounces...

Monica Marks (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. She earned her BA in Art from California State University, Northridge, and her MA in Marital and Family Therapy at Loyola Marymount University with a specialization in Clinical Art...

Kelly Sinclair (she/they) is a place-based artist, writer, and wilderness rites of passage guide.Nourished by practices of walking, deep listening, pigment foraging, dreamwork, land-based storytelling, and mirroring, Kelly’s work opens conversations with inner and...

Cat Fitzpatrick (she/her) is the director of Women's & Gender studies at Rutgers University – Newark, and the Editrix at LittlePuss Press (www.littlepuss.net). She wrote the book of poems Glamourpuss and the novel in rhyme The Call-Out (winner of the 2023 Lambda...

Michael Parker (he/him) is an ecologist and recently retired professor of biology who, for the past three decades, taught courses in natural history, ecology, conservation, and environmental ethics at Southern Oregon University. He also taught writing in SOU’s...

Lisa Conrad (she/her) was born in 1963 in New York City, NY. She is an interdisciplinary artist currently working in performance, photography, and video. Her work has been shown in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Minnesota, Ohio, and Baltimore, among other places....

Stephanie Rose’s (she/her) paintings draw upon her vocations in agriculture and gardening, and rural life near wilderness. Curious about her place in the environment, she investigates landscapes from different vantage points. Painting is Rose’s way of being in...

Ray Daniels (they) is a graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers and teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ray’s fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, and they are currently working on a novel.

Sarah Morejohn’s (she/her) fascination with non-linear patterns in nature drives her work. Referencing snow crystals and plants her intricate drawings contemplate how wonder is important to our connection to the world. Morejohn grew up in rural southern Oregon, and...

Katharine Haake (she/her) is a fourth generation Californian with a deep connection to the land, the people, and the history of this place. Her recent postworld fable, What Happened Was (2024) inaugurates a new climate change fiction series from 11:11 Press, Nothing...

Julie Perini (she/her) is a filmmaker, daily videomaker, diary keeper, community-based media maker, video artist, writer, artistic descendent of time-benders like Tony Conrad, product of the suburbs of New York City and DIY culture of the 90s. Her involvement with the...

Erin Elder (she/her) is an artist and writer using creative research methods to understand how people and landscapes shape one another. Whether designing a locals-led bus tour, testing an experimental commune, mounting an exhibition, or publishing a book, her projects...

Jay A. Baker (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist enamored with place. Their work flows into three primary tributaries that heavily cross-pollinate: music/sound, collage/mixed-media, and projections/video. All Jay’s work aims to blur boundaries between people...