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Lisa Conrad

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

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

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

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...

Sae Jung Oh

Sae Jung Oh (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC and Seoul. She works with lossy data and glitch created when technology translates data, and when the brain translates memories. Recently, her interest has centered around ways of looking at a city...

Katharine Haake

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

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

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 Baker

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...

Kelly Terwilliger

Kelly Terwilliger is a poet, oral storyteller and maker of art who grew up in a family of biologists. Her work in its various forms delights in multivocality, dialogue, and wonder—that mingling of curiosity and awe which engenders both questions you can answer and...