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Sasha Michelle White is an artist and interdisciplinary researcher who engages the material ecologies of the Pacific Northwest’s fire-prone landscapes. Her current research focuses on the dyes, medicines, and life histories of fire-adapted shrubs and how these articulate a long-term social relationship with fire. Her work manifests through manual and process-based practices as drawings, garments, poems, and performances, and she is particularly interested in how commonplace notions of fire can be expanded through the forms—both social and ecological—that are generated by fire. Sasha studied printmaking and book arts at Bowdoin College, Maine College of Art, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has held fellowships at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy and the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned a master’s degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon in 2021, helped found the Fuel Ladder art research group, and, as a Mellon Foundation predoctoral fellow with the interdisciplinary Confluence Lab, initiated the Artists-In-Fire residency program. She is currently a PhD candidate in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho. 