Community Spotlight Sarah Brahim
Sarah Brahim’s art practice focuses on collaborative work with artists across mediums. Brahim performs, choreographs, and directs movement professionally across the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Her performances and film works touch on themes of culture, loss, identity, veiling, borders, race, migration, transnational experience, women of color experience, body in landscape and the imprint places leave within us.
read moreCommunity Spotlight Christopher Dibble
This month’s community spotlight features Christopher Dibble, a multi-talented photographer/weaver/entrepreneur and our long-term collaborator, discussing his take on New Traditions.
read moreCommunity Spotlight Christine Miller
We recently had the opportunity to connect with Christine Miller, conceptual artist and curator based in Portland, OR. In conversation with Stephanie Sun, Christine discussed her recent show at Disjecta PDX, dismantling traditions, working with and expanding...
read moreCommunity Spotlight Lauren Prado
Artist Lauren Prado works with a variety of textiles in her practice, exploring and challenging representations of the digital images and products which flood our online feeds. We recently had the opportunity to connect with Lauren and discuss her take on the theme of New Traditions, how her creative practice has shifted during our global pandemic, and more.
read moreCommunity Spotlight Terumi Saito
Terumi Saito’s “BIRDS DIETY” grew from her experiences studying with master dyers, basket makers, and weavers from Peru and Guatemala. Terumi’s evocative work proposes a “contemporary hybrid craft” created with the intention to preserve, honor, and revive interest in these classic techniques through a different perspective.
read moreTHE AFRO-AMERICAN HERITAGE BICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIVE QUILT
Blog by Sheridan Collins and graphics by Caleb Sayan, October 2020 In the late 1960s, race riots had exploded in Portland’s Black community stemming from alleged police brutality and racism. Subsequent police shootings of Black youth increased the animosity. In...
read moreCommunity Spotlight Interview With Victoria Wanjuhi
Victoria Wanjuhi’s work provokes her audience to rethink waste and sustainability.
read moreCommunity Spotlight Interview With Bonnie Meltzer
Integrating, repairing, and transforming found objects into social commentary has been a major part of Bonnie Meltzer’s fiberart sculptures throughout her career.
read moreCommunity Spotlight Interview With Brittany Vega
Brittany Vega draws inspiration from personal collections of such objects and historical documentation to investigate how these things act as symbols for American-ness, and furthermore how they can be misconstrued.
read moreCommunity Spotlight Interview With Emily Miller
The Ghost Net Landscape collaborative installations are organized by Emily Miller, a multi-media artist whose work centers on uplifting our human relationship with our ocean and planet.
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