Demian DinéYazhÍ is a transdisciplinary Indigenous Diné Non-Binary artist, poet, and curator. Their practice is a regurgitation of purported Decolonial praxis informed by the over accumulation and exploitative supremacist nature of hetero-cis-gendered communities post colonization. They were formed from their mother who is a descendant of sacred beings that came to emerge from this world through the holy act of migration and from a people ceremonially devoted to cosmological harmony and balance. They are a survivor of attempted european genocide, forced assimilation, manipulation, sexual and gender violence, capitalist sabotage, and hypermarginalization in a colonized country that refuses to center their politics and philosophies around the Indigenous Peoples whose Land they occupy and refuse to give back. They live and work in a post-post-apocalyptic world unafraid to fail.

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May Maylisa Cat is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans new media, performance art, sculpture, and installation. Her projects have received support from the Franklin Furnace Fund; Oregon Arts Commission; Precipice Fund; Open Signal New Media Fellowship; and the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland. Recent exhibitions include Karmic II at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, 2021; GLEAN at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, 2020; and Karmic I, a multi-screen immersive installation at Open Signal, Portland, OR, 2019. May grew up in Chicago, IL and graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in New York, NY. Residencies include Chautauqua Visual Arts, Fountainhead Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Wassaic Project, Caldera Arts, Glean Portland, and Pilchuck Glass School. She has spoken as a guest lecturer for Carnegie Mellon University School of Fine Art in Pittsburgh, PA; Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT; Cooper Union in New York, NY; and as a teaching artist for Caldera Arts and Bodecker Foundation. Her bylines include Oregon Humanities, Cold Tea Collective, Tricycle, and many others.

Alejandra Arias Sevilla is an interdisciplinary artist and printer based in Portland, Oregon. She investigates semantics, familiar spaces, and personal history to reflect and analyze the language that knits her selfhood. These are rooted in the storytelling of her grandmothers, her childhood in mexico, and the complexities of the color blue. Her work has been shown with Nat Turner Project, Black Fish Gallery, and Converge 45. She earned her degree at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is the 2021 awardee of the Undergrowth Educational Print Fund at Mullowney Printing and the Stelo Letterpress Residency.

Mami Takahashi is an artist from Tokyo, currently based in Portland, Oregon. Using photography, performance, installation and urban intervention, her practice explores the complexities of being a foreigner and a woman living in the US. Previous exhibitions and performances have taken place at Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, OR; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; DANK Haus, Chicago, IL; The International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canada; Gwangju Folk Art Museum, Korea; Instituto Municipal del Arte la Cultura, Mexico and Toriizaka Art Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues. She holds an MFA from Portland State University, a BFA from Joshibi University of Art in Japan. Takahashi is a recipient of Ford Family Golden Spot Artist Fellow at the PNCA+Leland Iron Work residency program in 2018 and the Studios at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2021. Recent and upcoming residencies include Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, Stelo arts and Culture Foundation, OR, and Hambidge Center, GA.

Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist whose work explores the ways humans position ourselves within the natural world and relate to other living beings, especially plants. For the past ten years she has organized Plantón Móvil, a yearly “walking forest” performance that leads to the creation of public green areas in cities such as Lima, Providence, Minneapolis, London, and New York. Other recent projects include a "fungi broadcast" about deforestation in Peru and sending potato seeds to space as messengers for non-colonial visions of the future. Monge has received an Eliza Moore Fellowship from Oak Spring Garden Foundation and a Social Innovation Fellowship from Brown University, alongside grants from institutions such as Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), Peruvian Ministry of Culture, COAL Art and Ecology, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among other. She has shown her work internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, Queens Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP20). She holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Universidad Católica del Perú.

Antonius Bui (they/them/theirs pronouns) is a spontaneous shapeshifter and poly-disciplinary artist with roots all over the country. They play in the realms of hand-cut paper, community engagement, performance, and soft sculpture to visualize hybrid identities and histories that confront the unsettling present. Their identity as a queer, genderfluid, Vietnamese-American informs the way they employ beauty as a refuge for fellow marginalized communities.

Maddy Dubin is a Portland based artist whose dedication to material experimentation has been documented with installation, performance, and time-based sculpture. Their most recent artistic exploits have involved site-specific and found materials such as textiles, recycled paper, and raw clay. After spending time teaching, managing studios, and assisting a wide variety of artists, Maddy is now working as the “ceramic wrangler” for Gather: Make: Shelter - a non-profit organization facilitating collaborative, creative projects with people experiencing houselessness and extreme poverty. Maddy holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from California State University Chico. After attending a year-long mentorship program at the Ash Street Project, Maddy attended the Stelo papermaking residency at Pulp and Deckle - both in Portland, Or. Maddy’s work has been exhibited at Russo Lee Gallery, PDX Contemporary, Ash Street Project gallery, and Pottery Northwest. Maddy lives in Portland and can be seen driving around town in their big green van.

Garrick Imatani is an artist who uses performance, functional objects, or interaction to bring people into their own body and subject. Working across sculpture, photography, video and installation, recent projects focus on reimagining racialized historical erasures into more believable and inspired futures. Past works have included collaborating with illegally-surveilled activists to readjust city archives; re-enacting labor on the transcontinental railroad; and, working with members of Grand Ronde Tribes to replicate their sacred meteorite held in the American Museum of Natural History. His work has been exhibited at the Blaer Art Museum (Houston), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), Art in General (NYC), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR), Chachalu Museum (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, OR), Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, and Portland Museum of Art (ME) among others. He has received grant support from The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, Maine Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, and Oregon Percent for Art. Imatani holds an MFA from Columbia University, NY and resides in Portland, OR where he is an Associate Professor and Chair of Foundation at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Hannah Kim Varamini is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles. Manifesting primarily in drawings, video, and installations, her work explores the nature of memory, translation, and power between individual and institutional bodies. She is cofounder of the artist-run initiative Love’s Remedies, which supports collaborative actions between artists, curators, and cultural producers in Los Angeles. She has presented work at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, The Box Gallery, Fuller Theological Seminary, Santa Cruz Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the National Art Gallery of Namibia. She received her BFA from Cornell University, and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Amy Bay (b. Elkhart, IN) is a painter based in Portland, OR. Bay holds a MFA from Winchester School of Art and a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She also completed the London-based Turps Banana Correspondence Course for painters. Bay's heavily worked paintings use motifs that draw from decorative sources. She values the subjective, the emotional, error, and mishap. She is interested in the mutability of the picturesque and conventional feminine imagery. Bay has exhibited her work at venues in the Pacific Northwest, including Melanie Flood Projects, Adams and Ollman, UNA and SNAG Gallery, as well as throughout New York at Peninsula Art Space, The Painting Center, The Drawing Center, Printed Matter, Brooklyn Public Library, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has been awarded grants and projects from The Rauschenberg Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts, Stelo, the Regional Art and Culture Council, The Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donné Papermill, and Women's Studio Workshop. She is represented by Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, OR.

Megan Hanley creates artwork to promote a shift in thinking about humanity’s place in the world where we can begin to see ourselves as part of a complex ecosystem, equal to bacteria, plants, and animals. In January 2020 she completed the c3:Papermaking Residency at Pulp & Deckle in Portland, OR creating reliefs of hot springs from Yellowstone National Park. In 2017 she was awarded the Andries Deinum Prize for Visionaries and Provocateurs and a Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to complete a year of research in collaboration with the Center for Life in Extreme Environments at Portland State University in preparation for the solo exhibition In/Habitable. Hanley has also taken part in a backpacking residency with Signal Fire in the Siskiyou Mountain region of Northern California, and a three-week dig with the Sanisera Archaeology Institute on the island of Menorca, Spain as part of her research-based practice. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2008 and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in 2017.

Jess Perlitz is an artist who makes work that engages conceptions of landscape and the body’s place within it, finding points of incongruity and disruptions of established expectations. Born in Toronto, Canada, she is a graduate of Bard College, received an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and clown training from the Manitoulin Center for Creation and Performance. Perlitz is currently based in Portland, Oregon where she is Associate Professor and Head of Sculpture at Lewis & Clark College, and most recently, the co-leader of the year-long Portland’s Monuments & Memorials Project. She was named a 2019 Hallie Ford Fellow, has won the Joan Shipley award, and received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in playgrounds, fields, galleries, and museums, including the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Socrates Sculpture Park in NY, Cambridge Galleries in Canada, De Fabriek in The Netherlands, and aboard the Arctic Circle Residency.