2026 Artists & Art Collectives

Megan Chin
Portland, OR
Visual Artist / Cultural Worker

Installation/Performance: Interplays of sound/silence
Expand your perceptions of sound/silence by participating in collective deep listening exercises crafted by composer Pauline Oliveros facilitated by artist Megan Chin. Commune with one another while engaging land as an active participant through Chin’s land art installation and take home a free workbook zine for future deep listening.

Megan Chin (she/they) is a queer mixed-race Chinese American artist and cultural worker with a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Stelo Arts + Camp Colton, the Macedonia Institute, Vermont Studio Center and the Verdancy Project. Their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across New York, California and the PNW. Chin has received grant funding from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) and Precipice Fund to organize Anticapitalism Artists Book Club which provides free books and co-creates art offerings in response to AABC readings. Originally from Jacksonville, Fl. Chin is currently based in Portland, Oregon.

Hannah Walker / Rubbish Goods
Seattle, WA
Ceramics / Mixed Media

Participatory Installation: Ritual and Omen
Hannah Walker creates a participatory sculptural installation of hand-built ceramic vessels that function as candelabras and containers. Visitors write intentions and engage in quiet acts of release and tending by placing, holding, or burning them. The work unfolds over time as participants collectively shape a ritual of release, care, and community.

Hannah Walker (she/her) is a Seattle-based visual artist and educator, and a current artist-in-residence at Actualize AiR. She works with clay, textiles, and fiber to create vessels that explore memory, ritual, and the emotional resonance of everyday objects. Influenced by teaching 3D art in a public elementary school, her practice embraces imagination, play, and art as a practice of resistance and collective care.

Ana Anu & José Lobo
Brooklyn, NYC / Montreal, CA
Poet / Musician

Performance
Multi-lingual musician, José Lobo and poet Ana Anu share their individual and shared works in dialogue about beauty, land, and sweetness amidst war between their countries.

Ana Anu (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary ecofeminist artist. Their work explores poetry through the material and closely considers the importance of grandmothers in restorative justice and a possible futurity. A published author, filmmaker, exhibiting visual artist, and climate educator, Anu creates in celebration of elder feminist luminaries, botanics, myth, and semiotics. Coalescing provocative language, pop iconography, and wisdom traditions, their work initiates public discourse on environmental justice.

Jose Lobo (he/him) is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He had created work for films, theatre, and performances. Lobo continues to explore his identity as part of the Venezuelan diaspora, with songs traversing English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. His music carries highly personal lyrical themes on sparse, delicate instrumentation. His debut album, In All Good Hope is akin to entering an inner sanctum, or what Lobo aptly refers to as “a reverie of the quotidian”. Originally hailing from Venezuela, Lobo has spent the better part of the last decade in a somewhat nomadic mode, splitting his time between his current home base of Montreal, SanFrancisco’s Mission District, Paris, and also Hamilton, Ontario, where much of the album was recorded.

Shelby Natasha
Seattle, WA
Musician \ Music Producer

Performance: 缪斯
Mychelle Moritz explores the ways that memories are stored in the layers of the earth’s strata through an installation of ceramic tiles woven together with threads collected throughout the week. The installation invites viewers to collaborate by sharing a story on textiles to be woven into the installation. The fabric created between each piece becomes a record of connection to each other and the planet.

Shelby Natasha (she/they) is an alt-folk songwriter and Guzheng player from Seattle. Her music is an invitation into a world of RnB influenced Chinese-Folk Music. Inspired by her upbringing growing up between China and the PNW, her music draws greatly from the folk music of both cultures, reimagined in a modern production context. With ethereal vocals, Guzheng (the chinese harp), and lofi beats, she creates a vibe that is both haunting and groovy. She has in festivals such as Oregon Country Fair, NAMM, Any Patch of Grass, Belltown Bloom, Imagine Festival, Portland Folk Festival, Northwest Folklife and have played support slots for the artists East Forest and Simrit.

Mychelle Moritz
Portland, OR
Ceramic & Textile Installation

Installation
Mychelle Moritz explores the ways that memories are stored in the layers of the earth’s strata through an installation of ceramic tiles woven together with threads collected throughout the week. The installation invites viewers to collaborate by sharing a story on textiles to be woven into the installation. The fabric created between each piece becomes a record of connection to each other and the planet.

Working from a base of clay, Mychelle (she/her) combines ceramic pieces with other materials to create sculptural installations that invite engagement. Inspired by how the earth’s strata preserve history, Mychelle is creating an interactive installation of ceramic layers woven together by threads of stories collected throughout the week.

Liam Whitworth / Future Prairie
Portland, OR
Poetry

Performance: Fire Season
Liam Whitworth gives a reading of new writing from a longer work of literary fiction exploring queer labor, care, and survival after wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. The reading will be followed by a brief audience Q&A.

Liam Whitworth (he/they) is a poet, filmmaker, and curator from rural Oregon. He is the founder of Future Prairie, a collective of LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based working-class artists. His work has appeared in Pitchfork, Tin House, Lambda Literary, and festivals across the Pacific Northwest.

Brittany Marcotte / Future Prairie
Atlanta, GA
Mycology

Social Practice: Guided Mushroom Nature Walk
Mycologist Brittany Marcotte leads a walk to look for mushrooms. Join us and gain an introductory understanding of coastal fungi! While we can’t assure that you’ll find any specific types of mushrooms, each discovery will become a catalyst for discussion. During our foray, we’ll discuss basic identification principles, observation, and safety. Route and pacing will be adjusted based on conditions and participants’ needs.

Brittany Marcotte (she/her) is a queer mathematician, mycologist, jiu-jitsu coach, chess teacher, and community scientist. Her work in martial arts and self-defense centers embodiment, play, and joyful experimentation. Her mushroom observations have been featured in scientific journals and field guides such as “Mushrooms of Cascadia: A Comprehensive Guide to Fungi of the Pacific Northwest”.

Malia Peoples
Seattle, WA
Indigenous Textile Arts

Studio Tour: From Tree to Fabric: E Ola Ka Hana Kapa
Malia Peoples invites visitors to engage in the revival of Kapa, a rarely-seen Indigenous Hawaiian barkcloth tradition nearly lost to colonization. Visitors will explore the tools, processes, and stories behind Kapa making, participate in small stamping activities, and witness sculptural works inspired by this vital ancestral practice.

Malia Peoples (she/her) is a Kanaka Maoli and Hakka-American interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her practice focuses on Kapa, an Indigenous Hawaiian barkcloth tradition once thought lost to colonization. With a foundation in fashion design and ceramics, she uses ancestral materials and methods to imagine new futures for traditional practices. Malia’s work centers reindigenization, creating pathways toward cultural reclamation and empowerment for Hawaiians and others in the diaspora. Her work highlights themes of identity, land, and cultural sovereignty.

Rachel Blumberg / Arch Cape
Portland, OR
Drummer / Composer / Film / Video

Performance / Film Screening
Rachel Blumberg explores memory and place through interviews with artist, and weaves their stories and her own into a music and film piece.

Rachel Blumberg (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who composes and performs music under the moniker Arch Cape, which centers around experimental improvised and composed percussion and keyboard based music, often performed with her collaged and stop motion animated films. She is also a painter and and experimenter in other mediums. She currently is the the drummer for the experimental rock band Califone and also performs with Old Unconscious and other sundry bands. She is formerly known as the drummer for acts such as Mirah, M. Ward, The Decemberists, Tara Jane O’Neil, Michael Hurley and The Croakers, Laura Gibson and many others. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Gabriel Jax
Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota)
Textile / Puppetry / Film

Installation: Sands of Saturn
Gabriel Jax merges the personal archive with the warping of space across time. He endeavors to explore the dynamic between documentation and storytelling alongside the gaps in between. Is there a way fiction can assist memory and meaning making? This installation invites viewers to explore the unknowing accumulation of a lifetime of footage and sentimental debris inside the context of Long Beach.

Film Screening: I Hope This Finds You
This short video portrays a semi-fictionalized account of a spiraling artist trying to grab on for any lifeline. A non linear approach to finding yourself across every lifetime and speaking hope in any direction. This film explores how we conceptualize our experiences and what might happen when we embrace the malleability of our memory. I Hope This Finds You offers the audience an alternate way of conceptualizing their personal histories, their fearsome futures, and their untenable present.

Gabriel Jax (he/him) grew up in Seabeck, WA visiting Long Beach frequently from a young age. He currently lives and performs in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce. His work aims to explore the space between remembering and performing, hoping and dreading, discarding and repurposing. Jax has performed for three seasons with BareBones Puppets, In The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, and MayDay Parade and Ceremony. Between his own performances, Jax creates puppets, props, and garments for local burlesque performers and creatives. His work has been shown at Textile Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the Minnesota State Fair Quilt Library. His documentary, In Twenty Years: Central District won 2016 Best Documentary, Ed Elias Future Filmmaker award, LA Film Festival. He credits finding this out 10 years after the fact as the spark to resume creating in video format. Jax spends his time learning new mediums, reading, daydreaming, and storytelling.

Heather Hankins & Jeffrey Kriksciun / Earworm
Portland, OR
Sound Art / Mixed Media

Performance: Smaze and Smog
Earworm constructs a sonic environment accompanied by projected video assemblage shaped by the surrounding coastal landscape. Earworm invites attendees to experience and meditate on the shifting gaps and crevices of time, place and memory through immersive sound experience.

Formed in Portland, OR in 2024, Earworm is a sound art project created by Jeffrey Kriksciun (he/they) and Heather Hankins (she/they). Utilizing a prepared ladder as their instrument, this experimental duo constructs ambient, abstract and improvisational elements using everyday items to sculpt spacious and haunting drone soundscapes. Their work encapsulates a spirit of exploration, temporality and possibility within the mundane.

SANDFORD&GOSTI / Jodi Sandford & Valter Gosti
Perugia, Italy & Seattle, WA
Installations | Performance | Video | Digital Photography | Silkscreen Printing

Collaborative Performance: Colored Shirts at Sou’Wester
Sandford&Gosti work with monochromatic button down shirts as an area to create a visual contrast with the environment; anthropomorphic portable forms, that are flexible, and easy to handle. To dress with a color becomes a ritual to give a sense of belonging to one’s environment. It is used to communicate an identity-identify.

Film Screening: Sandford&Gosti – Colored Shirt Ecotone
Looping the video made at Sou’wester, with some of our other coloured shirt videos.

Kathryn Vision & Erin Aquarian
Portland, OR
Social Practice / Multimedia / Film

Film Screening: Femme Gaze / Intersession
Can a shed house a creative portal? Can artists generate new ideas by simply making an abstract drawing? LINE TIME invites visitors to find out together. Visitors to the LINE TIME drawing lounge are asked to consider and respond to a series of recorded drawing instructions and contribute to an expanding gallery. Participants may bring their own materials or use what’s provided and stay as long as they’d like.

Film Screening & Studio Tour/Collaborative Video: Behind The Scenes Between
A nod to this year’s theme made in collaboration with other Arts Week participants, the style and content of this behind the scenes short film is to be discovered! Somewhere between music video and documentary, this video reel will encapsulate the artistic processes, collaborations, works and materials encountered at this year’s Arts Week with artist interviews interspersed.

Reading: Meetcute Manifesto
FemmeTV’s origin story is chronicled in a zine featuring personal essays, collage, poems and sketches. As a nod to the DIY punk culture that shaped their femme-inist identities and values, Erin and Kathryn weave together threads of memory, formative experiences and vision for rematriated futures.

FemmeTV (Erin she/her, kathryn she/they) is an emerging creative collective and community media production house founded by Erin Aquarian and Kathryn Vision. FemmeTV is Programming for a New Paradigm: a new media experience that reimagines storytelling, representation, and filmmaking through a loving gaze.

Jason Powers, Breesa Culver, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Sanae Yamada / LINE TIME
Portland, OR
Audio / Visual Collective

Installation: LINE TIME Drawing Lounge
Can a shed house a creative portal? Can artists generate new ideas by simply making an abstract drawing? LINE TIME invites visitors to find out together. Visitors to the LINE TIME drawing lounge are asked to consider and respond to a series of recorded drawing instructions and contribute to an expanding gallery. Participants may bring their own materials or use what’s provided and stay as long as they’d like.

Performance: LINE TIME LIVE
LINE TIME invites artists of all ages and skill levels to a live recording event. Participants will follow (or defy!) drawing prompts while listening to improvised ambient music. Participants are invited to bring their own art supplies and relax into a blissed-out flow state.

LINE TIME ( Breesa Culver she/her, Jason Powers he/him, Lettie Jane Rennekamp she/they, Sanae Yamada she/they) is a transitional ritual/podcast created by Lettie Jane Rennekamp (painter/muralist/teacher), Sanae Yamada (composer/musician), Breesa Culver (writer/producer), and Jason Powers (engineer). LINE TIME traffics in gentle structures, flow states, and soft fascination. Each month, they release an interactive drawing exercise that opens a creative portal.

Jodie Cord/Mother of Cups, Oscar Hasseries, Scary Hasseries/Doll Specimen & Trey Nava
Portland, OR
Multi-Disciplinary Artists

Exhibition: Mother of Cups Pottery
Jodie Cord’s pottery creations are whimsical, humorous and often silly. She also feels called to bring attention to, support and protect the vulnerable and these subjects often come up in her work. She employs a variety of processes in her work including but not limited to hand building and altering Vintage ceramic molds.

Installation: Cat Drawing Club
Oscar Hasseries is an animal lover and video game enthusiast. He has two cats named Pancake and Yoshi and he loves to draw a photograph them. He would love for everyone to join his Cat Drawing Club.

Performance:
Scary Hasseries is a Drag Thing and fashion designer and creator. They will be performing a drag number to “song”. By “Artist” . (Also we can include details about their costume, the making process and their make up looks/ Inspirations).

Performance:
Trey Nava is an artist and sonic explorer whose work exists through hands-on creation. His practice is rooted in circuit bending, soft soldering, and the repair/alteration of vintage electronics. Trey constructs his own instruments and music from the ground up by utilizing tools like Reaper and PureData, while continuously developing his skills in mixing and mastering.

Oscar (he/him) Hasseries is an 11 year old animal lover and video game enthusiast. He would love for everyone to join his Cat Drawing Club. He lives with his parents, Jodie and Andrew, his sibling Scary, his crazy dog Sadie and two sweet little cats Pancake and Yoshi.

Scary (they/them/it). This dreadfully darling drag thing has been haunting the streets of Portland since its inception. Known for its dedication to turning a variety of doll-licious looks while also managing it’s vampiric tendencies… Please welcome: Portland’s porcelain princess, Doll Specimen!

Jodie Cord (she/her/they) is a Multi-disciplinary artist. They run “Mother of Cups Pottery” out of their little backyard studio. Jodie has a degree in Painting and double minored in Sculpture and Art History. She is a member of the Oregon Potters Association. Jodie lives in Portland Oregon’s Alberta district with her husband Andrew and two children Scary and Oscar.

Trey Nava (he/him) is an artist and sonic explorer whose work exists through hands-on creation. His practice is rooted in circuit bending, soft soldering, and the repair/alteration of vintage electronics. Trey constructs his own instruments and music from the ground up by utilizing tools like Reaper and PureData, while continuously developing his skills in mixing and mastering. Beyond the circuitry and the digital audio workstation, his artistic exploration extends to the electric bass and the unique textures of cassette-based DJing. For Trey, the creative process is a continuous cycle of research and testing, where every modified device and recorded track tells a separate story of growth and discovery.

Charlie Wilcox & Morgan Rice
Portland, OR
Textiles / Animation / Illustration

Installation: Infinite Nature Advertisement
Morgan Rice and Charlie Wilcox playfully reimagine the shimmering, chintzy landscapes of a vintage beer advertisement hanging in a musty dive bar, reflecting the place-setting used for advertisement back upon itself to reassess our relationship to our Pacific Northwest environments throughout (and outside of) time.

Morgan Rice (she/they) and Charlie Wilcox (he/they) quickly developed a deep bond over a shared passion for hand-stitched embroidery. While they make use of embroidery in divergent ways—Charlie in stop-motion animation and Morgan in large-scale illustrative works—they found that hand-stitching explores a shared fascination with the concept of time and its discontents.

Elizabeth Byrd / The Healing Cello
Portland, OR
Cellist / Multimedia Sound Artist

Installation: Interstices
Elizabeth Byrd carves a space for reflection within the live environment, weaving cello improvisation into a tapestry of modular synthesis and field recordings. This sonic dialogue breathes with the recorded thoughts of fellow artists, transforming gathered whispers into a visceral, evolving soundscape. The performance creates an immersive bridge between the human voice and the physical world, dissolving the distance between the music and the listener.

Elizabeth “Liz” Byrd (she/her) is a Cellist and Sound Artist who thrives in the liminal space where organic resonance meets electronic exploration. Known for her “Cello-Centric” compositions, Liz fuses the soulful voice of her instrument with the unpredictable pulses of modular synthesis and site-specific field recordings. Her work—curated through her ongoing Sonic Journal series—aims to provide a “sonic reset” for the listener, encouraging deep introspection through immersive soundscapes. With a foundation built on classical precision and improvisational curiosity, she creates performances that integrate community-sourced reflections to bridge the gap between artist and audience. When she isn’t capturing the secret frequencies of the Pacific Northwest, Liz is often found exploring the mountains with her dogs, finding inspiration in the “space between” the rugged peaks and the sea.

Claire Rose / Haute After Dark
Portland, OR
Multi-disciplinary Artist / Gallery Curator / Fashion Designer

Performance & Installation: Care, Resistance & Place

Description: Claire’s current work is rooted in place-based art, pulling garments and materials directly from the Pacific Northwest. It is an exploration of land, body, and memory—how what surrounds us shapes who we become. Color, texture, and found objects move through the work as fragments of a story still being written.
In a time of unrest and instability, connection feels fragile, sometimes out of reach. This work sits inside that tension, asking what it means to be embodied, emboldened, and safe. These questions live in the making—stitched into textiles and custom garments shaped by care, resistance, and place.

Haute After Dark (Claire she/her) was born in the dead of winter, at a moment when warmth, passion, and a sense of anchoring were deeply needed. Created by Latin multidisciplinary artist Claire Rose, her art speaks through transformation—reshaping what already exists into something capable of holding new meaning.
Claire works exclusively with up-cycled materials, breathing new life into vintage garments and textiles and transforming them into homeware and one-of-one handmade pieces. Each object carries traces of its past, reworked through sewing, needlework, dye, paint, and other acts of repair and reinvention.
Recent works include being a producing and being a featured designer in a sustainable fashion show in Ventura, “Art in Motion” (2023), serving as curator and featured artist for a fashion show featuring 8 designers in San Francisco, “Rat Race” (2024), and an artist residency at Casa Luna y Sol (2024), where Claire developed her last line. Her practice fuses the modern with the classic, the industrial with the vintage, and the old with the new. Through tone, pattern, and texture, she explores the fluid nature of identity—how what we wear doesn’t define us, but can help us step into the selves we imagine.

Jessica Keaveny
Hillsboro, OR
Photography / Installation

Studio / Installation: The Spaces Between Us – Moments of pause, play, and presence
Jessica Keaveny creates an evolving photographic installation during the residency, capturing artists and the surrounding landscape in moments of pause, play, and presence. Installed within her living space, the work slowly transforms into a living archive of the week, inviting visitors to linger in the quiet spaces between making, meaning, and connection.

Jessica Keaveny is a photographer whose work lives in the in-between moments: the pause between laughter and breath, the quiet after emotion moves through, the split second when someone forgets the camera and simply exists. Drawn to beautiful light, deep shadow, symmetry, reflections, and honest color stories, Jessica uses these elements not as spectacle but as a language to reach essence. Her portraits and scenes are rooted in presence, guided gently through movement and light, and shaped by a deep respect for the person or moment being witnessed. Jessica is interested in the human experience in all its forms: joy, grief, creation, connection. She believes photographs are a way of keeping what matters alive, a small act of care against forgetting. This sensibility is informed by her work in legacy storytelling and end-of-life spaces, where images become a gift to the gift givers and a record of love that outlives the moment itself. For Arts Week, Jessica will create an evolving photographic installation made during the residency, capturing fellow artists and the surrounding landscape in moments of reverence, rest, and becoming. Installed within her living space, the work will slowly transform the room into a living archive of the week, a visual meditation on what happens between making and meaning. Jessica feels things in her bones. She follows the light. She listens for what is true. And she makes photographs that invite us to see ourselves, and each other, a little more clearly.

Laura Hoppenjans
Seattle, WA
Ceramic Artist

Installation: What We Carry
Laura Hoppenjans explore liminal space as a condition of transition and pause through creating a series of hand-built terracotta crates. Crates are inherently transitional objects: they exist to hold, protect, transport, and temporarily contain. Neither destination nor origin, they occupy an in-between role—designed for movement, passage, and impermanence.

Laura Hoppenjans (she/they), is an artist and designer based in Seattle, WA. Interested in traditional techniques and labor, her work is influenced by the histories of gendered work and the intersection of traditional craft, design, and pop culture. She has been working in ceramics since 2021, and has exhibited in the US and abroad.

Anna Rogers & Logan Britt
Portland, OR
Installation Artists

Installation: Pretend Summer in a Box
Is summer the past or the future? Who cares? If you’re nice you might get a treat.

Anna (she/her) and Logan (she/her) like to draw together. Sometimes they’re Professional Artists and sometimes they’re just friends.

Sara Silva & Joey Frostad / Sonic Switchyard
Seattle, WA
Mixed Media

Installation: After the Tone
After the tone is a participatory sound installation built from legacy analog telecommunications, tape-based recording, and multi-channel audio processing. captured messages are routed, degraded, and recirculated through the space, creating a continuously shifting sonic environment that the public experiences through movement, proximity, and sustained listening.

Studio Tour: After the Tone
After the tone (process + archive)
this studio tour offers a view into the systems behind after the tone. visitors encounter analog recording devices, routing infrastructure, and works-in-progress as messages are collected and transformed in real time. the space foregrounds listening, accumulation, and the evolving archive, emphasizing process over finished form.

Sara Silva (she/her) and Joey Frostad (he/him) appear through sonic switchyard, a seattle-based collective treating sound as both medium and meeting place. sara’s work as an outreach psychiatric nurse practitioner informs a process grounded in listening, presence, and the balance between tending and receiving. joey is a sound designer working in longform, site-responsive audio to trace the afterlife of voice and signal.

together, their practice accumulates and transforms messages through rescued analog equipment, holding them in suspension as meaning settles slowly, without closure. after the tone is their participatory sound installation concerned with deferred communication, the delicate act of reaching and the ritual of shared memory.

Taylor Wallau / Practice Rebellion
Portland, OR
Printmaking

Installation: Touching (Touched)
This installation uses materials that are often employed in direct action to explore the significance of physical mediums. The carved blocks used to print the text were based on the hand paintings of Arts Week artists, but the prints are only ghosts – the sign of a collective presence, reaching.

Taylor (any pronouns) is a queer, multi-disciplinary artist, organizer, and anti-imperialist educator living in so-called “Portland, Oregon.” Her creative practice includes experimental printmaking, drawing, poetry, zinemaking, and envisioning new worlds with her comrades. Taylor oscillates between different mediums, but has always used text to explore intimacy, and the boundaries of communication. Lately, she has been engaging with the parallels between the creative process and movement work — she is particularly interested in the role of vulnerability in both personal and political transformation(s).