For Channukah, my father gifted me a day long sandal making workshop with Rachel Corry. Corry is an artist and sandal maker I had heard about through friends of friends and on Instagram. Her studio was in an building that still felt like old Portland. Located off of Morison street not far from Robo Taco,…

Eco-Art, Eco-villages, REPAIR   Visiting The Port Townsend Eco-Village, Quimper Village, and Rosewind last week while reading pieces by Basia Irland and Patricia B. Sanders, enabled me to understand the direct  link to living in community and the purposes of art making.  Irland defines eco-art as the distinct shift from art as a commodity, and toward the  creative…

I’m so grateful that I got the opportunity work at City Repair. It was my dream to work with them since I was little and would work on the Sunnyside Sunflower Intersection Painting each year. I learned so much during my time there. Here is my Cover Letter that started it all! Cover Letter for…

I’ve been taken by a resurgence of confectionary. The artists that I’ve been lusting after throw away a certain perfectionism and traditional orderliness that’s most often found in baking. Their work challenges traditionally held aesthetics that value precise and clean design and instead offer something wild and adventurous. They are physical and sensual – and…

Bea is a Portland artist & Evergreen graduate who studied Community led Socio-politically Engaged Art. She is searching for of work and has experience with: community organizing  art installations  teaching children and adults  fundraising art making She is passionate about art that has a vital role in activating shared space, strengthening connections to our natural…

This piece is from my “The Dream” Series. It is the first of 3 main pieces where I depict a very important dream from my life when I was stuck in bed with mono. This takes place at the beginning where I am on a lunch break from teaching. I begin running through the forest…

I miss the Oil painting I did at Evergreen in Shaw Osha’s program. I mostly loved experimenting with glazing. We made outlines with black and highlights with white and then went in with medium and color to adjust the forms. Something about these pieces feels so freeing and juicy to me. Lively! In Israel I…

This is one of my most favorite series and projects I’ve ever worked on. I was a student under Professor Curtis Fairman and his class inspired me like no other. It was a tumultuous quarter. Fairman was under fire from the administration for teaching a class centered around street art, and the students were getting…

My good friend Lily did a tarot reading for me in 2018. It was late and we were sitting in her house in Olympia when we were both at Evergreen. She has a way with decor, and her room was neon purple with fairy lights strung up everywhere and art that she had made or…