Education
Portfolio Program - Book Arts
Independent Publishing Resource Center ★ Portland, OR
2023
2017
BA, Environmental Studies - Art
Whitman College ★ Walla Walla, WA
Professional
2015 - present
Graphic Designer + Creative Copywriter
Freelance ★ Portland, OR
2020 - 22
Creative Director
Bridge City Media ★ Portland, OR
2020
Reader
Tin House Writing Workshops ★ Portland, OR
2019
Rural Community Designer
Blue Sky Center ★ New Cuyama, CA
Conversation Series Coordinator
Open Engagement / Queens Museum ★ Queens, NY
2018
2017
Programs Fellow
Elsewhere Museum ★ Greensboro, NC
Sculpture Studio Assistant
Whitman College Art Department ★ Walla Walla, WA
2016 - 17
2015
Radio Host / Producer
KWCW 90.5FM ★ Walla Walla, WA
Writing + Publications
I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You and Me
Independently published with funding from Regional Arts and Culture Council
2022
What’s Under That Rock? Wells, Water, and Rural Resilience in Rockingham County, North Carolina
Exhibition publication for Madison, NC’s Bicentennial Festival
2018
2017
Reimaginings: Critical Making in an Age of Crisis
Whitman College Environmental Studies Thesis
Lectures + Workshops
FLOOD: Print Propaganda in Practice
Artist Talk and Open Studio with Entangled Roots Press and Sheyam Ghieth
Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) ★ Portland, OR
2023
We Keep Us Healthy: Zines On Caring For Ourselves and Our Communities (Panel Discussion)
Santa Rosa Zine Fest and Sonoma County Library ★ Portland, OR
Drawing Towards Autonomy: Trans Healthcare in Words And Pictures (A Comics Workshop)
Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) ★ Portland, OR
Book Release and Reading — I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You and Me
Open Hand Health ★ Portland, OR
2022
I’m Having Top Surgery: Artist Talk and Book Reading
Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) ★ Portland, OR
Drawing Towards Autonomy: Trans Healthcare in Words And Pictures (A Comics Workshop)
Trans Empowerment, Resilience and Resistance Days at Portland State University ★ Portland, OR
I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide For You And Me (Artist Talk, Discussion, and Q+A)
Portland State University’s Trans Action and Care Conference ★ Portland, OR
I’m Having Top Surgery Artist Talk + Youth Brainstorm Workshop
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette’s Teen Council ★ Portland, OR
Water Practice: Connecting to Water as a Creative Anti-Colonial Practice
Visiting Artist, Whitman College Art Department ★ Walla Walla, WA
2021
The Sink is Keeping Secrets and the Pipes Are Spreading Rumors
Artist Talk, Elsewhere Museum ★ Greensboro, NC
2017
be the media you wish to see in the world! a zine workshop
Whitman College Power and Privilege Symposium ★ Walla Walla, WA
Who are we preserving it for (and from)? An Introduction to Environmental Justice
Whitman College Power and Privilege Symposium ★ Walla Walla, WA
2016
At Least: Clean Enough at Colorado’s End
Whitman College Power and Privilege Symposium ★ Walla Walla, WA
2014
Teaching
2023 - present
Guest Educator (K-12)
Portland Public Schools ★ Portland, OR
Guest Instructor and Program Facilitator, Design for Change (Dsn446)
Blue Sky Center and Iowa State University Architecture Department ★ New Cuyama, CA
2019
Guest Instructor and Program Facilitator, Community-Based Architectural Practices
Blue Sky Center and Dominican University of California ★ New Cuyama, CA
Guest Instructor and Program Facilitator, Design Pedagogy (Design 540)
Blue Sky Center and USC Roski School of Art and Design MFA Program ★ New Cuyama, CA and Los Angeles, CA
Performances
2019
Dear Clarence (solo)
Signal Fire ★ Mazatzal Wilderness, AZ
How to Find True North: A Play in Three Acts (solo)
Signal Fire ★ Blue Range, AZ
Carry (solo)
Signal Fire ★ Gila Wilderness, NM
Ni Aquí, Ni Allá (ensemble)
Edison Peñafiel, Director
Elsewhere Museum ★ Greensboro, NC
2018
Slow Dance (lead)
Monique van Hinte, Director; Ian Gamble, Co-Performer
Elsewhere Museum ★ Greensboro, NC
Exhibitions
What’s Underneath That Rock? (group show)
Southern Constellations / Madison Bicentennial Festival ★ Madison, NC
2018
2017
Senior Thesis Exhibition (group show)
Sheehan Gallery ★ Walla Walla, WA
Interact (group show)
Studio Articolore ★ Walla Walla, WA
2016
TROVE / TROPE (group show)
Maxey Museum ★ Walla Walla, WA
Residencies
2019
SW Immersion: Paseo del Lobo
Signal Fire / Wild Open Studios ★ AZ + NM
Southern Constellations: Elsewhere Goes to Madison
Elsewhere Museum ★ Rockingham County, NM
2018
Grants + Fellowships
2022
Arts 3C Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council
Regional Support Fund Recipient
Common Field, WHAT NOW? Towards Artist-Led Movements
Make Learn Build Grant
Regional Arts and Culture Council
2021
2019
G. Douglas Byers Memorial Fellowship
Signal Fire / Wide Open Studios
Featured Work (Publications)
2022
The New Farmer’s Almanac, Vol VI, illustrations
Greenhorns ★ Pembroke, ME
Tidelines: Issue 1, illustrations
Cereal Box Studio X Wavepool Gallery ★ Cincinnati, OH
2019
Press
Book Release: "I’m Having Top Surgery" by Rimona Eskayo
KBOO 90.7FM, Transpositive PDX, Emma Lugo
2022
Madison shines in Southern Constellations: artists present town-inspired social artworks
Rockingham Now: Greensboro News & Record, Justyn Melsrose
2018