2025 artists
Maya Attean
Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki artist living in Machigonne or Portland, Maine. Her work reflects her ancestry, and connection to the natural world. Through exploring the duality she embodies within the colonized world she exists within, she marries mediums and techniques to create new realities and possibilities through photography.
Ashley Blanton
Ashley Blanton is a visual artist who creates mixed media works on paper that explore the liminal spaces between internal and external experiences. Inspired by the interplay between somatic sensations and psychological states, Ashley creates artwork that contemplates connections between mind, body, and environment.
Catus Chaos
I am a multidisciplinary artist interested on exploring the intersection between visual arts, performance, and immersive experience. At the heart of my practice is my love for stories: both to tell them and to record them. I see art as an experience – one that invites presence, play, and exchange.
Dorothy Dickie
Dorothy Dickie is an award-winning producer/director of documentaries and digital shorts. Her work has been recognized with three emmy awards, a neta/public media award and a peabody award. Her current focus as a non-fiction storyteller is pursuing stories for and about marginalized communities to enact positive change.
Julia Forrest
I use film photography without digital manipulation to pose women in landscapes, creating illusions through mirrors, reflections, and forced perspective. Though they appear still, they exude a quiet power, subtly shaping and transforming their surroundings.
Caitlin Gill
Caitlin Gill is a mixed media artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. In exploring the divergence between craft and fine art and the implicit misogyny within the distinction between the two, Gill uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork that explores ideas of identity, femininity, and domesticity.
Julie Hensley
Julie Hensley is an Appalachian writer and core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches both poetry and fiction. She is the author of several books, including Viable, Landfall: A Ring of Stories, and Five Oaks.
Ellie Liu
Ellie Liu is a neurodivergent textile artist based in Seattle. She explores themes of immigration and generational trauma, using the sensuality of fabric and form to draw viewers in and confront uncomfortable societal truths. Through meticulous hand work, close observation, and research, her textiles act as a slow and deliberate unveiling.
Juliana Ramirez
Juliana Ramirez is a non-toxic printmaker and conservation biologist who works with seabirds during her summers. Inspired by her fieldwork, she mainly practices relief, collograph, and intaglio, and is currently exploring printing marine debris/found objects from the ecosystems that she finds herself in.
Nora Revenaugh
Nora is a multidisciplinary folk artist from the Mohawk Valley. Her practice includes traditional music, oral storytelling, writing, sewing, gardening, and hosting the Folkist Space Residency. She has worked as a touring storyteller, teaching artist and story director for The Moth and is currently the Product Director of Foreign Affairs Magazine.
Borey Shin
Composer, improviser, and visual artist Borey Shin makes synth ballads, ambient music, animations, chamber music, and moody songs. He works with minimal means to create delicately undulating soundscapes using pianos, synthesizers, accordions, and other keyboard instruments.
Andrea Volpe
Andrea Volpe is a cultural historian who writes essays and criticism, often about photography. She is working on a novel, Advice to Women Artists, about motherhood, art, and late capitalism, told entirely through the spaces of art–studios, museums, and galleries–in New York, Los Angeles, Munich, London, Dusseldorf, and Boston.
Aislinn Weidele
Trained as a photographer, I work across printmaking, digital and mixed media to tell narrative-driven stories about environmental crisis, often reimagined through a fantastical lens. My current project—a series of illustrated “survival guides”—blends satire, speculative fiction, and visual storytelling to explore contemporary dystopian anxieties
Maya Williams
Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who was selected as Portland, ME’s seventh poet laureate for a July 2021 to July 2024 term. You can find essays of Maya’s in The Daily Beast, Honey Literary, The Rumpus, LGBTQ Nation, Black Girl Nerds, and more.
Elizabeth Withstandley
Elizabeth Withstandley is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist originally from Cape Cod, whose work explores identity, disappearance, and speculative archives through video installation, photography, and participatory platforms. She is a co-founder of Locust Projects in Miami and Prospect Art in Los Angeles.