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Garret's initial and primary creative outlets are live concert visuals and video art, blending analog liquid light shows with custom-coded digital art and video collage through analog video hardware. But he's also broadened his expression from there into generative code art, design, and illustration. He performs live concert visuals under the moniker Coast Range Lights, and teams up with his partner Jessi Buck to run the online Shrug Studio shop.
Jessi is an artist who dabbles in nearly every medium there is! She aims to create whimsical vibrant art to bring out the inner child in all of us. This whimsy is achieved with bright colors, simple materials like felt and paper, and finding ways to add shine and sparkle! She runs online shop Shrug Studio with her partner, Garret Conour.
Rachel Cherry is a comic artist and illustrator living in Salem, OR. She loves animals and likes to visit them at the Oregon Zoo as well as see them in their natural habitats when she's out exploring Oregon's coast and forests.
Michelle Sachiko Paul creates colorful and quirky art inspired by her own cats, horror movies, and nature - all with a whimsical flair. She also creates fun and relatable soy candles with original art and scents with small business Feverdream Visions.
Ashley Lynn is an illustrator and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She studied art and creative writing and graduated from Portland State University, and has an interest in Children’s books and narrative illustration. She is a mixed media artist and works mainly in watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, marker, and pastel.
Jackie Nash is a sculptor, model maker, and fabricator based in Beaverton. Nash was born and raised in NJ, and went on to study Animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Since then, she's worked in stop motion animation for award winning studios such as Shadowmachine and Laika. In her own work she loves to explore shape and design through a vintage lens.
Kirsten Slane (Kdog) is a queer multimedia artist and elementary art teacher from Southern Californa. After transplanting to the PNW, Kdog began her double life of teaching during the week and vending her prints, pins, stickers, and more at PDX art events on the weekends. She loves to create art that tells a story through bold colors and interesting characters and creatures. When Kdog tells people what she does for a living, they tend to look her up and down and say "ohh, that makes sense."
Jay Holtman is a painter and sculptor from Northern Kentucky. After graduation from Northern Kentucky University, Jay devoted herself to exploring unique materials and found objects to create a wide variety of dioramas and character sculpts. Focusing on the intersection of real life and fantasy, the act of playing and make believe is prominent in her work.
Chlo Greve is a Portland-based illustrator and designer. She studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art and graduated with a BFA in illustration in 2021. She loves making art inspired by pop culture, fantasy, anime, and the feeling of nostalgia. Her goal with her pieces is to create something she know her younger self would love. Chlo works primarily with digital art and risograph printing.
Teddy Overalls is a papier mache artist who started making things to keep their hands busy while they watched movies. They take aesthetic inspiration from 1970s giallo films, roadside tourist traps, and varying states of decay. See more of their stuff at www.teddyoveralls.com
Elaina is an artist, illustrator and video game developer living and creating in the rainy Pacific northwest with her chihuahua, Bean.
Madeleine is a Portland based illustrator. She employs elaborately colored dragons and fantasy creatures to explore nature, myths, and legends in her illustrations . As well as pet portraits of our personal magical creatures.
Leah Yao is a designer and miniaturist intrigued by objects and environments that catalyze meaningful connections. She grew up sloshing around in the Oregon mud and crafting wands from soggy branches which forged her passion for things and spaces. Working with clients ranging from private art collectors to the Cartoon Network, her work has been featured in publications including New York Magazine, Hi-Fructose, and the Book of Mini.
Catherine Shelton is a Portland-based fiber artist and art teacher. Inspired by folklore and the natural world, she crafts needle-felted sculptures that reflect her love of all things whimsical while highlighting the tactile nature of wool. You can find more of her work at goodenoughfelting.com.
Naomi is a mixed media artist based in Portland Oregon. Her work entails sculpture, painting, drawing, and animation. She has worked in the stop motion industry on shows and feature films since 2019. Her personal work is inspired by her love from pigs, the fun characters she meets throughout her life, color, and new materials.
Bianca Rideout is a Chinese-American, Portland based artist. Her work draws from her love of storytelling, whimsy, and slightly spooky things. Outside of illustration, she runs Rage Cry Club, a little shop with big feelings.
Jenn Hill started Chet and Dot with a focus on creating handmade heirlooms for little ones, gift and home. Using sustainable and low impact materials, Chet and Dot creations are inspired by mid century illustration and design which is present in a colorful cuteness throughout.
Tiny Deer Studio is a latina owned and family operated creative studio, producing giftable goods for fun folks.
dang is a Portland based artist working in sculpture, painting and mixed media. Recent projects include stop-motion animation, and exhibited his ongoing series of improvisational acrylic portrait paintings.
Michelle Nguyen is an award winning Vietnamese-American illustrator and comic artist based in Portland, OR. She loves finding inspiration in nature and animals, and enjoys exploring different artistic mediums. You can find her artwork at michellenguyenart.com
Mary Ruth Butterworth is a mixed media artist, mostly working with acrylic paints, but loves to try new mediums and whatever her next project calls for. She loves to create fun colorful characters and the worlds they inhabit.
Sheila Wong is a graphic designer and illustrator currently based in Portland, OR. Her creative work often pulls from a variety of life experiences - from growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants in the Midwest, years working in tech support, to designing for tech and mobile gaming. When not working, she is usually looking for new places to go camping, or building mechanical keyboards.
Allifacio is a soft sculpture artist based in Portland, OR. Best known for her whimsical plushies, she takes inspiration from unattractive or unpleasant subjects and makes them cute and loveable.
Amy Wike is a watercolor and illustration artist who has been creating endearingly quirky custom designs for individual and corporate clients since 2017. Her colorful, energetic style is inspired by small joys and finding delight in the everyday. Notable clients include Friends of the Smithsonian, Trimet, Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Kula Cloth, and many local businesses. Amy enjoys offering watercolor workshops to local audiences and participating in markets around town.
Serena Yetter is an illustrator, puppet designer, fabricator, having done work for children's books, theme parks and animation studios. Drawing from her decade long career as a themed entertainment fabricator, Serena loves to make whimsical to absurd creatures and works of art with the hope to share the spark of imagination and wonder with others. Serena resides in Oregon where she plays with puppets at the animation studio, Laika, working on their latest film, "Wildwood".
Helen Robertson is a Portland, OR artist working in a variety of different mediums. Their art is inspired by animals, textiles, folk art, and music. Helen's style is pop art meets folk art by way of a DIY punk show and they love sharing art with others.
Maren Salomon was born in Hamburg, Germany and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Working across several mediums including printmaking and cut paper, her practice is largely an attempt to decompartmentalize and recenter our relationship to the natural world.
Cait is a multimedia crafter with a primary focus in glass and a passion for learning as many new skills as possible. Her approach to art comes from what Cait calls her "magpie heart": the spark of curiosity and joy evoked by the discovery of something new, unexpected, and (hopefully) shiny.