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Rosana Ybarra is an interdisciplinary artist currently preoccupied with:

deep conditioning and the ways in which systems of power / control become internalized,

expelling internalized systems via counter methods,

unlearning cultural hegemony.

failing at the above.

redefining success.

Samiya Bashir’s books of poetry, Field Theories (Spring 2017), Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls, and anthologies, including Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, exist. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. She lives in Portland, Ore, with a magic cat who shares her obsessions with trees and blackbirds and occasionally crashes her classes and poetry salons at Reed College.

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Julie Perini makes experimental and documentary videos and films. Her short-form personal works are autobiographical, self-reflective, and expressive. Her documentary feature films are produced within and alongside contemporary social movements. You might like to treat yourself to a peak at her daily & monthly video project, the Minute Movies. She is co-director, with Jodi Darby and Erin Yanke, of the documentary feature film, Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2015) distributed by Collective Eye Films.

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#pure surface #noelle stiles #veronica martin #chris lael larson

As a dance artist, Noelle Stiles is interested in how and where experience is held in the body. This interest provides a framework for extracting the corporeal language that both intimately connects and individuates us. The anchor of the body as the site of investigation allows for conversations between a multitude of disciplines within her work. She is currently an Alembic Artist in Residence at Performance Works NW.

Veronica Martin is a writer and poet, living in Portland, Oregon. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Poor Claudia, Design Week Portland, Kinfolk and Tin House's The Open Bar, among others. Currently at work on a book-length essay about pockets, she writes frequently about aesthetics and counts photography as an extension of her writing life.

Chris Lael Larson is an multi-disciplinary artist and photographer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He has shown/performed works in over 30 cities across the US with notable showings at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art and The Portland Art Museum. Chris has art directed projects for clients including Nike, Apple, Facebook, Sony, Target and Old Spice.

Kelly Rauer is an artist who experiments with video, movement, sound, installation and performance. She was included in the PORTLAND2014 Biennial of Contemporary Art presented by Disjecta and has traveled and presented work in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Berlin, Germany. She is currently enjoying various performative collaborations across genres, club dancing, techno music and is learning how to build analog synthesizers.

claire barrera is an artist, educator and mother based in Portland, Oregon. Upcoming projects include (Un)Made YOU with Performance Works Northwest and When Language Runs Dry, a zine anthology to be published by Mend My Dress Press in 2016.

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A.M. O’Malley lives in Portland, OR where she is the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her writing has appeared in Nailed Magazine, Poor Claudia and The Burnside Review, among other publications. Expecting Something Else, her first full-length book of poems is out in early 2016.

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Sam Pirnak is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR.

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Renee Sills is an artist, performer, and educator. She synthesizes techniques for physical conditioning, kinesthetic and emotional awareness, and improvisation to create collaborative and evolving choreographies that seek to both express and understand questions of purpose, power and politics. www.reneesills.com

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Christopher Rose is originally from Seattle by way of Subic Bay in Philippines and San Diego. His work explores the intersection of the Filipino and Black Diasporas and he’s recently been published in Crabfat, Fjords Review: Black American Edition, The Watering Hole Anthology and The Pariahs Anthology. He teaches creative writing, composition, and literature at Portland Community College and is a Jade-Midway District Artist-in-Residence in Portland, Oregon.

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