Katey Rissi

Danielle Dean

Katey Rissi is an artist, educator, medicine maker, and activist. Her art making practice is interdisciplinary and shifts between printmaking, illustration, collage, natural sculpture, textiles, and photography. Themes present in her work include ancestral skills, ecology, environmental grief, ancestor work, unsettling/ decolonization, and what it means to be connected to community and place.
Rissi holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University with a focus in Photography and Printmaking. She will be living and working at Alchemy Art Center for the month of August- check out our class page for information on her workshop!

Danielle Dean is an artist, educator, and curator based on San Juan Island. She received an MFA in photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her work is included in public and private collections throughout the country.
“I want my work to inhabit the threshold between vastness and intimacy. I am interested in working with the dimensional space of photography in new ways by combining traditional photographic techniques with painting, printmaking, and small sculptures. My images begin with black and white film exposed through antiquated lenses. The old optics allow the light and atmosphere to impress themselves on the silver of the film. With the steel and lead sculptures, I am working in collaboration with the sea and earth of the island to patina the objects. The work is about light, the elements, the alchemy of nature and chance.”