Ben Driggs

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Ben Driggs is a Chicago-based artist and construction worker interested in the nature of workmanship and the home as an artist built environment. His work often engages abstraction through the materials and processes of the building trades along with aluminum casting, coppersmithing, sun prints, mosaic and ceramics. At Alchemy Art Center he will be working toward making a ceramic tableware set for his home.

Learn more about Ben here.

Abigail Hendrix

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Photography

Abigail Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Hendrix holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Washington and an MFA in film from Emerson College, with emphasis on analog film, experimental media, and ethnography. Hendrix’s current artistic practice consists primarily of exploratory films and audiovisual installations, stemming from her parallel interests in folklore and expanded cinema.

Learn more about Abigail here.

Andy Thomas

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Photography and Video

Andy is a photographer and video/sound artist living in New Orleans. She enjoys playing with music for the emotions it celebrates, and can be found trying various methods of joining music with her personal and professional life. Her work includes music videos, abstract sensory video, and spatial audio experiments. Has many songs on deck to die to.

Learn more about Andy here.

Jo Becker

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Jo Becker is an artist from northern Indiana, now living and working in Washington State. Her work is inspired by history, the philosophy of consciousness, and a humanist approach to the divine. Through painting and printmaking, she seeks to create objects that offer opportunities for transcendence.

Learn more about Jo here.

Benji Hernandez

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Benji is a first generation Mexican-American potter based in Bellingham Washington. He primarily focuses on wheel thrown vessels intended for everyday use. As a student of clay, he is always striving to learn from the medium in hopes to create community around the art. Benji draws inspiration from his family’s roots in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Learn more about Benji here.

Laura M Cañas

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Laura’s mediums of choice are printmaking, comics, digital illustration and writing. Laura was born in Medellín, Colombia and her creative work is made from her perspective as a Latina and woman. Through her art she explores the themes of the feminine, gender violence, the power to heal, resilience and relationships within nature. She is also interested in the questioned relationship between Global North-South and economies. Currently, she is directing her career towards community art and maintaining her personal art practice.

Learn more about Laura here.

Maren Lamb

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Maren Lamb is a mixed media printmaker from Philadelphia, P.A, and earned her B.A. from Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. Her current work explores themes of mental illness, nature, and religion, and employs bright colors and densely layered textures. She is drawn to printmaking because of its tradition as the art form of social movements.

Coco Leeper

2024 Artist-in-Residence, Mixed media

Coco Leeper is a multi-disciplinary artist from San Francisco who plays with the boundaries between organic and human-made imagery. Coco has a passion for things that grow and the beauty of the natural world around her; native plants of California often weave in and out of her work like the fine threads. Her mediums include but are not limited to screenprinting, ceramics, tattooing, painting illustration, sewing, weaving, mending and stop animation.

Learn more about Coco here.

Sophie Stratyner

2024 Artist-in-Residence, printmedia

Sophie Stratyner is a fiber artist, printmaker, photographer, and traveler. Currently, Sophie lives on the road, working seasonally. Her work is shaped by the ever changing environments she finds herself in, utilizing natural pigments, found objects, and personal narratives to document internal and external landscapes.

Learn more about Sophie here.

Selden Paterson

2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Selden Paterson is an artist based in Chicago. She received a BFA in sculpture and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown locally and internationally. Her work deals with a wide range of ways that people build purpose and relate to the world around us, probing niche religious and wellness movements online and off as well as communal experiments old and new. 

Learn more about Selden here.

Julia Vidrio Nadbornik

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Photography

Julia is a young artist pursuing her BFA in photography from Arizona State University, who will be joining us in June as a photography artist-in-residence.  Julia works in a wide variety of photo darkroom techniques, including techniques that involve natural plant-based dyes.

Robert Summerlin

2023 Artist-in-Residence, Mixed Media

Rob is a multifaceted Bay Area-based artist working in illustration, filmmaking, writing, music, and more. He joins us this July as part of our outreach team.

Learn more about Rob here.

Joel Diepenbrock

2023 Artist-in-Residence, Special Projects

Joel is a Port Townsend-based potter and ceramicist who learned the ways of clay while living amongst the redwoods of coastal, northern California. Joel’s focus is on functional pottery. His work explores relationship between earth materials and humans, in hopes that his creations can be integrated into daily life, enriching the user’s experience through their presence and intentional use. 

Learn more about Joel here.

Charlie Bloede

2023 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Charlie Bloede holds a BFA in Printmaking from Kansas State University. Her work explores the historical context of beautification through the medium of printmaking. She is inspired by fashion, trends, and societal expectations. Her prints utilize a combination of techniques such as watercolor screen monoprint, woodblock, and etching. She cuts and folds the prints to create 3D elements, bringing the narratives to life.

Learn more about Charlie here.

Sarah Gonzales Busse

2023 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Sarah is a textile and print media artist based in San Antonio, TX. She is a Generation X artist, activist, Tejana futurist, advocate, and mother of three, whose work focuses on individuals as signifiers and paradoxes within the human condition. Her materials and approaches have ranged from painting, drawing, and sculpture, to more recently working with natural dyes and traditional methods on paper, print, and textile works, as she reacts to being an artist and mother in these times of evolving cultural narratives, performative digital living, and really dire global climate and economic uncertainties.

Learn more about Sarah here.

Camila Giraldo

20223 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Camila is a ceramics artist from Chicago, recently graduated from the University of Illinois in Chicago with a BA in Urban Studies. Camila’s family is Columbian, and she is fluent in Spanish and considers herself bi-cultural.  During her residency at Alchemy, Camila will be helping us provide Spanish language programming.

Learn more about Camila here.

Jenna Tessler

20223 Artist-in-Residence, Photography

is an artist working through her ideas in the mediums of photography, mixed media, and writing. Her art practice is influenced by her minor in expressive art therapy that emphasizes process over attaining a final product. Through artmaking, she aims to bearwitness to and further process her own experiences, especially ones that feel untouchable, difficult, or traumatic. Jenna earned her BFA in Photography in 2021 from Lesley’s School of Art & Design (formerly Art Institute of Boston, MA). She has assisted at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Photo Center Northwest.

Learn more about Jenna here.

Ananya Chiara Bernardo

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Ananya Chiara Bernardo is a visual artist from Silver Spring, Maryland, who studied printmaking at Guilford College in North Carolina. She is currently exploring a range of mediums, including printmaking, textiles, and ceramics. Her work uses bright colors to delve into personal growing pains as a means of expression.

Learn more about Ananya here.

Lenore Wan

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Lenore Wan is a multidisciplinary artist from Seattle working in the realms of ceramics and illustration. She loves to capture playful forms and colorful patterns in her work. She works spontaneously and loosely to capture the explorative process of art making.

Learn more about Lenore here.

Vince Cuadra

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia and Ceramics

Vince Cuadra is a queer-trans Costa Rican -Argentinian multimedia artist born and raised in the magical city of Miami. He creates playful and colorful work mostly focusing on identity, queer joy, nostalgia, social issues, and documentation. He makes art using a variety of media including clay, collage, painting, photography, video, and soft sculpture. 

Learn more about Vince here.

Emerald Vernon-Lapow

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Emerald Vernon-Lapow is a graphic designer, illustrator, musician, and artist. She lives in Berkeley, California and graduated from UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies.

Learn more about Emerald here.

Nicolai Otte

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Mixed Media

Nicolai Otte is a multi-disciplinary artist who working in collage, fiber arts, ceramics, building, and more. Nico loves to work with discarded materials and enjoys art that re-imagines waste.

After completing his residency, Nico joined the Alchemy team as Facilities Support as we build out our infrastructure!

Stephanie Roe

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Stephanie is a ceramics, jewelry, and metal artist. During her time at Alchemy, Stephanie participated in our Young Environmentalists Program, our Youth Mentorship Program, and created much of the bisque ware used during Paint Your Own Pottery activities throughout the next year.

Cozette Ellis

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Cozette is a painter, drawer, and printmaker from Northern California with a BFA in Design + Native American studies from the University of California, Davis. During her residency, she spent her time learning ceramics and experimenting with new printmaking techniques. She is inspired by the human body in all its forms, especially incorporated with color and pattern.

After completing her residency, Cozette joined the Alchemy team as our Outreach Coordinator!

Learn more about Cozette here.

Casey Reagan

2021 Artist-in-Residence, Special Projects

Casey is an artist, traveler, and adventurer, originally from California. Casey works in various mediums, including ceramics, printmaking, and illustration. During her residency, Casey built a cement geodesic dome, part of Alchemy’s infrastructural development.

After completing her residency, Casey joined the Alchemy team as the Ceramics Studio Manager!

Learn more about Casey here.

Tamara Matheson

2021 Artist-in-Residence, ceramics

Tamara Matheson is a Seattle based ceramics artist. During her time at Alchemy, Tamara participated in our artist in community program.

Learn more about Tamara here.

James DeRosso

2021 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

James has been teaching monster making for years in classrooms and private venues. He loves seeing all ages having fun creating a clay creature from their imagination. His studio is in the heart of SE Portland and he sells his work at art shows and galleries in the northwest.

Learn more about James here.

Kendall Jones

2021 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Kendall is a figurative ceramic sculptor interested in surreal human and animal forms. Based in Vancouver Washington, she recently completed a residency in Puebla, Mexico where she developed a continuing series exploring the cycles of life, aging, death and rebirth through masks.

Learn more about Kendall here.

Katey Rissi

2021 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Katey Rissi is a Pacific Northwest-based printmaker and textile artist. Her work explores themes related to enchantment, rewilding, and time. She teaches classes in printmaking, natural dyeing, and other topics at the intersection of art and ecology.

Katey participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2021 and 2022.

After completing her residency, Katey joined the Alchemy team as the Class Coordinator and Print Studio Manager!

Learn more about Katey here.

Amy Simons

2021 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Amy Simons is an American artist who has lived in the Midwest, Northwest, and now the Southwest. Her current research explores monotypes on handmade paper, often incorporating textiles as physical components, inky ghosts or deep embossments. Amy holds a BFA in ceramics from the University of Washington and an MFA in printmaking at Arizona State University.

Learn more about Amy here.

Patty Abel

2021 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Patricia Abel is a ceramic artist and teacher originally from San Jose, California, now based in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a BA in Humanities, Society and Culture and has been teaching wheel-throwing and hand-building for two years at Terra Ceramics, an international studio in Prague.

Learn more about Patty here.

Maya Noga Djiji

2021 Artist-in-Residence, ceramics and printmaking

Maya Djiji is a visual artist from California who loves exploring different mediums, and makes work with ceramics, textiles, glass, printmaking, and more. Her work touches on the playful nature of magic, the delicate beauty of life, and the intricacies of death.

Maya participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2021 and 2022.

Learn more about Maya here.

Andrea Becker

2020 Artist-in-Residence, Photography

Andrea is a Boulder, CO-based writer and a photographer, with foci on documentary style photography and narrative/storytelling in poetry and prose.

Learn more about Andrea here.

Leah Sullivan Yost

2020 Artist-in-residence, Ceramics

Leah Sullivan Yost, aka Sulli, is a recent graduate of MIT who has been working in clay for over half a decade in various art studios around the world, including in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Washington, and Copenhagen.

Sulli participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Learn more about Sulli here.

Katy Collier

2019 Artist-in-Residence, printmedia

Katy Collier is an artist and instructor based in Greensboro, North Carolina. She has expertise in a number of printmaking techniques, including relief, etching, monoprints, and screenprinting. She has taught at numerous universities and institutions nationally.

Katy participated in Alchemy’s AIR program in 2019 and 2022.

Learn more about Katy here.

Tess Malijenovsky

2019 artist-in-Residence, photography

Tess Malijenovsky is a photographer and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She is drawn to using alternative darkroom photography techniques to create images inspired by the liminal space between the environment, the feminine, and consciousness. Tess is a freelance creative with a background in environmental journalism and nonprofit communication.

Learn more about Tess here.

Anjanette Rosas Garcia

2019 Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Anjanette Rosas Garcia is a Colorado-based arts educator and wilderness guide. She teaches to help students build a deeper connection to themselves, their community, and nature. During Anjanette’s residency, she supported our community outreach programming.

Learn more about Anjanette here.

Kendra Efker

2019 Artist-in-Residence, Ceramics

Kendra Efker is a Missouri-based arts educator. During Kendra’s residency, she worked in the ceramics studio, creating pottery and other functional ceramics.

ANDY FULLER

2018 Artist-in-Residence, Sculpture

Born in Quito, Ecuador, Andrew Miguel Fuller lives and works in Oakland, California. Raised over both North and South America, his work reflects the dreamlike experience of the outsider in his own country. Holding a degree in the study of Society and Environment, his artwork often poses questions of the psychological distance between the human animal and the larger planet on which we live.

Nikki Barber

Seasonal Artist-in-Residence, Printmedia

Nikki Barber is a printmaker, teaching artist, and instructor. She loves traveling and translating little moments of journeying into a 2-D print. Nikki has taught drypoint etching, watercolor monotypes, and more during her short seasonal residencies at Alchemy.

Learn more about Nikki here.