Kimberly Trowbridge is a painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory. She received an MFA from the University of Washington (2006) and a BFA in Painting / BA in English Literature from Indiana University (2003). Her first solo museum show at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (2021) was developed during her time as Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve (2018-2020), a 150-acre garden amid an old growth forest. Recently, Trowbridge was a resident at Jentel Artist Residency, in Wyoming (2022). She is currently developing work in the PNW and the Mojave Desert. She is currently writing her first book on color. Trowbridge completed a Facebook Open Arts commission (2021), and was Artist in Residence at Oxbow, Seattle. She is a two-time Neddy Award Finalist (2014, 2016), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She is the Director of The Modern Color Atelier, a multi-year painting program at Gage Academy of Art, Seattle. She has led plein-air painting tours in Spain, Portugal, and Twisp, WA. Learn more about Kimberly here.

Catherine Alice Michaelis has been making artists’ books, prints, and broadsides for over 30 years. Her recent works, inspired by a Creative Residency at Bloedel in 2021, are printed with the natural shapes of wood rounds and slabs. As Michaelis came to know the flora and fauna of Bloedel, her engagement with the land led to a deep feeling of belonging. As conditioned messaging that separates humans from nature fell away, her wood prints came to life and began to document her transformation. Michaelis often works with vintage linens, natural dyes, and subversive stitching. Both caring for the home and stitching are roles relegated to women in many cultures, exploiting their (mostly) unpaid labor. Michaelis incorporates these textiles to bring visibility and value to the creative power women have always held. Michaelis has collaborated with scientists, writers, visual artists, and musicians. In 1999 she organized the invitational print portfolio Stack the Deck: 18 Artists Mark the Cards for Women’s Health & Healing. Catherine has been collected by over 100 public institutions, and she was featured in the PBS series Craft in America in their “Nature” episode, in 2017. Learn more about Catherine here. 

Artist and educator Byron Au Yong (歐陽良仁) creates events Variety calls “intimate and existential, personal and political all at once.” He was born to Chinese immigrants in Pittsburgh and raised in the Pacific Northwest. His upbringing informs an attention to the ways people gather to listen and connect with the places they call home. Examples include Activist Songbook, to counteract hate and energize movements (Asian Arts Initiative, Hopkins Center for the Arts, International Festival of Arts & Ideas), The Ones, a.k.a. (Be)longing, a.k.a. Trigger, about coming of age in an age of guns (Virginia Tech Center for the Arts, MDC Live Arts), Piano Concerto—Houston, for 11 pianists (University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts), and Turbine, for more than 80 moving singers along the water (Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Leah Stein Dance Company). The Seattle Weekly says his “interdisciplinary works are as exquisite and imaginative as they are unclassifiable.” Honors include a Creative Capital Award and Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation Fellowship. Au Yong holds degrees in theater, dance, and music from NYU, UCLA, and the University of Washington. He is an Associate Professor and Director of Arts Leadership at Seattle University. Learn more about Byron here.