Artists in Residence 2022
A Culmination of the 2021-2022 Artists in Residence
February 22 – March 26, 2022
Art for Lunch Artist Talk Recording Below
Virtual “Meet the Artists”
Caroline Feyling
Caroline Feyling is a textile artist living in Oregon. She received her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Caroline creates functional Scandinavian-style weavings that bridge the gap between the contemporary and tradition, as well as the distance between heritage and daily life.
Her current work consists of home textiles, directly inspired by the Norwegian pillows and blankets of her grandmother, which Caroline recalls from her childhood. She produces multiples of her pieces, allowing her work to live in the homes of many and preserve their domestic function. Distribution of these heritage objects allows her to share the grounding practice of using heirlooms with others.
Jessica Rehfield
Jessica Rehfield (she/they) is an artist originally from southeast Alaska. As a Jewish-American artist, her work explores what it means to be a minority under Christian hegemony and a target of white supremacy. Jessica’s current work explores identity issues in a children’s book, featuring colorful acrylic paintings, with basic Yiddish vocabulary and phrases. This work is offered to celebrate and engage the marginalized culture of Jewish-Americans and to counter antisemitism by sharing Jewish language, Yiddish roots, and customs and foodways, such as matzoh ball soup. Jessica earned a BLA in Art from the University of Alaska Southeast in 2006 and an MFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2019. She lives in Salem, Oregon, on the unceded lands of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and The Confederated Tribes of Siletz, with her fiancée, a giant cat and at least two matzoh balls.
Morgan Barnett
Morgan Barnett is a painter and botanist living in the Willamette Valley. She holds a Bachelor of Science in natural resources from Oregon State University. Previously only working in ceramics, Morgan started painting in 2013 in a studio art class and immediately fell in love with the mark making process and meditative aspect of working with paint. Morgan’s work is informed by her daily life and passions of plant ecology, mushroom foraging, and herbalism. Her work often communicates the relationship between place and emotion.
Currently, Morgan’s work focuses on personal symbolism around homemaking, subconscious narratives, and synchronicities through botanical imagery and semi-surreal landscapes utilizing acrylic paint, watercolor, or oil + cold wax. Morgan often incorporates hand-gathered pigments from plants, minerals, and fungi from around Oregon in their work, in order to involve snapshots of the ecosystems being depicted into the work itself.
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