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Artist Statements/Bios

Rachael Chambers:

Rachael Chambers is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist who works primarily with oil paints and textiles. Her expressive use of color and fluorescent details highlights the intersection of joy and reverence, while amplifying the importance of everyday moments. Inspired by the expressive style of the fauvists and post-impressionists, she uses hue to create vivid, high-contrast images that explore the value of curiosity and the price of apathy: “It is a defiant and deliberate act to find moments of joy in the mundane.” Her work has been seen in shows within the Inland Northwest, including Terrain’s flagship show and other group shows within the region.

Ayla Pomare:

Ayla Pomare is a digital artist and 3D modeler obsessed with how the human mind stagnates and degrades, whether by external or internal influences. Pomare’s work sloughs off symbology, treating long-standing visual interpretations like toys scattered in fresh mud. Breaking these traditions feels freeing to her and purges some of the disdain she’s received for not being up to various religions and organizations’ standards. Limited color palettes nestled geometric patterns, and an adoration of reflected light show up in most of Pomare’s work. She makes art in tandem with her writing, hoping to one day publish self-illustrated books that relieve and invigorate people who’ve weathered traumatic life circumstances. While she’s not a graduated professional yet, she hopes to emigrate to Scotland with her girlfriend Grace and make art to pair with their surrealist poetry endeavors.

Genevieve Curry:

Genevieve Curry is a twenty-three-year-old, multimedia artist who is based in eastern Washington. Curry plans to graduate in Summer 2025 with her bachelor’s in fine art accompanied by minors in visual culture and design. Her art practice stands out due to her attention to detail and tactful simplicity. Curry simplifies intricate concepts through metaphor and symbolism using form, line, and color. She has been known to work with a variety of mediums, although most of her pieces are created through digital means and oil painting. Influenced by her lived experiences, Curry’s most recent works have explored grief, memory, and self-perception. Curry highlights difficult topics within her pieces, such as debilitating mental illness. Specifically, depression and anxiety are recurring themes within these works, as these illnesses are ever-present within the artists’ life. It is her goal to destigmatize the struggles of such disabilities and provide those without such disorders a window into their burden.

Cheryl Frostad:

Cheryl Frostad is a queer, multidisciplinary artist raised in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She currently resides in Spokane, Washington, and is working towards her BFA from Eastern

Washington University. Frostad began her art career at North Idaho College where she earned an Associate of Arts degree. Having grown up as a queer woman in a town that harbors far-right conservatism and neo-Nazi hate, she witnessed and experienced hate crimes. Human rights activism became central to her life and her work. She has collaborated on local community murals, used art to engage the public at EWU’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women event, and continues to use art for activism. Frostad draws inspiration from nature and her study of Native American history to explore topics of spirituality and human connectedness through drawing, painting, weaving, and sculpture.

Merry Green:

Ridiculed as a child for not coloring inside the lines, Merry Green has integrated her rebellious spirit into her art. Being a woman who has travelled and lived in three of the four quadrants of the United States, Merry has experienced life through many lenses. As a result, art has captured and enveloped her with streams of creative consciousness that she expresses with mixed-media pieces that include paintings, sculptures, and prints. Through the use of bright colors, intelligent discourse, and spiritual themes, Merry challenges the accepted norms of the art world. Currently living in Spokane, Washington, Merry earned her BFA from Eastern Washington University, which has enhanced her ability to impact the world with thoughtful and meaningful artworks.

Addison Hansen Addison Hansen is a multimedia artist who specializes in printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and earthworks. Her hope is to challenge people to think deeper about their connection to the Earth, its environment, and to encourage the creation of community in spaces where there is none. She finds inspiration in the rivers, lakes and oceans and their reminder to flow with the natural tide of expansion. She was raised by the Columbia River and the eagles who soar above her waters. She considers the land to be her greatest teacher and believes that the most important lessons are learned through listening to our natural world.

Ari Hoskinson:

Ari Hoskinson is an artist enthralled by the strange and sepulchral. As a lover of all things lost and forgotten, Hoskinson’s most prized possessions are her typewriter and mezzotint rocker. She creates dark illustrations of the stories and poems she writes using various printmaking methods, namely mezzotint and monoprinting. Her work explores themes of grief, absence, and generational trauma. She is set to graduate with her BFA in studio art from Eastern Washington University in June 2025.

Alyssa Kamp:

Alyssa Kamp is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Spokane Valley Washington. She uses methods of photography, video, ceramics and non-traditional means

of manipulating materials with the use of found objects to translate her passion for environmental conservation, preservation of natural resources, and eco consciousness. Alyssa has a deep passion for psychology, which informs the thoughtful and humanitarian-centered approach she brings to both her creative and community-focused endeavors. She uses her knowledge of the human psyche to understand connections amongst the mind, the body, the community, and our mother earth all as a collective whole to translate her visions to her audience through immersive experiences.

She has created a permanent public work in the office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Eastern Washington University, located in Patterson Hall. Her work has been seen in shows within the Inland Northwest at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center (GUUAC), Spokane, Washington. Eastern Washington University’s Creative Work Symposium (2024), as well as multiple appearances in the JFK Memorial Library, Secrist Gallery Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington.

Marisa Meneses:

Marisa Meneses is a multidisciplinary artist who likes to capture moments with her camera, by producing sculptures, and installing her work. Until her first year at Eastern Washington University, she had never taken a photography class but had dabbled in sculpture her freshman year at Washington State University. She had never imagined she would have so much control in creating such beautiful pieces of artwork on how they looked, felt, and were discovered. Marisa loves diving deep into the personal experiences that many people suffer from, whether they are mental health emergencies or unfortunate life happenings. She has gone through much trauma but refuses to stay quiet about it. Marisa’s creative outlet is her art. Unfortunately, so many people have gone through what Marisa has gone through, but she uses her art not to be silent but to bring awareness to things that need to be highlighted. She wants people to look at her art and either have them relate to it or leave them speechless. Marisa wants whoever her audience is to feel moved by her work and be blown away so that she, no matter what the incident is, remains alive after all she has been through.

Jacquelyn Walker:

Jacquelyn Walker is a figurative artist exploring the architecture of the human body and its relationship to itself and place. After making a career pivot and seeking a new path, Jacquelyn found her passion in the art world. Using a variety of media, both in 2D and 3D works, she seeks to explore the ways humans are influenced by the structure of society, how this influences the body, and where these tensions manifest. Jacquelyn sees the human fascial system as a metaphor for this exploration and draws comparisons with architecture and failing infrastructures. She wants her audience to question their place in society and the intrinsic value that all humans have. Living in the Pacific Northwest, Jacquelyn has participated in several group shows in galleries such as Terrain 14 and Gonzaga University Urban Art Center as well as nationally at the Indy Art Center and Artlink Contemporary gallery. She will be furthering her art education by pursuing a Masters of Fine Art at Washington State University.