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ALLESON BUCHANAN: SHE BENDS

Sydney Cummings2022-01-18T14:03:36-08:00

“It was neon’s powerful glow that hooked me-but the fire is what sealed my fate,” these are the words that our next She Bends artist highlight, Alleson Buchanan said as she was describing her love for neon. HOW IT STARTED Alleson’s love for neon began when she was an undergrad at Cascade College in Portland. She saw artist Joseph Kosuth's "Five Words in Orange Neon" at the Portland Art Museum. Alleson was immediately “drawn to the glow.” “There was a palpable magnetism...

BROOKE BARTTELBORT: SHE BENDS

Sydney Cummings2021-12-02T06:05:49-08:00

Our next artist highlight is Brooke Barttelbort.  Brooke is a cat-mom to Whisky and plant-mom to her ever-growing collection of plants, she is a lover of museums but also street art, and enjoys a good spooky movie or haunted house (perfect timing for this blog), as she is a Halloween baby. When Brooke isn’t bending glass, she loves to travel and take photographs of her adventures.  You can find her listening to true crime, hanging out in a tiki bar,...

JESS KRICHELLE: SHE BENDS

Sydney Cummings2021-08-19T10:42:23-08:00

This week we are proud to highlight neon artist Jess Krichelle! Jess has been fabricating neon since 2018 and since then has thrown herself in the fires, literally and figuratively speaking, to learn all that she can about the physics and art form of all things neon. HER WORK/COMMUNITY “I am fascinated by the natural world being destroyed and replaced by humans and technology,” Jess said. “I wanted to create my very own dystopian portrayal of an electrified waterfall surrounded by...