Mia Reiko Braverman is part of the development team at The Right Brain Initiative (a program of the Regional Arts & Culture Council) as well as an installation and paper arts artist.

Christine Clark is an artist living and working in Portland OR. Her work focuses on public art, installation art and abstract sculpture in steel, steel wire and mixed materials. She is a former Professor and Head of the Metals department at Oregon College of Art and Craft. Clark is a member of the Nine Gallery, an alternative art gallery that exhibits experimental and installation-based work and is co-owner of Ninety Twenty Studios, a maker/education space in Portland.

Ryan Burghard gives new meanings to familiar objects and explores the value of serendipitous moments in our daily lives. Often employing mundane materials, his slight and seemingly invisible gestures question the nature of our relationships; both universal and personal, to time and to notions we have of permanence and impermanence. In his work, simple objects encourage contemplation and he suggests that complexity can be found in moments we often dismiss as banal.

Pepe Moscoso is a Portland-based visual artist, creative consultant, arts producer and lawyer. He coordinates Lente Movil, a multimedia art projects that brings together education, inclusion, personal narrative, the exploration of identity, diversity and storytelling in a variety of forms.

2019 GLEAN artist Miel-Margarita Paredes is a metalsmith, jewelry maker and stop-motion puppet skeleton builder. She was born in Suva, Fiji, where her neighbors owned a pig named Houdini because of his frequent attempts to escape into the mangrove swamp. She lives with her husband, two children, two cats, six fish and is growing a wildflower garden outside her home studio window in Portland, Oregon.

Elise Guidoux serves on the board of environmental arts nonprofit crackedpots, a GLEAN partner. She has a degree in fine arts and is passionate about reuse, recycling and scavenging.

Christine Lewis is a Metro Councilor, representing District 2

Deborah Munk is the manager of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology. She was instrumental in bringing the GLEAN program to Portland in 2010.

Leslie Vigeant is the GLEAN Program Manager, and was in the inaugural round of GLEAN artists in 2011.