Emmeline Eao is a second-generation Cambodian- american who carries big love for print on paper, people, and food. She took her first steps as a visual artist in high school using her dad’s old Canon AE-1 film camera, and continues to use photo as a foundation for the print and collage work she does today. In 2015, she graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In recent years, she has organized with local groups, YGB and Tender Table to create experiences that center Black and brown joy and healing through story sharing, art, dance parties, and more.

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.

Christine Lewis is a Metro Councilor, representing District 2

Etosha Terryll has been a student of garbage for over a decade, ever since her first cell phone auto-corrected her name to Dumpia. She studied art and philosophy at Evergreen, drawing at Gage Academy and made/destroyed a big beautiful whale piñata during her art residency at Free Oakland UP. Her art consists of comics about real and fictional discard landscapes. She loves compost, messy gardens, trash art and circular economies. She currently serves on the board of Cracked Pots - an environmental non-profit that supports GLEAN.

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.