Greenhouse Artists In Residence
Our Artist in Residency (AIR) program is an 8-month residency for artists who want to dive deeper into their artistic practice while in community with others.
Tamara Murphy
@godspajamas
Tamara Murphy is a contemporary mixed media artist based in Northern California. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art from Chico State University in 2022 with an emphasis in ceramics and glass while sustaining a 3-year neon apprenticeship with artist Patrick Collentine.
Tamara has produced a wide variety of functional and sculptural works ranging from small blown glass forms to large ceramic floor lamps and furniture. Her work combines brutalist minimal design with playful, intuitive expression. She uses locally collected materials such as clay, sand, and agricultural waste in her work to build narratives about our ecological and emotional connections to home.
Tamara was an Archie Bray Summer Resident in 2023 and is a lecturer at Chico State University while exhibiting work around the western United States.
AINA SMART TRUCO
My name is Aina and I am an artist, land tender, nature educator, and a dedicated student of life. I grew up in the heat of Davis, Ca, where delusional academic pressures and the disconnection of wealth molded me into an anxious freak who likes to sweat and lay in the sun. I am queer and here, a nerd for stories, an obsessed athlete, and an emotional fish out of water.
My professional artwork is in illustration and graphic design, where I've focused on stories of connection, community, love, magic, and the earth. I'm intentional with my art, whether creating a thoughtful gift for a friend or designing an image to support political projects within anti-oppression movements.
My non-professional artwork is in roller skate dancing, sketching, crafting, dressing up, cooking, growing food, embroidery, writing and more!
Jess Chang
Jess Cheng is an interdisciplinary artist who works in clay, fiber, and installation. They immigrated to the US at three years old and grew up in rural Arkansas as the sole person of Asian descent in their class. They first worked with clay while studying Mechanical Engineering in southern California in 2014
Since moving to Seattle in 2018, Jess has shown work locally at Columbia City Gallery, Kirkland Art Center, and Good Earth Pottery; and nationally at Arrowmont, Iridian Gallery, and Core Clay in Cincinnati. They have assisted workshops at the Penland School of Craft and Archie Bray Foundation. Jess taught long-form classes at Saltstone and Pottery Northwest before establishing their own teaching business in 2023.
In their personal practice, Jess works with clay and natural materials with special emphasis on invasive species. Their sculptural work explores themes of nurture, suffering, and transformation. They currently teach at Reclaim Clay Collective.
Margaret Seelie
Portfolio: seeliestudio.com
Margaret Seelie is a natural dyer and textile artist based in San Francisco. Her work is about elevating alchemy in a digital and detached world and climate justice by way of Indigenous knowledge.
Seelie’s work with natural dyes has shifted from terrestrial sources to oceanic hues created by the purple sea urchins that overpopulate California’s marine ecosystem (strongylocentrotus purpuratus), kelp, saltwater, and other coastal elements.
She is the founder of Seelie Studio, a natural dye company, and the zine Seawitches. She has a BA in art and design from DePaul University and an MFA in writing from Mills College. Her artwork has been showcased in various solo and group exhibitions in California since 2022.
She has taught natural dye workshops since 2012 for clients like San Francisco Public Libraries, OpenAI, The Sea Ranch, and more. Her next solo show, Altars, opens on February 2, 2025, at Gospel Flat Farmstand Gallery in Bolinas, California.
Isabel Dubois
@ isabel_dubois
Isabel is a veggie farmer and elementary school garden educator who is devoted to community care, food sovereignty, and joy as a survival strategy out on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. They are an apprentice of astrology, druidic herbalism, fermentation, water and soil. She is a casual knitter,beginner potter, loves to create doodles and color filled stories alongside and wants to learn how to make giant puppets.
Queerness and the work of re-connecting to body, land, food, spirit has supported them to build networks of care and resilience. She is the organizer of free community meals that use and distribute food from local farms that would otherwise be tilled into the ground or composted to serve delicious meals and build integral connections. One of their passions is using what is in abundance and making it accessible to their community.
Gina Rae La Cerva
@hey_gina_rae
Gina Rae La Cerva is a writer, painter, and researcher originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first book, Feasting Wild, explores the diversity of wild edibles and their relationship to the evolution of human consciousness and culture, as well as the role of women in environmental conservation. Her work often explores the intersection of art and science. La Cerva has researched tsunamis in Indonesia, crossed the Pacific Ocean on a sailboat, and traced the wild meat trade from the forests of the Congo Basin to the streets of Paris. She has spent the last few years renovating an old mud house
Elizabeth Rivera
Elizabeth Rivera is a queer Filipina, interdisciplinary performance artist, cultural weaver, educator and community activist. Her work encompasses singing, music producing, and dancing. She creates eclectic experiences to unravel truths of our realities through the exploration of mind, body, and Spirit drawing on inspiration from Mother Earth, indigenous wisdom, and her lived experience.
She’s a co-founder of SOULIDARITY WAVE, a Bay Area music and dance performance collective bringing together a community of world artists and activists utilizing music to amplify the voices of marginalized BIPOC people, through original songs combining Hip-Hop, Neo-Soul, Jazz, and World music, addressing issues of Climate Justice, Indigenous rights, Education Access, Immigrant and Migrant Rights, and Third World Liberation. Most recently, she produced Babalik: Return, a one-day intercultural and intergenerational community activation focused on healing, empowerment, and reconnection to Mother Earth, our bodies, and one another, through music and dance, and indigenous wisdom.
Her activist work and artistic creations draw from her experiences working with the Anakbayan USA, Kabataan Alliance, Bangka Indigenous Canoe Journey, Seventh Native American Generation Magazine, and the NEST Indigenous Arts and Cultural Center. She holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies, and Dance minor from UC Berkeley.