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Portland drummer Elly Swope on making collaborations work, leveraging neurodivergence as a creative asset, and finding passion in music again after the onset of the COVID pandemic.

Painter, teacher, and creative mentor Annamieka Davidson on getting started with a professional art career, making botanical paintings, and finding new avenues for social support for artists.

Visual journalist and author Sarah Mirk on representing marginalized voices as a method of writing future historic records.

Collage artist Laura Weiler on visual composition, working with texture, line, color, form, and placement, image sourcing, and developing a narrative for an art piece.

Writer and doodler Kate Zipse on her two full-length illustrated children’s books: "Squishing the Squash" and "Lighting the Garden".

Artist and activist Michael Bui on self-expression, social practice as art, and living a free and creative life.