June: New Members Exhibition & Tobe Harvey
EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, June 5th – Saturday, June 27th
OPENING RECEPTION: 1st Friday Reception - June 5th, 2026 5:00 – 8:00 - Free and open to the public
GALLERY HOURS: Fridays 12:00 – 8:00 PM (except day of exhibit opening) & Saturdays 12:00 – 8:00 PM
EAST GALLERY EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION: New Members Exhibit: Krista Brand, Olivia Evans, Nancy Ocegueda, Azadeh Walker
Krista Brand is an artist, curator, and educator who works across ceramics, painting, installation, drawing, digital design, and artist books. Her work is rooted in sensory experience and the practice of slow looking. Combining handmade objects, found materials, and symbolic forms, she creates points of contact between interior landscapes, changing weather patterns, consumption, and collapse. Brand has exhibited across the country and regularly collaborates with other artists. She recently co-curated a pacific northwest emerging artist exhibition at Moscow Contemporary (Moscow, ID) and has been a four-time juror with Photolucida (Portland, OR). Krista teaches in the Department of Art at Washington State University.
Olivia Evans is a grant-awarded, multidisciplinary visual artist, producer, and owner of Mama Wolf Media in Spokane, WA. Working in photography, drawing, film, experimental video & projection, and beadwork, her work is heavily influenced by motherhood, nature, subconscious, and personal experiences - intertwining traditional and digital media to create narratives of the self. All these influences echo her background as a Black/ Italian/ Native woman. She holds a BFA Degree and Film Minor from Eastern WA University (2018).
As a consulting producer at The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, she elevates marginalized communities through film. She consults with orgs such as Spokane Arts, Artist Trust, Yoyot Sp’q’n’i, Carl Maxey Center, Elk Soup, WA Filmworks, Spark Central, SFCC, and SRDVC. Her work has been featured in the INT’L All Media Exhibition ‘22, various other group exhibitions, and has been interviewed by KXLY, Krem 2, & KHQ. Today, she expands her art practice, such as directing The Root Experience: Living Cultures of Art, Music & Soul and it’s attached non-profit, grant & film paneling, modeling, participating on boards & committees, and as Adjunct Art Professor at Whitworth & Gonzaga Universities.
Nancy Ocegeuda is an artist, community organizer, and art educator who recently moved to Spokane, WA from the Mojave Desert in California. Her art reflects the “making something out of nothing” sensibility that “rasquachismo” (rha-skwa-chee-smo) art, a chicano art movement of the late 1980s, was. She often uses found materials to expand the canvas. Mixing printmaking, sculpture, or painting to express a visual conversation of lived experiences, cultural, and spiritual symbologies, and social commentary. Her strong community engagement and organizing background encourages her to find opportunities for activism in art and ways to engage community participation.
Azadeh Weber is an Iranian-American artist and psychologist who uses paint, mixed media, performance art, and poetry to translate experiences and universal truths into pro-social forms. She thrives when creating at the intersection of heritage arts, contemporary expressions, current events, and principles of healthy identity.
Azadeh owns a private psychological practice and teaches circus arts in the Republic School District. Previously, she ran an art therapy program in the Palo Alto Unified School District and produced heritage arts workshops for refugees and immigrants from the Greater Middle East to increase resilience. She was recently awarded a grant from Humanities Washington to 3-D print jewelry based on Islamic Geometries, apprenticing under her father, an architect with over 50 years of experience. Azadeh's art has been exhibited in various places across California and Washington.
WEST GALLERY EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION: Tobe Harvey, Recent Work
Tobe Harvey’s recent work displays his experiments with design, digital art, sequential art, installation, and painting.
