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Krista Caballero was born in San Luis Obispo, CA. This summer she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and was recently included in the exhibitions, “Engineering Eden” at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania and “This is Not Happening” at the Mills Gallery in Boston. In 2009 she graduated with her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Art/Tufts University where she worked with video, performance, sculpture and installation art. While at Caldera she will continue her exploration into the technologies of land use and arts potential to generate new relational and ecological landscapes.

Heather Watkins is a visual artist whose studio practice includes experimental forms of drawing and printmaking, book arts, installation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her current work explores the physical and metaphorical language of fibers, focusing on ideas of entanglement and tension. At Caldera, she will work on large scale drawings combining thread and ink. She has shown her work in group and solo exhibitions, recently at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Nine Gallery, and PDX Contemporary Art’s Window Project in Portland. She received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and from 2002-09, held a full-time faculty appointment at Lewis & Clark College.

Vanessa Renwick
Oregon Department of Kick Ass
http://www.odoka.org
Founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass
Daughter of the American Revolution
Born 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. Film / Video / Installation artist. Lives in Portland, Oregon. A filmmaker by nature, not by stress of research. She puts scholars to rout by solving through Nature’s teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, she produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. She is a naturalist, born, not made : a true barefoot, cinematic rabblerouser, of grand physique, calm pulse and a magnetism that demands the most profound attention.
Represented by PDX Contemporary Art

Jin Lee is a Chicago-based photographer whose work explores the spaces between real and imagined places.  At Caldera, she will be working on a book of photographs about transitory landscapes.  Her works are included in the permanent collections at the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Madison Art Center, and Museum of Contemporary Photography.   She has been awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2005, and is currently a Professor of Art at Illinois State University. She is represented by devening projects + editions in Chicago.  www.jinslee.net

Cara Spooner has been involved in many performance and installation work as both a performer and choreographer. Her interest in site-specific work, Butoh, performance art, daily practices and mapping has led her to present work at XPACE Cultural Centre, Nuit Blanche, HATCH at the Harbourfront Centre and the Festival of New Dance.
Alicia Grant Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Alicia Grant is a graduate of the York University BFA dance program. Now based in Toronto, her collaborative work with Cara Spooner has been presented at LadyFest, Nuit Blanche, XPACE Cultural Centre and the Festival of New Dance. In summer 2009,  Alicia  was  artist-in-residence at  CESTA  in Tabor,  Czech Republic.

“We are Cara Spooner and Alicia Grant; we are a collaborative artistic team. Our work includes making films, installations, curated events, subtle interventions and performances.  Although our work follows the form of performance art, we come from a contemporary dance lineage and integrate the physicality of our dance background into our practice and conceptual performances.  We are motivated by the questions: “What is possible?” and “What does it mean for the audience to have a physical experience?” We collaboratively create art that amplifies, distorts and/or frames the everyday. We draw attention to disparate details like personal space, contemporary mythology, architecture of food courts and how fast cars can actually move with dances, installations and question and answer periods. Our interdisciplinary collaborations unpack the notion of artist as social being into a relational art practice. Here is our current project blog www.body-cartography.blogspot.com”