Rapper and poet Mic Crenshaw on creating social change through music.

Vocalist Saeeda Wright on finding the gift of song in Northeast Portland, Oregon.

Director Rusty Tennant on queer canon, building a career as an artist, and the resilience of indie theater.

Muralist Adam Brock Ciresi on community practice, public art, and working personal narrative and illness into healing art.

Producer and engineer Tyler Stone on making dance music in Portland, Oregon.

Playwright Karen Polinsky on devising multilingual theater.

Poet, performer, musician, mythologist, educator, and psychospiritual intuitive Jesse Carsten on creating joyful, eclectic song collages that embrace the experimental singer-songwriter tradition of the Pacific Northwest.

Actor Henry Noble on process, conviction, and his role in August Wilson's play “Gem of the Ocean”.

Painter Jess Ackerman on paint, process, addiction, recovery, gender, and discovery.

Choreographer Colleen Loverde on integrity, voice, and expression in movement.