Educated as a city planner, an architect, and an artist, Yoonhee Choi creates work that explores the potentials of unexpected materials and varied processes to express both multiple scales of spatial experience and intimate, personal associations. In her projects, which range from tiny collages to drawings on paper to room-size installations, she uses everyday materials in an improvisational manner to search for limits and possibilities, seeking to discover new compositional devices and structures. Her explorations seek to deepen her sensitivity to her surroundings and her art is the record of her perception. Choi studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, architecture at Yale University, and city planning at Hong-ik University in Seoul. Born and raised in South Korea, she currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts was founded in 1992 by James Lavadour on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation outside of Pendleton, Oregon. In 2001, Crow’s Shadow began professionally publishing collaborative fine art editions with regionally and nationally known Native American artists under the imprint Crow’s Shadow Press. To date, Crow’s Shadow has published over 300 unique editions and series with 70 artists. Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press are in the collection of the Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Eiteljorg Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.

In 2017, Judith Baumann became Crow’s Shadow Press Master Printer after previous Master Printer Frank Janzen retired. Since 2017, she has collaborated with over twenty artists including Dyani White Hawk, Natalie Ball, Raven Chacon, Yatika Starr Fields, Marwin Begaye, Emily Arthur, James Lavadour, John Hitchcock and Wendy Red Star. Baumann received her MFA in printmedia from Virginia Commonwealth University and she continued her studies in professional collaborative printing at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has taught at several institutions, including The Evergreen State College from 2005 – 2014. She lives and works in Pendleton, Oregon.

Avantika Bawa is an artist, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR, and often resides in her hometown, New Delhi, India. Bawa has an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in the same from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

She has participated in the Skowhegan, MacDowell, Kochi Biennial Foundation, and Djerassi residencies among others. Noteworthy solo exhibits include shows at: The Portland Art Museum, Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR: Suyama Space, Seattle, WA, The Columbus Museum, GA, Saltworks Gallery, and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA: Nature Morte, and Gallery Maskara, India: White Box, Tilt Gallery & Project Space, and Disjecta, Portland, OR. In April 2004 she was part of a team that launched Drain - Journal for Contemporary Art and Culture. www.drainmag.com. In 2014 Avantika was appointed to the board of the Oregon Arts Commission. She is currently Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA.