THE HIVE® ARTIST-In-Residence Program

STUDIO A: Jon and Lindsey Merrrell will be at The Hive through February 2026.

• Jon and Lindsey Merrell are a husband and wife team who work primarily in mixed media collage, digital illustration, and printmaking. They have been working collaboratively as artists for over 20 years! With Jon’s recent diagnosis of ALS, they are now exploring accessible artmaking as well. They are excited to have dedicated studio time and space to create together as they finalize work for a two-person show at the Terrain Gallery in December 2025.

STUDIO B: Rachael Chambers and Addison Hansen, both EWU Emerging Artists, are sharing a studio but working independently. will be at the Hive through February, 2026.

• Rachael Chambers works primarily with oil paints, but is looking forward to exploring textile centered work with soft sculpture, quilting, and stitching during her residency. She says, “Regardless of my medium, I like to work with vibrant neon colors combined with soft pastels, using unconventional colors to depict the landscapes of the American West.”
• Addison Hansen is a printmaker who incorporates gathered materials from the earth in her prints and printing plates. She likes to explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world in her work and wants to encourage others to give back to the creatures we share this world with.

STUDIO C: Frances will be at the Hive through February, 2026.

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• Frances Grace Mortel says of her work, “I work interdisciplinarily through site-responsive installations, adapting mediums such as moving image, sculpture, and assemblage to the specificity and problems of a site.
  I am currently exploring gestures of unmaking and collective care through provisionary placemaking, often examining gendered and domestic labor while mapping out archives of displacement.”

STUDIO D: Columbia Fire and Iron (CFI) Blacksmith Club will be at the Hive through March 2026.

• Columbia Fire & Iron is a non-profit blacksmithing club, making ironwork education accessible and inclusive for our region, holding events out of our mobile trailer. We forge steel using both traditional tools such as hammers, tongs, anvils, punches, and chisels, and modern tools like propane forges and angle grinders.