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Stevenson Streatery
FURNITURE ARTISTS
Thank you to the following artists for donating their time and talent to the 2025 Streatery Initiative! They painted their Streatery furniture with the theme "Gorge Rocks, Mountains, and Cliffs."
SHS Student Artists Chair 1
Liberty Anderson & Lola Kellie
Cameron Bennetts
I have a degree in Illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design, ('82). My career has been a broad one, from painting t-shirts and murals to product design, packaging and sculpting prototypes for toy industry clients.
I'm now retired and setting up my new studio to focus on making fine art, graphic novels and crafts, along with collaborating with my husband to design furnishings for our house. My last charity gigs were painting local landscapes in oils on 8" x 8" panels for Fort Vancouver Public Library's annual art auction.
Sarah Carpenter
I am so excited to be painting for the Streatery again this year!
In the past year I’ve painted two murals, created stamp logos for Mudd Works Roastery and Shady Acres Homegrown Goods while also making fabric prints.
I’ve been focusing on my garden this year and am hoping to bring some art into the space.
I’m always trying new mediums from acrylic, to wood burning, painting on fabric, to watercolor and ink. I’m looking forward to creating this new piece and seeing where it takes me.
Janice Crane
I'm a large-format acrylic painter and fiber artist who incorporates nature themes into my art.
Mindie Gum-Grivell
Born and raised in Washington State, I've been living in Skamania County for over 6 years now with this being my 3rd year participating in the Stevenson, WA Streatery project! I'm a self-taught artist experienced with both traditional and digital mediums. Most known for my colorful and wildly imaginative artworks, I enjoy painting and illustrating a variety of subject matters and my execution always results in a bright and uplifting piece of art! My paintings have been featured in galleries all over the US and I've also earned a handful of creative and entrepreneurship awards for my work. Aries Art NW is my independent studio and gallery business built around my passion to inspire creative self expression. In addition to doing this through my artworks, designs and merchandise collections, I also facilitate creative workshop experiences and events! I do this locally, virtually, and all over the US! I provide freelance Creative Director and Design services as well, and have worked with a variety of brands and organizations over the years, including a handful of our local businesses.
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Ivan Hooper
Ivan is the owner and head floor sweeper at The Mount Pleasant Shop in Skamania County, where he creates custom wood and metal furniture and art, using the wood’s own beauty to enhance each piece. He has lived in the Columbia River Gorge for 50 years, and uses that experience to capture the essence of nature surrounding us. His art is designed for daily use, and built to last for generations. Ivan quit his job in 2017, turned the shop he was using for storage into a woodworking shop, and started making mistakes (he’s much better at it now).
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Emily Joyce & Jade Parker
Emily and Jade have been creating as separate artists for most of their life but teamed up in 2024 for both theatre sets and the Streatery chair last year. They are happy to be working together again and bring a sense of whimsy and nature into their creations.
Lucy Lauser
I've been a creator my whole life--writing, drawing, composing music--but I started painting casually in 2019 and I've been enjoying the process of developing my style. I generally take all my own reference photos and paint natural scenes. I like playing with color and challenging myself to learn something new with every painting. Mountains and pretty rocks are some of my favorite things.
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SHS Student Artist
Josephine O’Mahoney
SHS Student Artists Chair 3
Natalie Fritz, Keilt Lutgens
& Anna Menon
Lisa Payson
I am an explorer whose childhood was spent outdoors, running and playing in the woods of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. My home and art studio borders Kanaka Creek, right here in Stevenson, Washington. Creating art has always been a lifelong passion and I am fortunate to receive daily inspiration, living in an area surrounded by dramatic, wild beauty at all times of the year, no matter the season. I enjoy making art with papier mâché sculptures, stained glass mosaics, copper jewelry and drawing intricately detailed pen-and-ink mandalas, but my deepest love and devotion goes to painting with oil paints and watercolors. I have really gotten into painting landscapes during the past year, as an attempt to try and portray the feelings I get when I am standing in a quiet, moss and fern filled forest next to huge, old growth trees and nurse logs. I don’t think I will ever capture it, but I will never grow tired of trying.
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Correna Smith
I grew up both in Southern California and Washington as a kid. I am a proud mother and grandmother. I am a mostly self taught artist that enjoys all forms of creative expression and have been creating art since 2010. I enjoy creating in all forms from painting, photography, dance, storytelling, acting, woodworking, collage, or in the garden. I am a Certified Creative Journal Expressive Arts Instructor and the founder of Be Love Today Creations. My motto in life is to Be Love Today. Assisting me on this project is my son Kyle Henderson.
Meghan Smyth
As an amateur I work primarily on acrylic landscapes. I got started 20 years ago and have enjoyed picking up knowledge and techniques from others. I find inspiration in quiet natural spaces and try to capture them in many of my works
Kate Vincent
K.R.Vincent Arts
I am an artist based wherever I travel to, but for now in the PNW Gorge area. My primary mediums are painting, sculpting, and woodworking but I also love to create through welding, glass, pottery, and diorama miniatures. I have always been in love with the surrounding nature and animal life. I became a wildlife rehabilitator in 2022, so I am lucky enough to get up close and personal to help the wildlife around. If I am not creating and learning new processes, I am usually running around the woods, breathing in the curious marvels of the forest. I find my inspiration to recreate from what I encounter and oftentimes use hybridity or surrealism in my work to showcase evolutionary bonding and growth as habitats become blended. I received my BFA from Whitecliffe university in Auckland NZ, and continued studies at MHCC for sculpture and painting. I spend a lot of quiet time observing, which is how I am able to access my senses to view colors, shapes, sounds, and touch into my work. I moved to Stevenson three years ago with my wonderful daughter and our 2 dogs and feel very excited and honored to be a part of this community and talented artists.
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Candi Whitehead
Candi was born and raised in Skamania County but moved away directly after High School and lived and worked from Portland, Oregon to the Seattle area for many years. She has a lifelong passion for art and creativity and balanced her attention between Administrative employment and commission/freelance art work. The year 2010 brought Candi home to Stevenson. Experiencing the Columbia Gorge as an adult has offered a new love of the community and deep appreciation for the nature we share.
SHS Student Artists Chair 2
Eva Battistoni & Sophie Thornburg
Peter Kalk
My passion is to dream out loud with others. I'm a MacGyver with lots of materials and it puts a smile on my face to create things that make others feel joy. I did not have an education in the arts but I learn and grow everyday which makes me an artist and I believe that everybody has that skill.
