Meet our September First Friday 2025 Artists!
Alexis Mixter
Alexis Mixter, originally trained as a figurative oil painter, found her voice in pyrography, the ancient art of wood burning. Her work explores the tension between a medium often coded as masculine and imagery rooted in feminine practices such as braiding, weaving, and ritual. Each piece becomes a meditation on cultural narratives of femininity, inviting viewers into moments of stillness and reflection.
Liza Hamilton
Most known for her life-size needle-felted creations, Wooliza has been working with wool for over a decade, ever since first discovering felting at a fiber arts workshop. Now expanding her practice into tufting and rug-making, she creates playful, textured sculptures that balance sculptural form with whimsy, celebrating the endless possibilities hidden in every fiber.
Eyliana Gibson
Eyliana Gibson is a hands-on creator who works with natural and found materials to craft immersive sensory experiences. Her installations invite viewers into worlds of color, texture, and heart-centered intention, offering space to create their own stories. Through her work, she encourages reflection, connection, and a deeper appreciation of the beauty woven into the everyday.
Suki Baker
I’m an Ashland-based artist creating art of all kinds, from portraits of local botanicals collaged with fabric scraps, to mixed-media creatures made from found objects. Using reclaimed materials is core to my artistic inspiration, process, and aesthetic. Faced with the blank canvas (literal or proverbial), I hear crickets; my creative fire is sparked by encounters with scavenged garments and curios collected at thrift stores and other second-hand resources. I’m inspired by the souls and stories of cast-off and overlooked objects, whose physical qualities inspire, constrain, and direct my imagination in creating new fantastical beings that recontextualize the original material.
Jeremy Criswell
Jeremy Criswell creates mosaic works of art for public enjoyment. When a sculpture, mural, or mosaic paving is interacted with in public space, we develop a sense of ownership and care for the world beyond our own homes and yards.
Through making tile with students and community members around the Rogue Valley, Jeremy developed a love for teaching that eventually led to becoming a certified Waldorf classroom teacher. While mosaic work is not his main focus at this time, he is deeply committed to classroom teaching, which often feels like his most important public art project of all.
Criswell’s artwork can be climbed upon, sat on, touched, or just looked at, at Hawthorn Park, Cantrall Buckley Park, Oregon Hills Park, Thurston SheHield City Park, Applegate School, La Clinica Wellness Center, Family Nurturing Center, Bandersnatch Trail, Anne Basker Auditorium, Jacksonville Community Center and other public spaces around the Rogue Valley.
Criswell credits Lilli Ann and Marvin Rosenberg for their mentorship, guidance, inspiration, and influence in this style of work.
Robert Quattlebaum
Robert is a lifelong tinkerer and former engineer at Apple, Nest Labs, and Google whose work has reached millions worldwide. In 2024, he founded Voria Labs to merge art, technology, and interactive design, launching with Lumanoi, a wall-mounted light sculpture he crafted from start to finish—combining woodworking, electronics, and software into one immersive piece.