Congratulations to the 2025 Pacific Northwest Drawers Artists
Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts is pleased to announce the 58 artists selected for the 2025 Pacific Northwest Drawers! Each artist showcases a series of 10 photographic works, which will be on view in the Pacific Northwest Drawers flat files from April 2025 through March 2026 and on our website in perpetuity. These selections showcase the range and vibrancy of Pacific Northwest artists working in the photographic medium.
Join us in celebrating the 2025 cohort at our
First Thursday Opening on April 3 from 5 - 9 PM
2025 Artists
• Blake Andrews • Darryl Baird • Kristina Barker • Zemula Barr • Sean Bascom •
• Natalie Behring • Rich Bergeman • Ray Bidegain • Candace Biggerstaff • Jeffrey Bloom •
• Elizabeth Bourne • Alyson Bowen • Wayne Bund • Matt Calarco • Brad Carlile •
• Carolyn Kay Chema • Calvin Chen • Larry Clark • Ryan Claypool • Jen Cohen •
• Margo Conner • Will Corwin • Meghan Crandall • Ariana Crockett O’Harra • Brad Curran •
• Wyndi DeSouza • Yalda Eskandari • Michael Espinoza • M F • Sarah Farahat •
• Todd Forsgren • Bob Haft • Megan Hatch • Claudia Hollister • John Kane • Brian Kosoff •
• Chris Lael Larson • Nathan Lawer-Yolar • Brandon Leung • James Lommasson • Adam Long •
• Lawrence Manning • Briar Marsh Pine • Stuart McCall • Kentaro Metzger • Jenny Irene Miller •
• Robert Morrissey • Allen Myers • Jack Nelson • Kelli Pennington • Oliver Romero •
• Megan Sinclair • Darcie Sternenberg • Paige Taylor White • Drew Tirado • Ruby Webb •
• Sadie Wechsler • M. Earl Williams •
Expanding Visibility of Regional Artists
The Pacific Northwest Drawers originated in 2007 to expand the visibility of regional photographers. Each year Blue Sky invites artists from Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington to apply. The call opens in late fall and artists are selected in early winter.
Blue Sky received a huge number of submissions for its 18th iteration of the Pacific Northwest Drawers. The exhibition was juried by Julia Dolan, The Minor White Senior Curator of Photography at Portland Art Museum. The 2025 cohort comprises a strong showing from Blue Sky’s home state, with 38 artists from Oregon. Other artists hail from Washington (11), British Columbia, Canada (3), Alaska (1), Idaho (2), and Montana (3). The photographic work includes both lens-based and alternative processes, with a range of themes including identity, environment, connection, and social issues.
After a decade of unusually acute socio-political upheaval, and five years on from the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, artists remain deeply affected and work through their new realities through this medium we love.
- Julia Dolan, 2025 Juror
2025 Juror
Julia Dolan (she/her/hers) has curated, co-curated, or hosted more than 50 photography exhibitions since joining the Portland Art Museum in 2010. She also oversees research of and acquisitions for the permanent collection, which currently numbers over 10,000 photographs. She is a member of the Museum’s Equity Team, and is a co-founder of the FOCUS group, a North American network of emerging photography curators, historians, and nonprofit professionals.
Dr. Dolan’s exhibitions at the Museum include Perspectives (2020), Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… (with Sara Krajewski, 2019-20), Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape (2019-20), In the Beginning: Minor White’s Oregon Photographs (2017-2018), Representing: Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African Americans (2017), Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy: Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Will Wilson (with Dr. Deana Dartt, 2016), and Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40 (2014). She has published essays in multiple publications including Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… (2018), Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier (2018), Geolocation: Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman (2015), Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40 (2014), and The Question of Hope: Robert Adams in Western Oregon (2013).
Dr. Dolan earned a B.F.A. in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an M.A. in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Boston University. She has worked with the photography collections at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.
The Pacific Drawers is largely supported by a generous grant from The Kinsman Foundation.
