Thea Gahr is a bilingual artist, printmaker, educator, curator, and community cultural maker. Committed to the health and balance of the land she works to create a catalyst of positive social and environmental change. As a longtime member of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, a decentralized collective of artists in the greater America. She is interested in the brilliant and difficult experiment of working collectively and collaboratively.
Her relief prints, paintings, and mix media show the energy of the marks and speak directly to the emotional body inviting more expansive intelligence with the hopes of inspiring change for collective well-being. Among other things she taught at Linfield University from 2012-2023, drawing, painting, and printmaking. She was the Gallery Curator for the Linfield Gallery from 2019-2024. Her work spans the borders of Mexico, Haiti, and the US. She grew up in a large multi-lingual farming family in the costal foothills of Oregon, which has greatly informed her work.
She also is a long-distance cyclist, sailor, aerialist, stitcher, builder, gardener, traveler and is interested in land restoration.
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