Chris Walas

Chris has worked in the entertainment business for almost forty years in film, television and theater. Working freelance for many years on low budget films and television, he left LA to work for George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic, where he worked on DRAGONSLAYER, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and RETURN OF THE JEDI. After leaving ILM, he started his own company, CWI, whose first feature film was GREMLINS. CWI was one of the foremost creature effects companies and it worked on dozens of TV commercials and TV shows, as well as many films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, David Cronenberg’s NAKED LUNCH and THE FLY, for which Chris received several awards, including an Academy Award. The company went on to work on many more films, including ROMANCING THE STONE, ENEMY MINE, GOLDEN CHILD, GHOST, ARACHNOPHOBIA, and more.

Sam Cobb

Sam is a child of the world. She was raised in a very mobile family, spending most of her formative years in the island state of Singapore. The first week of kindergarten brought a prophetic warning from her teacher "You have an artist on your hands". After a fateful day in second grade when two fellow student set off a bidding war for her drawing, Sam knew it was her calling. After getting a degree in Linguistics and pursuing post grad studies in Sociolinguistic Survey and Ethnology, Sam decided that it was time to set that calling into action. Since then, Sam has developed a series of kinetic sculptures and automata, establishing herself as a collaborative touchstone on moving art. She worked in and on television and film (most notably on Dirty jobs 2007 Halloween special and SyFy Channel's first season of Face Off). She has collaborated on puppets, props and costumes for Disney, Universal Studios, the Olympic Games Ceremonies, Netherworld Haunted House, and many more. Her work has been collected by the likes of Guillermo del Toro, and that relationship lead to a position on his reimagining of Pinnochio. She is also an avid teacher of the arts, and has galleried around the world.

Odessa Godoy

Portland-based Odessa is a multi-talented artist, actively working in the realms of puppet fabrication, painting, illustration, acting, stop-motion animation, jewelry crafting, candle-making, and general witchy business. Her pieces can be found in various locations around town under the moniker Mirkwood Magic - most recently being her ritual candles, found at Moonshadow Magick Pagan Shoppe.

Nick Kettman

Nick builds high-quality prop replicas for sale and distribution through his personal fabrication company, Modulus Props. Like many other prop makers, what first drew Nick to art was the idea of turning something that didn’t exist in the physical world - like an object in a video game - into a real, tangible thing. Nick’s first prop replica project was the iconic Psycho Bandit mask from the Borderlands video game series.

Josh Kinsey

Josh is a meticulous artisan who weaves together the intrinsic nature of manic beavers with the distilled hopes and dreams of orphaned kittens, twisting their variegated manifestations upon his engine lathe. Delicate metallic fantasies that taste sweet upon the tongue are bored and reamed upon his drill press, incised with traceries of angst with razored chisels and planes. Arcane symbols and geometries that are a delight to the nose are illustrated with his compass and pantograph. Repurposed elements are expressly forbidden in Kinsey’s spiffy mechanical concoctions, as is hot glue, upcycling, the word “Steampunk”, shoddy craftsmanship, negative musings, and broccoli. Rather, Kinsey combines ornately whittled exotic woods with foundry cast mechanical elements smooshed into delightful expressions of splendiferous sparkliness. J.W. Kinsey’s pieces are wondrous fabrications celebrating the joys of craftsmanship from bygone imaginings. Spelunking the bottomless depths of the colloquial “What is it?” and the always nefarious “What’s the F’n point?”, Kinsey’s sculptures capture the viewer’s attention, briefly. J.W. resides with his wife Katelyn in Silverton, OR.

Derek Tall

Derek considers himself a “kind of a lowbrow weirdo.” He loves the macabre and strange, vintage and rusty, curves and tattoos - and equally loves to create art. His work has been featured in a number of elite galleries, and his prints go out of stock shortly after being released. Derek specializes in illustration - pen + ink, digital, and wet media - as well as in costume fabrication and sculpture.

Matthew Hopkins

Nightmerriment is the visionary world of Matthew Hopkins, maker of whimsically macabre art doll familiars, wands, and brooms conjured right from myth and fable.

Raiden Gorby

Prop builder and uber-dad, Raiden offers a broad skillset. Raiden has been commissioned by companies and performers worldwide for creature and robotic builds. Raiden’s work has been seen on the streets of London, on the stages of Coachella and Las Vegas, and in multiple commercials. Raiden entered the world of puppet fabrication after testing a build for his daughter and finding he had a knack for it - as well as an eager customer base. Raiden’s puppet building services are named for his daughter - Luna’s Puppets.

Charles Babbage

3D-print designer, Charles works as Art Director for the esteemed Michael Curry Design Studios, where he’s been tenured for the past 12 years. Pieces produced by the studio have included props and puppetry for the award-winning stage production The Lion King, as well as animatronics and costumes on display at Universal Studios in California.

Anya Bogorad

Anya is an artist, performer, and suspected dilettante based out of Portland, Oregon.