Jane joins us from Vancouver for a special knowledge exchange session in February 2025. In exchange for individual weaving instruction and guidance, Jane will advise and instruct on pruning techniques, suggestions for long term tree care, and sustainability of the modest orchard on Eden studio property. Jane brings her expertise as landscape designer, horticulturalist and arborist and will surely have things to say about the three apple trees, two plum, one fig, one giant walnut, two hazelnut and a massive mulberrry tree that has seen better days! I look forward to being both teacher and student!

Hailing from Vancouver, Matthew will be joining Eden Studios as a resident artist in March, 2025. Matthew has selected three sculptural trees to plant on the grounds of Eden studios. Taken from his longstanding project in which he cultivates geometric topiary trees to create living shapes, he shared that his process will include surveying the land, listening to it, looking at it, and living it before placing the trees on the property. Once situated, he will share his experience working with these trees, the knowledge to care for them and the pruning techniques needed to maintain their shapes. He will also spend time in the studio working on a series of 28 wooden spoons that are being produced for a future event known as SOUP, where a diverse audience will be brought together to activate a space and create engaging conversation.  

BIO

Matthew Robertson (b.1980) is a visual artist and horticulturist who lives and works between Vancouver and Chilliwack, BC. Wood has been a central medium of Robertson’s practice, producing installations, inanimate objects, furniture and structures. Since 2012, Robertson has focused on geometric topiary tree production on farmland, fabricating a palette of living shapes. He is deeply interested in juxtaposing these forms into landscape environments to distract from the everyday. Themes of time and patience, craft, and DIY culture echo through his work and satisfy his need to create.

Hailing from Vancouver, Caroline will be joining Eden Studios as resident artist in April, 2025. During her residency, she will be workign on and off loom to develop weaving techniques and patterns that create three dimensional forms, both functional and sculptural. The goal of this research and exploration leading towards woven furniture or decor based pieces. 

Bio

Caroline Ballhorn is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC. Her current work is textile based, and often incorporates weaving, print-making, sewing and drawing. Through her past work as cofounder of Tin Can Studio (2010-2019), a mobile art space, she explored and facilitated a number of community-based collaborative creative projects and events. These included hosting an annual Incredible Pie Championship, transforming into a pirate radio station, hosting a dog portrait studio, and serving mystery drinks at a Tom Selleck themed tiki bar. Caroline is also active as an illustrator, designer and musician, and is a member of Frazey Ford's band. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2010.

From Richmond Virginia, Christine joins us as resident artist for June 2025. During her time at Eden studios, Christine will be focused on researching and foraging plant materials of the Pacific North West. Using this research to deepen her weaving and dyeing practice, she will be investigating color and applying applications to handspun wool. Currently she has been refining her spinning technique using a vintage spinning wheel to create wool yarn to dye and weave with during the residency. Once naturally dyed, using foraged materials, this yarn will be woven in overshot pattern to create a long piece of fabric for a future exhibition. Thematically this work explores the relationships between utility, culture, and personal memory, aiming to expand material vocabulary and draw connections between the alchemy of color and the rhythm of woven patterns.

BIO

Christine Orr b.1993 (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Richmond, Virginia. Working in clay, fiber, paper-making, and poetry, her practice critically navigates how humans have co-evolved with objects. Orr investigates material culture’s role in our understanding of domestic and utilitarian items. This research connects objects and what they are made from as well as their metaphorical and symbolic potential. Orr received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2015. She completed her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in the Craft/Material Studies Department in 2021. She currently teaches as a ceramics professor at the University of Mary Washington and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Leah joins us from San Fransisco for August 2025. Using painting, installation, printmaking, sculpture, performance, and video she closely aligns art and life by inviting viewers to consider how color can be perceived both multi-sensorially and multi-dimensionally. By creating enriched encounters, her work documents time and place and strives to deepen our understanding of the emotional and psychological impact of color in everyday life. Rooted in her belief in the fundamental generosity of art and the creative act, Rosenberg promotes an egalitarian approach to the perception of color.

BIO - Leah Rosenberg lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She has exhibited her work widely including recent solo exhibitions at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include When One Sees a Rainbow at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and More Generous Than a Window at the Denver Art Museum. Her work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has participated in artist residency programs across the country including the Vermont Studio Center, Project 387, Facebook, Google, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program. She has been awarded numerous fellowships including the Irvine Fellowship through the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center and the Kala Fellowship at Kala Art Institute. In 2019, she was invited to talk about the language of color for TEDxSan Francisco. Rosenberg holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC and an MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.