Originally from Montreal, Marianne has made her home in many cities around the world before settling in Portland, Oregon. Trained as a landscape architect, she is passionate about creating public spaces that transform an individual’s experience of the city; spaces
accessible to all that offer delight, serenity, prospect, and refuge in the heart of urban centers. As a project manager and lead designer, Marianne’s creativity and sensitive approach have shaped projects ranging in scale from master plan to streetscape, both public and private.This year, she founded a new landscape design studio with her business partner Dorothy Bothwell. You can find some of their latest works on her website: www.blstudio.la

With her work being mainly tied to urban environments, Marianne hopes to spend more time at Bubbawood, slowing down and playing with a different pallet of media. Always inspired by textures, shapes and patterns, she hopes to explore the process of making of temporary site-specific installation.

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Rich was raised in Northern New York in the Adirondacks. After graduating from college, he worked in a traditional handmade paper mill in southern France before moving back to the States to learn carpentry. He has worked as a builder for over 15 years and incorporates his background in the arts in the creative design of his projects.

For the past four years Rich has built a successful business in Portland. Specializing in small accessory dwelling units and creative remodels, he enjoys the challenge of creating something specific and unique for each new client. He is especially proud of the lower cabin (the Bodhi shack) at Bubbawood which utilizes found materials, both discarded from job sites and donated by Portland neighbors that were repurposed to create a place for relaxation and creative inspiration. 

Rich is excited to combine his construction practices into the community-building ethos that is evolving at Bubbawood. You can view some of his most recent projects at www.flinchbaughconstruction.com

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*Marianne Paradis + Rich Flinchbaugh are semi-permanent residents at Bubbawood, helping to shape and grow the place since the very beginning.*

Erin Elder is an independent curator of contemporary art guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places.

From 2009 - 2013, she cooperatively founded and directed PLAND, an off-the-grid residency program near Tres Piedras, NM. From 2012 - 2015, she was the Visual Arts Director at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, where she curated 50+ exhibitions and many public programs. Since 2015, she has operated Gibbous, a consulting service that supports committed artists at pivotal moments in their careers.​

Erin teaches college students, writes occasionally, and is a 2017-2019 research fellow with the Center for Art + Environment at Nevada Museum of Art. ​She is based in New Mexico but travels often. At Bubbawood, Erin made drawings, dug a trench, broke in the resident cabin, and helped Scott and Kay pull together this website. More info about Erin at www.erinelder.com

Jimmy says:

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In September of 2018 I had the opportunity to get creative and help spark some arts up in these here gorgeous woods. After meeting Scott through the vibrant river community here, my wife and I found a winter home at Bubbawood and three awesome friends in Scott, Kay and Wren. My wife went into labor there and our son Dakota is going to be one this December! 



When I heard about the creative residency I knew I wanted to be involved. The land, the cabin and creative space ... these are pretty juicy fruits for the soul, something I want in my community and by the turnout of the first gatherings, I’m not alone.



Alongside Scott, we built the stage using recycled decking, hung lights and laid   some fresh mats. On the day of my residency-gathering two of my musically inclined buds, Steve Kenitz and Spencer Rogers joined me in playing some music for a beautiful crowd of all ages nestled under the trees, under the stars.  It was a wonderful evening and after seeing the second residence show... I can’t wait for more!

Bubbawood Creative Residencies + creative people x time = community. Double check my math, but I’m pretty sure that’s accurate.

biz miller is  video and installation artist, musician, performer, costume maker, educator, collaborator living in oregon, USA. her work explores the experience of being alive on a changing planet at this pivotal point in earth history, communication with non-human beings, and reciprocity with nature. her current favorite collaborator is Mother Earth.

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during her Bubbawood residency, she created a short video, which she projected onto a multicolored 180-piece patchwork tent ("temple of earth worship movie theater") also created during the residency.

"the earth is a magical place of wonder, does it break your heart? are things getting better or worse? the fool is surprised, delighted and horrified by what she discovers on this earth, and practices holding the place in her heart for concurrent love, wonder, and grief for mother earth."

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her website (with photos and videos of her time at Bubbawood) can be found at www.biz-miller.com.

Pete Brook is a British-born writer, curator and educator focused on photographs, prisons and power. He is currently co-authoring, with incarcerated men at San Quentin State Prison, an anthology of essays and a curriculum about the History of Prison Photography. 

Pete’s work has been featured by The British Journal of Photography, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vice and ACLU and his writing appeared in Aperture, The Atlantic, The Marshall Project, Truthout, Wired and others.  He started and runs the website prisonphotography.org.  In 2018, he received the Howard Chapnick Award from the W. Eugene Smith Fund. Pete is based on the U.S. west coast.

Shana Palmer is an American artist, curator, musician and performer currently residing in Portland, Oregon. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest, New England and Baltimore, MD. Always eager to immerse herself in the regions she traverses, it is her experience of growing up in a remote area of the Arizona desert that has most influenced Shana's practice both sonically and visually. In all mediums, her works explore mythical and uninhabitable spaces, blurring the lines between narrative and symbolic structures. Shana's practice of performance, video, installation and painting has led to exhibitions and performances both nationally and internationally. 

For the Bubbawood Residency, Shana will collaborated with her 3.5 y.o., son to build a sculpture out of found and natural materials.

Jenny Riffle was born in Washington state in 1979; she holds a BA in photography from Bard College, and an MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Riffle’s photographs have been exhibited internationally and featured in numerous publications worldwide. Riffle grew up in a cabin in the woods and was drawn to this residency to reconnect to life off the grid. The series she will be working on is The Sound of Wind, images she has been making in the Pacific Northwest:

The Sound of Wind is a rediscovery of the Pacific Northwest through my memories of growing up there and my present experiences. I took for granted my surroundings until I left home and lived elsewhere. Every time I came back I would see it with new eyes. It seemed that every place I went contained some memory of childhood forgotten and unappreciated.

There is a captivating beauty here that inspires people, and there is also a darkness. I am drawn to the places in between dreams and reality, somewhere between memory and the present experience...Unknown forces of nature can be terrifying, but they can also be profoundly beautiful. It is this balance that draws me to photograph the Pacific Northwest.