Tracie Cheng is a Taiwanese American artist that weaves lines and paint into dynamic visual dreamscapes. She very consciously observes the life around her—absorbing stories and experiences—and subconsciously watches them unfold onto the canvas. Resembling nature, fractals, patterns and forms, Tracie's paintings are inspired by all the incredible and regular things around us. The lines undulate in and out of visibility and reality while the paint provides shelter and contrast, allowing the paintings to be playful, familiar, yet challenging to our imaginations. It prompts curiosity and assurance, an invitation into wonder and a hope for possibility in the intangible. Tracie's paintings are a reflection of life's textured complexities, giving voice to her ever-evolving relationship with faith, culture, ethnicity, and narrative. 

We lost a dear friend and longtime Grand Image Artist, Maxwell Hayslette. With a career spanning over 7 decades, he gained international recognition as a landscape and abstract painter, printmaker and bon vivant. His work is represented in more than 1000 private, corporate and public collections worldwide.

Max lived his life fully as an artist—not only in the creative ways he explored his work, but in the way he artfully lived his life.

Tracy Poindexter-Canton is a mixed media artist in Spokane, Washington. Through collage, vibrancy and portraiture, Poindexter-Canton examines Black American identity and melding literary imagery with visual art. An eclectic assortment of media and materials are incorporated into her work often including acrylic, oil pastel, ink, feathers, beads, magazine clippings, bubble wrap, scrapbook paper, nylon cord and found objects. Several of her works have been part of public art projects including four pieces acquired by the Washington Arts Commission and Spokane Public Library for their permanent public art collections. She has exhibited work in large and smaller cities throughout Washington state including Spokane, Medical Lake, Olympia, Pullman, Richland, Burien and Seattle as well as via online galleries based in California and Germany.

Seattle-based designer and photographer, Stuart Haury, marries his design principles with his passion for photography—diving into unique explorations for his latest additions to the GI line.

From rock formations in his recent journeys to Utah to reflective photos that feel almost impressionistic in nature, his continual curiosity invites us all to see things in a new light

We sat down with Portland-based artist, Heather Goodwind, about her work. A world-traveler and multi-faceted artist, her work explores fleeting moments and thoughts, as much as the monumental ideas and experiences. Through her thoughtful marks she expands

imagination and time.