Co-Founder + Director of Operations

Zoey (she/they) is a community-taught artist, entrepreneur, and lifelong dabbler. They come from a lineage of crafters and devout thrifters, so the concept of a creative reuse space felt like a progressive take on the already fond and familiar. Previously, Zoey has volunteered on various small non-profit teams ranging from folk dance committees, farming, and art-centered social justice projects. Since 2019 she has also been the business owner of her bodywork practice, Imbolc Healing Therapies.

Creative inspiration: European folk traditions, movement, dogs, mountains, puppets

Mediums: sumi painting, ink illustration, sewing, printmaking, gift wrapping

Co-Founder + Programming Advisor

Allison (she/her) is an artist and art educator. She has taught in a variety of settings including K-12 public and independent schools, colleges and universities, museums, community centers, nonprofits and gardens. Her research and teaching interests include community-based and collaborative artmaking, socially-engaged art, participatory action research, place-based education, and peace education.

Creative Inspiration: memory + shared stories, socially engaged art, mosaics, maps, quilts, waterways + the shore, art in everyday life

Mediums: pottery, mixed media collage, paper folding, making jam and food in jars

Co-Founder and Program Coordinator

Marie (she/her) is an educator and an advocate of creative endeavors. She taught French at the university level. Currently she is an organizer of collaborative community art projects and a participant in art, music, theater, aerial dance and yoga in the Village. She is a former board member of Chamber Music Yellow Springs and a current board member of the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

Creative Inspiration: Brian M, garden tools + my garden, Catherine Z, viewing art at museums, galleries + studios, a beautiful plate of healthy food

Mediums: yoga, aerial dance, interior + exterior space design, art book circle, ukulele

Shop Manager

Marianthe (she/her) is an amateur mom/homesteader/artist/communitarian. She has always been a scavenger, preferring found objects as both an aesthetic and moral choice. She loves making cobblers from abandoned fruit trees and hopes to one day build a house from natural and recycled materials. She recently moved back to Yellow Springs and is excited for the potential to collaborate and create here in the village.

Creative Inspiration: vulnerability, natural bodies of water, community and doing it ourselves

Mediums: textiles, food grown by people she knows, her home

Donations Coordinator

Holly (she/her) is a community member and artist committed to sustainability and reuse. From limited or pre-determined materials (ie scraps), Holly creates compositions which mostly resemble collage, be it with paper ephemera, fabric cuttings, or broken plate mosaic. Holly has been living in the US for 11 years using the opportunity for self-actualization and diving deeper into what it means to “belong” in a culture and in a language.

Creative Inspiration: salvaged materials, intimate relationships, cultural dissonance, brasilidade, serving others

Mediums: fiber art (weaving, sewing, mending), linoleum/mono printmaking, multimedia collage, mosaic, sculpture, photography

Fundraising Coordinator

Courtney (she/her) is a Dayton native and artist, drawing inspiration from the world around her, from tiny insects to expansive vistas. She loved living out west, where she started painting in 2019. Happy to be back in her hometown, most recently she has been focusing on native flora and Dayton historic neighborhoods and architecture. She is on the local Art Council in Kettering and loves to volunteer and participate in artistic endeavors locally.

Creative Inspiration: structures/angles and architecture, values/light and shadows, sky/clouds especially, other artists, plein air painting

Mediums: Ink and watercolor, fabric and patterns, XL unstretched/loose canvas, floral stamping, soft pastels

Financial Director

Amanda’s (she/they) professional experience with nonprofits began in 2021 when they moved to Yellow Springs to work for Agraria. She was the farmer there and realized how the food system, specifically the soil our food is grown in, was generally left out of sustainability discussions. Soil sequestering carbon and keeping that soil healthy should be a much bigger discussion than it currently is. Farming also taught her to work with nature and be creative—creative in the methods they used to build soil health and with my companion planting!

Creative Inspiration: music, street art, and their feelings

Mediums: writing poetry, dancing bomba plena (a traditional Puerto Rican dance influenced by their African ancestors), and playing bass guitar

Grant Writer + Program Coordinator

Lynn (she/her) is a former public school special ed teacher for preschool children. Before that she had her own nursery school at her home and also worked at the YS Children's Center. All of those jobs allowed her to be creative - with story telling, art making, book making, doll making and community building within her classroom. She has gardened since childhood and worked on numerous farms and ranches both here and out west. She grew up in south Florida and that has inspired the overgrown, slightly untidy and tropical look of her gardens. She is a former member of the Antioch School Board,  YS Children's Center Board, Community Solutions Board (now Agraria), and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association Board.