The Future is Female!
Art & Drag Show
Friday 1st November / 5pm-8pm
Hosted by The Columbia Hotel
Join us at The Columbia Hotel for Ashland's First Friday Art Walk, where we're thrilled to present "The Future is Female," a dynamic exhibition celebrating the talent and vision of local female artists.
This inspiring show not only showcases a diverse range of artworks—from painting and sculpture to mixed media, digital art and a pop-up tattoo station —but also serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of civic engagement. As we approach the November 5th elections, we encourage all visitors to exercise their right to vote and make their voices heard.
The future is in our hands, and this exhibition reminds us that it is also undeniably female!
💄✨ A vibrant evening of art, drag, and female empowerment awaits at The Future is Female, celebrating Ashland’s creative spirit and the power of self-expression. 👠🌈🎨
Meet the Artists
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Alexis Mixter
Wood Burning & Mixed Media
Alexis is an artist deeply inspired by the meditative and tactile nature of her creative process, using an ancient technique traditionally tied to masculine craftsmanship and reimagining it through abstract forms influenced by feminine arts like braiding and weaving. Her work is a meditation on time, patience, and control, inviting viewers to enter each piece as a portal to stillness and reflection.
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Beca Blake
Interdisciplinary and Community Based Artist
Beca Blake is an artist, author, speaker, and administrator, based in rural Southern Oregon. Blake combines visual, performance, and community-based art to create optical illusion, beauty, and phenomena that give agency to critical thinking, imagination, perception, and storytelling. Blake collaborates with organizations and presents on topics of Conceptual Art, Creative Thinking, Creativity for Social Change, Leadership, Public Charity, and more. Her work is available regionally and beyond; visit her art website for details.
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Amy Godard
Print Making
Amy Godard is an Artist born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Her work revolves around themes of plants, people, food, farming, and social justice movements. She is a University of Oregon graduate with focused studies in Art, Spanish, and education. They have been a maker for as long as they can remember and a printmaker since 2005. Amy makes art with the community as a teacher, mentor, performer, and community organizer.
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Egon DuBois
Photography
“all things emanating from me are in gratitude to my mothers and to all my sisters who guided my journey in this life”
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Eyliana Gibson
Sculpture, collage, mixed media
Eyliana is a hands on creator, using natural, upcycled and found materials to craft sensory experiences for her audiences and clients. Her 3D sculptures invite viewers to expand their perspective and peel away the layers of social conditioning.
She is a hairdresser, published editorial stylist and multi dimensional artist with a passion for fashion. When not creating, she can be found in the garden or hiking with her two street terriers, Winston and Bear. -
Liza Hamilton
Wooliza - Fiber Artist
Bringing the therapeutic qualities of the natural outdoors inside our homes, Liza’s touchable artworks invite us to relax and reconnect. Created entirely of sustainable wool using the art of tufting, or rug-making techniques, Liza’s creations include rugs, wallhangings, sculptures, furniture pieces such as Cactus poufs and mushroom ottomans, and site-specific installations.
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Chelsy Hirsh
Tattoo and Body Artist
Pettin’ cats and slappin’ tats! Chelsy is a tattoo artist specializing in color realism tattoos who loves the self expression and body autonomy that tattoos have to offer. She likes to tattoo stuff and things and birds and junk. All kinds of knickknacks and bric-a-brac. She believes that life is far too serious and terrible in general, so just go ahead and get that silly, ridiculous, precious, adorable, meaningful, meaningless, weird, and/or absurd little tattoo!