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Geeta Sadashivan
Geeta Sadashivan teaches Freshman Composition at Cascadia. In her classes, she
encourages students to analyze art and explore their creativity. In her own practice,
she enjoys hybridity and adaptation. She likes to layer her drawings, paintings,
and photographs with found images, fragments from pop culture, text, stencils,
catchphrases, ephemera, etc. and use digital technology to create mixed-media
collages.
Mehdi Salami
Mehdi Salami is student in Cascadia Collage. He loves and appreciates the beauty of
God’s creation, and he tries to show this through his art.
Michelle Schaefer
Michelle Schaefer is a poet in progress. She has spent many years learning and writing
the art form of haiku. She has been published in various haiku journals and anthologies.
Her poetry can be found in Acorn, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Mariposa and Herons
Nest. She is also featured in NY Seitkatsu’ s online publication as a regular semifinalist
in the Ito En Haiku Grand Prix. She has recently won Frogpond’s Museum of Haiku
Literature Award in its most recent volume. She hopes that poetry touches people in
extraordinary ways. She lives in Bothell, WA with her husband. See more of Michelle’s
poetry here: https://sites.google.com/site/haikunorthwest/
Parlin Shields
Parlin is an artist and musician from Seattle. She has a cat named Jenny who is goth.
Parlin enjoys running, swimming, dancing, singing, nature and working with kids. Listen
to Parlin here: https://soundcloud.com/parlinmusic
Amber Stowell
Amber is a Northwest native and adventure chaser.