little boxes is our holiday small works show. We’re so excited to announce the list of artists whose work we’ll be offering for the month of December. Don’t miss your chance to be the first to see these amazing pieces on First Thursday, December 4th 5-9pm at [things/found] Atelier.

Zemula Barr - Zemula Barr is an artist based in Portland, Oregon, where she previously served as Exhibitions Director at Blue Sky Gallery and co-founded Wolff Gallery.  Zemula uses digital and analog photography to explore themes of memory, loss, and humankind's relationship to the natural world. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Artspace Gallery in Lake Oswego, OR; Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL; Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR; Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR; and in online exhibitions hosted by the Center for Fine Art Photography, ArtDoc Photography Magazine, and F-Stop Magazine. In 2022 and 2025, Zemula was selected as one of Photolucida's Top 200 Critical Mass Finalists.

Pamela Chipman

Kassandra Eller is a visual artist who experiments with how photographic processes intertwine with the ideas of how one views family, nature, and life itself. Her work explores themes of sense of place, nature, femininity, and identity, and she strives to reveal the intricacies of how each being reacts to strife and trauma in her works. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Central Washington University.

Elizabeth (Liz) Fennelly is a photographer currently based in Portland, Oregon. She is a Portland native, holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and works in both digital studio photography as well as analog and alternative processes. Currently, she is working on a series of tintypes utilizing a mobile darkroom.

Instagram: @LizFotos

Diane Jaquith

Mirena Oberg is a ceramic artist that specializes in hand building with a focus on nature and the magic that can be found in it.

Angel O’Brien

Angela Riggs is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. A creative explorer, she loves experimenting with different mediums and techniques. Her aphantasia - a limited ability to visualize - encourages happy coincidence in her art, as well as an organic and unplanned approach to creating.

Sam Sangermano

Greg Schweiger - Greg is a recent transplant to Portland Oregon. He is excited to bring his artistic talent and unique photographic compositions to a new audience. Greg uses photography as a tool not to document the external world, but to express something more essential. Using color, form, motion, light and void he seeks to remove the world as subject in creating images to provoke feeling, introspection and contemplation. He seeks to challenge his audience with thought provoking works.

@gschweiger (Instagram, Bluesky, Vero)

The Reprintery: Charlotte Flory & Michelle Freeman

Alice Christine Walker is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work examines the tension between control and chance through analog photography and installation. She explores how memory, identity, and time are shaped by process, often embracing accidents as essential to meaning. Her work moves between the poetic and the precise, using material experimentation to question what endures and what fades.

In December, [things/found] Atelier will be open 1-6pm Thursday to Sunday through Christmas Eve, closed on Christmas Day, and then back to our normal hours of 1-6pm Thursday-Saturday.