Howdy, how are you?

My name’s Zoë, and I’m a queer, first-generation Boviander Guyanese American artist, educator, and storyteller based in Chinook Illahee. My work explores healing ecologies through ceramic sculptures, culinary catharsis, creative nonfiction, experimental video, and photopoetry projections.

In 2020, I founded Fernland Studios an experimental ecology art studio prioritizing rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity. Our mission is to prioritize providing Black, Indigenous, and all people of color opportunities to sustain their relationship with the land through art, education, and spiritual wellness.

I’m a doctoral student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies' inaugural cohort. As a nontraditional student, I received my bachelor's degree in public relations, minoring in geography, from Texas State University and graduated with my master's degree in environmental studies at the UO in 2021.

I am a 2023 Writers in the Schools Apprentice with Literary Arts, a Seeding Justice Lilla Jewel Award awardee, and a UO Charles A Reed Graduate Fellow. I received a Digital Evolution/Artist Retention Fellowship through the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and a Louise Westling Distinguished Environmental Justice Fellowship through the UO Pacific Northwest Racial and Climate Justice Futures Institute in 2022. I was an inaugural Women Innovation Network cohort member, a National Education for Women’s Leadership of Oregon member through PSU, and a Spiritual Ecology Fellow through Emergence Magazine in 2021.

I grew up on Munsee Lenape land in Roselle Park, New Jersey, before moving to Akokisa land outside Houston, Texas, at seven. When I’m not daydreaming, you can find me rambling around the Pacific Northwest, taking pictures of trees and sea anemones.

Let’s get to know each other.

Zoë Gamell Brown | she/they
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