The Apprentice Team

Below are 6 of the nearly 20 apprentices who worked and learned in the Chisel Creative Work-Trade Apprenticeship Program.

Kara Winek

Brute force project manager and tactician by day, student of finesse and strategy through wood by night. Step by step, pencil mark vs. eraser, perfection vs good enough, every day, I get a little bit better.

Dana Paresa

Dana Paresa was born in Kailua, O’ahu in 1987. She earned her bachelor’s in studio art at the University of Hawai’i. Much like before college, today she makes coffee for people who go to college with other people who have already been to college. She has worked as a freelance illustrator in the past, contributing to several publications (Bitch, Complex), but currently makes a body of personal work. Often, Dana can be found connecting pieces of wood, and touching cats that aren’t hers. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Laura Holthausen

Laura Holthausen is an Evergreen State College grad interested in exploring art and utility with a material that is never the same twice. Laura is intimately familiar with live trees from her work in silviculture and running into them as a young snowboarder. She looks forward to using their carcasses.

Em Halleen 

Jenny Nguyen

JoJo Donovan