Investing in our community
In addition to providing several scholarships and grants to help artists attend, Frogwood also sponsors Resource Artists who help with expanded leadership and educational roles during the event. These are the 2025 artists who will contribute in that capacity.
Neal Fegan
Neal Fegan is the Sculpture Studio Manager at Camp Colton. He considers sculpture as anything from large, welded, steel structures to soft cookie dough, which he generously shares from the Camp kitchen.
Dichotomies like peace and playfulness, stability and awkwardness, comfort and utility, solitude and togetherness have always been important to his practice. He seeks connection through collaboration, food, and play with the ultimate motivation of making people smile.
Enjoy some of Neal’s early bike sculptures in these Montana Transit Authority and Velocipedes videos.
Winona Hwang
Growing up in both America and Singapore has shaped Winona’s work to reflect the concepts of two cultures crossing over — focusing on her Chinese heritage, through the lens of utility, protection, decoration, and tactility. She aims to explore more about her cultural background through an eclectic range of artistic practices from video-making, hobby TTRPG dice-making, and music to fine-art, metalsmithing, and computer-aided design. She completed her BFA at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2019. Her work has been presented in We Are SNAG: Appropriated Adornment — online exhibition (2018), Matter of Course — Oregon College of Art and Craft in association with SNAG(2018), the 2018 Student Commission Award for Art on the Vine, and the online student exhibition for the Enamelist Society (2018).
Winona currently resides and practices in Portland, Oregon, working full-time as a stop-motion animation puppet-fabricator/armaturist, teaching workshops in the evenings and weekends, and pursuing personal craft and hobby TTRPG dice-making on her days off.
Winona will provide technical help to artists during our 2025 collab.
Learn more about Winona and her work: winona-hwang.com
Lisa Klakulak
Lisa Klakulak is an artist and educator living in Asheville, NC with family roots in southeastern Michigan. Klakulak graduated in 1997 with a BFA in Fiber Arts from Colorado State University after a young adulthood exploring sculptural beadwork and knotting. Following numerous cooperative gallery experiences in CO and NM, Klakulak relocated to TN in 2002 and then NC, embedding within the craft school culture and the felting process.
Making and teaching under the guise of STRONGFELT, Klakulak’s work has been recognized through American Craft Council and James Renwick Alliance Awards and publications, such as Fiber Arts, Surface Design Journal, Shuttle Spindle Dyepot, Fiber Art Now, American Craft and several international Felt Journals. Klakulak’s technical approaches to teaching wet felting has placed her workshops and more recently, online coursework, in demand worldwide from regional craft schools to museums, guilds and private ateliers in over a dozen countries.
In 2020, Klakulak pursued an MFA in Sculpture from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design to dig deeper into her attention to the porosity of materials, the space within and between, and processes that modify that internal space. These micro-environments provoke memories of spatial relations in her lived experience.
Kristin Mitsu Shiga
Kristin Mitsu Shiga is a hapa maker, educator and arts administrator currently residing in rural Oregon.
Throughout her career, Kristin's desire to strike balance between her individual studio practice and working as part of a larger team allowed her to build an unusual skillset that includes everything from nonprofit arts administration and grant writing to armature-building for stop-motion animation studios.
From a long line of educators, Kristin is passionate about teaching and has had the opportunity to share with students at venues all over North America including Penland, Arrowmont and Haystack Mountain schools of craft. Her proudest achievements have been establishing nonprofit metalsmithing studios and programs throughout her 30-year career that continue today in New York (OCM BOCES), Oregon (Multnomah Arts Center), and Hawai'i (Donkey Mill Arts Center).
As a maker, Kristin pursues projects that tell a story and actively engage her audience. Her solo work centers around one-of-a-kind wearable art and holloware with an aesthetic that has been described as a "marriage between her Japanese heritage and influences from her early explorations in architecture and the Modernist design movement." She enjoys working collaboratively and both her life and studio practice have been deeply inspired by her participation in various artist collaborations, including the EMMA International Collaboration, CollaboratioNZ, Hawai‘i Artist Collaboration and of course Frogwood.
Learn more about Kristin and her work on Oregon Artbeat (segment originally aired in 2010).
John Strohbehn
John grew up in the rural Eastern Washington town of Dayton. Early on, painting and drawing were encouraged from his father who is an accomplished watercolor artist. In 2006 he graduated with a fine arts degree from Western Washington University with a focus on painting. During college John worked as a graphic designer for a fabrication company that made themed architectural elements and signage. He continued down this path until moving to Hawaii in 2009 where he worked as a graphic designer and sign maker.
In 2012 John met sculptor Bruce Turnbull who inspired him to try sculpture. It was through sculpture that he found his muse as an artist. The process of direct carving raw forms of wood and stone provided him a way of creating that felt intuitive. John's work has been shared in galleries, exhibitions, private commissions and the permanent collection of the State of Hawaii.
In 2019 John and his wife moved back to the Pacific Northwest after the eruption of Kilauea displaced them from their residence in Hawaii. Now residing in Sequim, Washington he continues expanding his studio practice and the adventure that is life and art.
Learn more about John and his work: www.johnstrohbehn.com
Judy Zugish
Judy has been immersed–toenails, armpits & earlobes–in her garden of fibers for over 30 years. Her twin passions are integrated as a professional nursery owner (Bouquet Banque) and basketmaker. Cultivation and nurturing, harvest and prep, weaving from nature’s provisions--each year has been a learning journey that builds skills and knowledge from traditions but also explores uncharted territory. Along the way, Judy began teaching, then co-founded the field school Fishsticks Basketry, inviting guest teachers to bring their special knowledge of materials and techniques to the Northwest. Judy loves to travel, taking the basketry path to Japan and England, Germany and Denmark, Ireland and France, Laos and Thailand, bringing home with her the experience of many cultures. The last 6 years have been a deep immersion into New Zealand and Australia, sharing skills and delighting in the dance of connections. She enjoys the disciplines within the craft, but also the joy and play in new discovery. This is Judy’s special connection with students as she takes barks and roots, vines and sticks in a carryall trunk, teaching across the US and abroad. Her artworks are exhibited widely and you are welcome to visit her garden in person.
Learn more about Judy and her work: www.twigtwisters.com
Instagram: @twigtwisters91
Some of the criteria considered when selecting our Resource Artists:
1. Established artists who have shown a command of their medium(s), through portfolio, recommendation, personal experience with Frogwood Artists Collaborative members, references from other collabs.
2. Demonstrates positive and productive collaboration experiences with other artists; observations from personal experience with Frogwood Artists Collaborative members,references from other artist collabs.
3. Ability and desire to help others not only participate in collaboration but demonstrates and encourages new skills, design, and sharing of making knowledge with others.
4. Candidates from all cultural backgrounds.