2025 Pacific Northwest Drawers

Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts is pleased to announce the 58 artists selected for the 2025 Pacific Northwest Drawers. Each artist showcases a series of 10 photographic works, which will be on view in the Pacific Northwest Drawers flat files from April 2025 through March 2026 and on our website in perpetuity.  These selections showcase the range and vibrancy of Pacific Northwest artists working in the photographic medium.

Blue Sky received a huge number of submissions for its 18th iteration of the Pacific Northwest Drawers. The exhibition was juried by Julia Dolan, the Minor White Senior Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum. The 2025 cohort comprises a strong showing from Blue Sky’s home state, with 38 artists from Oregon. Other artists hail from Washington (11), British Columbia, Canada (3), Alaska (1), Idaho (2), and Montana (3). The photographic work includes both lens-based and alternative processes, with a range of themes including identity, environment, connection, and social issues.

After a decade of unusually acute socio-political upheaval, and five years on from the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, artists remain deeply affected and work through their new realities through this medium we love.

- Julia Dolan, 2025 Juror