PEERY SLOAN
- More Than It Holds (workshop)
Her work moves between common rooms, streets, kitchens, and galleries. She proposes small conditions for collective noticing and asks what becomes possible when people slow down enough to actually look. In 2026, she co-founded the School of Each Other with Rose Lewis, a project that collects and broadcasts knowledge people learned outside any classroom. In 2025, she facilitated What If? Thursdays, a ten-week creative workshop series with residents at the Watershed, a supported housing community in Portland, OR. Recent work includes Seeing the Same Thing Differently, a participatory attention workshop presented at the Liars' Village exhibition in Big Sur, CA, and More Than It Holds, a diorama workshop facilitated at Elbow Room in Portland. Her work has also taken her to the Shetland Islands, the Canary Islands, Scotland, Maine, and elsewhere.
Peery has lived rurally for much of her life, most recently in Big Sur, California, where time is tracked by fire season and the needs of the land + animals. Her interest in overlooked infrastructures, informal knowledge, and what holds communities together probably started there. Walking slowly, feeling what's underfoot, opting out of hustle culture one muddy footprint at a time. She thinks of her practice as tending.
She is pursuing an MFA in Art + Social Practice at Portland State University, has written for the SoFA Journal and The Stove Network, and serves as Program Coordinator at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.