Candice Haster

Candice Haster got her social-justice-art-making start in Missoula, MT over 10 years ago, making giant papier-mache protest puppets. She has continued to use her background in the visual arts to support the movement, creating screen-printed, letterpressed and painted propaganda for fair housing, civic engagement, economic justice, sustainable agriculture, food security, condom access in high schools, and youth-directed actions to save public libraries. Candice is a teacher and community educator, and currently her creative/activist efforts are aimed in the direction of school gardens and food security. Candice taught art and grew vegetables in New York, Rhode Island, and Montana before landing in Portland. She currently runs a therapeutic garden for youth in day-treatment, and if you look closely you may spot some of her tiny letterpress actions around town.