Generator Artists

Ruth Flagg was born and raised in the 89511 and got her BA in Film and Video from CCAC. She also maintains her esthetician license. At home her preferred medium is watercolor, but at the Generator she works on refining her fleece processing and yarn spinning as well as teaching classes on junk journaling and hosts the month Fiber Arts Community Gathering.Her upcoming classes include a yarn making intensive where you can go through each step of the yarn making journey, including making and using a drop spindle, creating art yarn, and even making yarn from recycled silk garments.

Sa Misiura is a Reno, NV-based artist, originally nomadic. Born in Toronto Canada, growing up in the Mojave desert, and coming to age at Cal Poly Humboldt State University, where she received a B.A. in Fine Arts. She remains a multimedia artist, with photography, design, painting, sculpture, and woodworking skills. Currently she has an artist residency at the Reno Generator with aspirations to become an alternative art teacher and mentor.

MonkeyCat's Green Walls are inspired by biophilic design, which seeks to connect individuals to nature by incorporating natural elements in architecture and design, creating a more inviting and calming environment. Exposure to greenery, sunlight, and nature-inspired shapes can reduce stress levels, improve cognitive ability, lower the risk for hypertension, and create a feeling of well-being. MonkeyCat Studio is passionately owned and operated by Liz Brown - a creative, dedicated, and meticulously organized girl boss whose background includes event planning, floral design, prop styling, visual displays, merchandising, and a degree in fine art.

I am a painter specializing in hand painted, large scale banners for sideshows, circus operations and independent sideshow performers. I've completed over 200 pieces, and my work is found around the US as well as Australia, France and England.

Drawing inspiration from the transformative power of decoupage, Jessica Meissner intricately pieces together magazine clippings to craft vivid portraits; each a mosaic of reshaped narratives and reimagined worlds. Her work reflects a profound narrative of transforming the mundane into the extraordinary, one intricately layered piece at a time.

Barry Crawford makes mechanically styled sculptures from steel and found objects. Barry has created sculptures such as Mechateuthis, RatchetFish, and RearingHorse.

Caroline is a Reno Artist who currently has a studio at The Reno Generator, where she volunteers weekly in the textile lab and teaches classes on sewing, painting leather jewelry and more! Check out what Caroline has for sale at an upcoming Third Thursday event.

My creation of “The Tsagasun Baru” Silhouette Fine Art is unique, a new style and form of American Fine Art. The Paper is fragile simple material, and the Scissors are an aggressive tool. “The Tsagasun Baru” Silhouette Fine Art is three-dimensional, you could create phototype or conceptual Art. But you can create whatever you have great ideas for and create your unique world.

I'm a woodworker, designer, and artist working out of the Reno Generator to create playful, natural, and sculptural furniture and design. With a few other craftsfolk here, we have started a Design Build Collective intended to create a safe space for femininity and safe woodspace exploration within the craft spaces.

Heather Lee Dixon aka Daisy Mae is a Reno, NV native but also calls home in Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX. She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA for a couple of years dabbling in painting, life drawing and illustration before finding a career in print media where she was Advertising and Marketing Director for a skateboard magazine. She can be seen in the documentary "DUMB: The Story of Big Brother Magazine," which is ultimately the origin story for Jackass. She played banked track roller derby for the LA Derby Dolls, TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls, and Black Rock City Roller Derby. Her current focus is on installation and assemblage art, with an inclination towards re-embodying old taxidermy. Her work is on display at Upside Down Land at the Potentialist Workshop through the summer. She spends most days, when not doing gig work for IATSE, at the Generator building installations for Unscruz 2024, "Deer GODdess Shrine," and for Burning Man 2024, "Rabbit of Curiosities." Her favorite artists and influences include Edward Kienholz, Mike Kelley, and Niki De Saint Phalle. She aspires to bring more big art to public spaces and festivals.

Amanda Palmer is a self-taught artist who works in traditional drawing and painting mediums such as pen and ink, colored pencil, acrylic, and watercolor. She is deeply interested in social messaging through her art, and how it can be used to leverage the power of communities toward grassroots activism. Her work concentrates on the intersection between the cultural, political, and spiritual concerns surrounding the natural world, in addition to exploring mythological and historical symbolism.

Ashley Rugge is an oil painter, songwriter, and writer based here at The Generator. Her art encompasses a broad spectrum of influences, mainly pulling from ancient Cave Art.Ashley learned to paint from her mother instead of following an academic art path. Learning in this way gave her a great deal of freedom to find her voice in tandem with learning the technical disciplines of fine art. She is an instinctual artist and often describes her process as hunting for the image within a taschist emotional landscape