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Featured Artist & Curator: Alexis Neumann

This year, we’re featuring the work of local artist and disability activist Alexis Neumann for the whole month of May at Sisters Coffee in Portland’s Pearl district. The installation highlights and brings light to the differences in how we all think.

You can view this installation for free anytime during the month of May by going to Sisters Coffee. Enjoy your coffee or a pastry while making a positive impact on over 5,000 women accessing Cascadia’s mental health outpatient services each year.

Support Cascadia this Mental Health Awareness Month through a donation to Heart or by purchasing menstrual hygiene items off our Amazon Wish List.

Sisters Coffee | 1235 NW Marshall St Portland, OR 97209 | Open Daily from 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Artist Spotlight: Alexis Neumann, MFA, MA is a Pacific Northwest installation artist using light, bio-medical imagery, copper, and vinyl to draw attention to the complexities of the human experience while engaging Disability Studies, Intersectionality, Theology, and Cultural Studies. She lives with multiple invisible illnesses including Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and platforms other artists with disabilities through her curation. Her work focuses on and celebrates interconnectedness, intricacy and balance within the body through her use of neural and biological systems and explores resiliency and the metaphysical through sound, light, vibration, and materials.