Staff Team, 2025

2026 Art Salvage board of directors

STAFF


Kale (she/her), Reuse Specialist & Social Media Content Creator

  • Favorite craft/art media: printmaking and collaging

  • What diy project are you most proud of: When I collected forgotten grocery lists at the store and made a collage out of them.

  • Your most unusual skill/ trait: I can recite Princess Leia’s message to Obi-Wan in a New Hope, from memory.

  • Other gig: I love volunteering at local art markets and enjoy getting involved in any STEM related events.

  • What superpower would you want to have: Teleporting

  • Tea or coffee: Tea, especially matcha!


Laura (she/her), Donation Specialist

  • Favorite craft/art media: contemporary quilting

  • Your most unusual skill/ trait: Pattern recognition

  • Most unusual item you have recycled/ repurposed: Zero waste quilt using scraps and lost blocks

  • What superpower would you want to have: Telekinesis

  • Favorite place you have ever lived: right where I am now, in Spokane

  • Tea or coffee: Coffee- always with cream and sugar


Jared (he/him) Sanitation Specialist

  • Hobbies: Camping, watching sports

  • Favorite craft/ art media: Paint

  • Pets: Dogs, cats and rabbit

  • How others describe you: Very friendly

  • Favorite thing about Spokane: Riverfront Park, Chiefs Hockey, GU Basketball

  • What superpower would you want to have: Flight

  • Tea or coffee: Root beer or OJ


Iris (she/her), Volunteer Specialist

  • Hobbies: thrifting, crafting, collaging, junk journaling, reading

  • Your most unusual skill/ trait: I am trilingual! I am a native English and Spanish speaker and also studied French

  • Favorite place you have ever lived: Tacoma, WA

  • Most unusual item you have recycled/ repurposed: old guitar picks to make earrings

  • What superpower would you want to have: communicating with animals

  • Tea or coffee: Coffee


Kat (she/they), Reuse Specialist- Merchandiser

  • Favorite craft/ art media: books- making them, writing them, repurposing them

  • Pets: Bandit (orange tabby cat) and Jumble (calico cat)

  • Other gig: Poet

  • Most unusual item you have recycled/ repurposed: I once made an art piece by hollowing out and old box-style TV and filling it with wasp nests.

  • Favorite thing about Spokane: the river

  • Tea or Coffee: Coffee


Alara (she/her) Reuse Specialist- Merchandiser

  • Favorite section at Art Salvage: Yarn and vintage. I love new yarn and old trinkets!

  • Hobbies: Birdwatching, card games, video games, card game video games, bird video games, bird card games, and bird card game video games.

  • What diy project are you most proud of: Hand-drawn Magic cards, and making a cardboard kingdom for my late fancy rats.

  • Favorite thing about Spokane: Nice friendly people, big beautiful birds, and yellow bellied marmots!

  • Favorite book(s): The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Dylan Scholinski and The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson.

  • Tea or coffee: Iced americano with caramel and cream, or good old pour-over coffee. 


Katie Patterson Larson (she/her), Executive Director/ Founder

  • Favorite section at Art Salvage: Bulk, the mixed media and weird things are the best.

  • Hobbies: Hiking, making things in the kitchen and fixing my old house.

  • DIY project I'm proud of: Homemade deodorant and conditioner. Still working on a DIY shampoo.

  • Favorite thing about Spokane: The artists and makers

  • What superpower would you want to have: Time travel (but just to observe!)

  • Tea or coffee: Green Tea


BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Remelisa Cullitan
President

Carmen Perez-Frayne
Vice President

Sandie Rathbun
Treasurer

Heather Remund
Secretary

Laura Spradley

Shellie Kafton

Tori Thurman

Cristina Aranda

Bonni Yordi