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

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!)