Monkeyflower Studio is a project that was dreamed up on the banks of the Salinas River in California and is currently being built in Portland, Oregon by Meg Michel.

Meg is an environmental artist, writer, and educator with a focus on global, decolonized climate justice; systems change towards regeneration and healing; environmental histories and social ecologies; celebrating the diversity and interdependence of life.

Please reach out if you are interested in buying a print, commissioning art, or collaborating!

Pricing is always based on pay-what-you-can/gift economy principles. 10% of any art purchased will be donated to local Native-led organizations as a form of voluntary land tax.

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Land Acknowledgement:

In an art practice that typically depicts North American landscapes, it is critical to acknowledge and pay respect to the Tribal Nations who have lived on Turtle Island since time immemorial and do so much to steward and heal broken ecological and human systems today.

Much of the artwork to date has been created in California on the unceded, ancestral homeland of yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash people and the Salinan Tribe. Moving forward, art will be created in the Portland area, which rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.

To participate in reconciliation and land back efforts, 10% of any art purchased will be donated to local Native-led organizations as a form of voluntary land tax. Please also learn more about the Indigenous histories of your local area and how you can support Indigenous organizing and land stewardship work.