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Molly Alloy (they/them, b. 1981 St. Louis, MO/ Osage land) is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working near the intersection of two great rivers surrounded by the remnants of pine forest and oak savannah; the traditional lands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, and many other Indigenous peoples, colonially known as Portland, OR. Alloy works within the positionality of a queer, non-binary, trans, white settler, and that of a spouse and parent. Alloy’s sculptures claim driftwood and leather as remnants of ancestral presence which they shape into material contemplations of collective queer immortality. As a founding Codirector of Five Oaks Museum, on Tualatin Kalapuya land, they orient their work towards the protection of body, land, truth, justice, and community. Alloy holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Art from Pacific Northwest College of Art. They have exhibited in group and solo shows nationally, and have been the recipient of the 2004 Margaret Mergentine Award for Excellence in Fiber Arts, the 2017 Artist in Residence of the Oregon Bee Project, and a 2019 residency with PLAYA Summer Lake.