Molly Alloy (they/them, b. 1981 St. Louis, MO/ Osage and Illiniwek land) makes sculptures that claim driftwood and leather as conduits of ancestral presence, shaped into assertions of collective queer immortality. As a consultant they offer grants and development support, systems design and values integration, and leadership coaching, advancing community efforts to dismantle systems of oppression and welcome the thriving future we deserve. As founding Codirector and designer of Five Oaks Museum, a radical queer anti-racist decolonial project enacted upon a county historical society, they established the values that continue to guide their work: body, land, truth, justice, and community.
Based in Portland, OR since 2008, on the land of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, bands of Chinook, and many other Tribes, 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, have been featured and published in national and local publications, and have been the recipient of several awards and appointments. Alloy is a founding member of First Brick, queer curatorial collective, and Needle In A Gay Stack artist collaboration. They are a certified guide of Lama Rod Owens’ Seven Homecomings meditation, a student collaborator of Whale Whisperer, Michaela Harrison, and a beginning practitioner of their ancestral Celtic animist traditions. They are parent to a powerful young one, and in their home they operate The Drift, an informal trans+ community space.