Bio

Joyce Campbell grew up in a working-class home in Olympia, WA, where resourcefulness wasn’t just a skill but a necessity. That mindset shaped her approach to art and design, influencing her use of common, often industrial materials and her ability to create with whatever is on hand. Her work connects back to those roots and resonates with others who find familiarity in a blue-collar upbringing.

After earning an A.A.A. in Industrial Design from the Art Institute of Seattle in 2004, she moved to Japan, spending two years teaching English before returning to Olympia to complete a B.A. in Sculpture and Art History at Evergreen State College in 2008. She later earned her MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Pacific Northwest College of Art/Willamette University in 2023.

Now based in Portland, OR, she shares a home with her husband, fellow creative Jeremy Hansen of Lo-Rent Sound, and their two French bulldog mixes, Pony and Dino. In the studio, she blends her backgrounds in art and design to create quirky stationary, sculptural home goods and furniture that bring playfulness into functional objects. When she’s not making, she’s organizing workshops, teaching Community Ed at PCC, or planning events—always finding ways to bring people together and build creative community.

Arist Statment

My work explores the urge to collect and how collections reflect the self while serving as a tool for building community. Collections are born from a connection to an object—or a family of objects—when, at some point, you think to yourself, I like this thing, and I want more of them around me. You continue to think that over and over again until you have built something you're proud of. The connection to that thing can come from a place of emotion (I collect these things to remind me of a fading memory.), curiosity (I collect these things to learn more about something I enjoy.), or ego (I collect these things to have more of them than anyone else.). Regardless of where the drive to collect comes from, the object becomes a self-defining artifact—something that represents you.

When I create a new collection of work, I am building a family of objects that reflects who I am. When I share them with others, I am sharing a piece of myself. In that exchange, I find connection—and in connection, I build community.