Bio

Joyce “the Maker” Campbell grew up in a working-class home in Olympia, WA, where creativity and resourcefulness were not just skills learned but a way of life.  Influenced by both traditional feminine craft and more by masculine trades like welding and carpentry, she learned to be creative, while in an environment of scarcity. To see not only what something is, but what it could become. This practice of creating what is needed with whatever is on hand, shaped her approach to art and design, teaching her to find value in the overlooked things like discarded objects, industrial scraps, and other under-appreciated or industrial materials, and turn them into something unique.

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, craft and design to create all kinds of things, from sculpture to stationary to home goods and furniture. When she’s not making, she’s organizing workshops, teaching Community Ed at Portland Community College, or finding ways to bring people together to build a community that thrives through making.