2026 Artist Series

The Portland Cherry Bombs FC Artist Series brings local artists into the heart of the club, creating exclusive merch drops for every home match. Each featured design is transformed into a limited-edition poster, t-shirt, coozie, and sticker, available at the stadium during that artist’s game. The series celebrates Portland’s flourishing create scene, match day energy, and the bold spirit of our club. It’s where art meets sport, giving fans a new way to connect with the team while spotlighting the creative community behind it.

Connie Bisson

Connie Bisson (she/her) is a Portland-based graphic designer and self-described nerd who draws inspiration from bold typography, vibrant color, and visual storytelling. Whether she’s designing for print or digital spaces, Connie approaches every project with a love for playful composition and expressive graphic elements.

Much of Connie’s current creative inspiration comes from the fast-paced world of Formula 1, as well as the storytelling found in books, movies, and television. She’s particularly drawn to the way design intersects with personality and spectacle in motorsports, from team branding to driver merchandise lines.

Locally, Connie finds inspiration living in a city surrounded by rain-soaked forests and natural beauty, offering both calm and contrast to the bright, energetic design work she loves to make.

At her core, Connie approaches design with curiosity and humor, bringing a little bit of cheeky fun to everything she creates.

Portfolio: conniebisson.com
Instagram: @conradbisson

Kat Balistreri

Kat Balistreri (she/her) is a Portland-based freelance illustrator and textile artist working under the name Wildkat Studio. Known for her colorful, playful aesthetic, Kat creates artwork across a variety of mediums, from risograph art prints and digital illustrations to handmade felt banners designed to “cozify” everyday spaces.

Her work celebrates imperfection, youthfulness, and personality, often blending bright colors with sketchy, hand-drawn elements that feel spontaneous and expressive. Kat gravitates toward designs that feel joyful and approachable while still carrying a little rebellious edge.

Living in Portland provides endless inspiration for Kat. From the trees and parks that surround the city to the vibrant art scene along streets like Hawthorne and Alberta, she finds creative energy in both nature and community. Local galleries, music venues, and tattoo artists also influence her work, reinforcing her love of bold, personal forms of artistic expression.

Through both illustration and textile art, Kat creates pieces that feel vibrant, playful, and full of character.

Website: wildkatstudio.com
Instagram: @wildkatstudio

Marcos Cisneros

Marcos Cisneros (he/they) is a Portland-based graphic designer and illustrator whose work blends bold graphic style with cultural commentary and personal expression. A proud advocate for BIPOC representation in the art and design world, Marcos views art as a form of activism, using visual storytelling to amplify voices that deserve to be seen and heard.

Working both digitally and traditionally, Marcos often moves between tools like Procreate and graphite on paper. While he enjoys the possibilities of digital illustration, he still values the tactile immediacy of drawing by hand, where ideas can evolve naturally and take unexpected directions.

Marcos draws inspiration from the world around him: strangers on the street, graffiti along the highways, and the everyday visual textures of city life. They also find inspiration in the craftsmanship of overlooked creative work, like the hand-painted signage at local grocery stores.

Living in Portland, Marcos feels a deep connection to the city’s culture and energy, especially downtown, where he finds endless inspiration in the people and environments that shape its character.

Portfolio: marcoscisneros.com
Instagram: @procreatepapi / @mmharcos

Angela Nguyễn

Angela Nguyễn (she/her) is a Vietnamese-American artist, illustrator, and graphic designer from Portland, Oregon. Her work explores creativity as a healing practice, an intuitive, non-linear process rooted in connection, emotion, and the beauty found in everyday moments.

Working across both analog and digital illustration, Angela is drawn to art that exists in public spaces and daily life: street murals, sidewalk art, bus wraps, and bumper stickers. She gravitates toward visual storytelling that feels accessible and joyful, bringing art into the environments people interact with every day.

Angela’s work is often inspired by the natural world and the communities around her. Living in Portland gives her constant access to both, lush green spaces, creative neighborhoods, and a city culture that encourages artistic experimentation.

At the center of her work is a belief that art can celebrate life’s small but meaningful moments, capturing feelings of joy, resilience, and connection.

Portfolio: angelanguyen.world
Instagram: @angela.n

Gina Shaddox

Gina Shaddox (she/her) is an illustrator and fiber artist living in North Portland. Her work blends traditional illustration with textile practices, drawing inspiration from DIY craft culture, music scenes, and the handmade aesthetic of community-driven art.

As a knitter and fiber artist, Gina is deeply interested in the tactile side of creativity, how materials like yarn, thread, and fabric can become part of visual storytelling. Her work often carries the spirit of DIY culture: bold, personal, and rooted in the idea that art doesn’t have to be polished to be powerful.

Originally from very rural Southern Oregon, Gina found in Portland something she hadn’t experienced growing up: a place where people are free to exist as themselves. That sense of openness and creative freedom continues to shape her work today.

Living in St. Johns, a neighborhood she describes as “its own little town,” Gina draws inspiration from Portland’s bridges, train cars, abandoned buildings, and the scrappy creativity of the city’s art scene.

Instagram: @ginamarina_makes_stuff

Mariana Mora

Mariana Mora (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who runs Squiglie Studio, a creative practice that explores design, art direction, production, and sculpture across a wide range of mediums. Working with print, ceramics, and emerging technologies like creative coding, Mariana’s work blends experimentation with craft to produce pieces that feel colorful, playful, and a little bit magical.

Rooted in collaboration and community, Squiglie Studio embraces cross-disciplinary creativity, moving fluidly between digital and physical forms to explore new ways of making and storytelling. Mariana’s artistic influences range widely, drawing inspiration from visionary artists like Hilma af Klint, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Beatriz González.

In Portland, Mariana finds constant inspiration in the city’s creative community and shared spaces where artists gather and experiment together. Places like the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) and local music venues continue to shape the collaborative spirit that drives her work.

Through Squiglie Studio, Mariana creates projects that feel vibrant, expressive, and exploratory, art that invites people into colorful and imaginative worlds.

Website: squiglie.design

Brooke Metropulos