Casey

Featured Artist for September-December 2026

Casey is a low vision artist, community builder, and lifelong believer that art is for everyone. From childhood, Casey was drawn to creating art and dreamed of becoming an art teacher. Today, that passion continues through painting, tactile art, and sharing creative experiences with others, including through the Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Casey’s primary mediums are acrylic paint and digital media, with a particular love for abstract and tactile painting. Their work explores color, texture, depth, movement, and the distortion of space. Large-scale tactile pieces invite viewers to experience a landscape not only through sight, but through touch: feeling curves, mounds, layers, and changing textures much like moving through nature.

Natural environments are Casey’s greatest muse. Beauty can be found everywhere, from mountains set against telephone poles to a dirty pothole suddenly shimmering in the light. Casey is fascinated by the contrast between the natural world and the human world, and by the colors and details we often overlook in everyday life. Finding that harsh beauty in Alaska is an important part of Casey’s creative process.

Changes in Casey’s vision have also become part of their artistic language. Living with low vision means that fine details and edges can be difficult to see, but rather than allowing that to end their artistic practice, Casey has embraced abstraction and surrealism. Their paintings often explore doubled imagery, uncertain edges, and the feeling of moving through a world that cannot always be seen clearly. Layers of acrylic build upon textured surfaces, sometimes hiding earlier colors beneath them. Even when a color disappears, Casey knows it is still there, adding life and depth to the finished piece.

For Casey, art is also a way to express emotion without apology. It can be calming, energizing, exploratory, and deeply personal. Through tactile art, Casey hopes people can experience movement and emotion through their hands while also discovering that they can create something themselves.

Being an advocate for creativity, Casey believes that artistic ability isn’t something reserved for people who are “born artistic.” Art is a human form of expression, and everyone can learn to use it. Whether through a painting, a few lines, or even a stick figure, art gives us a way to get an idea or emotion out into the world.

Casey is also passionate about creating community through the Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, helping build spaces where blind and low vision individuals can connect, find information, participate, and create. They believe that third spaces and shared experiences help shape a stronger Anchorage—and that people who are blind or have low vision are already part of all of our communities, whether we realize it or not.

Outside of creating art and community, Casey enjoys rock hounding, painting, and exploring the textures and colors of the world around them. Their upcoming ideas include a piece meant to evoke the curiosity, adventure, and magic of summers spent outside.

And at the center of all of it is one simple belief:

Art is for everyone.