Park Arts AIR of Jantzen Beach is an arts organization founded by Shelbie Loomis to continue a socially engaged art project called The Art We Value (2022). In this project, she continues her collaborations by highlighting neighbors in the Hayden Island RV Park & Mobile Home Community to cultivate public programming for others to share. By activating her neighbors as artists, she aims to bring community, recognition, and value to their passions and publically celebrate the people living on an island under the threat of gentrification. Park Arts and its artists-in-residents have cultivated writing workshops, concerts, share-and-tell presentations, and publications, working individually with each participant to ideate and execute their ideas publically. As a means of documenting these projects, she has created a series of digital drawings. She hopes to bring attention to the island and its people through more arts and socially engaged projects in the future.

Shelbie Loomis (she/her) is a neurodivergent social practice and studio artist. Since graduating with her MFA in Art + Social Practice from Portland State University, she has founded Park Arts AIR of Jantzen Beach on Hayden Island, North Portland. Her artwork explores the Hayden Island community and history, the value of time and labor, relationship building, and grief. She uses her drawings and digital 3D rendering to explore the ephemera of her engagement with her neighbors, hoping it will bring attention to their lives in a changing neighborhood.