Sarah Morrigan in a few paragraphsThis website, iriscat.info, is the official website of Sarah-Andrea Morrigan. Long-time resident of the Pacific Northwest, Sarah is a working visual artist with several years of track records of exhibitions and commissioned works, as well as a commercial graphic designer and creative art director with a social entrepreneurial mission to use her artistic creativity to showcase and advocate for solidarity economy and economic self-reliance for the marginalized communities and peoples. Her main client base is independent micro-micro enterprises, micro-enterprises and small-to-mid-sized businesses, as well as community non-profit organizations, providing affordable, flexible and scalable graphic communication services to meet their business needs. It is Sarah's specialty to provide an excellence in visual design services in pre-press and corporate identity/branding projects, at a small fraction of what is ordinarily charged by a larger and more established design firms. Sarah's commercial creative art services also include many "old school" art forms that are lost in recent years, such as hand-drawn restaurant menu boards and painted window arts.
Since 2010, Sarah is also a graduate student at Ocean Seminary College, majoring in feminist theology. True to her multicultural and highly ecclectic mind, her coursework and research interests combine Christian feminist theology, neo-pagan thealogy, post-modern missiology, social justice and anti-oppression works and cross-cultural and cross-linguistic explorations, with use of art in spiritual and ecclesiastical practices. In 2005 Sarah was ordained a priest, and began a series of experimental mission projects in North Portland over a period of two years. During the past several years she founded a number of Filianic faith-based organizations, including the Collyridian Filianic Communion (now dissolved), the Centre for Reformed Filianic Studies (now defunct), and the Collyridian Britanic Episcopal Church (became the Collyridian Filianic Communion). In 2012 she moved on to organize the Metroum: A Reformed Filianic General Association. She is also a Mariel Reiki master. Sarah is also a community organizer and advocate for human rights, anti-poverty initiatives and immigrant rights. She is active both locally in Portland and around the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, having joined forces with a number of allied organizations such as Sisters Of The Road, Partnership for Safety and Justice, People of Color Health Equity Coalition, and CAUSA Oregon. In particular, in the spirits and legacies of the Nobel Laureate Frithjof Nansen and "World Citizen Number One" Garry Davis, she advocates for economic and human rights in connection with people's universal access to personal identification documents such as state identification card, drivers' licenses and passports. Last year she co-founded the Jaguar Sisters, a community organization and business association that supports the development of micro-enterprise and mutual support network of women in Portland. The Jaguar Sisters began as an innovative project of the Dorothy Day Community School of Sisters Of The Road, but now it is an autonomous entity, with a supportive relationship with Sisters. Since its start on October 6, 2011, Sarah was a very active part of the #OccupyPortland movement and community. She had occupied the Chapman Square in downtown Portland for the entire duration of the occupation, for 39 days. While there, she founded the #OccupyPortland Interfaith Guild of Chaplains (IGC), coordinated many interfaith and faith-specific services and events, with a team of 20 active chaplains from very diverse backgrounds. She has been interviewed many time by both local and international press. The IGC remains active and continues its activities in close collaboration with the larger #OccupyPortland movement. Sarah is also a great person to talk to if you feel stuck and looking for fresh eyes for new and innovative ideas to get your project or business moving. She offers private and group facilitated creative brainstorming sessions and creativity trainings in Portland, after having served as an assistant and advisory panel member for a number of non-profit executives for several years. If you use Facebook, you can follow Sarah here and here and even here and here. On Twitter, she is @sarahmorrigan. Quick links to Sarah's blogs: 
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This page was created on July 1, 2010; Rosea 19, 3330; last updated on January 19, 2012, Hertha 25, 3331.
Copyright 1995-2012, Sarah-Andrea A. Morrigan.
