About Shir

Shir Ly Grisanti, pronounced Shēr Lē and meaning “my song” in Hebrew, goes by they/them and she/her pronouns. Shir nurtures a traditional family, a couple of unconventionally structured businesses, a magickal woodland, and a budding art practice.

In 2012-’13 Shir founded c3:initiative in Portland, Oregon, a nonprofit private operating foundation that stewards resources and energy in solidarity with artists, practitioners, and partner organizations whose work addresses social systems that cause dis-ease in our collective lives. The artist residency program, Stelo, is c3’s first established branch, with wellness and environmental justices offshoots in conception and incubation phases. Concurrently, Shir co-leads with her husband Laurence the rewilding, restoration, and operations at Camp Colton, an 85-acre majestic forest in rural Oregon.

After hosting a school pod in the basement while working on both businesses remotely and onsite through a year of pandemic lockdown, Shir took a sabbatical year to cultivate their personal creative voice and enrolled in the Post-Bacc program at Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Their work is guided by a dual-nondual view of life, a deep knowing that everything is interconnected, and that personal wellness is imperative to social wellness is imperative to ecological wellness.