Alexandra Schaefers was born and raised in Corvallis, Oregon. She graduated from Crescent Valley High School in 1992 and attended The Evergreen State College for two years, studying postmodernism and performing arts.

 

Knowing that music was not her career, but feeling it was worth studying, she left school and studied alto saxophone privately in Portland, Oregon and Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

 

When that misadventure was over she moved back to Portland and began trying in earnest to be enlightened. Luckily, she wasn't very good at sitting still to meditate. She spent lots of time making artist books, painting large, gaudy pieces in tempera on banner paper, and participating in local poetry open mics.

 

Eventually she came to her senses and began taking art classes. It was not long before she was enrolled full-time at Portland Community College studying calligraphy, design, drawing, painting and printmaking.

 

In 2008, Alexandra returned to The Evergreen State college where she studied installation and language as art. She finished her Bachelor of Arts that spring and is currently plotting her next adventure.