Willa Goettling (b. 1992, Seattle, WA) is an artist and educator primarily working in printmaking, bookmaking, and site-specific multi-media installation. Their work investigates the effects of exploitative labor practices on human and environmental health, informed in part by their  family’s history working in manual labor. They weave short non-fiction narrative together with textural illustration and hand-printed imagery to locate moments of curiosity (an opening) and revelation in the face of environmental degradation and systems collapse.

They received their MFA in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Art from Columbia College Chicago (2019) and their BA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from the University of Washington (2014). While at Columbia they were awarded a three-year Graduate Assistantship and received an Albert P Weisman Award for their MFA thesis.  They have participated in residencies and fellowships at EFA Project Space (2023), the Center for Artistic Activism (2020), and the Journal of Artists’ Books (2019-2021). They have taught publishing and print workshops at Parsons, Ugly Duckling Presse, Interference Archive, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center, among other organizations across the country. They currently live in Seattle and work as a gardener.