“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger. Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known for her convention-bucking embrace of the...
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“There’s this kind of an unspoken language between some Native artists … in terms of setting our own definitions of Indigeneity and not having it be the defining throughline in all of our art … we kind of have our own little internal...
Monyee Chau, a self-described “queer artist” and “restaurant baby,” hails from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), in a diverse part of the city where they still have deep connections and feel profound...
“Welcome! On this screen, I’ll be describing the sonic content of the music in this performance,” writes a slide of black text on a yellow background. The words project behind Virginia-based, disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American...
With his debut coffee table book, MORE PAINT, Seattle photographer Brandon Bye takes an expansive look at Seattle’s landscape and ever-changing history. Filled with breathtaking still photographs, MORE PAINT tackles difficult subject matter such as...
Over 50 years after its inaugural fest, Seattle Center’s beloved Bumbershoot Festival returned for its latest celebration of arts and music over the Labor Day weekend, on August 30 and 31, 2025. This year’s lineup included various offerings...
When I first came across the work of multi-hyphenate artist and educator, elijah jamal asani, it was through film. A short film that he made for a video poetry film festival, to be exact. And what struck me immediately – before I even dove deeply...
With their third full-length record, Erospace, Portland-based electronic musician and producer Crystal Quartez — real name Crystal Cortez — offers a sonic reimagining of the definition of love. Based on years of self-reflection and...
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