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...
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Navi EsparzaWith 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...
Vee Hua 華婷婷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...
Before I even enter the apartment of Mexican artist Amecas — real name Américo Castillo, from which his artist name is born — I am greeted at the front door by Pakal, his hairless Mexican dog. Also known in Nahuatl as a Xoloitzcuintle...
For gallerist and curator Avery Barnes, opening her first art gallery, TASWIRA, has been an intentional journey of learning in public. The gallery has slowly evolved and honed its vision in the Pacific Northwest since its initial concept was...
Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist Scott Méxcal is always ready to branch out to engage new mediums and new communities — through centering Latinx or Chicano identity, as well as uplifting issues of multiculturalism, assimilation, white...
Contemporary Icelandic artists have long been exemplary in their extra-sensorial willingness to merge artistic mediums, which are often inspired by the natural beauty around them. Films documenting live concerts that are played in outdoor settings...
Anna BrunnerIn Korean-Canadian filmmaker Jerome Yoo’s debut narrative feature film, Mongrels (2024), Yoo depicts a family attempting to put back the pieces of their broken lives. Building invisible walls between one another, the Lee family’s desperate need for...