Vee Hua 華婷婷For the 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival, Seattle interdisciplinary arts organization LANGSTON portrays an expansive definition of Blackness in film. With stories representing experiences of African Americans, immigrants, those living beyond...
With Sea of Vapors — Emily Counts‘ largest and most complex installation to-date — the mixed media artist presents an experience situated in a dreamstate beyond time and space. Drawing from past memories and imagined alternate...
NNAMDÏ is the type of multidisciplinary artist whose playful approach to creativity renders him instantly disarming. The Chicago-based musician, whose real name is Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, makes art that is bursting — no, EXPLODING! — with...
Alison Jean SmithThe first time I saw Seattle photographer Eirik Johnson‘s Leviathan series, I was both transfixed and confused. What exactly was I looking at? One piece depicted great swaths of navy blue, striped with light like layers of sediment. Another...
Simultaneously an idyllic dream and a raging nightmare, video artist Michelle McKay‘s latest music video for Portland musician and multimedia artist Veronica “Vern” Avola (who goes by the moniker Avola) is an unbelievable journey through...
Katharina BrinschwitzAmidst a swarm of climate doomsday media, Tesla Kawakami (they/them) paints a timeline of stories about earthly beings and their shifting relationships to their planet through drastic and dangerous climate change. Though depicting a range of...
Headlining multiple days of sold out shows, Jamaican-American musician Masego is partway through his national “You Never Visit Me” tour, named after the single on his latest self-titled, full-length record. On March 18, he took the stage...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 returns virtually and in-person, with events taking place from January 19 to 29. This list of short films represents our favorites out of this year’s nine short film programs — which include six focused...