Returning for the second year since it went on a hiatus from 2020 to 2022, Bumbershoot Festival 2024 took place in Seattle Center over August 31 and September 1 – the Saturday and Sunday prior to...
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Navi EsparzaIn the Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence exhibit at Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), multidisciplinary artist Anida Yoeu Ali invites guests into a wonderland featuring two of her most iconic art pieces: The Buddhist Bug and The Red Chador. It is the...
Emily PothastThe exhibition Songs for Ritual and Remembrance is filled with music. Installation view, Songs for Ritual and Remembrance, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. (Credit: Emily Pothast) Upon entering the Arthur Ross Gallery at the...
Vee Hua 華婷婷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...
Akoiya HarrisBorn from a “Black Curatorial Practice” class led by University of Washington (UW) professor Jasmine Mahmoud, the interdisciplinary arts show, we sense, we remember we rest, we dream: We Black, We Surreal emerged from discussions around...
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...
Katharina BrinschwitzPerpetually curious about the nebulous experiences of being human, interdisciplinary artist Jaleesa Johnston uses her art practice to investigate the complexities of Black femininity, as it exists within social consciousness and physical forms. Not...
In the recent past, the term “new media” has grown to encompass artists who work in any sort of digital medium. Under that blanket term, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been gaining traction in many techno-social...