In Indigenous rock band Khu.éex”s latest single, “We Pray,” listeners may just find a remedy for hope in a time of great pain and need worldwide. With band members based in both...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷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...
Saelyx FinnaIn 2014, Yanomami shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa co-authored The Falling Sky, a landmark work chronicling the Yanomami’s Indigenous worldview and warning of the dire consequences of environmental destruction. Ten years after the...
According to rural Kentucky-based painter Cierra G. Rowe, she doesn’t live in a region of country that is particularly known for its contemporary or challenging art. Yet through many years of using the canvas to work through her own traumas...
Before Mexico City’s Sonido Gallo Negro took the stage at the Nectar Lounge in Seattle, the evening had already been beautifully anticipating their presence. Such anticipation began at the entryway, where the band’s swaggy merch – full...
2024 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which started on May 9. Though SIFF has historically been one of the longest film festivals in the entire country, it has since scaled down the duration of its in...
Alaya Dannu is not your average dreamer. With a nearly life-long practice rooted deeply in ancestral dreaming, the transdisciplinary Mesa, Arizona-based artist regularly acquires new knowledge, skills, and insights in her dreams that shape her...
Dreaming: that thing we all do every night, whether or not we remember it, like it, or can make any sense of it. Through most of human history, dreams have played a central role in shaping daily life. And yet, many of us rarely talk about dreaming...