New Media Gallery Artist Talk: HAMPI

June 12, 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Event Details

Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist River Coello discusses their installation HAMPI (“medicine” in Quechua), a multilingual, multimedia, autobiographical, and autoethnographic project chronicling their journey of ancestral reconnection to the Andean cosmovision.

The exhibition features photographs and artifacts collected by Coello during their travels in Ecuador and Peru, along with the project’s various collaborative elements, including handmade physical poetry art books with For the Birds Trapped in Airports, illustrations with Kiki Lechuga-Dupont, textile samples with LMRM, and a Quechua-language soundscape with Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Doors open at 6:30. Talk starts at 7pm in person, or online via YouTube or Facebook.

Location

4261 Roosevelt Way NESeattle, WA 98105United States