Erin Elyse Burns’s interdisciplinary art practice navigates territory within the disciplines of photography, video, installation, the performative gesture, and artifact. Her work is often influenced by an attraction to overwhelming landscapes. She casts herself as a figure within these environments in order to create experiences that evoke a sense of the picturesque, the vulnerable, and […]
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Naima Lowe comes from a long line of Black people who make things. She has parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-great grandparents who are musicians, fashion designers, Sunday school teachers, waitresses, and field hands. Through them she inherited a lineage and aesthetic of Black cultural production that is as enigmatic as it is discernible. These people […]
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Kay D. Ray was the senior film producer for Experience Music Project where she developed and created over 85 films and just produced and directed the films for the new Museum of History and Industry in Seattle exhibit Edible City. She also created all the exhibit films for the new MOHAI opening, Celluloid Seattle and […]
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Amy Erickson grew up near Detroit in the ’60s in a family of singers. This, along with the music of Motown and Burt Bacharach blaring on her kitchen radio, helped her learn to sing by ear. She also loved to dance and started working at age 13 to take jazz dance lessons. These, combined with […]
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Beth Harrington is a producer, director and writer whose work most often explores American history, music and culture. Her documentary about the pioneering women of rock & roll Welcome to the Club – The Women of Rockabilly, was honored with a 2003 Grammy nomination. Her latest film The Winding Stream – The Carters, the Cashes […]
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Thérèse Casper received her undergraduate Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and has spent the last 20 years in public sector communications and project management. Currently, she is a project manager at the Seattle Department of Transportation where she manages over $60 million in transportation projects. She is responsible for all aspects of project development and […]
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ilvs strauss is an analytical chemist turned multi-disciplinary performance artist and theater tech living and making work in Seattle. Her art cuts a wide swath across disciplines, ranging from Dance Narrative performance to anamorphic outdoor sculptures, illustrated storytelling (aka Slide Shows) to haiku poetry. She also leads workshops on writing, movement, performance and the ever […]
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Jason Everett (aka Mister E) is a performer, composer, and producer who plays a variety of stringed and percussive instruments with his primary instrument being his seven-string fretless bass guitar. Jason attended Northern Arizona University on a full scholarship for music and started playing professionally at sixteen years old. Jason has played music outside of […]
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Sushma Kallam is descended from a long line of Indian farmers in villages close to the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh state. During her childhood she lived for a year in the peaceful village dwelling of her grandparents, and has since returned there frequently. After earning an engineering degree in India she came to the […]
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Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based, multi-media artist. She describes her work as “a continuing investigation of what lies between the ephemeral and the eternal.” Her Pyrographs and Aquagraphs are drawings made by fire and water, capturing and eternalizing the immediacy of a moment, while her installations and performance-based work are about ever-evolving states of […]
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