Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation formed in 1991 by Jesse Minkert to create, operate, and promote projects that make the arts in the State of Washington more accessible to people with visual impairments. Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences’ mission is to serve the blind and visually impaired residents of […]
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Nina Fry is a transatlantic actor, director and producer. She began as a series regular in a BBC children’s television series at age 12. After leaving the series, she gained a BFA in Acting from Drama Centre London and went on to act in film, theatre and television. Since moving to the US in 2010, […]
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jade wong is an experimental filmmaker, musician, and cook born and based in Seattle. They are deeply informed by their family’s history in restaurant work, in their role as a caretaker for their grandmother, and in the networks of care and resistance developed amongst their queer kin. They collage with non-fiction, sound, craft, and performance […]
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Aubrey Birdwell is a new media and installation artist whose practice merges post-digital aesthetics, computational processes, and media archaeology. His work explores architectures of language, disappearance, and digital decay through hybrid systems of light, code, and material. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.A. & B.S. dual […]
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Juliet McMains is a filmmaker, video installation artist, dance scholar, educator, and lifelong practitioner of improvisational social dance. She strives to translate the kinesthetic experiences of dancing to digital forms through cinematographic, editing, and video mapping techniques. Her artistic research is in dialogue with her academic research, which interrogates systems of gendered and racial power […]
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Timea Tihanyi is a Hungarian born interdisciplinary visual artist and ceramicist living and working in Seattle, Washington. Tihanyi holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; a BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. Tihanyi’s work has been […]
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Nhatt Nichols (she/her) is a multidisciplinary journalist, poet, and artist whose work focuses on the intersections of humans, animals, and their environment. A graduate of The Royal Drawing School in London, she uses words and images to cover food and environmental issues using solutions journalism practices for High Country News, Edible Magazine, Civil Eats, Modern Farmer, […]
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Named Northwest Emerging Artist of the Year by Earshot Jazz, Jahnvi Madan is an Indian American clarinetist and composer based in Seattle. As a bandleader, she has performed her original music at several well-known Jazz Festivals, including the Washington D.C. Women in Jazz Festival, the Westerlies Festival, and recently at Earshot Jazz Festival, as their […]
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Mia Mulvey’s studio process investigates the environment, wonder, and material and digital technologies. Conceptually, her work addresses the recording of time, climate change, and our relationship to remote landscapes. This line of inquiry is supported by her overall creative practice and interest in the interplay between art/science and ceramics/technology. She received her MFA from Cranbrook […]
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KTNA (かたな) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and musician based in Seattle, operating under the creative vision of Entangled Oceans. As the first Black female visual artist with major works displayed at Western Washington University, KTNA uses art to transform spaces and create pathways to healing and resilience. Supported by the Langston Hughes Performing Arts […]
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