Storme Webber is a Two Spirit, Alutiiq/Black/Choctaw, internationally-nurtured poet, playwright, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. She creates blues-influenced, socially-engaged texts and images exploring identity, art activism, and the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, memory and spirit. Storme’s poetry collections include Diaspora, Blues Divine, and the forthcoming Noirish Lesbiana. Her solo theatre works include Buddy Rabbit, […]
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Originally from the greater Los Angeles area, Brandon Aleson relocated to Seattle shortly after finishing undergrad at UC Santa Barbara. Using sound, image, and food (gustation) as means of intervention, he has recently been examining the unintentional and deliberate transference of personality onto inanimate objects, and attempting to elongate and bring into focus the liminal […]
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Martin Jarmick grew up in the Columbia City neighborhood of Seattle experimenting with art, music and film from a young age. After a patchwork of project work, production roles, and countless jobs, he returned to college as an older student and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media […]
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Elizabeth Schiffler is a filmmaker, puppeteer, and scenic designer. Her work stems from her research in comparative mythology, post-humanism, and feminism. She focuses on exploring human and non-human relationships with the natural world through experimental narrative work. Along with participating in the Artist Support Program at Jack Straw, she is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Pacific Science […]
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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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Chun Shao is an artist whose research interests encompass the field of live performance, multimedia installation, e-textiles, physical computing, data-driven art, and speculative design. Her work aims to depict the evolving aesthetic between human body and its technological implementations. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, China, and Japan. She is currently a […]
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L Koo is a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is drawn from the experience of light growing up in Northern California, and explores its solidity despite its intangibility. Having moved away, the recreation of this light becomes an exploration of the displacement of space, and memory. She […]
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Sangjun Yoo is a graduate student in the DXARTS Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. He holds an MFA in Art from the State University of New York at Buffalo and two BFA degrees in Design and Technology at Parsons the New School and Multimedia Design at Hansung University in South Korea. Sangjun’s work has […]
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Ellen Sollod is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Pacific Northwest. Her practice includes large scale, site-specific public art, multimedia temporary installations, artist books, photography and photo-based works. Born in NY and raised in South Carolina, she moved successively north and west, finally alighting in Seattle, where she has made her home for the last […]
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