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Vaughn Bell is an artist who explores the paradoxes and possibilities of how we humans relate to our environment. She has exhibited and installed her sculpture, performance, video and public projects internationally. Venues for her work have included Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Edith Russ Haus for New Media, Espace Fondation EDF Paris, Brightwater Environmental […]
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City Meditation Crew is a fictitious city department tasked with inspiring hurried pedestrians to slow down and notice their environs one moment at a time. Members remain nameless to the extent possible to emphasize what they do rather than who they are. New Media Gallery 2016-17 (with Vaughn Bell): Meditations on Water Artist Support Program […]
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Gabriela Denise Frank is a transdisciplinary artist, editor, educator—and a Jack Straw Writer. Winner of the 2024 Fern Academy Prize, her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Chicago Review, EcoTheo Review, DIAGRAM, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The author of How to Not Become the Breaking (Gateway Literary Press 2025), she serves as creative […]
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Carolyn Law is a studio and public artist. Her work explores how personal experiences of a place and moment shift understanding of one’s private relationship inwardly and outwardly towards the world and the environment. In choreographing pauses in place, she hopes to open doors for people to find an intersection of meanings, and with that […]
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Since the 1990s, ECOSS has been a leading urban environmental nonprofit in Seattle. Formerly known as the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, ECOSS specializes in bridging knowledge and cultural gaps, serving the interests of residents, industry and government. With Co-Artistic Directors Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler, they produced Duwamish Revealed, an ambitious program of site-specific, […]
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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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Alice Gosti is an architect of experiences. While her background is mostly in dance and choreography, she uses all media to create a cohesive environment in which the viewer is invited to both experience and perform. Born and raised by the dynamic art duo SANDFORD&GOSTI in Perugia, Italy, she trained at Associazione Culturale Dance Gallery […]
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Sara Edwards is a performing artist, curator, event-planner, yoga teacher and arts administrator. Director of The People’s Grand Opera, she has performed original music at On the Boards and the Frye Art Museum. Sara founded lounge act Honey Castro, which performs at Vito’s, and is a principal collaborator in The French Project. She has worked […]
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Erin Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Erin is the author of the multimedia memoir, What Hadn’t Happened, winner of a 2013 Digital Storymakers Award Grand Prize in multimedia nonfiction, sponsored by The Atavist and the Pearson Foundation. Her interactive documentary, The Olive Project: An Oral History […]
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