A 4th generation Chinese American artist, Cheryll Leo-Gwin was born in Canada during the US Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943) and Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act (1923-1947) when Chinese were forbidden immigration in both countries. Her Chinese American father and Chinese Canadian mother married in 1939 and laws of their lands forced them to live apart in […]
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nawa a.h., widely known as Moonyeka (they/he/she) is a chimeric creator who takes shape in and beyond containers of interdisciplinary performing art, writing, and brujxeria. With roots sprawling up and down the west coast, Moonyeka has produced and performed an abundance of events, spotlighting bakla-chimeric perspectives that conjure experiences of the queer erotic, eco-sensual animism, […]
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Romson Regarde Bustillo’s layered works and immersive collaborations are tied to his Philippine lineage, South Seattle-PNW upbringing, and research travels. Carving his own path, Bustillo integrates a printmaking foundation with a transdisciplinary practice. He populates spaces with images, sound, and concepts that explore and question how place, context, and various cues modify, enhance, and divert […]
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Gregg Dietzman (b.1958) is an emerging artist with an interest in music and sculpture. His projects explore the intersections between person, place, and time. He plays traditional music on a concertina arranged with ambient nature sounds, with a special emphasis on reverberant acoustic space. His sculpture has a maritime navigational influence, with plans for an […]
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Seattle artist Jesse Paul Miller has exhibited installations and sculptural/sound works throughout the U.S. His most recent work has been shown at Art Chicago 2002 and at Deadtech in Chicago. His work was featured in Notice of Proposed Land Use Action at Consolidated Works, and Bed of Sound at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. […]
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Iole Alessandrini, a Seattle-based artist and architect who has exhibited works for more than ten years using various media and sculptural elements to create her installations, which often include projected imagery and video, lasers, colored lighting, sent, and sound. In the past two years she has been honored as a Rockefeller Film and Video Fellowship […]
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Christian French is an artist, curator and arts activist who pushes boundaries, connects community, facilitates excitement, and shakes things up. From spandex-suited crusading on public transportation to shipping container concerts, his eclectic and non-conformist gestures deliver on the promise of art’s ability to conduct and disturb. Originally trained in photography and experimental cinema, Christian moved […]
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KT Niehoff is an artist whose focus is the complex relationship between bodies and space. She creates multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, immersive performance environments, with highly crafted audience participation. These experiences both integrate and transcend choreography, music, design, film and technology, narrative and audience/artist proximity. In 1992, KT was invited by choreographic pioneer Pat Graney to perform […]
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Tania Kupczak is a Seattle-based media artist. “I’m a discourse surfer in theater, film, and visual art. The natural sciences are my first love. I make graphics and set decorate for motion pictures and design/build sets for live performance. I draw and paint, and have started to learn how to bend neon. I enjoy collaboration. […]
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Rene Yung is a San Francisco-based installation artist, designer, and writer, who explores issues of culture and identity through multi-layered works, often combining imagery and text. A native of Hong Kong, Yung investigates the transcultural experience by deploying a broad range of information and production systems, to question assumptions about culture and community. Yung has […]
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