Maureen Whiting is a choreographer, dancer, and mathematician based in Oakland, California. Her work was supported in Seattle for over 20 years by On the Boards, Seattle University, Velocity Dance and ACT Theatre where she also developed “Ramayana” with nationally acclaimed directors. She taught dance at Seattle University’s Theatre Department for 3 years and has […]
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Of mixed Navajo (Diné) and Euro-American heritage, John Feodorov grew up in the suburbs of Southern California in the city of Whittier, just east of Los Angeles. He and his family made annual visits to his grandparent’s homestead in New Mexico as a child. The time he spent there continues to influence his creative practice. […]
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After coming of an age sandwiched between two Iraq wars, Mike got into art school but quit New York’s Pratt Institute after his freshman year in 1997 to pursue a variety of interests from experimental art to collectibles. Leading up to the 1999 WTO protests, Mike built portable homeless shelters used in sanctioned Seattle tent […]
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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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