May Maylisa Cat is a multidisciplinary artist and critic whose work spans new media, performance art, sculpture, and installation. Her projects have received support from the Franklin Furnace Fund; Oregon Arts Commission; Open Signal New Media Fellowship; and Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, OR. In June 2022, Cat earned the Lilla Jewel Award, […]
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Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, and performer whose research focus is on Black women’s creative production and use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her current book manuscript argues that Black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently […]
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Mary Coss is an interdisciplinary artist known for her haunting installations that provide commentary on the human condition. Born in Detroit, she received her MFA from Syracuse University, Dept. of Experimental Studios. This hybrid sculpture and media department introduced a life-long interest in layering social relevance with sculpture, projection and sound. Coss re-contextualizes common artifacts […]
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Marijke Keyser is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher based in Seattle. She earned her BFA at the University of Washington, and her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her work stems from an obsession with place & time, and takes many forms; from map-like paintings and prints, to walking performances, to […]
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Vania Clemons Bynum is a former Computer Engineer who utilizes the ingenuity of making software to create dance. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, Vania has taught and choreographed throughout the Greater Seattle area for almost 20 years. She performed in the Paramount & Moore Theaters, Intiman Theatre, Benaroya Hall, the Meydenbauer, and […]
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Nichole Rathburn is a Seattle-based animator, sculptor, instructor and freelancer. Artist Support Program 2012: Create the soundtrack for 1000 Ports, a four-channel animation piece on view at 4Culture’s E4C media gallery from June 2012 through June 2013. 1000 Ports from Nichole Rathburn on Vimeo.
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Salome MC is an Iranian musician, multimedia artist, writer and educator. She is the first woman rapper/hiphop producer of Iran, where she helped shape the hiphop scene in early 2000’s. In 2010 Salome moved to Japan after being awarded the MEXT scholarship, and received her M.A. in Audiovisual Arts at Tohoku University of Arts and […]
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Luann Bice is a Seattle artist who believes in the power of story and art to incite conversations about challenging topics. Using her personal history as a reference point, she reflects upon realities of growing older, explores the ephemeral but cyclical nature of human existence and works to disrupt cultural myths. Her work employs a […]
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Yunmi Her has been working with video installation and interactive art to explore the daily internal conflict of individual lives. An individual’s sense of belonging is the dominant subject of most of her works. These works explore this subject by examining the environmental limitations, social systems, and relationships that contribute to the construction of individual […]
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Julia Freeman grew up in a suburb outside of Kansas City, Missouri. Freeman graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with her MFA in Fibers and has lived in Seattle the past 15 years as an artist, curator and teacher. Four years ago she co-founded The Alice, a curatorial collective which prioritizes supporting underrepresented […]
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