Renko Ishida Dempster. a.k.a. Suiren (Water Lily), artist name given to her by her father, was born and brought up in San Francisco, California. She inherited Japanese aesthetics and Buddhist philosophy from her parents. Upon moving from San Francisco to Seattle, Renko engaged in formal art studies at the (now defunct) Factory of Visual Art […]
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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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Jenny Lesser Holman is a multidisciplinary artist from Seattle, Washington. Her paintings use organic shapes and electric colors to represent multi-perspective narratives and dreamscapes. Jenny’s painted comics can be found in Narrative Magazine, Shenandoah, The Offing, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and other places. She makes functional art furniture in collaboration with interior designers, turning paintings into […]
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