Susan Starbuck

October 13, 2023

Susan Starbuck is emeritus at Antioch University, Seattle, where she taught literature, history, and writing in education. She is the author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment (2002), a biography of an early Seattle activist who embraced a wide variety of social, political, and environmental causes. Artist Support Program 2002: Radio documentary on the life […]

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Martin Bucher

October 9, 2023

Artist Support Program 2003: Writer and Producer Martin Bucher worked with storytellers who have various disabilities to create a radio theater program to share the experiences and thoughts of these fascinating storytellers who rarely have an opportunity to be heard.

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Brian Goedde

October 9, 2023

Brian Goedde is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, he has written personal essays for The New York Times, The Seattle Review, and Full Grown People (The Other Awkward Age), among other publications. Artist Support Program 2003: Record and produce […]

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Cheryll Leo-Gwin

September 14, 2023

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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Brigid Kelly

April 4, 2023

Brigid Kelly is a documentarian and artist from the Midwest. Her wanderings through rural and urban America spawn projects that explore missing histories and the contributions of overlooked activists, artists, and everyday people. Her work has appeared on NPR’s Code Switch, KCRW’s All Things Considered, PBS, and other networks. Presence, a documentary-based collaborative work, appeared in the Crossing The Line […]

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Kelsen Caldwell & Ross Kirshenbaum

March 20, 2023

The Shakeup is a new podcast about bus driving in Seattle/King County, hosted, edited, and produced by two Metro Drivers, Kelsen Caldwell and Ross Kirshenbaum. As bus drivers traversing our city in the midst of a global pandemic and late stage capitalism, our podcast will share stories from fellow operators, bus passengers, mechanics, and bus […]

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Jasmine Iona Brown & Dr. Paul Jackson

March 17, 2023

Jasmine Iona Brown and Paul Jackson Ph.D. are married creatives. Jasmine earned her BFA from Howard University and MA from UCLA. She is a public artist, specializing in photo murals and sculpture, and arts administrator. She also started her own art academy teaching youth how to make digital art and electronic music. Paul earned his […]

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Robert Francis Flor

March 14, 2023

Robert Francis Flor, poet and playwright, is a Seattle native from the Central District and Rainier Valley.  His plays largely revolve around Seattle’s Filipino community and its interplay with American society. Ten-minute plays “The Injury” (2013), “Pinoy Hill” (2014), and “Pinakbet” (2015) were performed in the Eclectic Theatre Festival. Mabuhay Majesty, a full- length play, was […]

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Sharece Anissa Phillips

March 16, 2022

Sharece Anissa Phillips is a Seattle-based designer and interdisciplinary artist whose inspiration comes from the dissection of narrative art and the interconnection of creativity and emotional wellness. Works including jewelry and other modes of wearable sculptures, djing, collage, and podcast/oral history- offering a meditation on identity, duality, and the relativity of perception. Phillips is a […]

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Amelia Winger-Bearskin

March 15, 2022

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida.  She is the inventor of Honor Native […]

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