manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. They studied linguistics (BA Reed College 2014). abreu works in text, ephemeral sculpture, and what is at hand in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics.
Sharon Arnold is a queer essayist and sometimes educator who weaves social philosophy and cultural theory into a personal practice of folk traditions through the examination of art, histories, folklore, community ecosystems, and solidarity movements to support new paths forward.
Elizabeth Arzani is an American artist and art educator currently living and working in Luxembourg.
Madeline Berkman is a mixed media visual artist and MFA candidate studying Arts Leadership at Seattle University.
Gabriel Brown is an Artist/Garbologist, Arts Administrator, and Shoe Cobbler from the Pacific Northwest. He earned a Master’s degree in Fine Art at WSU, and served two years in Americorps before moving to Tacoma in 2011.
Daniel Coka was born in New Jersey, USA. He grew up in a Latino migrant community from Ecuadorian parents. Coka has lived in between the US and Ecuador since he was born in 1990. His work is a constant exploration of identity, in which the label cuir (Spanish for queer) has prompted an intense questioning process, while also addressing race, nationality, latinidad and masculinity. He currently lives and works in Portland OR.
Monyee Chau is a Taiwanese/Chinese American artist, eater, creator, community member.
Tom Eykemans is Design Director at Lucia | Marquand, an art book producer in Seattle, founder of Tome Press, and co-organizer of the postponed Seattle Art Book Fair.
Stefanie Fatooh is a scholar and dance artist based in Seattle, WA. She is currently earning her MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University and engaged in research about the potential for decolonial, anti-racist work in the dance sector as well as amplifying the voices of traditional artists and culture bearers.
Leon Finley is an interdisciplinary artist and queer, trans person from Seattle. His work is created from his experience having a physical and spiritual body and explores relationships between all kinds of bodies: human, animal, plant, object, sound, energy and the unseen.
Beleszove Wildish Josivu Foldlanya is a copper thread in the Web of Life and serves all Life; her experiences living with invisibile disabilities and as a formerly homeless person have only deepened her capacity for compassion, justice and being a force for good for Gaia and all living beings.
Eli Howey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Their artwork incorporates the imaginal spaces within physical landscapes to explore the body's relationship to the unseen world, to build a visual language that allows for interpretations that are expansive and symbolic.
Jaleesa Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work explores the black female body as both subject and material through performance, video, photography, sculpture and collage.
Raven Juarez is an artist, presenter and educator in Seattle, WA. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Child Psychology/Development and Visual Arts, and currently teaches at Roaring Mouse Creative Arts Preschool.
Alan Lau is a Seattle-based poet, visual artist and cultural worker. He is represented by ArtXchange Gallery in Seattle and serves as Arts Editor for the International Examiner.
mario lemafa is an artist, writer, and independent organizer based in Coast Salish territory.
Francesca Lohmann was raised in the foothills of Northern California, and now lives and works in the Pacific Northwest. Trained in Printmaking, her practice continues to be concerned with material in time, imprints, boundaries, repetitions, affinities, and points of contact.
Ashley Stull Meyers is a writer, editor, and independent curator based in Portland, OR.
Christina Montilla is a literary artist, floral designer & director of business operations at Mercer Island Florist, and art-appreciator in the Puget Sound region.
Roin Morigeau is an interdisciplinary artist using drawing, painting, poetry, digital collage and sculpture to explore the dichotomy between matriarchal and patriarchal space. Living with physical limitations and daily chronic pain from a spinal injury, Roin centers their art practice as a form of protest and healing. Roin is a descendant of the Flathead Salish Tribe of Montana and lives in occupied Spokane territories where they were raised.
Negarra A. Kudumu is an independent scholar, published writer, and healer working at the intersection of art and healing with a focus on contemporary art from the Pacific Northwest, Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas.
Jasmine Mahmoud is writer, curator, arts advocate, and historian of art and performance based in Seattle, WA.
Rob Rhee is a rubbernecker, a collector of accidents, a writer, visual artist, and educator based in Seattle, WA.
Amelia Rina is a writer and editor based in Portland, OR, on the unceded territories of the Clackamas and Cowlitz nations. In 2020 she founded Variable West, the first platform to provide a comprehensive calendar of art events and exhibitions on the West Coast.
Carol Roscoe was raised in the Midwest and now makes a home in the Pacific Northwest amidst theater, film, writing, and educating.
E.T. Russian is a multi-sensory artist, maker of zines, comics and videos, disability justice advocate, healer and educator living in unceded Duwamish territory. Russian is a 2020 Arc Artist Fellow.
Aurora San Miguel is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Seattle.
Cedar Sigo is a poet, editor and occasional critic. He lives in Lofall, Washington.
Kati Simek is a visual artist and advocate currently based in Seattle.
Meshell Sturgis is a queer, Black, femme scholar and artist from Lakewood, WA. 🤷🏾️
Asia Tail is an artist, curator, and arts organizer based in Tacoma, Washington. She works as the Program Manager for Native Action Network, and as a freelance creative consultant for local organizations. Asia is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and a proud member of the diverse urban Native community in the Pacific Northwest.
garima thakur is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in New Delhi. Her registered alien number is A ****** . She works through narratives and multitudinous realities and multitudinous of realities of assimilation, alienation and collectivism. She is currently stationed in Portland, OR, and works as an assistant professor of interaction media and graphic design at Western Oregon University.
Markel Uriu is an interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle, WA. Her work explores ephemerality, internal and external landscapes, and the relationship between human culture and the environment.
Carol Zou is an artist, writer, educator, and cultural organizer who has worked for over a decade on the relationship between arts, culture, community, and activism. She believes that we are most free when we help others get free.