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Dan Friday (he/him) “Creativity was fostered in me by my family from an early age. Living without TV and knowing our rich cultural heritage of the Lummi Nation meant that making things with our hands was a regular activity. I typically work with simple themes and forms, and often employ subtle silhouettes when making my […]

Michelle Kumata (she/her) Michelle Kumata is an artist and Seattle native with a BFA in Illustration from The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. She worked as a graphic artist at The Seattle Times for over a decade. She also served as Exhibit Director at Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American […]

Yolanda Galery (she/her) Yolanda’s art is a vibrant celebration of melanated people, capturing the beauty and diversity of their skin tones, cultures, and stories. Through the rich and dynamic use of color, she aim to illuminate the strength, resilience, and grace that emanates from individuals with rich melanin. Each brushstroke is a testament to the […]

Toka Valu (he/him) Toka is a Pacific Islander Artist and Illustrator of Tongan descent with over twenty years visual arts work. His influences are informed by his cultural upbringing in the Kingdom of Tonga and cultivated by the Duwamish lands he now calls home in the Pacific NW. Toka’s practice integrates both his Tongan identity […]

Nico Inzerella (he/him) Nico is a Mexican American multimedia artist, born and raised between Southern California and Seattle. The themes and images of Nico’s art often reflect Indigenous life and immigration throughout the Americas. Preserving his family culture is important to him and he does this through his artwork. Over the past 20 years, he’s […]

Moses Sun (he/his) Seattle-based artist, curator and community organizer, Moses Sun fuses hip-hop, jazz, afro-futurism, and the black southern diaspora of his childhood. The result is a mix of visuals that blurs the lines between digital and tactile art. Sun draws much of his inspiration from Black, African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latinx diasporas. His […]

Marisol Morales (she/her) Marisol Morales is a Chicana artivist based in Seattle. As a proud daughter of farmworkers, Marisol cares deeply about community, conservation, and social justice — all values instilled by her parents. These values are reflected in her artwork, where she brings attention to important issues like farmworker justice and conservation. Her artwork […]

Le’Ecia Farmer (she/her) Le’Ecia’s work visually explores the soft and fluid edges around collective existence, migration, grief, symbiosis, and sustainability — suggesting that the fragmented parts of the Black diaspora experience are inevitably moving towards convergence and reformation (and therefore are inevitably whole at each and every stage and in each and every realm). Her […]

Lauren Iida (she/her) Lauren shares her time between Seattle and Cambodia, exhibiting her work, creating public art installations, and mentoring and representing emerging contemporary Cambodian artists through Open Studio Cambodia. Other major influences include her family’s Japanese American heritage and incarceration during WWII, and celebrating her Pacific Northwest home. Her main medium is intricately hand-cut […]

Juan Alonso-Rodriguez (he/him) Juan is a Cuban-born, self-taught artist whose transition from music to visual arts coincided with his move to Seattle in 1982. Since then, he has been a vital fixture in the PNW art community and devoted himself to the development of young artists and the Latine/x community. Juan’s work is an on-going […]