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 […]
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About the Artist: Toka Valu
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 […]
About the Artist: Nico Inzerella
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 […]
About the Artist: Moses Sun
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 […]
About the Artist: Marisol Morales
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 […]
About the Artist: Le’Ecia Farmer
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 […]
About the Artist: Lauren Iida
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 […]
About the Artist: Juan Alonso-Rodriguez
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 […]
About the Artist: Jay Mason
Jay Mason (he/him) Jay’s work explores everyday urban life, capturing the essence of people, places, and things. Using color and gesture, it reveals the hidden emotions within contemporary culture. His art explores Seattle’s progressive transformation and in doing so documents the changing tides of urban activism — where the viewer can experience the juxtaposition of […]
About the Artist: Gabriel Bello-Diaz
Gabriel Bello-Diaz (he/him) As an artist, Gabriel brings in his experience in the robotic and architectural industry with navigation through culture starting off with his Puerto Rican heritage and his minor in Art and Architectural History. As a multidisciplinary artist he combines many techniques that have been mastered through his years of experience like 3D […]
