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Artist & Educator Alaya Dannu Interview: Dreaming Beyond Boundaries
Alaya Dannu is not your average dreamer. With a nearly life-long practice rooted deeply in ancestral dreaming, the transdisciplinary Mesa, Arizona-based artist regularly acquires new knowledge, skills,...
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Hernan Vargas Artist Interview: Clay Sculptures for Multi-Sensory Play
When I enter the shared studio space of Argentinian artist Hernan Vargas — who presently works out of Casa de Todas Partes, a collaborative venue in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico — I am immediately greeted...
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Phillip Gladkov Artist Interview: Using Birch Bark Animation to Tell the...
Over the course of the past three years, Los Angeles-based Russian-American artist, filmmaker, and illustrator Phillip Gladkov has been working on his first mixed media animated short film, Story of...
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A Bolt from the Blue: A Taste of the Caribbean with Simon Benjamin
On a cloudy day in early April, Black art gallery Wa Na Nari partnered with Black Cinema Collective to showcase a screening of five short films from New York-based Caribbean multi-disciplinary artist...
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Anida Yoeu Ali Artist Interview: A Cambodian Muslim Woman Demands to Be Seen
In the Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence exhibit at Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), multidisciplinary artist Anida Yoeu Ali invites guests into a wonderland featuring two of her most iconic art pieces:...
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Soo Hong Artist Interview: Repetition, Reinvention & Not Staying Still
Painter and visual artist Soo Hong refuses to stay still. As an artist who constantly challenges herself to experience fulfillment through her artistic practice, Hong’s paintings mirror the fluidity of...
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Cierra G. Rowe Artist Interview: Connections in Spirit, Energy & Nature
According to rural Kentucky-based painter Cierra G. Rowe, she doesn’t live in a region of country that is particularly known for its contemporary or challenging art. Yet through many years of using the...
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Rodney King Artist Interview: Honoring a Love of Black Culture
Washington-based painter and artist Rodney King has the appeal of a seasoned pro who’s been honing his craft his entire life – but he only began painting seriously four years ago. Now, King is...
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Nahom Ghirmay Artist Interview: Crossing Continents, Curating Colors
As an immigrant who traversed multiple continents from a young age, self-taught Seattle-based artist Nahom Ghirmay has seen a lot of life. He incorporates his vast multicultural sensibilities into...
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Mongrels Film Interview: Jerome Yoo’s Korean-Canadian Exploration of Grief...
In Korean-Canadian filmmaker Jerome Yoo’s debut narrative feature film, Mongrels (2024), Yoo depicts a family attempting to put back the pieces of their broken lives. Building invisible walls between...
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Faux Flora Art Show Review: Fischersund Presents Life Stages Thru Sound,...
Contemporary Icelandic artists have long been exemplary in their extra-sensorial willingness to merge artistic mediums, which are often inspired by the natural beauty around them. Films documenting...
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Scott Méxcal Artist Interview: When All Creative Work is Political
Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist Scott Méxcal is always ready to branch out to engage new mediums and new communities — through centering Latinx or Chicano identity, as well as uplifting issues...
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TASWIRA Gallery Interview: Contemporary African Art in the Pacific Northwest
For gallerist and curator Avery Barnes, opening her first art gallery, TASWIRA, has been an intentional journey of learning in public. The gallery has slowly evolved and honed its vision in the Pacific...
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