#seattle artists

[friday-tea]

PNW visual artists, please submit examples of work to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com if you would like to install at our tea house for a month in 2025!

[secondblooms]

She looks strong because she is strong. She is also sad, she is also joyful.

She grieves in one breath the hardships of the world, and breathes out the calm and love she has to give.

And when she has none to give, she breathes in the love that someone else has offered her, an offering that is simple and also enormous.

She goes about her day, reapplies her lipstick when it's faded, and smiles.

Art by one of my personal favorites: Anna Goranson Hooser

[ilovejoyjessie]

Hidden Figures #1 (Wake by Richard Serra) || II.

Leaning into that feeling of minisculity I focused my poses on what the feeling would look like physically: I balled myself up and played with smaller poses accented by little angled touches for dimension. And in those poses, as I bent and stooped and balanced and shrunk, surrounded by these figures, the amount of space between myself and Wake's structures became even more noticeable.

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I felt like a small speck between the vastness of its walls,

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a tiny interloper between pieces and foundations that had stood together for decades.

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And all that space began to emphasize another feeling that was familiar....A feeling of

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isolation,

even in the presence of others.

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And in that moment, between these iconic structures rising in the center of Seattle, it was not lost on me that the feeling Wake's walls were stirring in me I'd experienced many times, not far from where I was standing...

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It was not lost on me that, similarly to the way I joined the structures of Wake, I've been allowed to be a part of the scenery of some of Seattle's groups, allowed to get close to the figures within it. But upon closer inspection, no matter how deeply I slunk myself into them, there were still gaps between myself and my fellow figures: social, emotional, cultural gaps that I couldn't seem to close.

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I may have arched and waved in ways similar to the shapes surrounding me, but my curves were still a little too rounded, my angles a little too sharp to fit into its storied pockets. I was still sticking out and felt it more and more, year after year.

[ys2fm]

A heavily tattooed arm, bending at the elbow as a sleeve is rolled up of a dirty Charlie xcx brat hoodie. The neon green stained by street life, the arm being bent to be shot into

[dangimgood]

High towers

[iliothermia]

If there's any artists on here from Seattle who'd like to table during White Center pride for FREE here's a link for y'all to the info! This place is really sweet and they're having a hard time finding applicants to fill the space. There will be a food truck and bands but if sound is a worry, the band will be on the other side of the building. Just want to share this opportunity in case.

[mcbiteypantspresents]

Murderbot is about to become my whole personality. I adore the books and can’t wait for the series!! Anyway I made some fanart, please enjoy… it’s up on my Redbubble!

Follow me on Instagram!

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Alice In Chains ⛓️‍💥

[allanodyne]

seasons change as I wait

by AllanOdyne

[spectral-shots]

almost dystopian

[mcromwell]

Come join me at Distant Worlds Coffeehouse on March 21st for a FREE collage night! Bring supplies, or don't! Dig into my personal collage hoard and see what you can make! [QR Code links here]

[ilovejoyjessie]

Hidden Figures #3 (Wandering Rocks by Tony Smith) || IV.

By this point in Skyclad and I's rolling through the park - while we'd gotten through the first couple of figures I'd wanted to pose with with no disturbances by passersby - as we prepared to move on to the next, a wild Entitled-To-Take-A-Stance Seattlite appeared and in peak form. I saw the man and his companion approaching and quickly pulled my tulle skirt - which doubled as my modesty garment - as we waited for them to pass. Seeing us taking photos and posing within the structure, Perre's Ventaglio III at the moment, he took quite the umprage with what we were up and- instead of simply raising an eyebrow and carrying along with his early morning walk, made sure to make loud, passive aggressive commentary about us posing within the structures, "Doing it for 'the 'Gram'" and engaging in "anything for social media".

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Little did he know how he was casually exhibiting one of the fascinating dichotomies I've noticed from some in the area that helped inspire the idea for Hidden Figures in the first place: We love art, live in an area where art surrounds us and where art can be found all over, and we have no problem with art....but if we see people making it in a way they "shouldn't be", we must inform them with a scoffing air of "You clearly don't know how to appreciate this the /right/ way." "Not that way and not in my public space," the man's reaction to us conveyed as he continued to chastise two artists that dared to create in "his" space, interrupting his peaceful morning stroll - so much so that he chastised all the way up the path until the two saw someone they could point us out to so that person knew what we were "up to". (I wonder how he feels about Banksy or Keith Herring and if he thought they were truly ruining the walls of the buildings they created on...I wonder how his friends responded when he told them later how he "busted a couple of people within sculptures at the park", minding their own business and quietly taking photos at 7 in the morning...and similarly wonder if his companion was used to his aggressively condescending behavior or was too embarrassed to say anything to him about exhibiting it...but I digress...).

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We deduced that he likely let a security guard know that we were "up to something" within the sculptures because, as we rounded the bend up to where Wandering Rocks was stationed, Skyclad and I noticed that security guard walking slowly, keeping an extra eye on us as we made our way up the park and stopped at one more piece along the way. Rocks was one of the main pieces I knew I wanted to pose with before we arrived there so when we finally made it there, Skyclad and I were cautious to stay outside of its roped boundaries so that we could get at least some shots with it in case the now-on-alert security guard shooed us along. Though they weren't exactly what I had envisioned, the shots quickly snapped looked lovely...but I knew there was more I had to say, more I had to give to the scene - a few images I had seen in my head that I needed to bring to life.

As we continued working around the ropes, I noticed the security guard start to round the bend we'd just come from where I knew he wouldn't be able to see us. If I didn't at least try to get within the ropes and closer to the pieces, I knew that I'd leave the park with regret over not being able to create the images I saw in my head that moved me the most... Besides, how many of our favorite art pieces have been made by breaking a rule or two? All I wanted to do was interact with the Olympic Park sculptures with reverance and respect, taking their art and letting them inspire me.

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I told Skyclad I was going to just hop in and pose quickly, that I wouldn't feel like I did as much as I could have with Wandering Rocks if I didn't at least try to get closer to them and I'm so grateful they agreed. "I'll just keep hitting the shutter button", they said, so that whatever happened, we got at least a couple of the images I wanted to make the most. And here, my pre-photo day visions came in handy as I ran straight to the positions I knew I wanted to execute.

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And while ultimately the situation was low stakes (truly, the worst that could've happened would be that we'd be asked to leave), I felt exhilarated - bravely taking the chance to create art the way I wanted to, engaging in artistic "debauchery" to create something that was meaningful. While I envisioned some of the photos where I ran through the pieces, they also were real moments of carefree liberation as I realized I was doing exactly what I wanted in that moment - a feeling I don't feel I experience often. In those moments I was right where I wanted to be doing exactly what I wanted to.

[suburbanbonfire]

Breaking, breaking read all about it!!

Tried my hand at a vintage style to celebrate the winter classic!

Prints here!

[dangimgood]

You're in a bowl

[morggo]

Seattle! Come to my first ever solo show next week! It will be available to view until mid-February.

[tieflingcxre]

seattle miku. shes on her way home from her morning shift at the bigfoot java drive thru