#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]

- This song came on on the way to opening night and it really just underscored the feelings I had of arrival, confidence, and unabashed success. So it became the theme song for this outfit and my night. -

Opening Night at SEAF is statement night for me: With it being the first time people see me with my artist badge on, I want my opening outfit to show people exactly who I am. Every year has been different: Year One - I wanted to show up and show off; I'd finally made it and wanted to feel like it // Year Two: I'd been busting the butt all year and felt I earned the right to say I meant business when it came to my art - so I donned an open blazer and high end accessories, a boss uniform.

But this year was a little tougher than the last two: People tried to tarnish my artistic character; I had to realize that and say goodbye to some that left me blowing in the wind...It felt like people made it clear they wanted me to disappear and that others were fine with me disappearing. And honestly, if you asked me 10months ago, I wouldn't even be sure I could tell you I'd be around to see 2023 at all. But despite all that, I was here - in 'real life' and at the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival for the 3rd time in a row.

So for 2023's opening night fit, I wanted to be as visible as possible - a reminder to myself and any opps that I’m not just here, I am a presence here.

 Something about this look was gonna catch that eye: the eyeliner (which really tried to play me but I was able to corral), the sweater (which I incorrectly thought would work as a dress but gave it that Ariana Grande vibe by wearing a sky high mini underneath), the nails, the shoes or the “so wrong its right” socks that I wanted to pop off the rest of the look. I wanted to be wear something that would make me stand out in the crowd because *I* am a stand out.

And, of course, in a sweater by @imrobinthisjoint​ emblazoned with affirmations of creativity and black excellence, I wanted to put on unapologetically for the kids that look like me in the art world, especially when I - a black artist - was displaying a piece shot by a fellow Black artist (the great @lamargphoto on IG), and doing so on a big stage in the shadow of experiencing the socially familiar attempt to write Black creative voices out of the story. So while I wore the sweater to represent, I also wore it as a reminder to myself that all the affirmations printed loudly on it were true about me: They are so impressed; I am divine success; and I did, I do, and I will craft that success my way.

I wanted to show those that tried to overlook or undercut me that your girl is present and in a big way and is impossible to miss. And if you're seeing me here it's because I belong here. Now let's get back to businessz shall we? On to the next one.

[lost-teeth]

far from heaven // acrylic on paper. #lostteethart (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqHQxHzJCAQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Kurt Cobain signing Autographs 1991 ©️📸

[suburbanbonfire]

Breaking, breaking read all about it!!

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

Prints here!

[morggo]

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

[sunnysunmedia]

Seattle tech bro Miku (and Teto)

[leodoodlesstuff]

Fire walk with me 🔥

[effroid]

Your bigotry will never kill our purr-ide ♡

[ljesak]

[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.

[theflann]

i decided to hop on the trend with miku of my own! Seattle Miku!!!

she got a coffee from ghost alley espresso and is running to catch the bus with her orca card!

Happy Birthday Mikuuuuuuu

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Dirt special collection ❤️‍🔥 32 years ago !!!

[tieflingcxre]

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

[suburbanbonfire]

t-shirt that reads "I released the Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena and all I got was massive structural damage" (Prints here!)