Visual Arts
Studio Sessions: Lila Alexis Thomas
After curating a group exhibition that celebrates life in the Black community, artist Lila Alexis Thomas is bringing her emotionally driven work to two additional summer shows—and teaching drawing along the way.
Painter and educator Lila Alexis Thomas is having a busy summer. In addition to curating the group show This Room is Ours: Centering the Black Figure, on view through July 18 at ARTS at King Street Station, Thomas is heading up programming connected to the exhibition—she will host a figure drawing workshop July 11th—as well…
Studio Sessions: Nakisa Dehpanah
Artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s new show uses suspended textile forms and movement to explore identity as something layered and always changing.
Seattle artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s work hovers between sculpture and performance. First developed during a residency at Base Art Space, Suspended Selves is now on view at Method Gallery in Pioneer Square, where billowy, vessel-like sheer fabric forms hang with geometric clay elements integrated into them. They seem like soft shelters or skins waiting for an…
Studio Sessions: Eirik Johnson
In a residency hosted by Foster/White Gallery, local photographer Eirik Johnson observes the collision between nature and humanity, and the longing by the latter to leave a mark in place and time.
Most people view the advent of summer as a signal to slow down and relax, but for artist Eirik Johnson, this year’s warming months are a time to ramp up as he prepares to debut two creative projects. Born and raised in Seattle, Johnson, whose deeply emotional photography covers a range of subjects, will release a…
Best in Show: Schack Art Center’s Annual Juried Exhibition Opens in Everett
This spring, Everett’s Schack Art Center opened Present Tense: 24th Annual Juried Exhibition. A longstanding tradition, the show will feature pieces from artists working in a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, glass, ceramics, printmaking, photography, and mixed media. “We select emerging artists and those with well-established practices,” says Schack’s marketing and communications manager, Aaron…
Studio Sessions: Jo Cosme
The Seattle-based multimedia artist and 2026 Neddy Award winner challenges the postcard version of Puerto Rico and centers the persistence of its people.
Jo Cosme knows how seductive a postcard can be. The Seattle-based Boricua (Puerto Rican) multimedia artist works across photography, installation, video, sound, and interactive elements to examine and pull apart how Puerto Rico is seen, sold, and misunderstood from the outside. Trained in photojournalism, with a BFA in photography from Puerto Rico School of Fine…
Studio Sessions: Sangram Majumdar
Working at the confluence of history, culture, and various painting traditions, UW associate professor Sangram Majumdar is one of this year’s Neddy Artist Award winners.
Discover the art of UW professor Sangram Majumdar, a 2026 Neddy Artist Award winner. Learn about his inspiration and upcoming Seattle exhibition at Cornish.
Madrona Gets a New Gallery
Interior designer Michelle Dirkse and artist Jeremy Prim bring a new art-centered space to the neighborhood.
Interior designer Michelle Dirkse has centered art in her work for more than a decade. Since launching her firm in 2013, Dirkse has earned a reputation for building projects around unique, cheeky, and ultimately striking pieces. Even as a new designer, she supported local artists, often handing over the keys to her studio. “When I…
Studio Sessions: Timothy White Eagle
The multidisciplinary artist’s new Mini Mart City Park exhibition listens to the Duwamish River as a living force.
The river is still moving. That is the idea behind Once Wild River, Timothy White Eagle’s new exhibition. The artist has spent the past year thinking about the Duwamish River as a living force with a long memory and its own direction. Over time, the river has been straightened, dredged, filled, polluted, studied, cleaned, and…
Creation in the Balance
Artist Gabriel-Bello Díaz utilizes classic materials and tech-forward methods to produce pieces that straddle the line between past and present—and feel wholly of the moment.
Discover how Seattle artist Gabriel-Bello Díaz blends 3D printing, robotics, and Taino mythology in his “Ancestral Future” show at King Street Station.
Studio Sessions: Yaminee Patel
A second generation Indian American, artist Yaminee Patel uses her work to explore her heritage, a childhood growing up in the Midwest, and the larger economic and cultural factors surrounding agricultural practices around the world.
Over the past year, Yaminee Patel has narrowed her artistic focus, centering rice as the medium for her work. A symbol of sustenance, survival, hard work, and culinary tradition, rice is a deeply important element in many cultures around the world. It also represents the idea of sharing a meal together, creating human-to-human connection, which…
Chihuly Returns to Venice
The Tacoma-born artist marks 30 years since ‘Chihuly Over Venice’ with three new glass works along the Grand Canal.
We’re standing on the Accademia Bridge in Venice, watching massive cardboard boxes marked “FRAGILE” craned up from a barge. It’s a few weeks before the opening of Dale Chihuly’s new exhibit, and from this vantage point, we can see all three monumental works on the Grand Canal being assembled. “It really did start here,” says…
Studio Sessions: Raili Jänese
The Kirkland painter brings a playful eye to daily life and the little rituals of being human.
Artist Raili Jänese pays close attention to the small stuff. It might be a goose on the move, a rabbit in the yard, or a person lost in the rituals of coffee or cooking. The Estonian-born artist, now based in Kirkland, makes colorful acrylic works that turn everyday behavior—human and animal alike—into something funny and…
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