Helen Lessick is an artist explorer. Her broad palette spans sculpture, installation, artists’ books and conceptual and performance art. She has been honored with solo museum and gallery shows across the United States and with national and international artists’ residences, fellowships and projects. Committed to art in the public realm, Helen works outside the studio. […]
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Sandy Cioffi is a leader and big picture thinker. As a Stranger Genius Award nominee, Sandy has been recognized as a cultural innovator producing groundbreaking projects in Seattle and beyond. She has founded starts-ups, run community college departments, led creative direction for corporate clients, and created cultural convenings to move the needle on pressing social […]
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Knox Gardner is the publisher of Entre Ríos Books, a poetry press based in Seattle focusing on Northwest writers in collaboration and translation. When he finds the time, he also writes poems. His debut collection, Woodland, with music by Aaron Otheim, was a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist in 2020. Artist Support Program 1999
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Bill Jarcho has been an animation director / creative director; creating shorts, station ID’s, commercials, and videos for Nickelodeon, MTV, ABC Saturday Morning TV, and the Committee for Children, to name a few. He has directed episodes of Eddie Murphy’s animated series “The PJ’s” on Fox TV and created and performed giant puppets and puppet […]
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Gregg Loughridge is a performance artist who has been exploring ways that new media (e.g. digital imagery, video and audio, 3D animation) can revitalize and augment live theatrical performances. Artist Support Program 2001: Sound track for two musical scenes from a new theatre/new media piece entitled Falling Women, Lost Boys (or the Death of Peter […]
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Maureen Whiting is a choreographer, dancer, and mathematician based in Oakland, California. Her work was supported in Seattle for over 20 years by On the Boards, Seattle University, Velocity Dance and ACT Theatre where she also developed “Ramayana” with nationally acclaimed directors. She taught dance at Seattle University’s Theatre Department for 3 years and has […]
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Of mixed Navajo (Diné) and Euro-American heritage, John Feodorov grew up in the suburbs of Southern California in the city of Whittier, just east of Los Angeles. He and his family made annual visits to his grandparent’s homestead in New Mexico as a child. The time he spent there continues to influence his creative practice. […]
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After coming of an age sandwiched between two Iraq wars, Mike got into art school but quit New York’s Pratt Institute after his freshman year in 1997 to pursue a variety of interests from experimental art to collectibles. Leading up to the 1999 WTO protests, Mike built portable homeless shelters used in sanctioned Seattle tent […]
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A 4th generation Chinese American artist, Cheryll Leo-Gwin was born in Canada during the US Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943) and Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act (1923-1947) when Chinese were forbidden immigration in both countries. Her Chinese American father and Chinese Canadian mother married in 1939 and laws of their lands forced them to live apart in […]
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nawa a.h., widely known as Moonyeka (they/he/she) is a chimeric creator who takes shape in and beyond containers of interdisciplinary performing art, writing, and brujxeria. With roots sprawling up and down the west coast, Moonyeka has produced and performed an abundance of events, spotlighting bakla-chimeric perspectives that conjure experiences of the queer erotic, eco-sensual animism, […]
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