Clyde Petersen

Guemes Island, WA

On view at the Bellevue Arts Museum and online as part of the Bellwether Film Fest.

Clyde Petersen is a transgender Northwest artist, working in film, animation, music, installation and fabulous spectacle. He is the director of Torrey Pines, an autobiographical stop-motion animated feature film. His award-winning work has been featured in museums, galleries, DIY spaces and film festivals around the world. Clyde founded and runs The Fellow Ship Artist Residency on Guemes Island, a free artist residency space for Queer and BIPOC people. He is currently working on two feature films, Even Hell has its Heroes and Our Forbidden Country.

When Home was a Blue Sky

Total running time – 3:14

An old wooden boat journeys north and finds a resting place in the forests of Guemes Island to become a free artist residency space. Shot on Super 8 film.