Humaira Abid
Visual Arts / Sculpture
Humaira Abid gathers the ordinary objects from everyday life and transforms them into something extraordinary. Her turned and carved wood sculpture and paintings—known for their exquisite detail—depict human relationships, societal repression, and the consequences of keeping basic truths from being discussed and shared.
Kelly Bjork
Visual Arts / Illustration
Kelly Bjork depicts a world of tenderness, acceptance, and vulnerability in order to share the sensations of emotional wellbeing that she aims to foster in her life and in her community. Bjork was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Iole Alessandrini
Visual Arts / Mixed Media
Iole Alessandrini is an artist and architect from Italy who has been living in Seattle since 1994. Her work is monumental in scale and uses light as a primary medium. Alessandrini was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Bellevue Arts Museum
“Bellevue Arts Museum provides a public forum for the community to contemplate, appreciate, and discuss visual culture. We work with audiences, artists, makers, and designers to understand our shared experience of the world.” Bellevue Arts Museum was one of the sites for Bellwether 2018 and 2019
Ben Beres
Visual Arts / Printmaking
Ben Beres is a Seattle-based artist who has been printmaking for the past two decades, with a focus on creating detailed works through the process of etching on copper.
Kamari Bright
Visual Arts / Mixed Media
Driven by the desire to chronicle history-in-the-making through the innovative use of poetry, comics, books, film, and occasionally fashion; the work produced by Kamari Bright aims to inspire all creative souls, from young to seasoned. Bright was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Lydia Boss
Visual Arts / Sculpture
Lydia Boss is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates themes of identity, time, and nature through a feminist, millennial lens. Boss graduated with a BFA from Bowling Green State University in 2012 and has studied at the International Glass School in Novy Bor, Czech Republic and Pilchuck Glass School. Boss has exhibited her work internationally and was featured in Bellwether 2019.
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Monyee Chau
Visual Arts / Mixed Media
Monyee Chau is a Seattle-based contemporary Taiwanese, Chinese American artist who explores the journey of healing through decolonization and reconnecting with their roots and ancestors through a variety of mediums. Chau was also featured in Bellwether 2018 and 2019.
Zac Culler
Visual Arts / Painting & Sculpture
Zachary Culler is a painter and sculptor living and working in Seattle, WA. He cofounded the artist team known as SuttonBeresCuller in 1999 and continues to work with his two collaborators Ben Beres and John Sutton while maintaining his solo practice. Culler was featured in Bellwether 2018.
Fernanda D’Agostino
Visual Arts / Moving Image
Fernanda D’Agostino is a sculptor and artist and is a pioneer in the use of outdoor video projections in public art. D’Agostino has been commissioned for many large-scale public works throughout the U.S. and has been featured in exhibitions around the world.
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Performing Arts / Live Performance
Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) makes live performances inspired by punk, comics, cinema, nightmares and fairy tales driven by live music and our own style of visceral movement theater and dance. The group is comprised of artists Haruko Crow Nishimura, Joshua Kohl, Elizabeth Jameson, Wyly Astley and Willow Fox. DAE was also featured in Bellwether 2019.
Jed Dunkerley
Visual Arts / Painting
As an artist who majored in geology in college, Dunkerley has always been consumed by the aesthetics of intersection between built environments and the natural forces of entropy. Dunkerley was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Baso Fibonacci
Visual Arts / Mural
Baso Fibonacci is a painter and muralist living and working in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. His work highlights the intersection of urban and natural realms, a juxtaposition of the Northwest’s distinctive wildlife against a backdrop of contemporary street culture and its art. Fibonacci was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Janet Galore
Interdisciplinary Works
Janet Galore is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Seattle. She has worked at the intersection of art and technology for over 20 years, exploring themes in science, perception, humor and the surreal through short film, animation, installation and multimedia. Galore was one of the curators of Bellwether 2019.
Damien gilley
Visual Arts / Mural
I create large scale murals, wall drawings, and installations using architectural structure and illusion to interpret cultural realities. Gilley was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Cable Griffith
Visual Arts / Painting
Cable Griffith’s work reflects our complex relationship to landscape, filtered through the influence of technology and popular culture. Griffith has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Linda Hodges Gallery, the Frye Art Museum, and Bellevue Arts Museum. Griffith was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
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Erin Kendig
Visual Arts / Painting & Illustration
“I'm an artist based in Seattle, Washington. Currently, I'm spending most of my art-making time making original works on paper—generally using watercolor, gouache, and ink.” Kendig was also featured in Bellwether 2018.
Greg Lundgren
Visual & Interactive Arts
Greg Lundgren is an artist, author and curator who started Museum of Museums, a new contemporary art space in downtown Seattle. With multiple galleries, installations, videos, murals and other unconventional programming, MoM is designed to support artists from throughout the Pacific Northwest and actively address, and augment our local arts eco-system. Lundgren was also featured in Bellwether 2018 as part of the ensemble PDL.
Cynthia Masterson
Visual Arts / Beadworks
Cynthia Masterson (Comanche), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, now lives and beads in Seattle, Washington. She is a self-taught beadworker doing a traditional bead weaving technique. Masterson was featured in Bellwether 2019.
Gabriel Mintz
Performing Arts / Music
“You don’t yet know you like (Gabriel Mintz).” –Seattle Weekly
Tuan Nguyen
Visual Arts / Mixed Media
Tuan Nguyen is a painter, sculptor and Director of Education at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Nguyen was featured in Bellwether 2019.
Leah Meridoc Nguyen
Visual Arts / Painting
I work to create healing patterns that heal places, people, and relationships between humans and our environment. They help us deepen our relationship to our higher self and the place we live. Nguyen was featured in Bellwether 2019.
Maja Petrić
Visual Arts / Sculpture
Maja Petrić is an artist creating immersive installations and dynamic sculptures that evoke the sublimity of nature. Evoking nature allows her to engage people with their innate connection with the environment and other fellow humans to the degree that one can recognize unity with something greater than oneself in a vast and interconnected universe.
Lydia Ramsey
Performing Arts / Music
Seattle's Lydia Ramsey is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, praised for the almost vintage quality of her voice. Her songs convey both the wildness and free nature of traditional folk music and feature melodic fingerpicked-guitar backing up her beautiful voice.
Sara Rastegarpouyani
Visual Arts & Performance
“My research study and artistic practice are focused on a time-dependent concept which is the gradual destruction of cultural heritage and cultural identity, also the relationship between the cultural identity and human rights.” Rastegarpouyani was featured in Bellwether 2018.
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Jenny Robinson
Visual Arts / Printmaking
Interested in the peculiar transience of the urban built environment, the impermanence of what is ostensibly permanent, Robinson’s practice emerges from the observation and study of a variety of structures and architectures that frame the contemporary urban experience. Robinson was featured in Bellwether 2018.
SuttonBeresCuller
Visual Arts / Mixed Media
SuttonBeresCuller is a group of three Seattle based artists—John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler—who have worked collaboratively since 2000. The trio’s work ranges in presentation from gallery works, to installation, performance, and public projects. SuttonBeresCuller curated Bellwether 2018 and provide ongoing creative direction for the festival.
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Visual Arts / Photography
“I construct narratives, scenes, and stories which point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. I utilize autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience. Gestures of alienation and displacement are both the aesthetic and subject of much of my work.” Valenzuela was featured in Bellwether 2018.
Joey Veltkamp
Visual Arts / Fabric Works
Joey Veltkamp makes text-based fabric work and drawings. His work has been shown at Seattle Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, Frye Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Greg Kucera Gallery, SOIL, and other beloved Seattle institutions. Veltkamp was featured in Bellwether 2018.
Angelina VIllalobos
Visual Arts / Mural
Angelina Villalobos, pseudonym 179 grew up in Seattle, Washington within a mosaic of cultures and ideas. Having been raised Americanized Mexican Catholic, Angelina’s work mixes the elements of her upbringing along with her interests to create a very unique style exclusive to her personality. Villalobos was also a curator for Bellwether 2019.
