Paula Te & Edward Gunawan

In 1965, a CIA-aided military coup marked the beginning of a tumultuous period in Indonesia. The new authoritarian government, perceiving a "Chinese Problem," initiated a series of anti-Chinese policies from 1967-2000. BORN A PROBLEM is an ongoing project by artist Paula Te and poet Edward Gunawan (who are both of Chinese Indonesian descent) that takes the form of erasure poems based on actual laws from this dark chapter of history. The interactive work contains the context behind the redacted text, revealed through augmented reality (AR). As Larry Sommers Fellows, they plan to adapt this work into an artist book. "We will use this opportunity to push how materiality and print processes can elevate the work’s themes of erasure and belonging."

Stephanie Silva Santana

Stephanie Silva Santana is a queer multidisciplinary artist from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico living in Seattle, Washington. She has been taking photographs since very young, focusing on social issues, politics, and growing conflicts back home. Recently, photography has been an inspiration to create linocuts, also dealing with Puerto Rican topics to raise awareness while using two artistic mediums that are easy and accessible to reproduce. She has a Bachelors in Comparative Literature and a minor in Art History from the University of Puerto Rico. She has been part of various collective expositions in Puerto Rico, Seattle, and New York and recently curated a collective exposition in New York. She also published her first poetry book, Horario, in 2022.

Adrienne Wilber

Adrienne Wilber is a mariner and artist from Sitka, Alaska. She draws inspiration from the boats she works on, the crews she works with, the communities of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, and Tlingit Aaní, including the Tongass National Rainforest.

“My art practice is tightly coupled with my profession as a mariner. I draw inspiration from the vessels I work on, the crews I work with, the jobs we do and the ocean and rainforest that feels like home.”

Maria Zamora

Maria Zamora is an Interdisciplinary Visual Artist born in Mérida, Venezuela and based in Seattle where she received her BA with Honors from University of Washington in 2020. With a range of bright and contrasting colors Maria creates energetic, technicolor, collage-like compositions to celebrate her cultural background and the natural world, while attempting to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis in her home country. While expanding her practice in arts, Maria explored the world of textile design as a screen printing apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia in 2022. Maria believes that art needs to be easily accessible to the members of our community.

Jueun Shin

Jueun Shin was born in Busan, South Korea and received her BFA and MFA in Seoul. After moving to Seattle in 2015, she has been focusing on printmaking and building up her own style of work. She makes 2D/3D monotypes by combining western printmaking techniques, and the Korean printing technique, Tak-bon* (or Ta-ku-Hon).

She currently lives and works in Bellevue, WA.

arturo araujo

Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Arturo Araujo joined the Jesuits in 1986 and was ordained Catholic priest in 1999. He moved to United States in 2001 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Seattle University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts, and a MFA from University of New Mexico. Currently he teaches art at University of San Francisco, and works in his own studio, “Inside River Studio”, located at University of San Francisco Campus.

Araujo combines etching, relief and digital media to expresses a contemporary spirituality. His work is a visual meditation that seeks reconciliation and identity, fundamental aspect of his own spirituality as a Jesuit Catholic priest and artist.

Esther Ervin

I am an interdisciplinary visual artist born and raised in Somerville, New Jersey, where my explorations in art began. I have a BS in Biology from UC Irvine, CA and an MFA in Fine Art/Illustration from CSU Long Beach, CA. Between degrees, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, I taught art, science and Spanish at a farm school; then later worked with families of coffee growers. Inspired by drawing for the Peace Corps Health Handbook and for a Bogotá cardiologist, I decided to resume studying art.

I explore new techniques, take specialized workshops and enjoy working in various mediums; focusing on environment, politics or abstract works. My jewelry has been exhibited in Washington, Oregon, Beijing, China; Vilnius and Palanga, Lithuania and in Legnica and Gdansk, Poland and I have had five solo exhibitions.

T’leeuh Antone

Skeg Tash, my name is T’leeuh Antone. I am a proud member of the Akimel O’odham Tribe. I moved to Washington in 2014. Prior to moving here, I practiced in my community as an educator and cultural resource since 2003. In my tribal community it started as reclaiming my Indigenous language which set me on a path to use language and culture as a way of installing self-determination in youth. In Seattle/Occupied Duwamish land where I am a guest now, holding this responsibility is also an interdisciplinary practice.

My work draws from cultural values and contemporary indigenous life. I’m the middle child of 8, I’m no stranger to making it work with limited resources. My art skill set is a product of that learned survival and my artwork speaks from the creativity that grows with limited resources and ‘untrained’ skills. I am a self-taught Indigenouqueer fumbling through many mediums.

Jordan Hayward

Jordan Hayward is an African American photographer and printmaker, born in Puyallup and based out of Seattle. Hayward was a freshman in high school when he discovered a passion for photography, after his grandmother bought him his first camera—a Canon Rebel t6.

Hayward enrolled at Seattle Pacific University, studying digital photography and art history. While taking remote classes online during COVID, Hayward discovered serigraphy. The practice began as a hobby, printing in his parents’ bathroom, then quickly blossomed into a way to spread a message close to the artist’s heart. Spurred on by the killing of unarmed black men and women like Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Hayward created his first screen printing design as a tribute to those lost to police brutality.

With love for both photography and serigraphy, Hayward sought to synthesize the two mediums. Seeking to defy the “content-creating” culture of Instagram and Youtube, Hayward chose to translate his photography through the silk screen. He aims to turn his images into multi-layered prints meant to be tangible, corporeal, and lasting.

Zahyr Lauren

Zahyr Lauren, also known as The Artist L.Haz, creates in order to share light and love with community. Each piece is a time period of meditative peace for Zahyr. All of Z's artwork is hand drawn.

Z is the youngest of four siblings from San Jose, California. Z comes from a powerful, southern black matriarchy that migrated from Oklahoma and Mississippi to California with nothing, and made something for generations to come.

Z is a West Coast based artist, humanstorian, and community attorney who began drawing in 2015.

The practice of meditative art, for Z, has become a mental and emotional salve, helping to cope with the trauma of coming from the injustice systems most heavily targeted community. The practice provides a meditative reprieve from the world and the artist hopes the work engulfs other people in the same kind of peace that was felt during each works creation.

Ken Coleman (he/him)

Before my move to Seattle in 2014, I lived in Paris, France, for ten years where I took care of household duties and frequented museums and cafes. Before Paris I lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 20 years. Both places seem like a long, improbable way from where I grew up in West Virginia. Along the way I managed to earn several degrees and hold a variety of jobs, including worker in a West Virginia glass factory and director of the Craft Students League in NYC. I now spend my time making art, reading, and walking around the neighborhood with my wife.

MAGDA BAKER (she/her)

Magda Baker is drawn to the way prints can show gesture and reveal the process of printmaking. A life-long artist, she grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and has lived and worked in Seattle, Washington since graduating from Bennington College with a B.A. in printmaking in 1992. Magda has shown her prints at numerous galleries and universities. She has a print in the King County, Washington Portable Works Collection and has received a fellowship from Women’s Studio Workshop and a grant from Allied Arts.

Patrick Connelly (he/him)

Way back in 2007 I completed a BFA in Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. I was drawn toward the direct camera-less animation technique because of it’s tactile nature, and have been working in this medium ever since. I then discovered linocut printmaking, and fell in love with it for similar reasons. For over ten years now I’ve been combining my passion for these two mediums by making linocut shirts and prints that explore the visual themes in film.

ELISA DORE (she/her)

Elisa Dore is an artist of Puerto Rican descent born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Born to a white father and a Puerto Rican mother, her work is shaped by her desire to understand the duality of belonging to two different cultures yet not fully fitting into either one. She uses printmaking to explore her identity as well as bring attention to issues that affect the Puerto Rican community. Elisa currently makes prints out of her home in Seattle.