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1/28, Week 4: Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes

January 28, 2026 / oshas / 0 Comments

Maikoiyo Anabi Alley-Barnes (b. 1977, Seattle) is a multimedia artist, curator, filmmaker, writer, and designer exploring the resonance of genetic cultural memory through the mundane and the mystical. Alley-Barnes’ practice offers meditative narratives that reflect his fascination with, admiration for, and immersion in the aesthetic, ritual and continuum that is the Black Metaphysical. Be it through his headdress and mask work, PELTS, or unique brand of sculpture called refuse alchemy, Alley-Barnes’ practice brings a more visceral, lush, and sensual sensibility to our day-to-day lives.

Alley-Barnes has exhibited in the United States and internationally. In August of 2023, he unveiled his first large scale public art installation titled “Sent, Scent, Sense”. This work is the result of a photograph of one of the artist’s sculptures printed on vellum and layered onto a hand-drawn Kente cloth-coded pattern. The final work is realized as a digitized, large-scale print applied to the steel surface of a vehicle door located at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Alley-Barnes has been invited to speak in the United States, Canada, and Europe where he engages in multidisciplinary, critical discourse about art historical scholarship, his own practice, and contemporary art. Alley-Barnes is a founding member of the multidisciplinary creative collective Black Constellation. He lives and works between Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA.

Week 2, 04/09 Victor Yañez-Lazcano

April 2, 2025 / Josselyn Haldeman

Yañez-Lazcano’s work chronicles family history in the U.S. as it transitions from immigrants to Mexican Americans. Using large-format color portraits and still-life to re-imagine intergenerational narratives and push back on stereotypes, to-scale reproductions of colloquial family imagery address the poetic gaps and overlaps of collective memory. Further inspired by research in linguistics, Yañez-Lazcano creates sculptures and performances that engage with language ideologies. Embracing the element of repetition often found in manual labor, they collect, subtly transform, and compose discarded tools and materials related to immigrant labor in the U.S.

4/10, Week 2: Jessica Jackson Hutchins

March 21, 2024 / Jade Baker

Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971) lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Hutchins’ expressive and intuitive studio practice produces dynamic sculptural installations, collages, paintings, and large-scale ceramics, all hybrid juxtapositions of the handmade. As evidence of the artist’s dialogue with items in her studio, these works are a means by which the artist explores the intimacy of the mutual existence between art and life. Her transformations of everyday household objects, from furniture to clothing, are infused with human emotion and rawness, and also show a playfulness of material and language that is both subtle and ambitious. Based upon a willingly unmediated discourse between artist, artwork and viewer, Hutchins’ works ultimately serve to refigure an intimate engagement with materiality and form.

Week 2: Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes Wednesday, January 15th, 2020, 11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall of the COM Building

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and designer who explores the resonance of genetic cultural memory through the mystical and the mundane. The child of two prolific creators, he developed his practice under the tutelage of his parents, Curtis R. Barnes and Royal Alley-Barnes. He is part of the Black Constellation, a collective that also includes Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, and Nep Sidhu. Alley-Barnes has exhibited sculpture and films in numerous traditional and new-media-based settings. He has been, and continues to be, instrumental in the creation of seminal cultural spaces in Seattle, including the influential mixed-use space pun(c)tuation, among others. In 2014, Alley-Barnes was the recipient of the Neddy Artist Award in the open medium category. Alley-Barnes lives and works in Seattle.

Jovencio de la Paz: Wednesday, April 20th, 11:30-1:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall of the COM Building

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Jovencio de la Paz is an artist, writer, and educator working at the intersection of contemporary art, craft, and textile. His work, which is committed to the ancient technologies and processes of textile, engages notions of identity, immigration, and the terrain of thought around human interaction with the landscape. Working with a range of materials, including indigo dye, traditional batik, textile printing, and multimedia strategies, Jovencio seeks to work in an expansive way, engaging highly specific materials and processes as sites to confront larger concerns of human migration and the narratives associated with such movement.

Jovencio was born in Singapore, and became a citizen of the United States in 1994. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008, and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Department of Fiber, in 2012. Recent solo and group exhibitions include shows at ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; 4th Ward Projects, Chicago, IL; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH; SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA; Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; MessHall, Chicago; Uri Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, among others. He regularly teaches at schools of art, craft, and design throughout the country, including the Ox Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI and the Arrowmont School of Craft in Tennessee. Jovencio de la Paz is Assistant Professor and Curricular Head of Fibers at the University of Oregon. He is also a co-founder of the collaborative group Craft Mystery Cult, established in 2010.

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Molly Landreth: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 / Steve

Molly Landreth is a Seattle based artist who explores concepts of identity and community through intimate large-format film photography and multi-media collaboration. She is most well known for her series, “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America” which she continues to exhibit and speak about frequently. She has been featured in, and photographed for, publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Advocate, OUT, Marie Claire and The New Yorker. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.