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2/25, Week 8: Dan Webb

February 19, 2026 / oshas / 0 Comments

Dan Webb is a full-time wood carver, tinkerer, and sculptor. Dan has been showing in galleries and museums for over 20 years. His work is owned by numerous museums throughout the country, among them the Smithsonian, the New Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum Of Glass in Tacoma. In addition to gallery and museum shows, Dan has made public art projects since 2004. Dan’s work explores sculpted organic forms movement from transitional to fixed objects, the familiar and discarded in conversation with arms and legs frozen in flexion, extension, and retraction. Figures concealed by carved fabric stand hunched over masses of boots, while chairs blister and melt with globs of fir. Dan is a winner of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, the Betty Bowen Award, the Washington State Artist Fellowship award, and has been a finalist for the Neddy, and the Stranger Genius Award. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

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.

2/11, Week 6: Estefania Puerta

January 14, 2026 / oshas / 0 Comments

Estefania Puerta‘s work delves into organic/inorganic materials to form new poetics of transformation and translation. She is interested in what is gained and lost in the process of making and the new worlds that can emerge from recontextualizing materials. Her practice is rooted in world making, shape shifting, border crossing, and language failure. Her research in psycho-analysis as it relates to the history of hysteria, natural medicine/folklore, and personal histories of immigration and undocumentation in the U.S. has led to questions around what is considered “natural” and “alien” in her materially diverse work.

Puerta was recently awarded the 2024 Philip Guston Rome Prize. Her work has been recently exhibited at The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Nina Johnson Gallery, Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, Lyles and King, and Micki Meng Gallery. She was included in the New England Triennial at DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2022. Puerta received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2018. She was born in Colombia and currently lives and works between Vermont and New York.

Week 8, 05/21 Dawn Cerny

April 2, 2025 / Josselyn Haldeman

Cerny’s sculptures begin with the notion that “furniture” and “mother” are figures that secure a value (to others) for their potential to hold, display, or be absent-mindedly left with things. Putting form and color to work and entrusting no small part to contingency, these works behave as something like gestural understudies for a play about the day-to-day grinding weariness and joyful slapstick absurdity of human relationship—about trying to Work It Out…or not.

https://www.dawncerny.com/

02/12, Week 6: Christopher Paul Jordan

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Christopher Paul Jordan is a painter and public artist from Tacoma, Washington. Lacing salvaged textiles such as window screens and debris netting with acrylic paint, Jordan simulates cycles of removal to surface questions about human relationships. Through parallel practices in performance, installation, and sculpture, his investigations are often staged or permanently embedded in public space. Jordan’s first museum exhibition: In The Interim – Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, buries African American predictions of the end of the world on the grounds of the Frye Art Museum until the year 2123. His 20ft bronze, aluminum, and steel sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody (2021) is the centerpiece for The AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle. Jordan holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2023).

https://chrispauljordan.com/

11/06, Week 6: Satpreet Kahlon

September 27, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Satpreet Kahlon is a Panjabi-born artist, organizer, and educator based on Coast Salish territories. She received a full-fellowship to pursue her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2019. She co-founded and -ran an Indigenous arts organization that supported 400 artists with over $2m of opportunities and rematriated 1.5 acres of greenspace that was slated for development during her tenure from 2017-2023. For this work, she was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine in 2019.

Regarding her artistic practice, she has written in a statement: “My practice is concerned with illegibility, inscrutability, and collapse. Beginning with the understanding that most Indigenous cultures are existing in a post-apocalyptic reality, I approach the act of building sculpture as a kind of prayer: a futile attempt to communicate with and better know generations of lost, unknowable histories. An endlessly looping signal without reply.”

https://www.satpreetkahlon.com/

When: 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 6th

Where: Live streamed via Zoom in the Comm Building Recital Hall

Zoom Webinar Link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526

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.

2/28, Week 8: Pamela Lins

January 17, 2024 / Jade Baker

CANCELLED

Pamela Lins refers to her work primarily as sculpture, although she uses the term expansively. She teaches sculpture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and painting at Princeton University. Through her work, Lins contemplates the social, the political, and the historical by constructing situations inquisitive and equivocal to sculpture and the making of it. Lins’ work explores the space and connections between painting and sculpture, sometimes with a focus on ceramics, leading her to found Ceramics Club with Trisha Baga. Previously, Lins’ work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, in a collaboration with Amy Sillman, and has been exhibited at the Tang Museum of Art, The Suburban, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York. A New York Times review of her 2015 show ‘model, model, model’ describes her exploration of the links between painting and photography. In 2008 Lins received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and in 2007 she was awarded a fellowship in the visual arts from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation. In 2013-14, she held the David and Roberta Logie Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

2/14, Week 6: Victoria-Idongesit Udondian

January 4, 2024 / Jade Baker

Udondian’s work is driven by her interest in textiles and the potential for clothing to shape identity, informed by the histories and tacit meanings embedded in everyday materials. She creates work that questions notions of cultural identity and post-colonial positions in relation to her experiences growing up in Nigeria. In 2020, Udondian was named a Guggenheim fellow. Her works have been exhibited internationally, this includes; The Bronx Museum, New York; The Inaugural Nigerian Pavilion at the 56^th Venice Biennial-An Excerpt, Fisher Landau Centre for the Arts, New York; National Museum, Lagos; Spring Break Art Fair, New York; The Children Museum of Manhattan, New York; Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, UK; National Gallery of Arts, Uyo, Nigeria etc. Some of her Artist Residencies include, Instituto Sacatar, Bahia, Brazil; Mass Moca, Massachusetts, USA; Fine Arts Work Centre (FAWC), Provincetown; USA; Villa Straulli, Winterthur, Switzerland; Fondazione di Venezia, Venice, Italy and Bag Factory Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Udondian received an MFA in Sculpture and New Genres from Columbia University, New York; attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a BA in painting from the University of Uyo, Nigeria.

She is currently a Visiting Associate professor of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York.

https://victoriaudondian.com/

1/17, Week 2: Hanako O’Leary

January 4, 2024 / Jade Baker

Hanako O’Leary is a craft based sculptor and installation artist. She was born and raised by her Japanese mother and American father in the American Midwest. She grew up speaking Japanese at home, but English in school and everywhere else. Until Hanako turned 18, every year, for 2 months during the summer, her mother Sumiko brought her and her siblings back to their maternal home in the Seto Inlet Sea of Japan. This deeply influenced her spiritual beliefs, artistic voice, and feminine ideals.

Building off this personal history, Hanako looks to Japanese folk traditions of the Setonaikai Islands as a basis for her artwork. Through hand made objects, installations, and storytelling, Hanako explores this relationship with her matriarchal lineage and the complexities of feminine love, sexuality, and power.

Her major artistic accomplishments include solo shows in galleries such as Method, Edmonds Community College, King Street Station, and most recently Frye art Museum and Gallery 4Culture. Major awards include the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture City Artist Grant, Bernie Funk Fellowship, Robert B. McMillen Grant, Neddy Award Finalist and Artist Trust Fellowship to name a few.

http://www.hannyagrrrl.com/