Resident ArtisTS
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Nancy Oganezov
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NO Design explores the line between functional object and art. Her rugs and soft sculptures draw inspiration from classic Armenian ornamentals reinterpreted in modern ways. Instead of signing her name, she often incorporates the word "no" into the art itself.
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Maggie Butler
SHE/HER
Maggie Butler is a mixed media artist who uses bright color palettes and eye-catching illustrations in her work. Her diverse practice spans murals, printmaking, collage, and graphic design—blending digital and traditional art.
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Charde' Brown
SHE/HER
Charde’ Brown is a self-taught visual artist and teaching artist who creates work shaped by Black womanhood, memory, faith, love, survival, and healing. Her creative practice extends beyond the studio through community-based workshops and trauma-informed programming.
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Matt Wilson
HE/HIM
Matt Wilson is a Chef and Painter who grew with a heavy rotation of MTV, Cartoon Network, rap music and skateboarding. A color blind artist, Matt uses the bold colors he sees as correct in his palette even if they look distorted to the viewer.
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Hailey Tayathy
ANY PRONOUNS RESPECTFULLY
Seattle's Coast Salish drag queen, Hailey Tayathy, is a textile artist and digital illustrator. Tayathy uses their queer Native experiences to inform their work through which they aim to bring healing to Indigenous communities and to reclaim Seattle as an Indigiqueer city.
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Morgan Patten
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Morgan Patten is a painter (b. 1996, Honolulu, HI) living and working in Seattle, Washington. Her work is heavily influenced by the expressionist tradition. Her work has been featured in publications such as N+1 and Dirt Media
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Jim Coffin
HE/HIM
Jim Coffin is a multidisciplinary creative and instructor who uses drawing as a medium to investigate and honor the childlike wonder that inspires him. He teaches Sketching With Purpose, with a goal of elevating his students' drafting skills and encouraging them to connect to the power of regular artmaking.
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Alexis Robinson
SHE/HER
Alexis Robinson is a Seattle based contemporary fine artist and painter specializing in portraiture and landscape. Robinson's work is inextricably tethered to her connection to femininity, rural creative practices, and the ingenuity that runs through farming communities.
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Watson Neith
THEY/THEM
Working primarily in watercolor, ink, and cut paper, Watson Neith explores the artificial boundaries humans build between ourselves and the world. Other recurring themes include imagined cartographies, expression through craft, tributes to marginalia, and the languor of cats.
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Ryan Hill
HE/HIM
Ryan Hill is an oil painter born and raised in the Seattle area, whose area of interest is in plein air painting local scenery, urban and natural. When he received his first oil paint set at age 12 he was transfixed and set out to fulfill his vision through the medium.
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Warren Armando Pope
HE/HIM
Warren Armando Pope is an illustrator, public artist, and architectural designer. He hybridizes techniques informed by architectural drawing exploring themes of otherness, plasticity, and transformation as they relate to multiracial and queer identity in the digital age.
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Liz Allen
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Liz Allen is an interdisciplinary artist who builds cardboard sculptures, paints with tissue paper, and uses her hands to cut and paste paper collages. She creates to understand the world and the people she meets in her tiny corner of it.
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flatchestedmama
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Amy-Ellen flatchestedmama Trefsger is a conceptual artist with a proclivity for performance, a literalist who loves alliteration, and someone who just can’t help herself from reading self-help books.
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Molly Hensley
SHE/HER
Molly is a digital illustrator, animator, and cartoonist known for bold, stylized graphics and story-driven imagery. Originally from the bayou, she’s fascinated by ghost stories and pop culture and loves bringing the drama of these worlds together in her work.
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Kirk Holland
HE/HIM
Kirk Holland is a designer of digital and analog interactive experiences. He recently obtained his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, and has worked with Passable, Third Place Technologies, and IgnitionNW (Critical Northwest). He also paints as a form of meditation.
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Mads Scherrer
THEY/SHE
Mads makes art that allows them to feel human and connects them to themselves and the world they experience. They paint primarily with oils and make collage-based art, and are currently focusing on telling stories of transition.
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Natalie Woodlock
SHE/HER
Natalie Woodlock is a printmaker based in Seattle. She explores queer subculture and temporality in her work, creating heraldic and commemorative screenprinted portraits of her queer friends. She is currently working on her first book "Tearjerker: Brokeback Mountain."
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Shirley Sing
SHE/HER
Shirley Sing is associated with the post-Mudd Club group while informally studying painting in New York City 1989-2002. Sing formally studied at Pratt Fine Arts Center and drew from the figure at Trapeze model sessions.
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Wendy Lady
SHE/HER
Wendy Lady is a vibrant artist who also runs a small retro toy and collectibles business, Geeky Boutiquey, with an art style to match! She does art challenges and designs and curates fun experiences at her pop up vendor booths that lean on nostalgia, whimsy, and childhood joy.
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Future Arts (Yuliya Bruk)
SHE/THEY
With decades of experience curating immersive artworks, public events, digital programming, and gastronomic pop-ups, Future Arts, brings together local and international underrepresented creative talent to enrich and enliven Seattle neighborhoods and evolve global networks.
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Maryam Dehbozorgi
SHE/HER
Maryam Dehbozorgi, born in Iran and based in the United States, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges memory, identity, and cultural heritage. Her work creates contemplative spaces where viewers are invited to question inherited narratives and reconsider their place within broader social and historical contexts.
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Joseph Parker
HE/HIM
Rumbly Race Co is the manifestation of Joseph Parker's imagination and "I can probably do that" attitude. Taking the form of drawings, prints, quilts, and a little long armed creature, Joseph hopes to embrace strangeness and continue to discover new ways to create.
NO Design is the creative practice of self-taught fiber artist Nancy Oganezov. Named after her own initials and a tendency to resist sticking to just one style, her work has evolved from painting clothing for boutiques and stage musicians in Los Angeles to making rugs for coffee shops and third spaces in the Pacific Northwest. Working primarily with natural fibers, NO Design explores the line between functional object and art. Her rugs and soft sculptures keep her connected to her Armenian roots, drawing inspiration from classic ornamentals reinterpreted in modern ways. Instead of signing her name, she often incorporates the word "no" into the art itself.
Nancy Oganezov
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 4
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MAGGIE BUTLER
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 3
Maggie Butler is a mixed media artist who uses bright color palettes and eye-catching illustrations in her work. Her diverse practice spans murals, printmaking, collage, and graphic design—blending digital and traditional art. She experiments with recycled and found materials to reduce environmental impact and give new life to items that would otherwise be discarded. Maggie creates art that explores our roles in society, concentrating on identity, nostalgia, connection and community.
Her graphic design practice is focused on music, food and beverage, and purpose-driven causes. She’s worked with local and national musicians and performers, as well as brands like The Vera Project, Anchor & Bloom Cafe, Pure Green, Hidden Valley Ranch, Georgetown Association of Arts & Culture, and Fremont Creative District.
Her work has been exhibited in group shows in both Milwaukee and Seattle, including works shown at Slip Gallery, Common AREA Maintenance, The Vera Project, Push/Pull, and Belltown Art Walk.
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Charde’ Brown is a self-taught visual artist and teaching artist based in Washington State. Working with oil paint, oil pastel, mixed media, and sculpture, she creates work shaped by Black womanhood, memory, faith, love, survival, and healing.
Rooted in lived experience, Brown’s work explores the stories and emotions people often carry beneath the surface. Through expressive portraiture, rich texture, symbolism, and unexpected materials, she creates emotionally layered work that invites reflection, connection, and honest conversation.
Her creative practice extends beyond the studio through community-based workshops and trauma-informed programming, where she uses art as a tool for storytelling, self-expression, and connection.
Whether creating independently or within community, Brown believes art can make space for what is difficult to say, help us see one another more clearly, and remind us that what we have lived through does not define the entirety of who we are.
Charde’ Brown
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 3
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Matt Wilson
He/Him ● Parnassus Floor 6
Matt Wilson lives and works in Seattle, Washington as a Chef and Painter. He grew with a heavy rotation of MTV, Cartoon Network, rap music and skateboarding. This has led him to an interest of meshing destruction and creativity together in his head to form overlapping perspectives in his two dimensional works. Pulling heavily from these influences, Matt a color blind artist, uses the bold colors he sees as correct in his palette even if they look distorted to the viewer.
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Hailey Tayathy
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 3
Jordan Remington is a member of the Quileute Tribe and better known as Seattle's Coast Salish drag queen, Hailey Tayathy. They are a textile artist and digital illustrator using Coast Salish and Formline styles. They have attended Hazel Pete Institute and Northwest Native Basketweaver Association gatherings to learn traditional weaving. Tayathy uses their queer Native experiences to inform their work through which they aim to bring healing to Indigenous communities and to reclaim Seattle as an Indigiqueer city.
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Morgan Patten
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 6
Morgan Patten is a painter (b. 1996, Honolulu, HI) living and working in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from Western Washington University with her BA in 2019 and received her MFA from Brooklyn College CUNY in 2025. Her work is heavily influenced by the expressionist tradition. Her work has been featured in publications such as N+1 and Dirt Media
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Jim Coffin
He/Him ● Parnassus Floor 7
Jim Coffin is a multidisciplinary creative and instructor currently developing work and community in Seattle and beyond. Inspired by his childlike wonder at the world around us, he uses drawing as a medium to investigate and honor it. He currently runs his own art program, Sketching With Purpose, with a goal of elevating his students' drafting skills and encouraging them to become more connected to the power of regular drawing and artmaking. You can usually find him sketching the people and places of Seattle or behind a drum kit late into the night.
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Alexis Robinson
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 6
Alexis Robinson is a Seattle based contemporary fine artist and painter specializing in portraiture and landscape. As an east coast transplant, Robinson’s work is grounded in her experience growing up as an eccentric creative in an insular agricultural community at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. As an only child to a single mother. Robinson's experience was unique in her greater community— outwardly raised within a matriarchal family. Which is observed as an abnormal familial structure in rural American culture, the epicenter being her mother, paternal grandmother, and high school art teacher. Robinson's work is inextricably tethered to her connection to femininity, rural creative practices, and the ingenuity that runs through farming communities. This identity shapes her foundational perspective of self and expression. Her creations explore imagery and landscape shaped by memory, perceptions of family, expressive transformation, outsider inspiration, and her journey beyond rurality. With a keen interest in materiality, Robinson’s work is not defined by a single medium but rather a conglomerate; most often combining oil paint, fiber, wax, and sculpture to achieve her artistic vision on her painterly canvases. This multidisciplinary approach to traditional painting is a further expression of her identity, a practice in resourcefulness which is inspired by the ingenuity and wisdom of rural farming and the independent women that raised her.
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Watson Neith is a Seattle-based writer and artist working primarily in watercolor, ink, and cut paper. Their art explores the artificial boundaries humans build between ourselves and the world. Other recurring themes include imagined cartographies, expression through craft, tributes to marginalia, and the languor of cats.
They/Them ● Parnassus Floor 7
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Ryan Hill
He/Him ● Parnassus Floor 6
Ryan Hill is an oil painter born and raised in the Seattle area, whose area of interest is in plein air painting local scenery, urban and natural. As a child he took every opportunity to express his creativity, usually with colored pencils or clay. When he received his first oil paint set at age 12 he was transfixed and set out to fulfill his vision through the medium.
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Warren Armando Pope
He/Him ● Parnassus Floor 6
Warren Armando Pope (b.1990) is an artist, illustrator, public artist, and architectural designer based in Seattle, WA. As an artist, he hybridizes physical and digital techniques informed by architectural drawing exploring themes of otherness, plasticity, and transformation as they relate to multiracial and queer identity in the digital age. He works in a variety of media including paintings, drawings, digital works. Warren has shown work at the Vashon Center for the Arts, Museum of Museums, and Northwest African American Museum.
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Liz Allen
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 6
Liz Allen is an interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle, WA. She builds cardboard sculptures, paints with tissue paper, and uses her hands to cut and paste paper collages. Her practice began as a mindful way to search for joy during a particularly dark time in her life. Now she creates to understand the world and the people she meets in her tiny corner of it. For collaborations, commissions, or just a friendly wave, email her at lallenart@duck.com.
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Amy-Ellen flatchestedmama Trefsger is a conceptual artist with a proclivity for performance, a literalist who loves alliteration, and someone who just can’t help herself from reading self-help books.
She made a Public Declaration of Commitment to Her Creative Self in 2004. In conjunction with that, she legally merged her birth name with her artist moniker. The legal name change provides a daily reminder of her intention and adds an element of play to the bureaucracy of life. She’s been holding on to the moniker like a pair of legwarmers from the 80s, patiently waiting for self-deprecating humor to circle back into style.
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 3
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Molly Hensley
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 7
Molly is a digital illustrator, animator, and cartoonist known for bold, stylized graphics and story-driven imagery. Originally from the bayou, she’s fascinated by ghost stories and pop culture and loves bringing the drama of these worlds together in her work. She has self-published two comic series, “Brittany the Ghost” and “Gossip Crows.”
In 2025, she was selected to study at the Pictoplasma Character Academy residency in Berlin. She has also taught workshops and spoken about character design at Wesleyan University, Google Video Summit, and Paper Pushers. She is currently developing “Brittany the Ghost” into a children’s comic and hosting and reading at comic events in Seattle.
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Kirk Holland is a designer of digital and analog interactive experiences. He recently obtained his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, and has worked with Passable, Third Place Technologies, and IgnitionNW (Critical Northwest). He also paints as a form of meditation, and on rare occasions will makes something he likes and puts it up for sale. Kirk is open to freelance design work especially related to branding and identity.
He/Him ● Parnassus Floor 6
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Mads Scherrer
They/She ● Parnassus Floor 6
Mads makes art that allows them to feel human and connects them to themselves and the world they experience. They are currently focusing on telling stories of transition, as they are currently going through many life transitions but finds that art can communicate for us and connect us with each other. She believes that transitions are a gift that gives us perspective, and perspective is what she is constantly searching for.
Mads paints primarily with oils, makes collage based art, and sometimes will pick up a water based medium.
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Natalie Woodlock
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 4
Natalie Woodlock is a printmaker based in Seattle. She explores queer subculture and temporality in her work, creating heraldic and commemorative screenprinted portraits of her queer friends. This work has been shown in exhibits at SPACE (Portland ME), The Front (New Orleans LA), The Bureau of General Services - Queer Division (NYC NY), The Peninsula School of Arts (Fish Creek WI), and the Seattle Art Fair. Natalie has participated in and been awarded many printmaking fellowships and residencies nationwide, including a Print Fellowship at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic NY), a place in the Graduate Apprenticeship Training Program at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, and the Larry Sommers Fellowship, awarded through Seattle Print Arts. She has been an artist in residence at Women's Studio Workshop, Shunpike’s downtown Seattle artist in residency program, Jentel, Vashon Island Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, In Cahoots, and UCROSS, among others. Natalie is currently working on her first artists' book "Tearjerker: Brokeback Mountain", a work that illustrates scenes from Ang Lee's 2005 film that brought viewers to tears at screenings she organized. She is also working towards her first Seattle solo show, Nite Beat, at 4 Culture Gallery in May 2027.
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SHirley Sing
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 3
Shirley Sing is associated with the post-Mudd Club group while informally studying painting in New York City 1989-2002. Sing formally studied at Pratt Fine Arts Center and drew from the figure at Trapeze model sessions.
"I consider myself a transcendental painter. My art reflects current issues of the time. Interpretations of my paintings are left to the imagination of the viewer."
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Wendy Lady is a vibrant Seattle artist who also runs a small retro toy and collectibles business, Geeky Boutiquey, with an art style to match! She designs and curates fun experiences at her pop up vendor booths that lean on nostalgia, whimsy, and a whisper of childhood joy. Her art subjects range from pop culture staples such as Adventure Time, Sailor Moon, and Garfield, to name a few, with prompts coming from her self imposed art challenges.
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 4
Wendy Lady
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Future Arts
She/They ● Parnassus Floor 3
With decades of experience curating immersive artworks, public events, digital programming, and gastronomic pop-ups, Future Arts (Founder & Executive Director Yuliya Bruk) brings together local and international underrepresented creative talent and tech-based art forms to enrich and enliven Seattle neighborhoods and evolve global networks.
Yuliya's mission is to use new media art, nature, technology, experiential design, and urban place making to re-build culture from the inside out. To form bridges between creative industries - radically shifting how artists, corporations, and cities work together symbiotically. Being on the precipice of a revolution where IoT, data science, and screen time rule our minds - how can we take back our humanity, come to our literal senses? How do we finally showcase important stories, bring together intersectional voices, give platforms to those that haven't been heard way too long, and inspire future generations to live a more grounded life, thriving within a creative community? These are the questions Future Arts hopes to collaborate, curate, and cultivate answering together. If it doesn't take a village, we're doing something wrong. Let's enjoy coming home together, again and again.
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Maryam Dehbozorgi
She/Her ● Parnassus Floor 4
Maryam Dehbozorgi, born in Iran and based in the United States, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges memory, identity, and cultural heritage. With academic roots in Graphic Design and Painting from Soore University in Tehran, and an MFA in New Genres from the University of Washington in Seattle, her practice is grounded in both traditional training and contemporary experimentation.
Her creative journey took a pivotal turn in 2014, when her exploration of self and narrative began to evolve. Maryam Dehbozorgi’s work engages with the reinterpretation of overlooked or marginalized narratives, offering a critical lens on established systems of meaning, value, and aesthetics. Through a layered visual language, she challenges dominant cultural structures and invites reflection on collective memory, personal history, and the instability of fixed identities. Rooted in the experience of migration and displacement, her practice seeks to reconstruct a renewed relationship with the past and explore shifting notions of “home” and belonging. Navigating between presence and absence, individual and collective, past and present, her work creates contemplative spaces where viewers are invited to question inherited narratives and reconsider their place within broader social and historical contexts.
Her work has been showcased internationally, with exhibitions held in notable venues throughout the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, and Iran. Noteworthy presentations include the Tacoma Art Museum, Henry Art Museum and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle and Tacoma. She held a critically acclaimed solo exhibition titled Fly Between Walls in 2020 and 2025, presented at Hamras Gallery and Mini Mart City Park Space in both Tehran and Seattle.
A recipient of the Top Scholar Award and the Gonzales Graduate Student Scholarship from the University of Washington, as well as the Commendation Award (Betty Bowen Award) from the Seattle Art Museum, Maryam Dehbozorgi continues to contribute a distinct Iranian voice to the global art conversation, weaving personal experience with universal themes through a richly layered visual language.
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Joseph Parker
He/Him ● Parnassus Floor 3
Rumbly Race Co is the manifestation of Joseph Parker's imagination and "I can probably do that" attitude. Taking the form of drawings, prints, quilts, and a little long armed creature, Joseph hopes to embrace strangeness and continue to discover new ways to create.
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