This exhibition showcases the work of five regional contemporary artists:

Anthony White is an artist, curator, advocate and Board member of the Lillian Miller Foundation; an organization dedicated to advancing educational opportunities for LGBTQIA+ youth.

He received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2018, and is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery.

He has received multiple grants and award including; a 2025 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship (2025-2030); Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Award (2021); Neddy at Cornish Painting Award (2020); Artist Trust Fellowship Award (2020). In 2024, Seattle Magazine named him one of the city’s “Most Influential People.” Anthony has exhibited his work in multiple solo exhibitions including; Greg Kucera Gallery (2018, 2020, 2023, 2025); Public Gallery, London (2019); Seattle Art Museum (2022). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including; art in embassies, Bridgetown Barbados (2024), New Narratives in Contemporary College, Valladolid, Spain (2024), The artist is Online at Koenig Galerie, Berlin (2021), Queer Visibility at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2021), and many others.

Anthony White’s work is collected internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Seattle Art Museum, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation, Seattle, among others. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

Chris Lee Hill is a Seattle-based DJ and producer whose work draws from a deepening relationship with electronic dance music, underground club culture, and the communal experiences built around the dance floor.

Since beginning his DJ career in 2016 as Cousin Chris, his time behind the decks has shaped an approach to sound rooted in movement, experimentation, and the unexpected intersections between house, club, techno, R&B, and hip-hop.

In recent years, Chris has expanded his practice beyond DJing into original production and sound design, exploring how the techniques and instincts developed through years of playing music can take on new forms outside of the club. His work remains informed by the sounds, spaces, and communities that have shaped him, using electronic music as a starting point for exploring memory, connection, and new ways of experiencing sound.

Chloe King (b. 1999, lives and works in Oakland, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist who typically works in between painting and photography.

King received her B.F.A in 2021 from Cornish College of the Arts and is currently a Dual Degree MFA+ MA Candidate at California College of the Arts. King has participated in a number of shows and public art events including, Fools Gold, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (2024), Public Dreams of Fractured Futures, Wa Na Wari, Seattle, WA (2022), TIME CAPSULE, Photographic Center NorthWest, Seattle, WA (2021), CVA School of Art Student & Emerging Artists Exhibition, Chautauqua, NY (2020).

Henry Jackson-Spieker is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Seattle, WA focusing on sculpture and site-specific installations.

His work combines glass, bronze, steel, wood, fiber, and light. His sculptures explore tension, balance and reflection through the merging of contrasting materials. Jackson-Spieker’s installations examine and question how social and cultural norms shape the way we perceive and utilize space. By disrupting his viewers’ perceptions of depth and volume, Jackson-Spieker’s work challenges ingrained assumptions about our physical environments and the cultural codes they contain.

Jackson-Spieker received his BFA from Western Washington University and his MFA of Sculpture and Dimensional Studies from Alfred University. Jackson-Spieker currently has public artwork at Midtown Commons in Seattle and the Bellevue Art Museum. He has shown, MAD Art, San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Method Gallery, and Wa Na Wari Gallery. Jackson-Spieker is now the new Assistant Professor of Glass and Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair of Glass at the 3D4M, School of Art, Art History and Design, University of Washington.

Tariqa Waters (b. 1980) is a contemporary artist, author, curator, and community leader known for her “pop maximalist” aesthetic.

Her large-scale installations and vibrant tableaux dissect the complexities of Black popular culture, using storytelling and anachronism to unravel the contradictions embedded in Americana-distorted memories and tall tales. Her practice spans painting, blown glass, photography, film, and large-scale fabrication. In 2012, Waters founded Martyr Sauce, a Black-owned, women-led conceptual art space encompassing a gallery, performing arts venue, and beauty supply store, expanding further with the launch of MS PAM (Martyr Sauce Pop Art Museum) in 2020. In 2022, Martyr Sauce was adapted into “Thank You, MS PAM,” a television series screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Film Festival and the Seattle Black Film Festival (2023), airing on PBS.

Her permanent public works include the Martyr Sauce Crosswalk, the first permanent public artwork ever commissioned in Pioneer Square’s historic arts district, installed at the intersection in front of Martyr Sauce and MS PAM. Recent commissions with the WNBA Seattle Storm include new merchandise, six crosswalks, and a wrap around mural. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad, and featured in Rolling Stone France, Madame Figaro, Artsy, ArtForum, Artnet, and Dazed Magazine. Accolades include the Artist Trust Fellowship Award (2018), the Arts Innovator Award (2023), and the Betty Bowen Award (2023).

Her solo exhibition “Venus is Missing” at the Seattle Art Museum (2025 to 2026) is an immersive blown glass retro-Afrofuturist exploration reimagining childhood artifacts as cosmic technology. Waters also serves as arts advice columnist for Public Display Arts Magazine’s Ask MS PAM column. She is the author of Who Raised You? A Martyr Sauce Guide to Etiquette (2025), held in collections including the New York Public Library, the Seattle Public Library, the Seattle Art Museum Library, Stanford University’s Green Library, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library.