Art Transforms.

“A 35-year-old self-taught artist, in 1990 Rayed Mohamed immigrated with his family from Yemen to the United States. While his primary language is Arabic, he speaks some English. However, he best expresses himself through his art.” His art is being featured at The Museum of Modern Art in New York […]

by Melany Bell Please enjoy this poem and images on listening, begat from my very own mind in 2022. Thank you for listening…The images and poetry are by : ©MELANY BELL 2017-2022 all rights reserved   Artist Statement: I am an Ambidextrous Painter, Scientist, Step-Mother, Lover of Lady’s & their […]

Childhood… for some a gleeful, loving time. For others, endless trauma and despair. Like childhood, a swing can be a reflection of pure joy, letting a child soar into the sky, believing they can sweep their hand through the fleecy, luminescent clouds. For some children, however, joy is overshadowed by […]

PWA Participant Artist Allene Steinberg created this beautiful mixed media piece (charcoal and pastels on colored paper) of her cat, Gloria Rose. “My two loves, trees and Gloria Rose…” “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures […]

Artist Statement: I am an ambidextrous Painter/Drawer, Performer and Writer as well as a Neurological Nutritionist. When doing nutrition, I specialize in the Gut. I put this PDF together for our Mental Health Awareness Month. This presentation is a great place to find information and learn about healing your GUT. The […]

By Jason Larsen Artist Statement: “In Samuel Corales’ Interactive Creative Writing Class this past quarter, he asked us to list three things that we would take to another planet and three things we would leave on Earth.” I have three Amazon Echo smart devices, and I would take them all […]

Everyday when I wake up, the first thing I see when open the curtains of my balcony door, I see a certain mural. This mural is very hard to miss because it takes up the side of three steel-framed, yellow brick buildings, the primary building being five-and-half stories tall. This […]

by Kristin CONTENT WARNING: This poem references domestic abuse, family trauma, suicide, and mental health, and may be triggering for some readers. There’s so much about you that I’ll never knowI inherited your bloodline and self-contemptYet I have so little information on who you really were I remember your gregarious […]

I think I’m confident in saying that regardless of anyone’s income, the vast majority of artists like to save money when purchasing their materials. This is no exception for anyone who uses Gelli plates for their printmaking. For those uninitiated with Gelli plates and printing, one coats a slightly sticky, […]

Pre-pandemic, more buses rolled through Seattle’s Third Avenue than any other street in North America. The busy transit corridor has deteriorated greatly during the pandemic. There has been a spike in violence dramatic enough to shut down the Third and Pike bus stop. The city recently launched “Operation New Day” […]