Figure Drawing with Diana Oliphant
Join us for another figure drawing session led by Diana Oliphant (@djartmodel)! Drop in Wednesday April 15th from 6-8p. Pay what you can–all proceeds go to the model. Bring drawing materials, paper, and get ready to draw!
On Site: Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena #59
Mini Mart City Park Presents:
Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena #59, (2023, 79 min), preceded by #5 (1994, 6 min), an expanded cinema work for three 16mm projectors.
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"Since the early 1990s, visionary artist Joost Rekveld has been exploring the inner depths and outer reaches of optical expression at the nexus of technology and natural phenomena, producing a body of astonishing works of mesmerizing abstraction. Rekveld's films combine a remarkable ingenuity and facility with the image-making capabilities of various machines (many of his own design) with his radically inventive theories and approaches to form, motion, and perception. The result has been a startlingly diverse, ever-expanding body of work marked by formal rigor, breathtaking imagery, and a rich, expressive audiovisual poetry." - LA Film Forum
Presented by the On Site Moving Image Series at Mini Mart City Park with Mount Analogue • Art + Cinema with the and the Interbay Cinema Society
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Mini Mart's Annual Block Party
Save the Date for our Annual Block Party! We can’t wait to celebrate another year of Mini Mart with art, performances, tasty food, music, and our Mini Maker’s Market!
More details will be provided closer to the event.
Mutable Memory Second Saturday Reception
Join Mini Mart City Park in celebrating the opening of Mutable Memory, a two-person exhibition featuring artworks by Naomi Kusami and Rachel Dorsey.
Sound Walk with Artist Leah Crosby
Presented by Mini Mart City Park and in partnership with the Georgetown Steamplant, join artist Leah Crosby for a sound walk in the Georgetown neighborhood. The walk starts and ends at the entrance to the Georgetown Steamplant.
A soundwalk is a walk where the focus is to listen to the environment. This practice is creative, physical, exploratory, and meditative. Join us to practice Deep Listening techniques, learning and reflecting on new ways to engage with the sonic landscape of Georgetown.
Leah Crosby is a multimedia artist and educator using text and time to tell stories about caregiving and relational power dynamics. They received their MFA from the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design.
Future Forward Artist Panel
Join us for a panel moderated by Future Forward 2026 curator Noelle Whitaker and featuring artists Lola Reinhardt, Gregory Lastrapes, and Lillie Walsh in conversation about their work and how memory relates to the environment.
These artists use a wide array of materials to explore memory, interrogating how photography, materiality, and form reference place and the passing of time.
Future Forward 2026 Opening Reception
Opening Reception for Future Forward 2026.
Details coming soon.
Imaginary Observable: a split-bill performance featuring Leah Crosby’s piece The Marine Iguana, and Alyza DelPan-Monley’s piece keepsake.
The Marine Iguana is a 30-minute performance that uses overhead projectors, analogue image-making tools, and experimental audio storytelling. It uses the adaptive and maladaptive traits of the marine iguana as a lens to explore misfit bodies, social behavior, and persistent friendly ghosts.
keepsake. After a failed attempt to pinpoint a precise definition that encapsulates “now,” a trio of selves - past, present and future - have joined forces to co-create this piece. With a windup music box, head in the clouds, clocks ticking out of sync, and the sands of time falling towards and away from gravity’s pull, keepsake is a grieving and a wonderment of the liminal, temporal, and the time we have together.
Imaginary Observable is made possible by CO-'s CO-NDUIT program, Mini Mart City Park, the Arts Incubator Residency at Cornish College, and the Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture.
Accessibility Info: Mini Mart City Park's facility is ADA accessible. If you have mobility needs, please enter through the main entrance on Ellis Ave South.
Thursday: Performance will begin at 6:30pm.
Friday: Performance will begin at 6:30pm and 8:30pm.
Saturday: Performance will begin at 4:30pm and 6:30pm.
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On Site: Moving Image Series
Images of Asian Music / Peter Hutton
Confusion Is Next / Pathompon Mont Tesprateep
Two Planets Series / Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Taking Peter Hutton’s early visionary work Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74) (projected in its original 16mm format) as both source of inspiration and point of departure, this program features work from contemporary Thai artists working in film and video respectively to offer countervailing portraits and perspectives from within their country of origin.
Doors at 5pm, Screening at 5:30pm
How to Start a Drawing: The Gesture with Diana Oliphant
Join us for live Figure Drawing with a 30 minute introduction on gesture drawing with Diana Oliphant. A gesture refers to a short pose, generally 30 seconds to 2 minutes. The intent is to allow artists to warm up, but a gesture also prepares a framework for a drawing. Diana will demonstrate some options for building a gesture that hopefully give you insight on how to confidently start your drawings. Some materials will be provided, but we suggest you bring your own drawing tools, an easel if it’s your preference, and a drawing pad.
Cost: $10 – $20 sliding scale, goes directly to the model
Crush 58 an installation and performance by Kelly Langeslay
crush 58 is a dance performance in seattle by kelly langeslay. it is the sixth crush and not the 58th.
crush is a fantasy and i promise it is real. it has something to do with queer ghosts and the politics of shrek 2 and impact and maybe roland barthes.
there have been crushes before crush 58 and there will be crushes after crush 58 but none of the other crushes will happen here which i think makes this one special. if you have been to another crush there might be overlap because like i've mentioned to repeat may seem like to stay in the same place, but staying in the same place with a difference, such as by staying obstinately horizontal, can, in fact, spur new lines of connections, ways of being and resisting. Neither moving forward or backward, it is through repetition that space and time for thinking sideways occurs ¹ . also some things will be new because as we repeat, things accumulate and shift & these delusions start to come to life and grow of their own accord since i've been feeding them for so long. i will probably feed you too so please let me know your dietary restrictions when you buy a ticket.
Wednesday – Friday: Performance will begin at 8pm.
Saturday – Sunday: Perfromance will begin at 2pm and 8pm.
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¹ Paisid Aramphongphan, Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York (Manchester University Press, 2021), 155.
Artist-led Workshop with Winifred Westergard
Artist-led Workshop with Winifred Westergard.
Details coming soon!
Georgetown Art Attack
Held every second Saturday, Georgetown’s monthly ART ATTACK is a celebration of art and culture highlighting local artists, makers, and retailers.
On Site
On Site is an independent film series that explores themes such as land, belonging, history, industry, and environment.
More information coming soon.
On Site
On Site is an independent film series that explores themes such as land, belonging, history, industry, and environment.
More information coming soon.
Flamework Demonstration with Sue Kim and Zeke Spier
REFRACT: Partnership Event: Flamework Demonstration featuring Sue Kim and Zeke Spier of Burien, WA.
Opening Reception: Winifred Westergard
Opening Reception:
During the Exposure: The slow photography of Tintypes, Ambrotypes, and the Silver Gelatin print.
Winifred Westergard
Georgetown Art Attack
Held every second Saturday, Georgetown’s monthly ART ATTACK is a celebration of art and culture highlighting local artists, makers, and retailers.
On Site: Light Music + The Sick Sense
On Site is an independent film series that explores themes such as land, belonging, history, industry, and environment. This month we’ll view two works, created 50 years apart, that explore the limits of perception and the relationship between sound and image.
OnSite: Nobuhiro Aihara: Third Eye Animation
Join us in the Mini Mart City Park courtyard for an outdoor screening of rarely seen animated short films of Japanese visionary Nobuhiro Aihara; curated and presented by Los Angeles-based film programmers Zena Grey and Mark Toscano.
On Site: Experimental Environments: Films by Gordon Matta-Clark
A pioneering figure of the New York Art scene of the 1970s, Matta-Clark reinvisioned the built environment through process interventions that included, among a variety of performances and actions, physically cutting through buildings slated for demolition. His film work documents and engages with urban environments in both critical and liberating turns, reimagining the ways in which we occupy shared space and sociopolitical structures.