On Site: Experimental Environments: Films by Gordon Matta-Clark
Doors at 7pm
Food at 7:30pm
Outdoor Screening at 9pm
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.
[image credit]: Gordon Matta-Clark, Food, 1972. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Food, (1972, 43 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on HD video)
Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1972 film documents the legendary SOHO restaurant and artists' cooperative Food which functioned as a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for emergent downtown artists' community.
This screening combines with culinary creations and food purveyors inspired by the communal ethos of Food.
Georgetown Garden Walk
Mini Mart City Park is open and participating in Georgetown’s 28th Annual Garden Walk. Stop by and connect with our Education and Facilities Manager to learn about our site’s landscaping and green infrastructure.
Annual Block Party + Exhibition Opening
Join us for our Annual Block Party and the Opening Celebration of Glowing Grief, an exhibition by Seattle-based artist Colleen RJC Bratton. Event runs from 2 - 8pm on Saturday, July 12 with an artist performance at 5pm.
It’s a full family day of fun, including incredible food by Windward Adventures and Deep Sea Sugar and Salt, with a crafted selection or art and food vendors, alongside many community partner booths.
On Site: Experimental Environments: Films by Gordon Matta-Clark
[image credit]: Gordon Matta-Clark, City Slivers, 1976. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
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.
Screening Includes:
Splitting , 1974, 10:50 min, b&w and color, silent, Super 8mm film on HD
Conical Intersect , 1975, 19:39 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on HD video
City Slivers, 1976, 15 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on HD video
Day’s End, 1975, 23:10 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video
Fox Whitney + Collaborators Open Rehearsal: Not Trio A
"Artifacts rehearsal photo" by Alessandra Brescia
Fox + his collaborators-Will Courtney, Léo Othón, Vlada Kremnović, Brea Wilson, Shann Thomas and Moonflower-are in residence working on NOT TRIO A prepping to share it at the Risk/Reward festival in Portland June 20-22. NOT TRIO A investigates queer dance history by meditating on an image of choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A With Flags, a protest action that happened at Judson Church in NYC in 1970. NOT TRIO A investigates choreographic lineage and queer + trans strategies in protest and performance, celebrates drag and comedy as strategies of resistance
Wiggle Room: Wacky Weaving Workshop
This workshop invites participants into the world of Wiggle Room, an iterative dance fashion show created by long-time collaborators fashion designer Janelle Abbott and choreographer Alyza DelPan-Monley. Participants are invited to contribute their personal clothing and fabric scraps to add to the Wiggle Room pile. This workshop invites participants to learn loom weaving technique, using scraps from salvaged clothing and incorporating the clothing brought from the participants. Participants will also engage in an exploratory movement and dance workshop, where we will attempt to conceptualize and grapple with our personal relationship to the global scale fast-fashion waste industry.
On Site: Sun, Salt, Spiral
film stills from For the Time Being, 2021, Deborah Stratman
On Site: Sun, Salt, Spiral
May 22
Doors 6:30, program at 7:00
Free
Sun, Salt, Spiral is a film cycle devoted to the work of artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, who together expanded the material and spatial conditions of artmaking. Consisting of solo and collaborative films as well as adjacent cinematic tributes by moving image artists, these programs collectively engage with their creative legacies in the late anthropogenic moment.
May 22
Pine Barrens (Nancy Holt, 1975, 30 min, 16mm > digital file)
For the Time Being (Deborah Stratman, 2021, 7 min, HD video)
Amarillo Ramp (Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat, 2017, 24 min, Super 16mm, HD video)
TRT: 61 min
Post-film discussion with artist Eirik Johnson
MAY 22
Pine Barrens
Nancy Holt
1975, 30 min, 16mm > digital file
"Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the 'Pineys,' are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of 'Bill Patton's Pine Barrens Trio' add a psychological dimension to the landscape." — Nancy Holt [EAI]
For the Time Being
Deborah Stratman
2021, 7 min, HD video
A video letter to artist Nancy Holt, in homage to our shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, monuments and time. Filmed on and around the Great Salt Lake, Mono Lake and Meteor Crater.
The title is taken from a piece Holt wrote for Robert Smithson in 1978 which reads in full: For the time being, in the interim, in the course of time, from day to day, from hour to hour, until, in due time, and in the fullness of time, time endures, goes on, remains, persists, lasts, goes by, elapses, passes, flows, rolls on, flies, slips, slides, and glides by.
Deborah Stratman
Amarillo Ramp
Bill Brown, Sabine Gruffat
2017, 24 min, S16mm, HD video
A portrait of sculptor Robert Smithson's final earthwork. Employing filmmaking strategies that are both responsive to the artwork's environmental context and informed by Smithson's own art-making strategies, the filmmakers encounter the Ramp as an observatory where human scales of space and time are set against geological and cosmic scales.
Artist Bios -
Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was a member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, Holt recalibrated the limits of art. She expanded the places where art could be found and embraced the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place. Holt’s rich artistic output spans concrete poetry, audioworks, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, artists’ books, and public sculpture commissions.
Born in Worcester in Massachusetts, Holt grew up in New Jersey. She graduated with a degree in biology from Tufts University, Massachusetts in 1960. Later that year she moved to New York City where she met the artist Robert Smithson; the two were married on June 8, 1963. The places Holt lived remained important to her: New Jersey is the site of Stone Ruin Tour (1967), Pine Barrens (1975), and Sky Mound (1984-); and Massachusetts the location of Underscan (1973-74) and Spinwinder (1991). Her earliest exhibitions were in New York: the first group presentation Language III at Dwan Gallery in 1969, and the first solo in 1972 at l0 Bleecker Street. In 1968 Holt made her first journey to the American West. The Great Basin Desert, Utah is where her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels (1973-76) is located. In 1995 Holt made Galisteo, New Mexico her home.
Born in Passaic in New Jersey, Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938—July 20, 1973) was an artist who expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over fifty years his work, writings, and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown.
An autodidact, Smithson's interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, earthworks, architectural schemes, films and video, photographs and slideworks, writings, and all the stops between. From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, detailed drawings, and radical rethinking of landscape, Smithson's ideas are profoundly urgent for our times. By exploring the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge Smithson raised essential questions about our place in the world.
Leviathan Rising Installation View
Artist Eirik Johnson @orcawatch will join us for a post-film discussion
Photographic artist Eirik Johnson (b. 1974) makes conceptually-grounded work examining the intersections of contemporary environmental, social, and cultural issues both in America and abroad. Employing various modes of presentation from photobooks to experiential photo and sound-based installation, Johnson’s photographic projects explore the marks and connections formed in the friction of this complicated relationship.
https://www.eirikjohnson.com/
Artist workshop: Sky of Earth with Shannon Eakins
Courtesy of Slush Club
In addition to monthly film screenings, On Site will present related workshops and speakers to explore interdisciplinary connections between artists and artworks through practical application and heuristic process.
May 18 Artist workshop: Sky of Earth with Shannon Eakins
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Free
Registration required, email us at info@minimartcitypark.com to confirm your spot
Light snacks provided
Use earth (pigment colored clay) to create your own slice of sky. In this hands-on workshop, we will be exploring the illustrative potential of nerikomi techniques- stacking multiple clay bodies together to create patterns and gradation- and attempting to bridge sky and earth.
Artist Shannon Eakins is the Creative Director for Slush Club, designing and building custom ceramic dinnerware in her studio. Slush-club.com@slushclub_ceramics
On Site: Sun, Salt, Spiral
Still from For the Time Being, 2021, Deborah Stratman
On Site: Sun, Salt, Spiral
May 8
Doors 6:30, program at 7:00
Free
Sun, Salt, Spiral is a film cycle devoted to the work of artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, who together expanded the material and spatial conditions of artmaking. Consisting of solo and collaborative films as well as adjacent cinematic tributes by moving image artists, these programs collectively engage with their creative legacies in the late anthropogenic moment.
May 8
Spiral Jetty (Robert Smithson, 1970, 36 min, 16mm> digital file)
Swamp (Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, 1971, 9 min, 16mm> digital file)
Sun Tunnels (Nancy Holt, 1978, 26 min, 16mm> digital file)
TRT: 67 minutes
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson
1970, 35 min, 16mm > digital file
The film Spiral Jetty is a "portrait" of Smithson's monumental earthwork of the same name at Rozel Point in the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Completed in April 1970, Spiral Jetty is an iconic earthwork and Smithson's most renowned piece. At 1500 feet long and 15 feet wide, Smithson's spiral of basalt rocks, mud, and salt crystals juts out from the shore and coils dramatically into luminous red water. The film documents the making of this earthwork, which has attained near-mythic status as it has disappeared and then re-emerged from the lake over the past decades. A voiceover by Smithson illuminates the ideas and processes that informed the evolution of the work, with allusions to prehistoric relics and radical notions of space, scale and landscape. [EAI]
Swamp
Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
1971, 6 min, 16 mm > digital file
Swamp is a collaborative artwork by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, shot in the swamplands of New Jersey. This 16mm film explores the mechanics of seeing through site, core concerns of both Holt and Smithson. Looking through the viewfinder of a Bolex camera focused in tight close-up, Holt attempts to walk through the landscape—her field of vision through the camera too narrow for steady progress. A visceral, chaotic journey unfolds as the artists confront a dense maze of plant life, struggling with the limitations of their own perception, and for the failure of technology to stand in for vision. [Holt/Smithson Foundation]
Sun Tunnels
Nancy Holt
1978, 26 min, 16mm > digital file
Sun Tunnels is a twenty-six-minute film showing the making of Holt’s eponymous earthwork Sun Tunnels, located in the Great Basin Desert, Utah. Sun Tunnels comprises four concrete cylinders arranged in the landscape in an X formation, each 18 feet long and 9 feet diameter, perforated with a constellation of small apertures emitting patterns of light inside the tube. In its portrait of an earthwork, this film shows Holt’s precise process and careful attention to site, place, time, and perception. [Holt/Smithson Foundation]
Artist Bios -
Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was a member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, Holt recalibrated the limits of art. She expanded the places where art could be found and embraced the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place. Holt’s rich artistic output spans concrete poetry, audioworks, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, artists’ books, and public sculpture commissions.
Born in Worcester in Massachusetts, Holt grew up in New Jersey. She graduated with a degree in biology from Tufts University, Massachusetts in 1960. Later that year she moved to New York City where she met the artist Robert Smithson; the two were married on June 8, 1963. The places Holt lived remained important to her: New Jersey is the site of Stone Ruin Tour (1967), Pine Barrens (1975), and Sky Mound (1984-); and Massachusetts the location of Underscan (1973-74) and Spinwinder (1991). Her earliest exhibitions were in New York: the first group presentation Language III at Dwan Gallery in 1969, and the first solo in 1972 at l0 Bleecker Street. In 1968 Holt made her first journey to the American West. The Great Basin Desert, Utah is where her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels (1973-76) is located. In 1995 Holt made Galisteo, New Mexico her home.
Born in Passaic in New Jersey, Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938—July 20, 1973) was an artist who expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over fifty years his work, writings, and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown.
An autodidact, Smithson's interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, earthworks, architectural schemes, films and video, photographs and slideworks, writings, and all the stops between. From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, detailed drawings, and radical rethinking of landscape, Smithson's ideas are profoundly urgent for our times. By exploring the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge Smithson raised essential questions about our place in the world.
On Site: Casting a Glance, a film by James Benning
casting a glance
James Benning | 2007 | 81 minutes | 16mm projection | 16mm print courtesy of Canyon Cinema
A cinematic tribute to, meditation on, and historic simulation of Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork, Spiral Jetty, conceived within the shifting ecology of the Great Salt Lake.
A landscape portrait told in 80 stationary takes, casting a glance is also a structuralist ode to artist Robert Smithson, whose vision of moving 6,500 tons of earth, rock, and algae into a vast coil on Utah’s saltwater, terminal lake would emerge as one of the great earthworks of the last century.
This is the first event of "Sun, Salt, Spiral", a series of film screenings and workshops devoted to the work of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson that continues at Mini Mart City Park in May.
On Site is curated by David Dinnell, Ellen Ito and Jay Kuehner
This program is proudly supported by Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.
A Permanent Glimpse, work by Anton Lvovich
We are proud to present the work of Artist Anton Lvovich, a Seattle based painter and sculpture showing a range of works from both past and present.
Join us for the opening Reception April 12, 12-8p
Artist talk at 5 pm
Artist Workshop with Lee Davignon
De/Compose 12-4 PM
FREE
Walk-ins encouraged
This workshop invites participants to transform salvaged materials, looking to the process of composting for inspiration. How can a thing be taken apart, reconsidered, and reassembled? Can it be cut, shredded, knotted, punctured, folded? From upcycling textiles to food packaging, participants are encouraged to bring materials to contribute to our ‘compost’ pile.
This workshop takes participants through three stages: Decompose, Redistribute, and Compose.
Participants decompose materials at one station, and compose them into something new at another. In the middle is our shared and redistributed resources— what will grow from this fertile blend?
On Site: Kevin Jerome Everson
Still from Accidental Athlete (2023, 7 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold
On Site, the moving image series at Mini Mart City Park returns with two back-to-back screening events on March 3 and 4, both featuring works by artist Kevin Jerome Everson, the majority of which have never before been screened in Seattle.
March 4
Ten Five In The Grass: A Field Guide to Kevin Jerome Everson Solo and Collaborative Films (TRT 88 min).
The work of artist Kevin Jerome Everson evinces a singular vision across a broad swath of American life. Often focusing on the physical and material contours of labor, Everson exercises a commensurately keen eye on competitive sport, depicting the athlete in frequently unceremonious - yet no less dignified states of practice. This includes his Black Fire collaborations with co-director Claudrena N. Harold.
The work of Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965, Mansfield, Ohio; lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) has been the subject of mid-career retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Cinema du Reel, and Centre Pompidou, among others. He has screened his films at international film festivals and museums including Sundance, Toronto, NYFF, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Black Star, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington D.C. His films have been featured at the 2008, 2012 and 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International and the 2023 Contour Biennale.
© Kevin Jerome Everson; courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures
Special thanks to Kevin Jerome Everson, Kahlil I. Pedizisai, Claudrena N. Harold and Madeleine Molyneaux / Picture Palace Pictures
Still from Rams 23 Blue Bears 21(2017, 8 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
Still from Double Feature at the Sunset Drive-In (2024, 3 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
On Site: Kevin Jerome Everson
Still from Double Feature at the Sunset Drive-In (2024, 3 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
On Site, the moving image series at Mini Mart City Park returns with two back-to-back screening events on March 3 and 4, both featuring works by artist Kevin Jerome Everson, the majority of which have never before been screened in Seattle.
March 3rd screening at SIFF Film Center, March 4th at Mini Mart City Park
Expanding engagement with cinema via screenings and interdisciplinary programs
On Site is curated by David Dinnell, Jay Kuehner and Ellen Ito and presented in collaboration with Mini Mart City Park. This project is funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund award from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. @seattle_neighborhoods
March 3
Kevin Jerome Everson: Solo and Collaborative Films
A program of recent films (2019-2024, 16mm presented digitally, TRT 65 min).
Kevin Jerome Everson and collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai will be in attendance.
Eleven of Everson’s recent short films will be presented including Practice, Practice, Practice, 2024, a portrait of Richard Bradley who tore down the Confederate flag flown at City Hall in San Francisco in 1984; Hazel, 2023, a fictionalized recreation of Eddie Hazel's famous 10-minute guitar solo on the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain”;and Glenville, 2020, where Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil I. Pedizisai update the 1898 film Something Good- Negro Kiss, which features the first representation of African American intimacy in cinema history.
March 4
Ten Five In The Grass: A Field Guide to Kevin Jerome Everson Solo and Collaborative films
(TRT 88 min).
The work of artist Kevin Jerome Everson evinces a singular vision across a broad swath of American life. Often focusing on the physical and material contours of labor, Everson exercises a commensurately keen eye on competitive sport, depicting the athlete in frequently unceremonious - yet no less dignified states of practice. This includes his Black Fire collaborations with co-director Claudrena N. Harold.
The work of Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965, Mansfield, Ohio; lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) has been the subject of mid-career retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Cinema du Reel, and Centre Pompidou, among others. He has screened his films at international film festivals and museums including Sundance, Toronto, NYFF, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Black Star, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington D.C. His films have been featured at the 2008, 2012 and 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International and the 2023 Contour Biennale.
Kahlil I. Pedizisai is a multi-media artist/documentarian working in the mediums of photography, film, and audio. He has worked as director, cinematographer, assistant director, and sound recordist over the past three decades including several collaborations, since 2007, with Kevin Jerome Everson. Pedizisai is currently an Artist-in-Residence and Professor at Linfield University in Oregon.
© Kevin Jerome Everson; courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures
Special thanks to Kevin Jerome Everson, Kahlil I. Pedizisai, Claudrena N. Harold and Madeleine Molyneaux / Picture Palace Pictures
Still from Accidental Athlete (2023, 7 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold
Still from Rams 23 Blue Bears 21(2017, 8 mins.) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
Roger Beebe: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS—Spring Tour 2025
Roger Beebe returns to Seattle for the first time in a decade with a new program of 16mm multi-projector performances celebrating the 25thanniversary of his first touring program.
“Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.” --Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing
The program features several newer works (un arbre (2024, 4 x 16mm + video), Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019, 4 x 16mm), de rerum natura (2019, 3 x 16mm + video), Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021, 4 x 16mm), alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the seven-projector show-stopping Last Light of a Dying Star (2008/2011). He will also include a sampling of recent essayistic videos, presented as live-narrated documentaries. These works take on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying [Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)] to the racial politics of font choices (The Comic Sans Video) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (Amazonia).
Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many other venues. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Art and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at the Ohio State University.
BO(U)ND an exhibition by Liquid Lush Girls: Bri Chesler and Minhi England
Artist Reception Sat, January 11
2 - 8 pm, Artist Talk at 5pm
Photo Credit: David Chen
We had the unique opportunity of closing out 2024 by hosting glass and mixed-media artists Bri Chesler and Minhi England as our Mini Mart City Park Artists-in-Residence. Over the last month, they’ve been working onsite, side-by-side, repurposing material and reimagining previous works for their exhibition BO(U)ND, opening this Saturday, January 11.
BO(U)ND is a study on how relationships alter and shape our identities. Despite the lack of conscious consent, experiences cling to our psyche binding us through one another.
The Liquid Lush Girls is an artistic collaboration between two best friends, Bri Chester and Minhi England, who bonded through shared life experiences, offering a fresh take on trauma bonding. The duo forged their friendship in a male-dominated industry, standing out as the only women on the factory floor. When they began sharing their personal stories, they were astonished to discover the many parallels in their childhood and family backgrounds. This connection inspired them to create what is now known as The Liquid Lush Girls.
While both Bri and Minhi work independently, they also collaborate on projects, finding that their life experiences continue to overlap alongside their artistic endeavors. Despite their distinct artistic styles, their partnership creates a new, unified vision, as demonstrated in Delectable, an immersive installation at METHOD Gallery in 2023. Their residency at Mini Mart City Park offers another opportunity for them to push the boundaries of their individual practices while working side by side.
The Liquid Lush Girls, a residency and installation by Bri Chesler and Minhi England
The Liquid Lush Girls is an artistic collaboration between two best friends who bonded through shared life experiences, offering a fresh take on trauma bonding. The duo forged their friendship in a male-dominated industry, standing out as the only women on the factory floor. When they began sharing their personal stories, they were astonished to discover the many parallels in their childhood and family backgrounds. This connection inspired them to create what is now known as The Liquid Lush Girls, a collaboration between artists Bri Chesler and Minhi England.
While both Bri and Minhi work independently, they also collaborate on projects, finding that their life experiences continue to overlap alongside their artistic endeavors. Despite their distinct artistic styles, their partnership creates a new, unified vision, as demonstrated in Delectable, an immersive installation at METHOD Gallery in 2023. Their upcoming residency at Mini Mart City Park will offer another opportunity for them to push the boundaries of their individual practices while working side by side.
Future Forward 2025 - Call for Art
Future Forward 2025 - Call For Art
Call Type: Exhibition
Eligibility: Regional
State: Washington
Mediums: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Fiber Art, Video, Photography, Installation
Submission Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025, 5p PST
Notification: January 13
Delivery of Artwork: January 30-February 1
Opening Reception: February 8, Georgetown Art Attack 2-8p
Exhibition Dates: February 8 - March 23
Future Forward is a curated regional group exhibition open to artists with a connection to the Greater Duwamish Valley. This could mean that you’ve lived, worked, or have studio space in the area, or simply find inspiration in its unique history, ecosystem, or cultural landscape.
This third annual exhibition at Mini Mart City Park (MMCP) will explore interaction between humans and the environment, encompassing the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of this theme. Priority will be given to artists that work from a social and/or environmental justice perspective and first-time exhibiting artists are encouraged to apply! This exhibition aims to celebrate the artists and community that distinguish this region and keep it creatively thriving.
DRAW NO MATTER WHAT
A comic art show featuring Short Run Comix Festival international special guests PowerPaola, Tetsunori Tawaraya, and Joakim Drescher. Featuring 50+ original drawings, giclee prints, and t-shirts from three of the most prolific, unique, extraordinary comic artists. Don't miss this!
On view at Short Run after-party Saturday, Nov. 2nd.
Neighborhood opening Saturday, Nov. 9th.
The Golden Cage: Trapped at Work
The Golden Cage: “Trapped at work” is an art exhibit featuring 4 Seattle based friends who for many years worked together in the music business as Tour Managers. While on the road most of their time was spent in 5 star hotel rooms stuck at work, they called this situation “The Golden Cage.” Artwork became a favored pastime and this exhibit will contain works from this history as well as the growth of work that ensued.
Featuring artwork by: Eric Johnson, Regan Hagar, Kevin Shuss, and Cary Kemp
Friends and family wall participants:
Wayne White, Mimi Pond, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Spooner Oldham, Ben Keith, Dave Place, and John Luccasini
Trash Talking, new sculpture by Michael Leavitt, July 6 to August 18
“Trash Talking” is an art show with over 100 life-size replicas of politically-charged objects made from recyclables by toy sculptor Michael Leavitt. The public reception July 13 will have free drinks, junk food and games to win free prizes, with take-away art stocked to buy off the shelf from this re-imagined corner store.
A User’s Manual to Claire Fontaine
Red May Seattle & MMCP present Users Guide to Claire Fontaine
A conversation with author Anita Chari and Jaleh Mansoor.
SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND
2:00 PM
A User’s Manual to Claire Fontaine
Critical Theorist Anita Chari explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine’s experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory, Chari delineates a series of theoretical techniques and procedures at the core of the artist’s work, among them defunctionalization, Institutional Critique, human strike, tactile mimesis, desubjectivation, détournement, magic materialism, and feminist materialism. Join her in conversation with art critic and historian, Jaleh Mansoor (Marshall Plan Modernism).
Robert Hutchison: Memory Landscapes - Tsunami Infrastructure along the Tohoku Coastline of Japan
15m Tsunami Wall, Nijuichihama Fishing Port, Kesennuma, Miyagi
‘Memory Landscapes’ is a conceptual project exploring the power of collective memory in designing for certain futures resulting from natural disaster. Focusing on the Tohoku coastline of Japan that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the exhibition combines a close photographic study of existing sociological, geological, and constructed conditions with a series of parafictional architectural proposals that reconsider the role of coastal infrastructure through the transformation of existing tsunami walls to public space. The project was informed by Hutchison’s research in Japan in 2023 as a U.S./Japan Creative Fellow, as well as residencies at MacDowell and Loghaven.
Cenotaph to Pay Tribute to Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Unosumai, Iwate, Japan
Artist Opening Sat, June 8th 12 - 8 pm (Artist talk at 5 pm)
Cyanotype Workshop with Steven Miller
Cyanotype workshop Saturday, May 11, 12:00 and 1:30
Come join local artist Steven Miller for a hands-on cyanotype workshop on Saturday, May 11.
Miller will guide participants through the entire process of making a cyanotype, from photo capture to creating a negative and print to take home.
Workshop space is limited to 10 per session. RSVP HERE.
Photographic equipment required: Please bring your smartphone or digital SLR.
Steven Miller's art has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums, and his photographs are featured in the public collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Northern Georgia College and State University, and Seattle's Public Art 4Culture, as well as numerous private collections
See Steven Miller’s work on view in the current Mini Mart City Park exhibition, Face Off
All images courtesy of the artist
Eventide, a film by Sharon Lockhart, On Site Film Series
On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.
April 25, Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM
Free
Eventide
Sharon Lockhart, 2022, 4K Video, 34 mins
In what is both a culmination and a departure, Sharon Lockhart’s latest film, Eventide (2022), is a meditative, non-narrative long shot that uses choreography to explore landscape, communal relations, solitary searching, psychic endurance, and the play of light moving through darkness. Locating drama in the real-time shift of evening fading into night, this is perhaps Lockhart’s most optical and painterly moving image to date, composing figures, scenography, and soundscape into allegory and abstraction. The artist’s investment in forms of dance in previous works is felt here too as the initial appearance of an individual slowly builds into a culture and a gathering. An astounding number of stars emerge bright in the dusking sky, blazing as a distant corollary to the growing constellation of roving bodies scanning the rock-strewn beach by cell phone light for what we do not know. The streaking of shooting stars and gliding of satellites throws the otherwise measured pace into relief. Shot on the Swedish coast with a close-knit group of friends Lockhart has been involved with for years, Eventide is concerned with the future and what it might hold. (Lockhart Studios)
Curated by David Dinnell, Ellen Ito, Jay Kuehner
David Dinnell is a film programmer currently living in Seattle. He is the former Program Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Film Festival and the Tacoma Film Festival. He has curated film programs for the Flaherty Film Seminar, The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires), UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (NYC), Canyon Cinema 50, among others. He is co-founder and co-curator of Mur Murs, an ongoing Los Angeles-based series presenting artists and cinema.
Ellen Ito is an artist, programmer, and curator raised in the Lower Duwamish Valley. Current projects include the exhibition Soft Power, on view at TAM through September 2024. Ellen is the Curator of Special Projects at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Jay Kuehner is an independent film critic, curator, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest whose focus is on creative nonfiction and documentary practice. His work has appeared in Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, Film Comment, IndieWire and Sight and Sound.
Image caption:
Sharon Lockhart
EVENTIDE
2022
single-channel HD video installation (color/sound)
34:32 min.
© Sharon Lockhart, 2022
courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and Gladstone Gallery