Lion's Main Art Collective presents the Othello Quartz Festival. This daytime event in the John C Little Sr Park is focused on connecting artists of color and queer/trans artists with the South Seattle community. We will host installation art, performances, dancers, poets, and face painters. This is a free event run by POC.
This 3 day gallery event will address gentrification, displacement, liminal and transitional spaces. Moving, waiting, changing, sustaining, places that offer us public and private platforms to interact with movement and flux. Artists involved have been asked to respond with work that addresses these in-between spaces, whether they relate to physical location, memory, time, or the ethereal.
Friday, May 6th-Sunday May 8th
Photos of visual art from the Transience show.
A sample of the photos from our 3 day photo booth by Eva Io.
Films stills from Transience opening night performances taken by Arlo Ballard.
Lion's Main Art Collective presents our upcoming show: Transience. This 3 day gallery event will address gentrification, displacement, liminal and transitional spaces. Moving, waiting, changing, sustaining, places that offer us public and private platforms to interact with movement and flux. Artists involved have been asked to respond with work that addresses these in-between spaces, whether they relate to physical location, memory, time, or the ethereal.
Participating Artists:
Sofya Belinskaya
Flynn Bickley
Alex Boeschenstein
Jackie Braun
Cassie Castrejon
Jesse Chappelle
CACHÉ
Alex Constant
Louise Croff Blake
DoNormaal
Sterling Dorminey
Pretty Eyes Genesis Ellis
Hamishi Farah
Jeanne Marie Ferraro
Amanda Kirkhuff
Katie Kuffel
Elise Koncsek
Chris Jordan
Mario Lemafa
KATHRYN ELISSE MAY_C
Coley Mixan
Naima Noguera Mujica
Richard Munaba
Philippa Myler
Aeva Kloiber
Demian Diné Yazhi'
Jonath Ochs
Joann O'Meara
Elliot O'Sheenan
Ally Parks
Andrew K Phan
Clyde Peterson
Grant Rehnberg
Haus des Rodriguez
Arica Schuett
Manuel Solano
Eli Steffen
Lauren Steury
Raye Stove
Diego Suarez
Qin Tan
Jena Tegeler
Tristan O'Hart
Gia Valente
Collin Veenstra
Jade Vogelsang
Daniel Wechsler
Kristine Roan
FRIDAY
At 8pm Friday, the gallery will be open to the public for our opening night! The gallery will be open until 11:30pm. Friday night will feature performance artists:
DoNormaal
Katie Kuffel & Lana McMullen
Coley Mixan
SATURDAY
On Satuday, we invite guests to Transience- Dance Among the Art. The gallery will again be open to the public and will feature DJs Reverend Dollars and Jimi Jaxon bringing you some Saturday night vibes ♥
SUNDAY
Sunday, the gallery will be open earlier in the day for your last chance to see the show- Transience- Brunch in the Gallery. There will be brunch snacks courtesy of Macrina Bakery & Cafe and The Essential Baking Company and a brunch bar!
The title and entered works were inspired by the following definition:
The process of erasing takes many forms in works and community, we invited artists working in a wide range of media to interpret erasure as they see it.
Please enjoy a small photo gallery with shots from opening night! These include candid shots, shots from the photo booth, and art work from the gallery.
The Lion's Main Art Collective is bringing you a QTone, a Film Festival featuring Queer Filmmakers of Color. Join us September 24th at Central Cinema and September 27th at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center for art, community, and celebration! Lineup: https://www.facebook.com/lionsmainartcollective/posts/714212715377467
We'll be awarding prizes to films selected by the audience at each screening to help artists create more work in the future!
The biophilia hypothesis suggests that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems.
-Wikipedia
Lion's Main hosted Biophilia in Georgetown in the summer of '15 as a fundraising party for our next show, Erasure. It was a magical night featuring a garden installation by Olivia Greene, live dj's, and a photo booth. We also debuted the 'Biophilia' Zine, which is available online. The party theme and zine entries were inspired by the following definition:
Please enjoy a sample of the photos from the Biophilia photo booth! Photos by Brody Willis and Arlo Ballard. Photo booth background created by Sofya Belinskaya and Louise Blake.
The Lion's Main Art Collective partnered with Central Cinema and Youngstown Cultural Arts Center to host an evening of trans and queer short films. All films were created by local Washington artists. We were able to award a prize of $150 to the best film, determined by the audience's vote, to help artists create more work in the future.
Featured artists include:
Malic Amalya
Arlo Ballard
Louise Blake
Lisa Bolden
Leigh Carroll
Greg Chu
Margaret Elisabeth
Max Garnet
Calvin Gimpelevich
Wes Hurley
Emma McKittrick
Ashley Nieves
Tai Payne
Clyde Petersen
Grant Rehnberg
Danielle Villegas
A small glimpse into an alternate reality, or a means of traveling between realities. A gateway, a peephole, a liminal threshold, a porous barrier, a hole to transformative spaces
-The Lions
Enjoy a video from Arlo Ballard of the opening night of Portals!
Slideshow of Portals set-up, opening night and the breakdown of the show.
Lion's Main Art Collective is a group of emerging queer and trans artists across numerous artistic disciplines. Our newest pop-up show, Portals, is an interdisciplinary art extravaganza featuring over 20 artists from different perspectives and backgrounds, including visual artists, film makers, musicians, dancers, writers, poets and many more. Join us for a night of art, performances and readings from members of the collective!
Featuring:
TheLady B Bold-Beautiful as EMCEE!
Sofya Belinskaya
Leigh Cobalt Carroll
Jonath Ochs
Nate Koble
Æva Kloiber
Kaci Joans Eberhart
Colleen Taylor
Calvin Gimpelevich
Ari Chivukula
Bas Frost
Jackie Braun
Pretty Eyes Ellis
Brier Kaik
Tyler King
with Special Guests:
Richie Dagger's Crime
And more!
Many thanks to Seattle Office of Arts and Culture for awarding us the grant that made this show possible.
Join us for an amazing night of visual arts, music, spoken word and more! This month we have the lovely "Lady B" as our hostess, fantastic new prizes for the raffle, and of course the company of our fabulous community! Featuring works by K Florence McCafferty, Æva Kloiber, Jackie Braun, Jack Carroll, Colleen Taylor, Sofya Belinskaya, Antonio Decossio, Kaik, Calvin Gimpelevich, Louise Croff Blake, Leigh Carroll, Markel Uriu, Jordawn Montgomery, and more.
A state of intense nervous excitement, agitation, heat; an instance of this. -Oxford English Dictionary
An object of rare beauty or priceless worth; the choicest part of (anything).
Oxford English Dictionary
Coming into contact (with no notion of violent opposition or hostility); action of mind upon mind, or the like.
Oxford English Dictionary
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