 Event: Arts-travaganza Sale, 7/15/2021 6pm - 9pm
Venue: Push/Pull 5484 Shilshole Ave NW www.facebook.com/events/2119693068172794 Join the artists of Push/Pull for their first art opening since February 2020. To celebrate all original art is 20% off and all prints are 25% off. Take some great art home today and support local artists.
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Join Maxx Follis-Goodkind of Push/Pull to learn about her latest comic, Lunch Break. She'll be presenting the whole book and reading/talking about the creation. Lunch Break will be available in print from Push/Pull Press later this summer. More information at pushpullseattle.com/press.html Lunch Break is a fantastic adventure from the 'real' world and appropriate for all ages. Maxx Follis-Goodkind's presentation is June 3rd at 6pm. Join with this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83324180473?pwd=Tkg2UlFKR0Y2TElLb3BQOXdjSjBYdz09
Ballard Night Out, a program run by Greater Ballard Arts, is switching gears for 2021 after its year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is returning in xxxx as a weekly webcast. Ballard Night In will feature artists, performers, musicians, and arts venues in the greater Ballard community every Thursday from 6pm - 7 pm. In addition, Greater Ballard Arts will feature a new calendar of virtual and COVID-safe events starting in spring 2021.
Greater Ballard Arts was established in early 2017 by Maxx Follis-Goodkind and members of the Ballard community. Ballard Night Out has been managed by Follis-Goodkind and members of the Push/Pull collective since 2019. “Combining officially means we can better use funds and resources, plus cut down on expenses,” said Follis-Goodkind. The addition of Ballard Night Out and Greater Ballard Arts to Push/Pull’s programming helps advance the art collective’s mission to support sustainable careers for artists and to build connections between artists and the community. Artists, performers, musicians, and creators can apply to be featured on Ballard Night In through the Ballard Night Out website. Featured creators will receive a stipend for participating. Event organizers in the greater Ballard area can also submit their events to the Greater Ballard Arts calendar now. Artist: Maxx Follis-Goodkind Show: Hysteria: Art and Artifacts of an angry feminist Venue: Push/Pull 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: March 19th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/772404026594355/ Showing through May 10th Join us for Maxx Follis-Goodkind's first solo show since October 2018. This time she tackles the anger, frustration, and heartache of feminism through paintings, handmade books, screen prints and a new zine.
Show: Sanctus Ignotus, Group Show Artists: David Lasky, Sage Walters, Megan Noel, Hayden Stern, Valerie Neimeyer, Seth Goodkind, Jessica Geiger & MORE Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: February 29th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2462558360727487/ Showing through: March 17th Sanctus Ignotus is a show inspired by orthodox, gothic, medieval, or other classical art movement paintings of saints. Artists are invited to interpret old works in new ways or to canonize modern figures in their works.
Show: Black, White & Re(a)d All Over Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: January 16th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2970990152945024/ Showing: Through February 18th What's Black & White & Re(a)d All Over? Push/Pull's first show of 2020. Artists were challenged with a limited palette of red, white and black plus they have to incorporate printed/written word. Come see what they came up with! Most artists will be in attendance and we will be serving treats and beverages.
Show: Golem, A Family History Artist: Julia Wald Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: December 19th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2392351280981225/ Showing: Through January 14th Join us for the opening of Golem: A Family History by Julia Wald. Julia has been illustrating her family's history and will be sharing this very personal show with us at Push/Pull. Opening December 19th for Ballard Night Out 6pm - 9pm. Showing through January 14th. Artist Statement: I am a jew. My family’s history has been tied to this word and their immigration patterns and destinies shaped by it. My grandpa left Germany in 1936 because he was a jew. My Eastern European family fled Russia during the revolution for the same reason. I am an American citizen because my family was lucky enough to escape their respective countries just in time. The Golem is a Jewish anthropomorphic creature that can be a monster, a savior, a hero to the Jewish people, or a villain. The creature is created from the earth—stones, mud, and clay. The conjuring of a Golem can mean hope or despair. My family’s collective history can be summed up pretty nicely as a combination of hope and despair, monsters and saviors. Artist Bio: Julia Wald is an artist and illustrator based in Seattle Washington. She often uses india ink pens in her work, exploring line, pattern, and texture. Her subject matter ranges from cityscapes, index card monsters, and comics. She was just awarded a 2019 Artist Trust GAP Grant to continue working on this project—The Golem: A Family History and plans on using the funds to turn the comics about her family into a book.  Show: Collective Conscience #3, art show & book release Venue: Push/Pull 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: November 21st 6pm - 9pm Showing: November 21st - December 17th www.facebook.com/events/569090890292612/ Push/Pull presents the third edition of Collective Conscience, our annual celebration of the members that make our work possible. Member work will cover our gallery wall and we'll have the official release of our annual anthology, Collective Conscience 3. This year's cover is by Jon Garaizar. Many pieces are priced to gift for the holidays.
Artist: Jon Garaizar Venue: The Lavatory Gallery @ Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/615623815512159/ Showing thru November 19th Push/Pull's own Jon Garaizar invades the Lavatory Gallery. Opening October 17th, showing through November 19th. Stop in for Ballard's only fine art gallery in a bathroom. Jon Garaizar is a Seattle artist from the Bay Area. He works in print, ink and comic form to explore the world metaphor, conspiracy, UFO's, esoterica, and time travel. His work examines and highlights the endless loop of conspiracy and mania, it's mirrors and origins in reality, and how we build the cruel, unreal world that forces us to craft such fantastic tales. His current projects can be seen on instagram @enchanting_stranger
Artist: Myra Lara Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm Showing through: November 18th www.facebook.com/events/339552316983070/ When the neighborhood Prius has the tasteless Malthusian slogan "Seattle is Full", you know you're in the technocratic city. When superyachts are "sustainable" but your commute is not, you know you're in the technocratic city. When police are thanked during private "community" Pride events but queer and POC spaces are still overpoliced, you know you're in the technocratic city. Lifeswork towards frivolous apps, efficiency, "smarter" economies and "authentic" experiences but silence when evictions, rent burden, low wages, and homelessness increase - but don't worry, the next private-public partnership will handle it in time. That's life in the technocratic city. Ready to find your coping mechanism? Bio: Myra Lara is an architectural designer, cartoonist, and activist whose work focuses on the right to the city, housing policy, genderqueerness, and multicultural everyday life. Drawing on her many disciplines, taught by institution and untaught by self, she explores these topics via comix, zines, protest art, and tweeting. She's originally from a bordertown in south Texas and has been living in Seattle off-and-on since 2010. You can find her at @nullthread and www.myralara.com
Artist: Hayden Stern (Bioluminator Studios) bioluminator.bigcartel.com/ Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: September 19th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2465410593497881/ Join us for the opening of Hayden Stern (Bioluminator Studios) show featuring original works from their Trans Tarot series. Showing September 19th through October 15th. The Trans Tarot is a deck illustrated from submitted selfies from the transgender community. Each image celebrates the enormous range of presentation, identity, and life experience that trans people bring to the table. The deck was borne out of the concept that gender, like tarot, is a mystical process of transformation. As a transgender individual, the artist has used symbolism to understand their identity amidst a gendered society. It is their hope that this deck will resonate with their community while inspiring cisgender individuals to examine their own relationship with society, gender, and embodiment. Hayden Stern is an artist whose work is informed by the experience of living in a trans, disabled body. They create two dimensional art in ink, paint, and fiber to tenderly portray the reclamation of body/self in a society that would prefer they were either cured or absent. They are based in unceded Coast Salish Territories (Seattle).
 Show: Specswizard & Keef Cross (Dayblack - Atlanta, GA) Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: August 15th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/861096594225677/ Showing thru: September 18th Push/Pull is proud to present the work of local artist Michael Hall (aka Specswizard) and Keef Cross (Georgia). Showing through September 18th. Michael D Hall aka Specswizard has been writing and producing hip hop music since 1979--but comics are his first love. He started creating characters and stories when he was just seven years old and he is still at it today. Specs has become a staple in the Seattle hip hop community, and has started to also show his visual art around town, most notably at Steve Gilbert's Studio. He is currently focusing on character designs and pen and ink work for a new comic called the Gibson Comic Anthology that will be published and distributed throughout Seattle and hopefully beyond this summer. Push/Pull is celebrating the culmination of his long awaited book with a show this August along with another notable comic artist and tattooer Keef Cross. KEEF CROSS When I make art, it's truly an escape. An escape from stereotypes and expectations put on "black art" and it's creators. It seems like most people are comfortable seeing black people portrayed walking to church, playing a jazz horn, braiding hair on the porch and things of that nature. There isn't anything wrong with that, but that's not all we are, and that's not all we do. Similar to black cinema and radio, audiences have gotten used to and even anticipate these redundant one sided offerings of black life. Growing up being influenced by Ralph Bakshi, Vaugn Bode', Wendy Pini, and Robert Crumb to name a few, really shaped my visual aesthetic, and tone of my paintings, but even more so, my approach to creating my comic book, "DayBlack". I found that those underground comics of the 70's always had one foot in sexual raunchiness and drugs, and another foot in social commentary, a combination that fascinated me as a kid. Who knew that in those adult comics I hid from my mother, I would find my individual voice and style. I'm all about pushing progressive images and ideas about my people to the forefront whenever I get the chance. TV, radio, and film won't do it, but I feel like art is the last medium that has been corrupted the least, and with the help of other like minded artists who aren't afraid to challenge these notions of what black art is and can be , we can help change the way the world sees us, and the way we see ourselves, one gallery, screen, and book at a time.
 Event: The Relevant Unknown, Yearbook Vol 2
Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW July 18th 6pm - 9pm Are you an artist, creator or maker in Seattle? Stop in to Push/Pull to be included in The Relevant Unknowns Yearbook Volume 2. Free to be included in the project. Books will be available for purchase December 2019. Show: Exquisite Corpse, Group Invitation Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: July 18th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/404240833741576/ Showing through: August 14th Push Pull has invited some of Seattle's most imaginative artists and illustrators to participate in a time-honored drawing game: The Exquisite Corpse. In groups of 3, each artist will create one third of a drawing - without knowing what the other 2 artists have drawn. What will happen when three artists come together to create a piece of art - but without being able to see what was already created? This art show, curated by David Lasky, and featuring Push/Pull members & guests, will explore just that. Each piece of art will be the work of three artists. Showing through August 14th. Contributing artists: Max Clotfelter, Grace Kroll, Pat Moriarity, Seth Goodkind, David Lasky, Julia Wald, Michael D Hall, Oscar Baechler, Maxx Follis-Goodkind, Valerie Niemeyer, Julie Hepp & Margaret Ashford-Trotter
 Artist: Alli Good (North Carolina) alligoodart.bigcartel.com/
Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: June 20th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2304339383177674/ Showing through July 16th Welcome to the neon world of Alli Good, where familiar things are transformed into vibrant yet dark, grotesque and surreal imagery. Good will be visiting from North Carolina for the opening - do not miss meeting this artist! About Alli Good: Alli Good's paintings and works are quasi-autobiographical exploration of sexuality, feminism, and family, tackled in the dark, surreal, but often humorous style for which she is known. Her paintings, influenced by comic and pop art, depict large, fleshy females in unsparing and sometimes grotesque nudity, exploring deeply-ingrained issues of body image and sexuality. Ultimately, the images are both disturbing and strangely poignant, forming a jagged path to sexuality, beauty, and self-knowledge.  Valerie Niemeyer Show: Fruiting Bodies & Efflorescence
Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: May 16th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/504672536603926/ Showing Through June 18th Join us for a celebration of all things in bloom with the opening of Fruiting Bodies & Efflorescence. Event art by Valerie Niemeyer. Our opening is a part of Ballard Night Out, happening every Third Thursday. This event will expand beyond our regular gallery walls to also include the Lavatory Gallery space and our hallway! Artists: Alaina Arts, Maybe's Art, Jessica Bishop, Margaret Ashford-Trotter, Valerie Niemeyer - Art, Alexandria Sandlin, Maggie Sharar, Heidi Estey Art, Amanda M Jorgenson, Kiriska, The Creeping Moon, Stacy LeFevre, Courtney Huston, Sketches By The Sea, Amanda Franz, By Kyla Powers, Maxx FG Art Event: Group art show & Karaoke Venue: Ice Box / 615 NW Bright St Art curated by Push/Pull featuring Zac Boetes, Maxx Follis-Goodkind, Vladimir Verano, Catherine Cougan and more. Karaoke starts at 8pm. All happening on April 18th.
Show: Stanza:Fire, Art & Poetry Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: April 18th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/993775564126042/ Showing: Through May 15th Join us for a night of art and poetry! Stanza:Fire is a collection of poetry inspired by fire, art inspired by the poetry, and it all coming together in a publication and art show. Join us for the opening night to hear the poetry from the poets themselves. Poems and art will be collected in a limited edition book. This year we are very excited that all poets are planning on reading! Poets: Laura Lucas, Amber Bird, Doug Nufer, Talia Lily Ringer, Zoe Sandalwood, Kim Truedson Artists: Julia Wald, David Lasky, Vladimir Verano, Steven Reddy, Valerie Niemeyer, Panic Volkushka, Erin Dailey, Aaron Morgan, Stacy LeFevre Preview art by Panic Volkushka.   Show: Ballard Night Market Venue: Substation / 645 NW 45th St Event: March 21st 9pm - Midnight www.facebook.com/events/252089495730296/ A night market with something for everybody from the spooky to the macabre to the plain cute. Come check out Ballard's most unique night market. Vintage Clothing, Upcycle, Art, Crafts, and So much More. Vendor inquiry please contact: ballardnightmarket@gmail.com Vendor LINE UP- Morbid Heart Designs, Young Willow Creations, Swamp Swag Creations, The Odditorium Obscura, CapsNScraps, Lumoneir (http://lumoneir.storenvy.com/), Lady Merlin (https://www.facebook.com/Lady-Merlin-Mystic-Readings-252007692343/), VinyLush, Mythic Eggs, Push/Pull, Sister Cousins Baking (https://www.instagram.com/sistercousinsbaking/)
 Artist: Snaggs Show: In Your Face, Group Show Artists: Jesse Way-Out, Snaggs, Maxx FG, Jessica Geiger, Odditorium Obscura, Keith Amarak, Vladimir Verano Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Showing March 21st - April 17th Event: March 21st 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/1213064475515557/ Join us for our first all 3-d art show. Artists were invited to create wall-hanging sculptural works for our In Your Face show. Opening March 21st 6pm - 9pm for Ballard Night Out and showing through April 17th. Artists were allowed to use any materials they desired - we have everything from felt to clay to cat hair! Come see how they constructed these sculptural works.
 Display Artist: Lee Harper (ig @phinneylee) Live Artist: Amanda Jorgenson www.amandamjorgenson.com Live Music: Abraham Neuwelt abrahamneuwelt.bandcamp.com + Teen Art Showcase from Push/Pull Venue: Verity Credit Union / 5711 24th Ave NW Display art showing March 17th - June 15th Event: March 21st 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/415295195891314/ Join the members and staff of Verity Credit Union to celebrate new art for their Spring Quarter. Display artist Lee Harper: My foray into the world of photography began with taking daily snaps on my iPhone as a way to combat the rainy and dark Seattle winters. Next was my “gateway camera”, a point and shoot. From there it was game on and I was addicted! I am drawn to shape and texture, light and line. My photography is an eclectic blend of abstraction and concentration; representational photos of the natural world are counter-balanced by pictures with deliberately shifted perspectives and focal points. Last year, I completed the Summer Intensive Program at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana. I fell in love with the art of printing. Watching my art come to life is as enjoyable as taking photos. I have exhibited in several group shows at community art galleries, and individual shows at local coffee shops, bars, and restaurants in Seattle and Camano Island.
Show: Ballard Night Market Venue: Substation / 645 NW 45th St Event: February 21st 9pm - Midnight (venue opens with art on the wall at 5pm) www.facebook.com/events/334987620438002/ Stop in to see local artists and artisans at the Ballard Night Market at Substation. Vendor List: Caps'n'Scraps https://www.facebook.com/capsnscrapsart The Odditorium Obscura Elli-vated goods. https://www.elli-vatedgoods.com/ Ryan Jack Allred Artist, Illustrator Http://www.ryanjackallred.com Raven Mad Designs Http://www.ravenmaddesigns.com Darling Handmade Crafts https://www.facebook.com/darlinghandmadecrafts/ Push/Pull curated art on the walls (see your bartender to purchase or instructions on sign) Jonathan https://www.mypugetsoundcbd.com/ Storytime Psychic Alliance. https://storytimepsychicalliance.com/
 Artists: Love & Anxiety Collective
Venue: Push/Pull 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: February 21st 6pm - 9pm Showing: February 21st - March 19th Push/Pull is proud to present the work of Love & anxiety artists, opening February 21st for Ballard Night Out, through March 19th. From the artists: Our intention is to capture our present, our human condition. Everything around us. Some say better times will never be, some say better times are yet to come. For us, there’s only one moment. Constant and never ending. For that moment, we praise. We call it The Joy. The Love & Anxiety Collective is a group of Costa Rican artists from different disciplines, that come together under The Joy manifesto, to create work that expresses, from our point of view, the current state of our human condition. For more information about the artists, visit https://www.loveandanxiety.com/  Show: Star Crossed - Zodiac Inspired Art
Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: January 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/531648403986376/ Showing Through February 18th What does 2019 hold for you? Will you be checking your horoscope for guidance? Whether you're a believer in astrology or not, you'll love the beautiful zodiac inspired works in Star-Crossed. Featuring works by: Valerie Niemeyer, Jessica Lincoln, Michelle Sutterfield, Victor Devlin, Emry P. Kirsch, Laura Tempest Zakroff, Amanda Jorgenson, Vladimir Verano, Eric Priestley, Julia Wald, Stacy LeFevre, Rhodora Jacob, Heidi Estey, Megan Wyreweden, Angela Devlin, Courtney Huston, Morgan Miano, Michael Elton Crye & Esse Quam Videri  Show: Collective Conscience Encore Show + Natalie Dupille's Food Fetish Venue: Push/Pull + The Lavatory Gallery / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Showing: Through January 14th Event: December 20th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/1818922701567719/ Collective Conscience is the print and visual art collaboration of past and present members of Push/Pull. Push/Pull is always many things, but at its core it is a cooperative. A group of artists gathering to collectively support the local art scene, to grow, learn and support each other. We've invited our Push/Pull Crew to contribute art to a "take it home for the holidays show" - unlike our usual shows, this one is not themed but most pieces will be under $100 and ready to go home with you when you purchase. We also have available the second Collective Conscience anthology of member work, featuring comics and illustrations. This year's cover is by Maxx FG Art. BONUS! - Natalie Dupille will be showing her Food Fetish art in the Lavatory Gallery. Plus she's gathered it all in a calendar for your daily viewing pleasure. Pick up that perfect last minute gift from local artists.  |
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