 Another year is coming to an end, and despite many hardships, there's always still good moments and things to reflect on. BE MERRY captures the good in ornament form. Come see dozens of miniature, giftable art pieces, along with select member work from this year!
Join us December 14th from 6-9 PM for the opening reception of our December show, Be Merry! We'll have a variety of handmade ornaments and hangable art made by Push/Pull members, along with framed original works, all of which make fantastic gifts! You'll be able to take them right off the wall and home with you immediately, no coming back later! Opening night will be your best chance to have the pick of available art, so see you then!
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 Ballard's favourite server gets his own art show! Come see OVER THIRTY portraits of Hattie's Hat's celebrity author Mohammad Badeges, as painted by Maxx Follis-Goodkind.
Maxx and Mohammad have been friends for many years. Maxx has been inspired by the creative self portrait photography that Mo posts near daily. For a year Maxx has been creating paintings, drawings and embroidered work referencing Mo's photos - with his blessing, of course. Mo-vember is a radical act of seeing and being seen. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, November 9th, from 6-9 PM! The show will be up through December 13.  The books are here! Fulfillment for the Kickstarter has begun! If you missed out or want to pick up extra books for your awesome friends, we hope you'll join us for our official book release party, Saturday, October 19, from 6-9 PM! Not only can you get the great Witch, Please! and related merch, but you'll also have the chance to grab original art from the book. We'll have originals and reproductions of every piece on display. How many pieces is that? FIFTY-FOUR (54)!!!! Books will also be available at Scarecrow Video starting October 19, which also happens to be Video Store Day! Stop in and rent (or buy!) some movies! Maybe grab a title included in our book?!
 Seth Goodkind watched every single movie in the "Witches & Warlocks" section at Scarecrow Video, reviewed them all, and invited artists to contribute art related to select movies to compile into a book and art show! Support the Kickstarter to get a copy of WITCH, PLEASE the book! You can also grab a copy of one of Seth's previous works, or maybe spring for a piece of original art included in the book? You have until September 18th to back the project! Save the date, also, for October 19th, 6-9 PM, the book release party and gallery opening at Push/Pull! 🧙♀️🧹 October 19th is also Independent Video Store Day, so be sure to stop by Scarecrow and pick up a movie to watch too!  Kiri Yu, or KIRISKA, is 100% Chinese, but has 0% training in traditional Chinese ink painting.
Despite this, they’ve always been drawn to the style of the medium and ended up approaching it in unconventional ways with non-traditional tools and branching subject matter. Brush pen lines accompany sumi ink and Chinese watercolor on rice paper scrolls, shikishi boards, and other papers. Traditional subjects like tigers, mountains, flowers, and fruit are twisted and blended together in strange ways, demonstrating a deeply rooted but disconnected heritage. Join us Thursday, September 12th, starting at 6pm, for the opening reception of DOING IT WRONG!  Behold the artistic fruits of the Push/Pull Book Club, who spent the summer reading Jules Verne's classic sci-fi, geological adventure, A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, and brought the strange environments, creatures, and scenes from the novel to life!
Join us for the opening reception Saturday, August 10, from 6-9pm! The show will be up through September 11.  Dive into nostalgic watercolor visions of summer days spent tidepooling. Max Mandell, a resident Push/Pull watercolorist, shares his love for watercolor and his appreciation of the denizens of the shore in this thoughtfully crafted show.
From landscape views to dreamy abstractions, Tidepool Dreamer showcases the breadth of watercolor as a soloist and in mixed-media applications. Detailed views of ancient shores, now redwood forests, meet ethereal and playful postcards of tidepool treasures in this show. Explore vanishing and delicate ecosystems through beloved sense-memories and join us for the opening reception of Tidepool Dreamer on Friday, July 12, from 6-9 PM! The show will be on display through August 9.  Anyone who's walked around the neighborhood of Ballard inevitably runs into a kitty, whether it's rolling around on a sidewalk, hiding in a bush, or glaring at you from a window.
The Cats of Ballard is a collection of illustrations of different cats Push/Pull member Kaylyn Chileen has photographed and encountered throughout Ballard and nearby Crown Hill since her move to Seattle. Join us at the opening reception Saturday, June 15, from 6-9 PM, with snacks and refreshments. You might see a familiar face, or even your own kitty! The show will be up until July 12.  Have you ever been curious about David Lasky's super popular seasonal haiku comic classes? Now's your chance to see some of Lasky's thoughtful poetic work in person, along with a curated selection of students' work! Join us for a SATURDAY opening reception, May 11, from 6-9pm! Come to this free art gallery opening and poetry reading curated by J.B. and David Lasky! With 70 pieces of art featuring 21 students of Haiku Poetry classes, A Whistling Kettle is a reading and a celebration of poetry comics. After first debuting in Thorp, WA, the show is now here in Seattle! Please come join us for complimentary wine, snacks, and good company to celebrate and mingle with haiku poetry artists. Possibly the first group exhibition of haiku comics ever (certainly first in the US), this exhibition is a result of an online course developed by David Lasky where he melds the craft of both comic book illustration and haiku poetry. This show features a mixture of original art and prints and includes former students of his program, some of whom are from both the North and South of our borders. So, what exactly are haiku comics? Haiku is a three-line poetic form originating in Japan. Comic strips, taking form in American newspapers, are often just three or four panels long. It turns out that the two forms blend together very well. While the Japanese art of haiga (haiku plus a drawing) is centuries old, the idea of making a haiku comic (turning a haiku poem into a comic strip of more than one panel) is something that originated in only the last 30 or so years. This showcase of writer-artists features several notable creatives: Kevan Atteberry is a children’s book author-illustrator and the designer of Microsoft’s Clippy, the character that everyone loves to hate. Shin Yu Pai is currently Seattle’s Civic Poet. She and Justin Rueff recently released what might be the world’s first book collection of haiku comics, Less Desolate. Monica Plant has had her haiku comics featured online through the Haiku Foundation’s website. Liz Wong is an author and illustrator with four books to her name. Author and illustrator Ellie Peterson is a 2023 Washington State Book Award Winner. Artist Tina Hoggatt has permanent work on display in the Seattle Mariners’ ballpark, while graphic novelist Megan Kelso has a comics mural, etched in stainless steel, at Climate Pledge Arena. Michael Green is one of the founders of the field of Graphic Medicine, an international network of medical professionals, scholars, and comics artists.   STANZA is Push/Pull's annual combination poetry and art show. Each year's work is also published in a risograph zine, released on opening day. This year's theme is NON-BINARY and will feature original poetry paired with art inspired by each poem -- all from non-binary and gender non-conforming creators. Join us at the opening reception, Thursday, April 18th, from 6-9 PM, for live readings by some of the poets, snacks, and mingling! The show will be on display through Wednesday, May 16. Art on the promo graphic is by KIRISKA.
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