After two years with Kaylyn at the helm of The Cats of Ballard, this year the show was opened up to other artists! Over 20 artists will be participating in this year's show, including many who are showing their work for the first time!

And beyond the outdoor cats and window cats you might glimpse around the neighbourhood, this year we're also celebrating some of our indoor cat neighbours, too!

Join us Saturday, June 13, from 6-9 pm for the opening reception! Meet participating artists, other cat people from around Ballard, and maybe even find art of your favourite Ballard cat on the walls?

Bits & Pieces opened this past weekend and is our biggest group show ever!

Featuring 37 artists, many local, our gallery wall is a full collage of beautiful and diverse collage works! There are so many different approaches to and explorations of collage work here; it's really inspiring! It was great to see so many collage artists come together for our opening reception, too. 

If you missed the reception, there's still time to come see the show! It will be up for a month, through June 11th! You can also browse the work in our online store.

Push/Pull is celebrating the art of collage this May with Bits & Pieces! Opening night of the gallery is May 9th.

​Art submissions are due April 1st and notifications will go out by April 5th. You can submit up to three pieces for consideration. Click on the link below and get started on your submission. All collage work is welcome, including poetry collage.

Yes! We're kicking off the year with a Risograph calendar and print series featuring the zodiac!

What's your sign? Come find them all at our ART-STROLOGY show featuring 12 pieces of Riso-printed artwork, available as in a collected calendar or as individual prints.

ART-STROLOGY features artwork by Kiriska, Lake Wilson, Vox Dombek, Vladimir Verano, Zaza Vera Luga Audirac, Kaylyn Chileen, Mx. Morgan, Rebecca Ann Jordan, Summer Clarke (featured in poster art above!), Liz Courts, and Maxx FG, and it's showing January 10th through February 13th. 

Join us for the opening reception Saturday, January 10th, from 6-9 pm!

SWORD DANCE is a series by Seattle artist and illustrator Mx. Morgan, themed with wolves and the swords suit from traditional tarot, displayed in Risograph print. Particular to Mx. Morgan's body of work, the viewer is invited to intuitively find oneself in the feral animal— and like in tarot, one may discover inner truths.

The sword suit in traditional tarot typically represents introspective challenges— logic, anxieties, decision-making, traumas, overthinking, and so on. Each card is presented with the wolf as a primary focus, an animal symbolizing untamed nature, power, fear, familial ties. 

Adorning each card are red, tangled flourishes which can be seen as feathers, vines, or perhaps blood, depending on how one chooses to interpret them. That is the beautiful aspect of tarot— there are hard set meanings rooted in one’s cultural significance, however it is up to the viewer to determine what that card means to them personally. Which card do you find yourself in?

Join us for the opening reception, Saturday, September 13, from 6-9 pm. Light refreshments will be provided, so RSVPs are appreciated!

Our annual Book Club show opens this Saturday, featuring various works inspired by The Winged Histories by Sofia Samata.

If you've read the book, come marvel at the cool art and connect pieces to the narrative! If you haven't, perhaps you'll be inspired to! Join us for the opening reception starting at 6!

It's time for the follow up to Kaylyn Chileen's 2024 Cats of Ballard with MORE CATS OF BALLARD!

What new neighbourhood cats will you see in the show this year? Will there be any returning faces? Will your fav neighbour that was missed last year be represented year? Will your outer-neighbourhood cat be scorned once again? ALL THIS AND MORE you can find out opening night!

Join us Saturday, June 14, for the opening reception from 6-9pm!

Turn over a leaf. Dig inside the couch cushions. Pick something off the bottom of your shoe. There are poems everywhere, for those willing to look.

Push/Pull's annual poetry collection, Stanza, invites wordsmiths to be the imagemakers and artists to be the poets. Using both word and image, artists are invited to submit work that crosses genres—however you choose to interpret it. Found poems, collage, poetry comics, and any other combination of language and visuals are welcome!

​Stanza: Lost & Found will be printed in up to 2 colors on Risograph. Contributors will receive a contributor copy and a $50 gift card for Push/Pull's printing services, art supplies, or classes.