Artists and Creatives To Follow in Seattle
Seattle specifically, and all of the Pacific Northwest, is home to inspiring creatives across artistic disciplines and genres. MixMuse showcases established, emerging, and brand new favorites in a series called FIVE TO FOLLOW. These are shakers and makers, creatives and inspirers, boundary setters and breakers, living gently and also wildly, all of whom we can’t do without! For the inaugural FTF, I’ve chosen some personal favorites for July 2024. -Star
Who are your FIVE TO FOLLOW? Email star@mix-muse.com to get yourself or them on the list next month! Must be Pacific Northwest-based and making/creating in any art form or genre in the region.
FIVE TO FOLLOW in July. Follow them online, go to their events, buy their work, and enjoy.
Catherine Harris-White (SassyBlack) (multi-disciplinary artist) — A Goddess of “psychedelic soul” & “hologram funk” explores sound through deep electronic compositions.
Johnaye Kendricks (vocalist) — Johnny Kendricks is a 2024 GRAMMY® Award Winning Musician, and Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts.
Pacific Bonsai Museum (museum) — Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington, is a place where nature and art converge through the exquisite practice of bonsai.
Seattle’s Civic Poet: Shin Yu Pai (poet) — Shin Yu Pai is the author of 11 books, including most recently No Neutral (Empty Bowl, 2023). Pai is creator and host of an award-winning, chart-topping podcast Ten Thousand Things (formerly The Blue Suit) for KUOW, Seattle’s NPR affiliate station.
Washington State Poet Laureate: Arienne True (poet) — As part of Arianne True’s term as the Washington State Poet Laureate, she is assembling/editing an anthology of poems from queer writers of all stripes across Washington state.
