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Gavin Yehle

Gavin Yehle is a graduate from the University of Utah with a BFA in acing and stage management as the 2019 Department of Theatre Outstanding Senior. He’s stage managed and production managed shows in Seattle including: OR,, Alice in Wonderland, The Revolutionists, (Theatre22), Red Riding Hood, (Seattle Children’s Theatre) Wooden O, Much Ado About Nothing, […]

Rachael Benson

Rachael Benson is a video artist who merges the impersonal experience of watching art through a screen and the intimacy of live performance. Manipulating devices like symbolism and metaphor, her work interacts with an audience like friends sharing secrets in confidence. By exploiting the inherent emotionality of sound as well as being playful with the […]

Kyungjin Kim

Kyung-jin Kim is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from South Korea. He received his MFA Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. His work has shown at venues including Gallery MC (NY), Korean Cultural Center NY, MASS MoCA Open Studios (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Governors Island Art Fair 2018 (NY) […]

Carl Bronsdon

Carl has been a scenic and costume designer for professional and educational theatre companies in the Seattle area for many years, designing and constructing productions for companies such as Seattle Symphony, The Bathhouse Theater, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Seattle Musical Theatre, Shoreline Community College, and Bellevue College, among others Carl is an accomplished miniaturist, […]

Pinky Estell

Pinky Estell is a stage manager and production manager with over fifteen years of experience. He has worked as theater director for ACT San Francisco, San Francisco Opera Company Merola Opera, The National Black Theater Festival, Intiman Theatre, and the Cornish Playhouse, among others.  Estell currently serves as the vice president on the UpTown Arts […]

Jessica Christensen

Jessica Christensen is a Pacific Northwest native that didn’t know what was in store for her in high school when she began working with her father’s oil paint collection. Her passion for both theater and painting led her to graduate from Cornish College of the Arts in 2013 with a BFA in Theatrical Scenic Design […]

Ilana Zweschi

Ilana Zweschi is an artist working in Seattle, Washington. She attended Skidmore College, graduating summa cum laude in 2011 and earned an MFA in painting from SUNY Albany in 2014. She is currently represented by Foster/White Gallery in Seattle. Zweschi has exhibited nationally, is part of the Microsoft and Meta art collections, and received the […]

Tory Franklin

Tory Franklin is a visual artist working with diverse media unified by pattern, print, and narrative. Since 2010, Franklin has focused on public installations inspired by folktales that are accompanied by screen-printed books, posters, and other ephemera. Her work has been exhibited at MAD Art, Bellevue City Hall, Storefronts Seattle, Storefronts Auburn, Spaceworks Tacoma, the […]

Rob Lutz

Rob Lutz began working as an Arts Technician while working towards his art degree at the University of Washington in the early 90’s. After graduation he decided to make being a tech his career. He loves maintaining a well run studio and working with artists to fill their process toolboxes. His own art practice involves […]

Matthew McCarren

Matthew is a freelance scenographer specializing in designs for black box, thrust and found spaces. Matthew currently serves as the Resident Scenic Designer and Technical Director for Cleveland Opera Theatre, and as the scene shop supervisor and teaching artist for Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. Nationally, Matt’s designs have been featured at […]