artist lineup

8-BIT Brass Band

A “nerdy brass” collective, 8‑Bit Brass Band performs video game tunes, anime anthems, movie mash‑ups, and fandom favorites—with full cosplay flair.

Akoiya Harris

With a powerful queer Black gaze, Akoiya Harris weaves personal and communal histories into visceral movement—offering dance as a living archive of memory, identity, and transformation.

Alicia Amiri

Allegra Searle-LeBel and Emma Klein

Lifeguard pandas on patrol! Outfitted with whistles, bathing suits, and a flair for street safety, Mitzee & Babette bring their oversized panda heads and offbeat humor to the pavement. From “SLIPPERY” sidewalk drills to collaborative chalk sessions in Painting with Pandas, this roaming duo offers a wildly fun take on public art—inviting passersby to slow down, make a mess, and create something unexpected with a couple of kind-hearted bears.

Allyce Wood

Artist and weaver Allyce Wood creates evocative tapestries that explore coding, communication, and feminist craft. Her work bridges handwork and technology in solo and group exhibitions nationwide.

Art Concierge (Jeremy Buben and Sarah Miller)

Dressed in their finest Wes Anderson-inspired concierge attire, Buben and Miller will pop up at various points along the route with a mobile desk and book trolley in tow. Ring the bell, ask a question, get a recommendation—this roving duo is here to chat about all things Seattle art: where to go, what to see, and how to show your work. Featuring museum catalogs, art walk guides, and surprise giveaways from local cultural institutions, “Art Concierge” is equal parts resource hub and playful performance.

Aunge

This eclectic performance blends drama, poetry, and music to create an unexpected concert experience.

Base Camp Studios + Base Camp Studios 2

A vibrant creative hub, these two locations—1st Ave & Battery St, and 3rd Ave & Stewart respectively—offer affordable studio spaces for 32 resident artists and a dynamic exhibition gallery. Dedicated to fostering collaboration and community engagement, it showcases diverse artistic voices while revitalizing the city’s arts ecosystem through inclusive programs and innovative exhibitions.

Britta Johnson

“Making Kin” is a glowing, ghostly video-light sculpture built from a transformed oil barrel and an LED “mini-jumbotron.” Animations of an otherworldly octopus unfurl in quiet protest—summoning Donna Haraway’s vision of facing ecological crisis through kinship with the strange and uncontrollable.

Cameron Day O’Connell

In “Proof of Prayer”, a companion sculpture to their solo exhibition titled “A Keening for the Disblessed Tongue” at SOIL Gallery, O’Connell invokes the figure of Saint Domna of Tomsk to explore grief, ritual, and the erasure of care in Seattle’s shifting political landscape. In particular, they focus on the shifting and shrinking access to basic care for poor people and drug-users in our city. Through alternatively-printed photographs and sculptural forms, they consider how madness—like Domna’s ecstatic concealment of prayer—can become a sacred response to the loss of place, identity, and basic dignity.

Michiko Tanaka

“Omamori” (Good Luck Charm Workshop) extends the themes of CoCA’s Safety/Luck exhibition, inviting participants to explore personal and cultural approaches to protection. Drawing on the exhibition’s contrast between American safety materials and Japanese traditions of luck, the workshop offers hands-on activities and guided reflection inspired by curator Michiko Tanaka’s experience growing up between both cultures.

Chimurenga Renaissance

Led by Tendai Maraire, this genre-blending act fuses traditional Zimbabwean mbira music with hip hop, funk, and Afrofuturist soundscapes in a powerful live performance.

Chris Burnside

His large-scale sculpture “Up to Aether” uses common construction materials to form a line drawing in space, engaging viewers with light, shadow, and shifting perspective.

Colleen Louise Barry

A multidisciplinary artist and writer, Colleen's colorful, image-based works invite humor, vulnerability, and imaginative leaps into what’s possible.

Colleen RJC Bratton

In “Lens Therapy,” Bratton presents a sensory exploration of perspective using a quilt, book, glasses, and sculpture–inviting viewers to explore color, perception, and narrative.

Dahyun Kim, Gemma Cannon-Green, Christy Gibson, Zoey Stein, Cloe Caroljane, Shigeyo Ryusaki, Morgan Lucero

Experimental video works by Cornish College of the Arts students that explore personal narratives and identity within broader sociopolitical contexts.

Department of Bearing and Orientation (Ben Beres)

A performative "municipal agency" providing on-the-ground directional assistance with LED-lit arrow backpacks–offering orientation in even the most confusing urban environments.

Deycha Nhtae

Create your own wearable art along the route! This interactive station invites participants to bead custom sneaker chains and mask lanyards—practical accessories with a playful twist. Inspired by the idea of finding art in unexpected places, the activation puts creative tools directly in your hands, encouraging self-expression with every step of the route. With three stations spaced along the route, participants of all ages and skill levels can join in, crafting pieces that celebrate movement, adornment, and public health.

Dissolve (Alaina Stocker, Esther Loopstra & Alana O. Rogers)

Dissolve is a live visual art and dance performance where bodies and surfaces become canvases. As dancers are painted in real time, a scene of domesticity slowly unravels into expressive chaos—reminding us that life’s cycles are built to be broken and remade.

Dope Girl Movement

A hip‑hop dance collective that unites joy, feminism, and community through bold choreography and collective energy will perform at the base of the icon Hammering Man outside of Seattle Art Museum.

Emi Pop

eSe Teatro presents: Julieta Vitullo & Iveliz Martel

CASI FELICES invites audiences to witness the shared experience of grief and asks the question, "What if death isn't just an opening into nothingness but a door ajar to possibilities?"

Fabulous Downey Brothers, The

Known for their theatrical costumes and high-energy art rock shows, this band delivers danceable synth anthems wrapped in chaotic punk spectacle. The Seattle Times summed them up as “…Devo meets the B-52s in a post-punk fever dream—and just the right dose of glorious weirdness.”

Forrest Perrine

With humor, care, and subversion, Perrine creates participatory installations that reimagine public space and civic dialogue. Dotted throughout the WALK DONT RUN route will be pieces by Perrine’s that build from both the Interpreters and place holder series.

Gabriela Denise Frank

A transdisciplinary artist and author whose work expands literary art into public space, blending storytelling with installation and performance.

Giordana Falzone

“Raw and Sunny” is a surreal exploration of the landscape–existing downtown blocks and imagined places—by way of play, humor, and physical dialogue between two dancers.

Hania Marien

“Imagining More Just Futures” invites children and their grown-ups to explore power, justice, and community action through art and play. Centered around the Power Rainbow—a colorful tool for understanding structural power across individual, relational, institutional, and cultural levels—this interactive exhibit features a painted sculpture, chalk paths, comics, and an art-making station where participants create visual responses to the question: What can we do together to build a more just future?

Hannah March

Blending contemporary dance with themes of nostalgia, coincidence, and connection, Hannah March moves with warmth and intention—inviting audiences into moments of camaraderie, reflection, and quietly joyful rebellion.

Hannah Simmons and Alethea Alexander

Heap (Kara Beadle, Andy Zacek, and a rotation of artists)

A whimsical, collaborative performance troupe that uses ladders, bicycles, and absurd props to celebrate abundance while critiquing overconsumption. “Heap” queers reductive ideas on bodily autonomy by drawing parallels between humans and objects.

Hezza Fezza

HeZza FeZza's performance expresses universal experiences from booming space sounds to birdlike voicescapes. Born in Seattle, this songstress was nomadic before setting roots back in their elders’ and Co-Salish lands.

janet galore

“The Motivation Station” is a vending machine offering video messages of encouragement, creative prompts, or tough love from Seattle’s creative community. “There are messages from all kinds of creative people who may have just the words you need to hear,” explains galore.

Jesse Higman

“The Collaborative Landscape” invites strangers to co-create shimmering watercolor paintings in a large-scale social art experience celebrating flow, impermanence, and cooperation. Every 20 minutes, welcoming assistants distribute cups of iridescent mica flakes suspended in water. Painters of all ages pour together across a 16-foot horizontal canvas. Viewed from overhead, individual flows of color curve toward weighted holes, draining below. As participants move to snap a picture on their phones, the painting drains away—and a new group gathers to pour the next piece.

Jessica Dolence

In her video installation “Fruit of the Loon,” Dolence uses playfulness, post-surrealism and satire to transform storefront windows into whimsical, dreamlike art.

Justin Harden

Blending catchy hooks with introspective and deeply personal lyrics, Harden’s songs explore his journey through the complexities of growing up and his relationship with the world around him.

Kevin Goodrich

An interdisciplinary artist, Goodrich’s work explores the relationship between digital and traditional routes of image and object making. For WALK DONT RUN, he brings a series

Laura Hart Newlon / Erin Elyse Burns

As a result of their friendship becoming long distance over the past year, Laura Hart Newlon and Erin Elyse Burns began using the video chat app Marco Polo to communicate. Having been past colleagues in Cornish College of the Arts’ Photomedia program, they approach the medium as only artists would. The resulting conversations yield unexpected compositions and contexts paired with wide-ranging, stream-of-consciousness discussions on the topics of art-making, pedagogy, psychology and more. “Don’t Delete” is a video installation that excerpts, collages and indexes this ongoing correspondence into a collaborative new work.

Leah Crosby

Leah Crosby makes work about care and human connection. Their piece, "Just, Let” uses temporary tattoos, touch, negotiation, and conversation to encourage reflection on care work.

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Margie Livingston

A hybrid form of Action Painting, performance, and land art, Livingston drags canvases across terrain to inscribe landscapes directly into the artwork, transforming surface into story. “I feel an affinity to Michael Heizer's use of drawing when he carved circles in the desert with his motorcycle,” Livingston explains. “I too am claiming land as artist's materials, but I'm using the ground to inscribe the surface of the paint.”

Marshall Law Band

Frontman of the Marshall Law Band and organizer behind Fremont Fridays, Marshall Hugh will bring his signature blend of music, storytelling, and community-building to WALK DONT RUN. Join him in creating a collaborative vision board—an open invitation to reflect, dream, and imagine a more connected future together.

Molly Jae Vaughan, in collaboration with Lola Lewis

Through Project 42, Vaughan raises awareness of violence against transgender Americans, especially violence enacted on BIPOC trans women, through active accomplice creation rather than allyship alone.

Since 2012, Project 42 has been working to combat the violence that transgender Americans face through memorial actions and public outreach. Started before many of the online databases listing individuals lost each year were published and Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was nationally discussed on mainstream platforms, Project 42 has worked continuously to directly engage with the public and institutions in actions, activations, and exhibitions that expose the intersectional oppressions faced by members of the trans community.

Mr. E

This stop-motion collaboration invites the attendees to document their journey, contributing personal perspectives to a shared animated video. “Swing by our booth at the Starting Line in Occidental Square to pick up supplies and instructions, then journey along the marathon route and take a picture with your own artistic viewpoint to incorporate into the accumulation video. We want to see what YOU see!”

MS+A

Founded by Mary Sigward, MS+A is a dance company devoted to investigating the future of contemporary dance through inquiry, experimentation, and site-specific movement. For WALK DONT RUN, MS+A will reimagine and adapt an existing piece–moving it off-stage into the urban environment.

Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

“Persistence of Dispersed Worlds” is a site-specific performance of improvised music and dance responding to themes of space, safety, risk, and connection. During WALK DONT RUN, Loeffler-Gladstone will use music and movement to investigate safety, risk and transgression, public versus private space, and the joy of finding emergent connection amidst a crowd.

Pak & The Lolos featuring Totem Star

A vibrant collaboration of youth musicians and seasoned performers from the Totem Star collective, blending hip hop, R&B, and global sounds with messages of empowerment and unity.

Persian Nomads: A Journey Through Sound and Space

A collective of Iranian musicians, artists, and performers brings the rich sounds of Iran to Seattle through a multi-episode performance journey. Featuring traditional instruments like the Tar and Setar alongside opera, pop singing, and AR experiences, the group will pause at several stops along the event route to create a vibrant trail of music and visual storytelling that bridges tradition and contemporary expression.

Perry Porter

A visual artist and songwriter from Tacoma, WA, Perry Porter blends fine art and hip hop to celebrate the aesthetics of Black Magic—honoring both Black Girl Magic and Black Boy Joy. His vibrant, genre-defying work turns performance into ritual, inviting audiences to witness and reflect on the power of joy, identity, and creative freedom.

Pete Fleming

His multimedia practice explores the tactile nature of digital imagery, merging photography and print to reframe how we perceive and connect through visual systems. As an immigrant recently re-imaged as an American citizen, Fleming will offer give-away prints that reflect on how identity and belonging are performed and mediated through the blurred boundaries between body, image, and technology.

Pooja Ganesh

A Kathak dancer, choreographer, and educator with a rich international performance history, Ganesh combines classical Indian dance with innovative contemporary expression.

Samantha Fabrikant, Natalie Grant, and Katherine Neumann

Drawing from their earlier work Collective Echo, this new dance piece explores evolving themes through a fresh duet, blending movement and connection along the WALK DONT RUN route.

Sarah Kavage & Adria Xuala Garcia

Visual artist and stylist reunite after a decade to reinterpret themes of femininity, labor, and environment through a new collaborative art installation.

Saya Moriyasu

Saya Morisyasu’s hand built ceramic sculptures blend figurative storytelling and humor with references to animism, Shintoism, Americana, and personal history.

Skye Hughes

Skye Hughes creates multidisciplinary, body-based performances. Her work explores how information war, identity politics, systemic oppression, and the climate crisis are inscribed into our bodies—shaping our internal landscapes and the ways we relate to one another.

Somatic Hopscotch (Via Vinson-Jacobs)

A chalk-drawn hopscotch that evolves from traditional number jumps to playful movement prompts, ending with somatic invitations to deepen awareness and feeling.

Stacy

Vodka crans in hand, Stacy is your fabulous anti-hero–a performative persona that dares you to look, snap a photo, and reflect on vanity, fame, and sass.

Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum will offer an afternoon of artful button-making, music, and dynamic performances by Dope Girl Movement at the base of the iconic Hammering Man.

Tammie Dupuis

At multiple points along the route, artist Tammie Dupuis–of Bitterroot Salish and Q’lispe tribes, and European descent–presents oversized beaded sculptures that explore Indigenous visibility/invisibility and her own layered identity.

Tara Tamaribuchi

Tamaribuchi will be presenting two traditional Japanese folk dances: “Tsugaru Jyongara Bushi”, a narrative dance from Northern Honshu that recounts a tragic feudal conflict, and “Oyamabayashi”, a sacred kagura dance performed for centuries to invoke safety and peace. Steeped in history and ritual, these performances offer a profound connection to Japan’s cultural heritage.

The Bad Things

Emerging from Seattle’s underground scene, this six-piece “Junkyard Cabaret” band blends punk, folk, and cabaret with theatrical flair. Known for energetic live shows and collaborations with local cabaret and burlesque artists, they’ll bring their dynamic sound to the sidewalks of Seattle as part of WALK DONT RUN.

TMB Brass (This Much Brass)

Tom Eykemans and Chris Smith

“Alley Cats” reimagines lost cat posters through colorful public collage, part of an ongoing visual series that celebrates the cats who rule our neighborhoods.

Undercurrent

Vanessa X Zenny

Wiggle Room (Janelle Abbot/JRAT and Alyza BelPan-Monley)

A collaborative fashion/dance performance turning textile waste into costumes, choreography, and community interaction via a live clothing loom. Attendees are invited to contribute to a live community loom, weaving strips of old clothing into a tapestry that will become part of future Wiggle Room costumes.

Zack Bent

Bent invites viewers into poetic scenes of stillness, longing, and strange nostalgia–basketball hoops placed on forms–asking us to reconsider play, togetherness, and the quiet weight of time.

Please don’t vacate! I’ve been waiting for something or someone. My way is wanting. My armatures are weathered. Ask me about the passing of our days or about our loss of togetherness. Is there any wonder in play or is silence our last continent?