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On Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 SPoCS with funding support from the Department of Neighborhoods, hosted a Resource-Sharing Salon for Women at Artxchange Gallery. During this unique event, each participant was treated like a Living Treasures-- valued for what she already knows and does within our community.

WE ARE LIVING TREASURES

August 23, 2014

SPoCS Resource-Sharing Salon for Women

ARTXCHANGE GALLERY

512 1st Ave S Seattle, WA 98104

Time: 5-8pm

KT Shores

Beverly Naidus

SPoCS Resource-Sharing Salon

KT Shores

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The photographs above were taken by Star Rush.

See more of her work at: starrush.net

PRESENTERS

Natasha Marin

ARTIST & ORGANIZER | SEATTLE PEOPLE OF COLOR SALON

Natasha is the co-founder (along with Davida Ingram) of the Seattle People of Color Salon. Her passion for building lasting communities inspired her to organize this event with the support of Artxchange Gallery Manager, Lauren Davis. This event would not have been such a remarkable success without the combined efforts of several people especially facilitators, Naomi Ishisaka, Star Rush, and Virginia Wright. Gratitude also to Jenny Asarnow, and Cora Edmonds for your offerings of equipment and space respectively.

Pictured: Natasha Marin. Photo credit: Star Rush, 2014.

Vivian Phillips

SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP | DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Vivian is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Seattle Theatre Group, with responsibility for managing all marketing and communications activities for Seattle’s historic Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, where over 450 events take place annually including Broadway, concerts, fine arts, education and community programs. She is the organization’s primary spokesperson and representative to the Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium. Vivian also leads special community engagement programs, interacting with funders, local, national, and international arts organizations.

Pictured: Vivian Phillips (left) with dance mentor, Donald Byrd.

Irene Gómez

SEATTLE OFFICE OF ARTS & CULTURE | PROJECT MANAGER

As staff member at Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, she manages funding programs for artists and youth arts programs plus shares leadership for a new pilot, Artists Up, with 4Culture and Artist Trust that aims to reach and advance the full breadth of cultural workers in the city, county and state. When not administering or spending time with family, Irene contributes to and is co-founder of two entities: La Sala, a collective coalescing the Latino arts community and of Latino Community Fund, a local foundation supporting Latino non-profits around the state. Irene is an active Advisory Board Member for Bailadores de Bronce and Teen Tix.

Pictured: Irene Gómez (right) with fellow presenter. Photo credit; Star Rush.

Beverly Naidus

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON| ARTIST & EDUCATOR

Beverly Naidus has been using art to dream, question, stir things up and find

community for several decades. She’s been teaching others to do the same for almost as long.

Early recognition in the NY art world offered her many opportunities find community by exhibiting her interactive installations and mixed media works in mainstream museums and city streets. Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include healing from environmental illness and body hate, confronting global warming and extinction, recovering from unemployment and consumer culture,transforming nuclear nightmares, celebrating cultural identity and deconstructing racism, envisioning utopia and global justice.

Pictured: Beverly Naidus.

Meghan Trainor

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | ARTIST & DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

Meghan Trainor is an artist and doctoral candidate at the University of Washington's Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media (DXARTS). Her work has long explored the use of emerging and existing technologies to examine the aesthetic space in which the physical and the digital world overlap, resulting in a body of interactive, installation and performance artworks. Her most recent project is the Pugetopolis Manifesto on Art, Technology and Social Justice.

Pictured: Meghan Trainor.