2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Jerick Hoffer

On a sweltering day in June, Jerick Hoffer is carefully stretching a second pair of nude-colored dance tights from his…

2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Klara Glosova

Klara Glosova makes ceramic sculptures that look like tube socks. She flattens clay with a rolling pin from her kitchen,…

Writer Peter Mountford has a bone to pick with American literature. The Ballard-based father of two young girls, whose debut…

You could say Lacey Leavitt is OK with getting hit from all angles—especially since the shy and steady Ballard-based filmmaker…

Dance performances are often loosely described as “entrancing,” the word implying something akin to “compelling.” But viewers watching the work…

Sitting in a Ravenna coffee shop, novelist Julia Sidorova is making sweeping gestures across a table, like a seamstress extending…

Given her role as Seattle Art Museum’s Deputy Director for Art and curator of European painting and sculpture, Chiyo Ishikawa…

While talking with West Seattle writer Nicole Hardy about her new memoir, Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin, I mention British installation…

In Ameen and Deep Dhillon’s backyard, the chickens do double duty—as egg layers and as models. Ameen, an artist who teaches…

In the dating world, many consider the three-month mark a pivotal moment—when paramours have learned enough about each other to…