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10/17/2026

You’re invited to tea! October 24, 3 pm, Unspoken Rites is sonic room built in real time from a tea ceremony. Artist Isla Vidal ISLA VIDAL treats the everyday gestures tea-making as incantation. Water poured, the kettle’s click and rising whistle, tea poured and stirred/ By treating a private ritual as a public set, Vidal asks what it means to be let into someone else’s self-soothing, and what changes in a gesture once it’s witnessed.

Isla Vidal is a vocalist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle. Her practice centers the voice as a primary instrument, processed, layered, and live, across solo performance, generative music, and immersive sound installation. Her EP Hija explores Cuban female ancestry and inherited memory through pop leaning songwriting and folk-rooted composition pushed into ambient and electronic territory. She is currently developing a new EP exploring electronic and ambient textures through a vocal lens.

This performance is part of Occultus , curated by Jay Stoneking Jay Stoneking

10/06/2026

Wonderful opening Saturday for Occultus! Now through October 31 , guest curated by Jay Stoneking with work by

Nola Avienne
Matthew Behrend
PNW Conceptual Art Center (a conceptual art project)
Deodata Jewelry Design
Carolyn Hazel Drake
taylor_hanigosky
neuroticalush
vee hua 華婷婷 [fka vivian]]
nell kerr
S. Lantz / August
Kester Limner
quinn mcnichol
brenda
Devin River
Chris Russell
John
Migueltzinta Solís Nayan Velaskar
Jay Stoneking
L o r i T a l c o t t
Meghan Thréinfhir
ISLA VIDAL
Ellen Ziegler

09/22/2026

Alyson Provax and Nadia Ahmed debut at Spring / Break Art Fair, Wednesday 9/23! Come find our yellow booth, 💛 C28 💛 The Message Remains 📝 Alyson Provax alysonprovax Nadia Ahmed SPRING/BREAK Art Show

09/15/2026

Next week! Alyson Provax Alyson Provax and Nadia Ahmed Nadia Ahmed will 📝send messages ✍🏽from Spring / Break NY SPRING/BREAK Art Show

09/11/2026

Claire Renaut CLaire Renaut on view through Sept 19

Claire Renaut, spun newspaper and wire, on view through Sept 19.

Left to right: Claire Renaut CLaire Renaut (window) , Shin Yu Pai Shin Yu Pai and Gabriela Nirino Gabriela Nirino in Threaded by Language , on view through September 19, gallery hours Fri & Sat 12-5
📸 Ryan Warner Ryan Warner

09/10/2026

Perfect pairing! ✨Nadia Ahmed & Alyson Provax ✨are ready to play Hide & Seek at Spring / Break NY SPRING/BREAK Art Show , the artist-driven fair! Their collaborative installation, The Message Remains, draws together sculpture, letterpress and installation that reference text, communication and intimacy.

Nadia Ahmed Nadia Ahmed is a Pakistani-American artist and arts administrator currently based in Seattle, WA. She moved from Los Angeles to Seattle in 2014, where she studied Art History and Three-Dimensional Forum at the University of Washington. Nadia’s exhibition history includes Mini Mart City Park, SOIL Gallery, The Vestibule, and Hedreen Gallery. She has been an artist in residence at Nii Modo and Inscape Arts, and is currently a resident artist at Actualize in Pioneer Square, Seattle.
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To understand that a person hides behind words – this is the first game of language, one played by Ahmed and Provax. In wax, wire and string, Ahmed writes messages to and from her family; Provax uses and misuses letterpress to iterate messages from the interior self.

Alyson Provax Alyson Provax is a text based artist. Her primary medium is letterpress and she often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals. This calls into question the didactic certainty of text and can cause the viewer to notice the experience of reading. She is interested in the ways that we communicate things we are a bit uncertain of and how we tie our understanding of ourselves to language.

To understand that a person hides behind words – this is the first game of language, one played by Ahmed and Provax.

In wax, wire and string, Ahmed writes messages to and from her famil

09/03/2026

Nadia Ahmed and Alyson Provax will be representing The Vestibule at ✨Spring / Break Art show✨ ! So excited that these two playful artists will be making a booth together! Hide and Seek is their game 🙈😊🫣🙊
Follow for sneak peeks of the work…
Alyson Provax Nadia Ahmed
SPRING/BREAK Art Show
Tickets see link 🔗 in bio 👀

09/02/2026

Join Gabriella Nirino and Shin Yu Pai this Saturday 12-5 for an informal weaving demonstration to accompany their exhibition Threaded by Language
Gabriela Nirino Shin Yu Pai

08/14/2026

Sound Waves, Claire Renaut CLaire Renaut (from left to right: Franch, German, English), 2026, Wool and spun newspaper. On view in Threaded by Language

Each piece represents the sound of waves of the artist speaking aloud a sentence.

From the artist’s statement:
Like the main character, Lesche, in Edgar Hilsenrath book “Berlin…. Endstation”, Ich bin verliebt in die Deutsche Sprache.
I am in love with the German Language
Je suis amoureuse de la langue allemande
This sentence repeated in each language in which I speak, read, hear and dream in sometimes, speaks about my love for the German language for which I have the most philosophical and emotional attachment.

08/11/2026

Gabriela Nirino and Shin Yu Pai in conversation:
Poem: Shin Yu Pai, 2026
Object: Gabriela Nirino, Bags To Carry My Story Between Two Lands (Los Petates series), 2” to 4”, horse hair, corn husk, h**p, linen, ramie, stainless steel, crochet

On view in Threaded by Language through Sept 19.
Artist talk, August 29, 3 pm.
📸 Ryan Warner

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