Seattle Print Arts and Davidson Galleries are pleased to present the exhibition, Contemporary Northwest Print Invitational 2020, for the month of August. This exhibition will feature the best work of contemporary Pacific Northwest print artists co-curated by Thea Quiray Tagle and Sam Davidson.

Prints will be framed and hung for in-person viewing beginning August 6. Viewing will be by appointment only. Email rebecca@davidsongalleries.com to schedule your visit! Gloves and masks will be required upon entering the gallery.

This exhibition includes prints by

Annegret Reichmann

Amanda Knowles

Amy Simons

Cara McKinley

Christie Tirado

Eileen Jimenez

Elisa Dore—featured image: "Calle los Maestros” Hand printed linocut

Jueun Shin

Kelda Martensen

Kristen Etmund

Laurie D Brown

Lynda Harwood-Swenson

Molly Vaughan

Rebecca Strabo

Ross Wagner

Wendy Orville

Yerin Yang

Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD is a scholar, curator, educator, and writer whose research broadly investigates socially engaged art and site-specific performance; visual cultures of violence; and grassroots responses to political and environmental collapse in the expanded Pacific Rim. She holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego, and is faculty in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Critical Ethnic Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Hyperallergic, Art Practical, and at the Center for Art + Thought. She has written catalog and exhibition texts for artists including Alejandro T. Acierto, Romson Regarde Bustillo, Dewey Crumpler, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Azin Seraj. She has presented her research, facilitated public programs, and curated contemporary art and performance exhibitions at venues including the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), The Alice Gallery (Seattle, WA), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Vachon Gallery at Seattle University, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. www.theaquiraytagle.com