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Contemporary Art
55 S. Atlantic St. Seattle, WA
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Progress doesn't happen by accident. It happens because women continue to lead, challenge the status quo, and create opportunities for others.

We're proud to welcome @averyannbarnes, Founder of @averybarnesgallery, to the 2026 Women in Leadership Breakfast as part of our panel, Playing With the Generations.

Avery is an entrepreneur, art curator, and community advocate. A PSBJ 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 Seattle, Avery owns and operates Avery Barnes Gallery, formerly TASWIRA. After navigating significant adversity as a teenager, Barnes found her footing philanthropically in Kenya before launching TASWIRA, Seattle’s only African art gallery and event space, at just 22 years of age.

Join us on October 16 as we celebrate leadership, community, and the launch of Seattle's first official Women's Sports Month.

🎟️ Tickets and tables are now 50% sold. Join us for a morning you won't want to miss.

#NationalWomensEqualityDay #WomenSportsMonth #WomenInLeadership #GirlsLead #WomenSportsWednesday

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I 🫶🏼 seattle w all my heart!!!

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Final Day at #SeattleArtFair

Come experience all the art, activities, and conversations that leave you wonder before the fair closes.

See you at @lumenfield until 6PM today 🙌

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On Friday, SAMS Special Access chairs planned a VIP Tour of Seattle Art Fair at Lumen Field Event Center led by Charlie Manzo from Winston Artory Group.

Charlie has toured our group for several years and we have always enjoyed learning from him and viewing the galleries he highlights. This year we saw some familiar favorites at Melissa Morgan Fine Arts, Avery Barnes Gallery and StudioDRIFT. We also met some new friends at Superposition Gallery and The Vestibule. Many of our members also went for the opening night on Thursday.

It was a busy week for art in Seattle with the Seattle Art Fair and the opening of the new Assembly Art Fair at the West Canal Yards. On the Eastside, the Bellevue Arts Fair was also happening this weekend.

What was your favorite work? Did you bring something home with you?

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What I would buy at the Seattle Art Fair @seattleartfair (with a budget of $10k)

1. Nahom Ghirmay @nahom_artsy with Avery Barnes Gallery @averybarnesgallery
2. Sigrid Qian @sigridutopia with Blue Green Galleria @bluegreengalleria_fineartsinc
3. Ye Wenlong @yewenlongphoto at Blue Green Galleria
4. Emily Counts @emilyraecounts with Studio e @studioegallery (don’t mind the image - the lovely gallery staff was just getting it out to display it and I loved it so much I had to grab a pic then and there!!)
5. Erin Milez @erinmilez with Studio e
6. Chloe King @kinggtingg with ARTXIV @artxiv
7. Rachel Warkentin @rachwark with Antler Gallery (this one includes ceramic on canvas which I LOVE and it was priced under £1000! So perfect for a NEW COLLECTOR🚀✨💥)

And special mention Samantha Yun Wall @samanthawall at Assembly @assemblyfair with Russo Lee Gallery @russoleegallery - this is the ONE work I would have bought in a heartbeat if it would have been available !!!! She is an absolute rising star. 🌟🌟🌟

*some of the works shown (the bigger ones for example) may be priced above $10k but there are works available by the artists that are within that price point that are mid-sized or smaller works 🙌🫶

#ArtCollecting #ArtFair #ContemporaryArt #CollectingArt #ArtAdvisory

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This past weekend, we opened the doors of Avery Barnes Gallery’s new home — an intimate, loft-style space built with intention, for the community who have made this work possible.

The evening was quiet by design. Curated. A gathering of the most important voices in this industry — emerging and established collectors, curators, institutional leaders — sharing the same room, the same table, the same sense of arrival. No formality. No distance. Just the kind of space where real questions get asked, real relationships take root, and the conversations that form around art become just as vital as the art itself. Because we believe that bringing these figures together — to learn from one another, to pour into one another — is how we grow into the best possible stewards of art and culture. That is the responsibility we hold as a gallery. And through every pivot, we remain committed to centering this — with intention, with resilience, and with an unwavering investment in what this work can become.

What unfolded was beyond what we could have scripted: the feeling of possibility. Of standing together in a place where we have watched real growth happen over time and knowing — it’s working. The quiet understanding that we can build the future together. That we hold, collectively, the power to transform the trajectory of the artists we believe in - and with that, our future. Woven through it all, a luminous performance by Mario Layne Fabrizio stilled the room in the best way.

This is the space we’ve been building toward. And it’s only the beginning.

We are now open by appointment!

On View:
Robert Wade
Nahom Ghirmay
Cristina Martinez
Al-Baseer Holly

All photos by Robert Wade Photography

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Six years in, and we’re just getting started. Avery Barnes Gallery has a new home, a new model, and a deepened commitment to the artists and collectors who make this work matter. Swipe to read the full announcement.

Photos by Robert Wade Photography

#seattleartgallery #averybarnesgallery

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in honor of juneteenth i am sharing some of my favs and if you’re not already spending your money here ...it’s time to start 🖤. i put together a short list of black-owned businesses that deserve every bit of your attention, your dollars, and your word-of-mouth. swipe through and go show them some love

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Expanding Technologies Residency
Ibadan/Seattle visual arts exchange

A collaboration between New Culture Studios @newculturestu , CoCA Seattle @cocaseattle and Wa Na Wari @wanawariseattle

Application Deadline
Sunday, June 14th, 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time

Complete application available in link in bio

OVERVIEW
With ever-deepening digital integration steadily narrowing our collective definition of “technology,” is it also possible to expand it through exploration of the cultural technologies, indigenous technologies, community-centric technologies, nature-based technologies, collaborative technologies and/or creative technologies, past and present, that provide insight into sustainable futures?

The Expanding Technologies Residency is an invitation for one Ibadan-based artist and one Seattle-based artist to explore these themes during site-specific, collaborative programs created by community and artist-run spaces in Ibadan, Nigeria and Seattle, USA.

Artists will participate in a 3-week residency and community arts immersion experience including public exhibition, community engagement and artist talks.

*Artists will expand upon existing projects by connecting with local resources in Seattle and Ibadan

*Artists will produce a public exhibition and community engagement event in host country

*Artists will participate in local arts convenings including Walk The Block (Seattle) and Lagos Art Week (Nigeria)

*Artists will complete their exchange with a post-residency artist talk in home city

Seattle Program Dates: September 13th – October 3rd

Ibadan Program Dates: October 25th – November 14th

Artist stipend is $3,000

DEADLINE
Application - Link in bio
Sunday, June 14th, 2026, 11:59 Pacific Standard Time

Virtual Information Session Dates (Links in Bio)

This opportunity is supported with generous funding from Wa Na Wari and CoCA Seattle’s “Centering Art & Racial Equity” grant from Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.1

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40 under 40 Class of 2026. 🖤🎉

Owning a business is not for the faint of heart. There are ebbs and flows, tears, joy, and BIG wins. But at the end of the day it is a dance of faith, betting on yourself, your team, and the vision even when you cannot see the full picture. 🖼️

Last Thursday was a reminder of why I said yes to this journey and this path of my dharma. Thank you God for your continuous guidance, protection, and for using me as a vessel. 🙏🏾🖤

I am overwhelmed with gratitude and my heart is so full.♥️

To the @pugetsoundbusinessjournal and the selection committee, thank you for this incredible honor and for building a stage worthy of the leaders in this region. To everyone who nominated me, you saw something in me and in this work and you acted on it. I will never forget that. To my family (@audilbrown @julielbrownwrites @travisjguillory @thebkyle ) and genuine friends who have cheered me on, shown up, and loved me through EVERY chapter, this belongs to you too. And to the @soulfulflowyoga team (@noee.w @all_the_snacks @agathakc_ ) and community, everything I do is rooted in you. This recognition is ours! 💕

Thank you to @paosanchez for being my personal photographer for the evening and making sure every moment was beautifully captured. 📸

The energy in that room alongside 39 of the most brilliant, driven, and visionary leaders in the Pacific Northwest was something truly special. 💫

This is what it looks like when you bet on yourself and your community bets on you right back. 🥹

The last 7 days have been a rollercoaster of things/ emotions and babyyyyy when I write the book it will be fire honeyyyyy! 🍯😅🥺🥰🙃🤸🏽‍♀️😂🔥

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#40under40 #jasminerashae #soulfulflowyoga

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Ok this might get a bit sappy 🫣🤗 The month of April showed me so much love from the little moments to the big changes. My community and the spaces I’m in or adjacent to are full of amazingly talented people that are both supportive and powerhouses in their own ways. I’ve been out and about a bit more this month. Blooming into the more evolved version of me that I’ve been calling in. Balancing motherhood, work, and MYSELF 😮‍💨 I watch, I listen, I work, I show love and I value relationships near and far.

May is going to be beautifully hectic, but what I know now is that I am supported, seen and loved. That alone is enough to push through and BLOOM.

Grateful for this art life in Atlanta and beyond✨

I tagged the people and places that made the latter part of April so great…

#artheaux #artbae #artlife

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On the cusp of a new group show, Northwest artist Cristina Martinez reflects on storytelling, motherhood, and personal success.

Artistically inclined from a young age, Cristina Martinez was attending fashion school when she had a realization: Her passion wasn’t necessarily sparked by the clothes she was sketching, but by the stories behind her work. Drawing from her Black and Mexican roots, and from the lives, histories, and cultures of the community around her, Martinez started producing paintings that vividly capture the joys, challenges, and intricacies of life as a woman of color.

Click link in bio to read

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