WeBelong, Seattle, WA (2026)

01/23/2026

CES // Artists of Color Expo & Symposium is coming to Magnuson Park Gallery

January 29–February 28, we’re featuring a selection of work featured in the 2025 ACES Gallery.

Visit the exhibition Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 12 - 3 PM.
What: ACES at Magnuson Park Gallery
When: January 29 – February 28
Where: Magnuson Park Gallery, 7448 63rd Ave NE

Opening Celebration: January 3, 12-3 PM

ACES at Magnuson Park Gallery features a curated selection of works from the 2025 ACES Gallery. ACES // Artists of Color Expo & Symposium is a BIPOC-led program produced by Shunpike that creates space for artists to be bold and create through experimentation and community intention. This encore exhibition presents artists with an additional opportunity to present their artwork and continue the conversations, connections, and creative exploration sparked during the main ACES event.

Magnuson Park Gallery is a program of Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange (SPACE). SPACE’s mission is to connect and enrich our community through art, music, and culture. Learn more at magnusonparkgallery.org.

Featured artists: Alice Kay Lee, Charde' Brown, Charmi Shah, Dahyun Kim, Elizabeth Montes De Oca, Fin'es Scott, Gabi Cosmos, Hexe Fey, Judy Lee, Kelly Haejung Paik, Marie Stuppard, May Kytonen, Oneyung Kim, Rohena Alam Khan, Rubin Quarcoopome, Sierra Bundy, Sony Purba, Tatiana Garmendia

01/13/2026

My workshop at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (description below) will be on Saturday, January 31st from 12:00-1:30pm. The workshop is free and you can RSVP at the link in bio. Hope to see you there!

Beyond Marginalization: Finding Authenticity in Our Shadow Selves

Complementing Anila Quayyum Agha’s exhibit Geometry of Light, this workshop offers a reflective, hands-on experience focused on the interplay of light, shadow, and belonging. Through a simple, guided art-making activity, participants will explore the masks we wear and the parts of our identities we hide in order to fit in within America. By illuminating these parts of ourselves, this workshop aims to create a supportive space for deeper self-understanding and a strengthened sense of belonging.

11/25/2025

I feel so grateful for for being a third space for our AA community. It's a space that brings me joy. This was last Sunday's where we discussed Here After, a book on grief.

Rather than participating I was testing out a Fujifilm XT-5. I still shoot a Canon 5D Mark III for my art projects but miss everyday casual shooting so am considering a smaller system I can carry around. It was comedic how complicated this camera was and I accidentally deleted a bunch of photos by accident (sorry for the missing you and dog pic).

11/18/2025

Hello Community! Here are available open calls for the rest of the year and beyond. Please share so we can create more opportunities for artists in Seattle. To see details, visit the the tagged IG handles and their link in bios.

Know of any calls? Please send them my way. All calls must be accessible and inclusive.⁣⁣ New listings not included in the previous one has a notation.

11/20: Just Seeds (new)
Abolish ICE Everywhere, Graphic Art

11/23: The Fishbowl (new)
Ripe: Q***r Asian Joy Show, All Mediums

11/27: The Fishbowl (new)
All Wrapped Up Communal Group Show, All Mediums

11/28: Holocaust Center Humanity (new)
Art is Resistance, All Mediums

11/28: Nepantla Cultural Arts (new)
Winter Art Show, 2D Art

12/01: Slip Gallery
Our Light, Unbound, All Mediums

12/01: Lynwood Event Center (new)
Art & Motion of Winged Life, 2D

12/07: Base Camp Studios .camp.studios (new)
Bad Habits, All Mediums

12/12: Gallery 4Culture (new)
Gallery Proposal, Solo, Collab, Group Exhibits

12/15 Fathom Gallery (new)
Experiments in Recology, Call for Artists

12/31 Arte Noir
Black Artists Roster, All Mediums

01/11: Base Camp Studios .camp.studios (new)
Super Sports, All Mediums

3/08: Gallery B612 (new)
A Celebration of Asian & Pacific American Heritage, All Medium

5/01: Slip Gallery
Toys Not Included Vol. 4, Paste Ups & Stickers

[Image: List of calls with dates, themes, and mediums.]

11/14/2025

I had so much fun last night at the intuitive collage workshop with at .

It's so fun to unexpectedly see where we're at by just picking words and images and putting them together.

What do you think mine means? I do love the "color washing" phrase I found. Any guesses?

10/22/2025

Applications for the 2025 Collective Power Fund are now open until November 16th! I won this grant several years ago so reach out to me if you'd like to chat with me about it. I encourage all of you to apply. This was the very first one I applied to so don't let lack of experience hinder you.

Collective Power Fund focuses primarily on supporting work that incites public dialogue, pushes boundaries, explores genre fluidity, speaks its truth through an authentic perspective, and is often non-traditional, anti-institutional, socially responsible, or disruptive of existing structures and conventions. It encourages a community-forward environment of resource-sharing, mutual support, and fellowship in the Pacific Northwest arts ecosystem.

The 2025 grant will distribute $60,000 in increments of $2,000 – $5,000 – $10,000. Individual artists, who live in unincorporated or incorporated King County, will be eligible to self-select for the $2,000 or $5,000 tiers and the $10,000 tier will be exclusive to artist teams or artist-run collectives within the county.

Full guidelines and application at the link in bio or at https://nwfilmforum.org/collective-power-fund

10/16/2025

Hello Community! Here are available open calls. Please share so we can create more opportunities for artists in Seattle. To see details, visit the the tagged IG handles and their link in bios.

Know of any calls? Please send them my way. All calls must be accessible and inclusive.⁣⁣ New listings not included in the previous one has a notation.

10/23: 4Culture Storefront Media (new)
Carousel of Artwork on Screens, Digital

10/31: Gallery 110
Annual Juried Exhibition, 2D, 3D

11/01: Slip Gallery (new)
Erase the Line, All Mediums

11/01: Base Camp Studios 2 .camp.studios (new)
Open, Immersive Installation Proposal

11/01: Shunpike Storefronts
Storefront Exhibitions, 2D, 3D

11/09: Base Camp Studios .camp.studios (new)
Ladders, All Mediums

12/01: Slip Gallery
Our Light, Unbound, All Mediums

12/07: Base Camp Studios .camp.studios (new)
Bad Habits, All Mediums

12/31 Arte Noir
Black Artists Roster, All Mediums

01/11: Base Camp Studios .camp.studios (new)
Super Sports, All Mediums

[Image: List of calls with dates, themes, and mediums.]

10/09/2025

My work is part of the ACES Gallery! This pop-up exhibit is a showcase of visual work by BIPOC artists exploring themes of cultural storytelling and community connection. The exhibit offers a platform for both emerging and established artists to share their vision in a public space and spark conversation.

Four found poetry pieces from my series "Letters to My Father" will be featured. Mounted in two memory boxes, the found poetry was created from a Korean-English bible gifted to me by my father when I was young. Come see it!

Opening Friday, October 17th at 5-8pm.
Hosted by colorexpo

09/24/2025

I want to give a shoutout and thanks to my friend . It was her work with blackout bible poetry that gave me the courage to tear out the pages of the bible my dad gifted me so many years ago. It felt scary at first and my heart raced just thinking about it but now it feels liberating.

Megan is a trauma-informed writing coach and she recently published her book, Brave the Page. It's all about how writing your own story can facilitate healing. She writes,

"This is why I say over and over again that words are witnesses to our lives. They reveal us and, as a result, heal us by allowing us to be known by others and even by ourselves. With every story we uncover, write, and listen to, we are on a passage to spiritual awakening, and no enlightenment has ever come about without some trial or transformation."

In 2017, I did just this and it changed my life. I started putting words to a page to share in a newsletter all the stories I carried within. I didn't know why but felt a compelling need. With each story, I was able to unburden the pain and shame I had carried my whole life. This revealed to me that the stories I had been telling myself weren't true- that the pain and shame belonged to others and wasn't mine to suffer through any longer. It helped me figure out who I really was and changed me in a fundamental way. This courage to write is what has given me the courage to live.

We all carry stories about ourselves in our heads. If you haven't tried writing about them, consider Megan's book to help guide you. She is an amazingly compassionate person and a wonderful person to work with and someone I trust. Who knows? Maybe it will change your life.

09/23/2025

Making a couple more of these from my series "Letters to My Father" for .art curated show at "If I Could Tell You I would."

The 4 I already created will be at this year if you'd like to see all 6 poems.

09/17/2025

Hello Community! Here are available open calls. Please share so we can create more opportunities for artists in Seattle. To see details, visit the the tagged IG handles and their link in bios.

Know of any calls? Please send them my way. All calls must be accessible and inclusive.⁣⁣ New feature! New listings not included in the past one has a notation.

9/20: El Corazon
Pancakes & Booze Art Show, Artwork/Performance/Vendors

9/26 Nepantla
Dia de los Mu***os, 2D

9/30: Gallery B612
Small Works (under 12x16), 2D, 3D

10/01: The Vestibule
The Game Show, All Mediums

10/01: Common Area
Mobile Bookstore, Prints, Comics, Zine

10/10: Honor the Earth
Sovereign Indigenous Future, Digital Submissions

10/15: Cebreazy Paints Gallery
Unceded Bonds
2D & Spoken Word

10/31: Gallery 110
Annual Juried Exhibition, 2D, 3D

11/01: Shunpike Storefronts
Storefront Exhibitions, 2D, 3D

12/31 Arte Noir
Black Artists Roster, All Mediums

[Image: List of calls with dates, themes, and mediums.]

08/13/2025

Housed in 2 shadow boxes with the detritus of excised words littering their bottoms, Letters to My Father is a series of 4 found poems, from the pages of a Korean-English bible he gifted me, mounted on childhood photographs. The bible represents the emotional burden I carry, symbolic of the strained relationship I have with my father, with religion, my cultural identity, and our language gap.

These "letters" are a way to communicate with my father vulnerably, feelings I have not been able to express, through the medium he values most. It is a one-sided conversation in English, with the Korean side left intact, tracing our relationship from birth to today. It represents the journey from celebrating the awe and joy of being my father's daughter when I was young to feelings of loss and yearning.

This project has helped loosen the power the bible, and subsequently my father, has had over me so that I can learn to find peace within myself.

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