"Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!," photo by Marcus Donner. We’re excited to host a vibrant lineup of local artists and curators at ARTS at King Street Station this year! See the full schedule for the year ahead and make sure to stop by the gallery soon.
ARTS at King Street Station is open Wed. through Sat., 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays. Admission is always free. The gallery is located at 303 S. Jackson St., Top Floor, Seattle, WA 98104.
Exhibit Schedule
| Date | Exhibit | Artist/Curator |
|---|---|---|
| Nov. 6, 2025 – Jan. 16, 2026 | Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! Contrasting North Americans’ voyeuristic view of Borikén (Puerto Rico) as a tropical paradise with the colonial subjugation faced by Native Boricuas. | Jo Cosme |
Dec. 4, 2025 – Feb. 7, 2026 | Living and Loving Under the Carceral State An expression of individual and collective experiences of living and loving under the surveillance of the carceral state. | Alison Bremner |
| Feb. 5-28 | Kolam Kolams have been used for generations to invite prosperity and ward off evil. Experience the meditative beauty of the South Indian art form in this exhibition and series of demonstrations and workshops. | Anuradha Samrat |
| Mar. 4-28 | Tết In Diaspora With an ancestral altar and ceramic displays of Vietnamese dishes that epitomize concepts of community, celebration, and resilience, Nhi Vo celebrates Vietnamese New Year through a diasporic lens. Tết In Diaspora will be on display in the AiR space. | Nhi Vo |
| Mar. 5 – May 9 | American History Through an Afrocentric Lens Scholar, ethnomuseumologist, and storyteller Delbert Richardson brings to light the truths of American history through an Afrocentric lens. | Delbert Richardson |
| Mar. 5 – May 9 | An Afrofuturist Ritual for Collective Dreaming Inspired by Octavia Butler’s visionary novel Patternmaster and rooted in the The Deck of N0NE, the artist’s afrofuturist tarot deck, this exhibition transforms speculative storytelling into a radical act of self-determination. | Split Six Productions & Imani Sims |
| Apr. 1 – May 30 | Threaded Motion Witness textile in motion. Ashley Ponce will be in residence, creating kinetic textile works inspired by Peruvian textiles and exploring language, belief, and celebration. | Ashley Ponce |
| May 21 – July 18 | This Room is Ours: Centering the the Black Figure Featuring seven Seattle-based Black artists, the show’s figurative works position the Black body not in struggle or service, but in sovereignty, stillness, and joy. | Lila Thomas |
| June 4 – Aug. 8 | SDOT Bridge Residency Exhibition: Animation This exhibition features the work produced during the 2025 residency and focuses on animation in all its glorious forms: stop motion, anime, 3D, rotoscoping, and more. | Vivian Cho & Freyja Whitney |
| June 4- Aug. 8 | Ancestral Future An augmented reality experience that reimagines our relationship to land, language, and legacy. Ancestral Future will be on display in the Top Floor Living Room and Second Floor Hallway of King Street Station. | Gabriel Bello Diaz |
| Aug. 6 – Oct. 3 | The History and Legacy of BAW Theater in the PNW See the legacy and future of Black Arts West Theater and NuBlack Arts West Theater. These weren’t just theaters, but launchpads for multigenerational, underserved creatives. | Black Arts West Alumni Association & Esther Ervin |
| Sept. 3 – Nov. 7 | Coyote and the Monsters Yet to Slay A series of artworks tackling current social problems through the lens of Plateau lore. Through embodying our social problems as monsters, we can name them and then symbolically slay them. | RYAN! Feddersen |
| Nov. 5, 2026 – Jan. 9, 2027 | Visions of Worldbuilding This show explores mothering as both metaphor and method — a generative practice of care, resistance, and worldbuilding —honoring the historical and ongoing power of Black and Brown women to imagine, birth, and sustain radical futures. | Kat Noel, Jenna Hanchard, Janell Jordan, Eula Scott Bynoe |
Dec. 3, 2026 – Feb. 6, 2027 | We Dream A Future Against Gender Based Violence Violence against women is a community problem that requires action through awareness and change. This show brings light to the reality of the present and the struggle for a better future. | Jennifer Leigh Harrison |
