Midnight at the Fireworks Stand, Alison Bremner, Acrylic, vintage and found wallpaper, wood panel, 48”x36”x1.5”, 2022. Conversation encouraged to overcome stigma
Seattle, WA – Living and Loving Under the Carceral State opens at ARTS at King Street Station on Dec. 4. It explores the impact of mass incarceration not only on those imprisoned, but on their loved ones as well.
Curator Chelsea Moore is part of a collective that meets monthly to share food, support, and make art about loving someone behind bars. In addition to healing, these women also use art as a means of cultural preservation and building power. Creating art in community disrupts the isolation that comes from the social stigma of prison.
Featuring artists Alison Bremner, Cassandra Butler, Martina Kartman, Stef Marchand, and Chelsea Moore, Living and Loving Under the Carceral State is on view Dec. 4, 2025 – Feb. 7, 2026.
Join us for the opening on First Thursday, Dec. 4. The final workshop in our commUNITY series centering connection, career development, and co-creation of art will be 5 – 7 p.m. Learn how to make Huichol Ojos de Dios with Alicia Mullikan. Jo Cosme’s Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! is also on view.
ARTS at King Street Station is open Wednesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays. Located at 303 S. Jackson Street, on the Top Floor of King Street Station, Seattle, WA 98104. Admission is FREE.
About ARTS at King Street Station
ARTS at King Street Station is a dynamic space for arts and culture in the heart of the city, dedicated to increasing opportunities for people of color to generate and present their work. Housed above Seattle’s historic King Street Station, this 7,500-square-foot gallery and cultural space includes a studio for artists-in-residence and offices for the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Exhibitions and public programs come to the gallery through an open application and are selected by a cohort of King Street Station Advisors who represent a range of Seattle’s communities and artistic disciplines.
About the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
Formed in 1971 with a mission to activate and sustain Seattle through arts and culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (OAC) manages the City’s public art program, cultural partnerships grant programs, The Creative Advantage arts education initiative, and cultural facilities such as the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, ARTS at King Street Station, and ARTS at Denny Substation.
In alignment with the City’s Race and Social Justice Initiative, we seek new solutions that use arts as a strategy to drive not only our office, but the City as a whole toward racial equity and social justice. We will continue to break barriers and build arts-integrated tools that challenge the status quo and push us toward the inclusive society we envision.
We are supported by the 16-member Seattle Arts Commission, citizen volunteers appointed by the Mayor and City Council.
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