Interview


September 25, 2026

How the 2026 Bumbershoot Arts Programming Made the Festival a Creative Success [Interview]

The Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival 2026 recently concluded two days of incredible music, art, and culture at the famous Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington. Packed with big-name musical acts like Turnstile, Death Cab for Cutie, Lucy Dacus, and Orville Peck, the festival has another component that makes this yearly event so special: its visual arts programming.

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September 8, 2026

When a Plate Shatters, This Artist Illustrates a New Story With the Broken Pieces [Interview]

Artist Rob Strati’s work begins when a dish shatters into pieces. Deep fragments in illustrative porcelain serve as the starting point for his drawings, which appear to bloom from the fractured shards. A plate, for instance, featuring a bucolic farm-life composition is extended to “reveal” more of the scene. In the broken spaces, and beyond the dish’s circular shape, a whole inky tableau plays out: ducks float along a stream as a deer looks on.

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August 30, 2026

Expressive Paintings Explore What It Feels Like to Leave Your Comfort Zone [Interview]

New York-based multidisciplinary artist Yoorim Ko (aka Korchive) visualizes her inner world with expressive color and fluid forms. Her layered work—spanning painting, installation, and mixed media—explores emotion, memory, and the subconscious experience, translating deeply personal experiences into vivid abstract forms. Ko describes her practice as “examining the tension between surface and inscape, the visible self and an inner essence that resists capture.

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