Tara Tamaribuchi

Tara Tamaribuchi is an artist based in Seattle, WA.  Her practice focuses on several different but related projects in installation to drawing to social practice.  Recent exhibitions include the Camouflage Net Project at (Galpão, São Paulo, Brazil), Awakening the Buddha (teaching artist intervention at Seattle Asian Art Museum), and the first showing of Groove Bardos (Mass MoCA). This past year, she has been leading an effort to save more than 100 Seattle art studios from redevelopment at the Inscape Arts Building, the former INS immigration and detention center in the Seattle Chinatown-International District.  As an artist, she has been building support from city, county, state and federal leaders, and working on creative placemaking with community at the intersection of art, immigration history, and the C-ID neighborhood.  She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley Art+Design, a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a BA in Journalism from George Washington University. 

Rodrigo Valenzuela

Rodrigo Valenzuela (b.Santiago, Chile 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fel-lowship; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters Foundation grant; and Artist trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: New Museum, NY; Lisa Kandl-hofer Galerie, Vienna, AU; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene; Orange County Museum; Portland Art Museum; Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Recent residencies include: Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center for contemporary arts; Lightwork; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Samantha Wall

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Samantha Wall immigrated to the United States as a child.  She received her BFA from The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.  Her work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally.  Wall is the recipient of awards and grants from organizations including the Oregon Arts Commission; Portland, Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council; The Ford Family Foundation; and The Joan Mitchell Foundation.  She was also selected for the Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Art Awards 2016, the winner of the Arlene Schnitzer Prize, and recently the winner of the 2022 Bonnie Bronson Award.   Wall has completed commissions for Oregon State University’s Cascade Camps in Bend, OR, and for the Facebook AIR Program, Redmond, WA. 

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Arielle Simmons

Galleries Curator, Hedreen and Vachon Galleries
Adjunct Professor, Art, Art History and Design Program 

Arielle Simmons holds a degree in Communications Studies from Emerson College, attended the New England School of Photography, and is a graduate of Seattle University's MFA Arts Leadership Program.  Her French mother and American father raised her surrounded by art and artists in South Carolina. From her parents, she adopted the development and programming of a long-running artistic retreat to a family home in the Jura Mountains of France. Working as a photographer for the past decade, she exhibited in solo and group shows across the country, including: Photo LA, The Light Room, and was a Critical Mass Finalist. Current research includes the ethical praxis of curation and documentary photography as well as the aesthetics and performance of gender.