Eight Years of Inscape AiR:
Resistance and Belonging out of the Historic Immigration Building
Eight Years of Inscape AiR: Resistance and Belonging out of the Historic Immigration Building
June 5, 2025 - August 9, 2025
Reception: June 5, 2025
Eight Years of Inscape AiR: Resistance and Belonging out of the Historic Immigration Building brings together alumni of the Inscape Artist-in-Residence program that took place from 2016 to 2024 at Inscape Arts, the art studio building that was Seattle’s immigration and detention building for 80 years.
The residency, organized by volunteer building artists, focused on providing studios to immigrant and diasporic community artists, and artists interested in engaging with the building’s history and the Chinatown-International District neighborhood.
Eight Years honors this legacy of resilience that has instilled cultural pride and innovation through artmaking, dreaming, and spellcasting. Together these works intend to continue this thread from our ancestors, to build a shared space of protection, safety, and solidarity for all to explore and inhabit.
Participating Artists
- Tara Tamaribuchi, Curator
- Carina A. del Rosario
- Ching-In Chen + Cassie Mira
- Jo Cosme
- Sophia Fang
- Sabella Flagg
- Pete Fleming
- Alice Gosti / MALACARNE
- Barry Johnson
- Haein Kang
- Emily Tanner-Mclean
- Lila Thomas
What To Expect
This exhibition features 2D work, digital projections, digital video, and installations featuring themes of identity, imperialism, environmental justice, and joy.
Imagery features food, fireworks, headlines, depictions of genital surgery, the human form in motion, and the American flag.
The exhibition contains flashing imagery.
Image: MALACARNE performs Alice Gosti's WHERE IS HOME: THIRD SHORE, photo by Alina Yang