Welcome Inscape Artists-in-Residence Miya Sukune and Pete Fleming
We’re thrilled to welcome Winter-Spring 2023 Inscape Artists-in-Residence Miya Sukune and Pete Fleming into our newly expanded Residency program!
Gaman by Miya Sukune
Miya Sukune is a visual artist working in the Puget Sound area. Raised in an immigrant family, stories are her inheritance. Creating works about her own narrative and that of others is her priority; not just tales of humor, grace, and resilience, but the importance of those silent pauses as well. A Gage Academy graduate, her career encompasses painting exhibitions, public art, art residencies, and publications. Her solo shows include Mt. Hood Community College (OR) and the Serlachius Residency Gallery (Finland). She has permanent artworks installed at the Danny Woo Garden (InterimCDA) and the Matsuda Farm of the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust. She has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, Studio Kura (Japan), Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Serlachius Residency at the Serlachius Museums(Finland). Her work has been published in the Lantern Review, Toho Journal, Carnegie Mellon University’s Oakland Review, the University of Kentucky’s New Limestone Review and William & Mary Review. During her time as an Inscape Artist in Residence, she has been working on a graphic novel called “Searching For Saito” about a Japanese immigrant elder who, in the 1960’s, brought baseball equipment to a Chinatown field, mentoring neighborhood youth. She received a 2022-2023 Hope Corps project award through Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture to produce this work.
@Miya.sukune
Screen Grease 12 by Pete Fleming
Pete Fleming lives and works in Seattle. He is an immigrant of European origin who experiences the joys of an international community while also feeling the very real impact of border politics on where, how, and with who, he lives. Approaching the digital image from a materialist position, his work engages with objects and processes that interweave virtual and physical space. Integral to this practice is his concept of the photograph as word-image-touch-object, a term that is intended to articulate the materiality of a photograph as it moves between servers, fingertips, light emissions, and feelings. He has been using his time as an Inscape Artist in Residence to continue his work producing large scale works using experimental photographic print processes. You can see a new artwork he produced during the residency on Mercer St (Westbound) as part of the Shunpike Storefront program until the end of May 2023.
@pe.t.e
