Are You Looking for an Arts Community on the Eastside?

Friends, the conversation around AI and art can be a lot.

This fall, we’re skipping the tech-bro hype for an honest, artist-to-artist conversation.

Our panel brings a diverse range of creative perspectives to the table. We’ll be hearing from a UX designer and sculptor building digital and tactile spaces, a folk artist and cultural leader deeply rooted in heritage arts and community building, and an author and reviewer who lives and breathes storytelling.

Together, we’ll swap stories on how we're thinking and feeling about emerging tech, preserving the unique human spark in our work, and protecting the community frameworks that keep us inspired.

Bring your curiosity!

Featuring:

VANDANA NAIR - Writer & Reviewer

Vandana loves to chronicle the ordinary by capturing joy, humour, lived experience, and unsentimental hope across her journals, stories, and everyday spaces. Her work explores gender, class, linguistic diversity, and the cultural traditions that shape the contemporary Asian landscape, while resonating across cultures through its universal themes.

BENJAMIN HUNTER - Artistic Director, Northwest Folklife

Benjamin's focus is to strengthen and elevate the role of arts & culture in civil society as a tool for social connectivity, economic development, and a cultural awakening that centers arts & culture as a need to have vs a want to have. Receiving his MBA in Arts Innovation in 2025, Benjamin's advocacy and entrepreneurial work has centered on shared experience, innovative models, and shifting paradigms in the function and purpose of the arts in our daily lives.

DAN ROBBINS - Principal Designer, Adobe

Dan Robbins is a Principal Designer working on the intersection of AI and 3D and ethics at Adobe in Seattle. Dan is also a sculptor, husband, and father.

You can sign up below - space is limited, so please sign up in advance if you want to be guaranteed a seat!

To register for this free event - scroll down!

If you want to “show” in the show and tell: please bring one work of art to display or perform* for the group, and if you like, you can ask for feedback. The artwork should somehow connect to the theme of “Navigating Creativity in the AI Era.”
Please plan to show only one work of visual art or only one 4-minute performance.

*All performances must be under 4 minutes including setup and takedown time. When you register, you must describe your show and tell performance if you are planning one - these may need to be limited based on available time, so register early to guarantee a spot! We aim to have a PA available with two microphones, although you should be prepared to perform unamplified to a welcoming and respectful audience.