[image: Screen Shot 2018-11-15 at 9.11.20 AM.png] *Priscilla Dobler at Alma Mater Gallery* November 15 - December 20, 2018 Opening Reception, November 15, 6-9 PM Alma Mater Gallery, 1322 Fawcett Ave, Tacoma, WA Free and Open to the Public https://www.facebook.com/events/1946483228984856/ In partnership with yəhaw̓, Indigenous artist Priscilla Dobler will be featured in a solo exhibition at Alma Mater’s gallery in Tacoma. Join us for the opening reception November 15th during Tacoma's Third Thursday art walk, and enjoy tortillas handmade on site as part of a performative artwork by the artist! Priscilla Dobler is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She investigates how identity is constructed in a globalized society and how architectural spaces represent gender roles and cultural structures in America. Her work has been exhibited at Decentered Gallery, Puebla, Mexico; Method Gallery, Seattle, WA; Feast Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA: ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA; DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY; Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA; Marfa Contemporary Gallery, Marfa, TX; Currents New Media, Santa Fe, NM; Form & Concept, Santa Fe, NM; Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; Gallery 110, Seattle, WA; Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY; Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY; Cumulus Nimbus Collective at Chashama Gallery, New York, NY; Issues Project Room, Brooklyn, NY and Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY. She was a 2014 recipient of Grants for Artist Projects from the Artist Trust, 2015 Bailey Award, 2016 Edwin T. Pratt Scholarship, and a 2017 Tacoma Artist Initiative Program Grantee. >From 2016 to present, she has completed four successful artist residencies at Marfa Contemporary in Marfa, Texas, Arquetopia Ceramic Residency in Puebla, Mexico, and The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts and Benaco Arte in Sirmione, Italy. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2013. *Kanani Miyamoto at Feast Arts Center* November 15 - January 11, 2019 Opening Reception, November 15th, 6-9 PM Feast Arts Center, 1402 S 11th St, Tacoma, WA Free and Open to the Public https://www.facebook.com/events/168677607420827/ In partnership with yəhaw̓, Feast Arts Center in Tacoma will be hosting a series of solo exhibitions by Indigenous artists this winter, including Kanani Miyamoto, Lehuauakea Fernandez, and Catherine Cross Uehara. Each exhibition will open with a reception on Third Thursday evenings. The inaugural exhibition, The In-Between, features work by Indigenous Hawaiian artist Kanani Miyamoto. The In-Between is a mysterious place, maybe a place of tension, maybe a place to create new stories - a place between now and the next thing. Kanani Miyamoto is a passionate printmaker. Her training in printmaking is rooted in tradition, but Miyamoto pushes the standards of printmaking in the form of large scale mixed media original prints, and installation. Miyamoto’s work is created with many different techniques. She combines copper plate etchings with screen prints, and wood block prints to create rich and unique installations. *Monthly Co-Working Studio Session* Third Thursday, November 15, 6-10 PM 2nd Floor Studios at Alma Mater, 1322 Fawcett Ave, Tacoma, WA Free and *Open to All Indigenous Community Members* https://www.facebook.com/events/458115981338408/ yəhaw̓ is hosting monthly co-working sessions in Tacoma on third Thursdays 6-10pm through the end of 2018. All Indigenous people interested in being creative are welcome to come use the studio space for free for their own projects, and there will be new drop-in group activities led by guest artists each month. Snacks and art supplies will be provided. Just in time for the holidays! For this month's co-working session, November 15th, we will be making beaded snowflake ornaments with Cynthia Masterson (Comanche).