NOW IS THE TIME FOR TAKING CARE

TAKING CARE: EMBRACE WITH TENDERNESS

Featuring Kamari Bright, Le’Ecia Farmer, and Annie Marie Musselman

Curated by Arielle Simmons

 

Hedreen Gallery

April 10 - June 14, 2025

Artists Kamari Bright, Le’Ecia Farmer, and Annie Marie Musselman demonstrate a nurturing care for others and our one precious world in the works of this group exhibition, Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness. Bright viscerally reminds us of the deeply human need for another’s touch with the video poem, Close Spaces. Farmer explores ancestral technologies to create sustainable materials, which naturally echo our own organic forms. Musselman documents relationships between humans and animals that foster mutual healing and existence, rather than a fight for scarce resources. These loving gestures are pathways to connection, offering abundance, perhaps even hope.

Kamari Bright (she/they) is a community-taught videopoet & multidisciplinary artist heavily inspired by human psychology and her own growth and healing journey. 2024 Artist Trust Innovator Awardee, her videopoems have been internationally received at Seattle Art Museum, the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, the Academy Award-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, while their poetry has been featured in TriQuarterly, Moss, Bellwether Arts Week and more. 

Seattle-based, multimedia artist Le’Ecia Farmer explains that “sustainability is an ancestral ideology that cannot be separated from aesthetics.” She earned her BA from The Evergreen State College in 2015, where she studied fiber art, natural dye, visual art, film, and mixed media. Farmer also studied traditional and contemporary textile printing in Ghana and apparel design in Seattle. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Tacoma Art Museum, King Street Station, The Onyx Gallery, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, The Erickson Theatre, Common Area Maintenance, SOIL Gallery. 

Dramatically inspired by the human-animal connection, Annie Marie Musselman believes that true kinship with animals can transform our lives for the better. Her award-winning books chronicle this subject, including Finding Trust (Kehrer Verlag-2013), Wolf Haven (Sasquatch Books-2016), and Lobos: A Mexican Wolf Family Returns To The Wild (Sasquatch Books-2018). Musselman’s work has appeared on the covers of Audubon, Smithsonian, and Outside magazine and inside The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, and the New York Times among others.

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