2025 Visual Art

Digital art depicting a high-saturated cartoon of a floating figure surrounded by technology from various eras.

HYPERSTIMULATED

By J Alter

Portrait in Renaissance style of a blonde woman draped in fabric, holding a small floral bundle.

Aisthetes

By Natalie Alvis

A horizontal, digital painting of a figure in office wear, standing in front of a mural. This mural depicts an eastern-styled dragon in shades of yellow and red, on a blue background.

Pastoral Solitary

By Ariel Burns

A vertical photograph of the beach and ocean, darkly framed by trees and plants.

Beyond the Forest

By Amal Deria

Digital painting of a mutilated hand pulling an angler fish into a grotesque realm from a deep undersea realm through an antique mirror rift.

Flesh-Tide Rift

By Natasha Gardner

Five hand held mirrors lay on their back on a white sheet. On each mirror is a unique black and white image. The first image is a layered image of a person eating an apple, one layer is posed and proper, the other is smashed and messy. The proper layer is lighter in a ghostly manor. The second image in the series is of a naked curvy white female body from the side. Scratched out in the image are marks following along the woman's stretch marks. The third image is the body of a man without a shirt wearing dark pants. His hands are clasped together underneath a colostomy bag where a flower appears to be blooming. The fourth image is stitched together down the middle of a male and female body on either side of white stitches. The fifth and final image is of the back of a female body laying down as the curves integrate with hills and mountains making a sort of blended landscape within the image.

Disembodied

By Erica Gill – Ricky Bronto

Three generations of women in a close line from oldest to youngest. A shallow depth of field has the first woman slightly blurred, the second and third are more in focus. The first two women are wearing traditional cloth head coverings. The head coverings are in different shades of blue. They are in front of a tan cloth background.

What is Womanhood?

By Nawal Abdullahi Haji

A sunset over Washingtonians driving home after a long busy day from a King County Metro System passenger.

Moving Forward

By Mariyah Marneice Hicks

Watercolor abstract painting. Repeating pattern of diagonal stripes separated by thin white lines. The red sections have repeating flower icons painted in gold. The gold sections have repeating curved lines painted in red, accentuated by dots appearing on opposite ends of each curved line.

Acceptance

By Aurelia Jacquelinne

A black and white drawing of a sleeping person. Their long black hair tangles around them and blends in with the darkness of the background.

Oblivious

By Alexis Kang

Meticulous handwriting along a grid, swirls into itself.

Word Spiral

By Erik Keevan

A stream feeds into Puget Sound at sunset. The light reflects off of the water.

Replenish

By Navarre Kerr

Snowcapped mountain peaks jut out above the clouds. Tall and thin evergreen trees frame the scene.

Transcendence

By Navarre Kerr

An ominous black-haired mutant creature wearing green clothes known as "HAZE” looms over, holding a bamboo staff towards you. A moonlit night shines behind in a foggy forest known as the "whimsical woods.” Opaque clouds swirl around their wrists and neck as well as across the ground.

HAZE

By Kaiser Lee

A woman holding onto her hat as birds lift off a grassy field, driven by a strong wind.

Dream of Flying

By Hong Nguyen

Flowing rapids rush around and above rocks, the water having an emerald green color. A cliff with trees is visible in the background.

Niagara River Rapids

By Anoop Prasad

A carpenter bee sits on the stem of a red-leafed plant with purple flowers in the foreground. Many similar plants are visible in the background.

Lunchtime Buzz

By Anoop Prasad

A blue gradient background with the dark blue shadow image of a person in the middle, light green and blue colors radiating from them. The top right and bottom left corners feature geometric circles/rings varying in size, while the right corner has the word “escapism” circled twice in dark blue ovals, as well as three white dots beneath the word.

Escapism

By Valerie Rathsabanhdith

Silhouette of a girl sitting in with her head and knees tucked in on the left side of the frame, along with hot pink and lime green vector art of vines and shaded circles. A silhouette of the city landscape is in the background with splatters of light pink paint filling the sky from behind.

Me Against the World

By Valerie Rathsabanhdith

Two rowboats crossing each other as they head in opposite directions in the beautiful sunset.

Waianae Crossing

By Jay Reyes

A red rose blooming next to barbed wire.

Shackles

By Sirius Sheng

Digitized Tangibility

By Paul Soper

Red Guitar Blues

By Donna Sullivan

A digital comic with two panels. The first panel depicts blue hands in the void, collecting fog that drips onto the Earth. The text reads: “Scoop a fraction of the carbon emitted...” The second panel shows the same blue hands cupping the fog, with the text saying: “And feed it to the algae...It will not provide the same shape as trees, but it will absorb tens to hundreds times the carbon.”

Algae in Climate Change

By Winola Tan

On a light pink background, the word “Girlhood = Resistance” is spelled out in mismatched fonts. Below, a woman in black and white screen-tone blows a bubble. The sentence “It’s how we reshape, rewrite, and reclaim who we are” is overlayed on top. Behind her, two other women dance together.

Girlhood = Resistance

By Coleen Tecson

Jump

By Khoi Tran

A horizontal photograph of the sunset, above a still body of water.

Sunny Side Up

By Ashley Tsang

Flourish

By Cedrick Tsongo

Memento Mori

By Sophia Vanderheiden

Rushing Blue

By Mian Ting Yeh