Eight Years of Inscape AiR: Resistance and Belonging out of the Historic Immigration Building

Eight Years of Inscape AiR: Resistance and Belonging out of the Historic Immigration Building brings together alumni of the Inscape Artist-in-Residence program that took place from 2016 to 2014 at Inscape Arts, the art studio building that was Seattle’s immigration and detention building for 80 years. The residency, organized by volunteer building artists, focused on providing studios to immigrant and diasporic community artists, and artists interested in engaging with the building’s history and the Chinatown-International District neighborhood.

Eight Years honors this legacy of resilience that has instilled cultural pride and innovation through artmaking, dreaming, and spellcasting. Together these works intend to continue this thread from our ancestors, to build a shared space of protection, safety, and solidarity for all to explore and inhabit.