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Join us for a cozy evening of cello music by Gretchen Yanover Saturday, November 22, 7:30pm. The varied program will include selections from Gretchen’s album Cello Glow — a special way to start your holiday season. Gretchen’s transcendent compositions and layered textures will be accompanied by ambient video projection by janet galore. 

Saturday, November 22, 2025
Doors at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:00pm
Limited seating – get tickets here, sliding scale $10 – $25
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holiday-cello-concert-an-evening-with-gretchen-yanover-tickets-1924938525949

Have some hot cider and snacks before the show, and mingle afterwards. Gretchen will have CDs for purchase.

“With an electric cello in hand and a loop pedal under foot, Yanover is her own one-woman band. Playing and layering her melodies, she crafts instrumental atmospheres that grow and transform onstage.”   – Maggie Molloy, Classic KING FM — NPR Slingshot

About the artist
Cellist Gretchen Yanover wears two musical hats: one as a composer of spacious string atmospheres which she performs on electric cello with looping pedal—and one as a classical acoustic cellist.

Yanover began her musical life in Seattle public schools, falling in love with the cello’s deep sound. Gretchen pursued both performance and music education at University of Washington, embracing an interwoven path of teaching and performing. Ms Yanover guided students in music for 17 years, while at the same time growing her own solo performing career.

Gretchen started playing with a loop sampler around 2001 and it changed her musical life, inspiring her to improvise and compose. Gretchen performs throughout the Pacific Northwest as a soloist on her electric cello, while continuing her classical music life. She has played with Northwest Sinfonietta orchestra since 1998, and is a member of NW Sinfonietta’s DEI task force, working to make meaningful changes in the classical music culture, along with creating connections in the community. NW Sinfonietta has featured Gretchen as a soloist on her electric cello on several occasions.

Yanover has been a Visiting Artist at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, appeared as a soloist for the Earshot Jazz Festival, and presented at TEDx Seattle. She created music for and performed with LeVar Burton for LeVar Burton Reads live, and has had compositions commissioned by Seattle Symphony, Seattle Pacific University, and University of Oregon. Gretchen’s artist residencies Shunpike (2020), Town Hall Seattle (2021), and Seattle Public Library (2024). She was the recipient of a 2023 CityArtist grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, which supported the release of her 5th album in 2024.

Learn more about Gretchen at
gretchenyanover.com
instagram.com/gretchenyanover

Please join us for the 2025 edition of the Rock Paper Scissors animation festival curated by amazing Stefan Gruber! This is a rare screening of completely handmade animation. 

Two nights only – same lineup each night
Friday Nov 14 and Sat Nov 15

Tickets $10 – $25 sliding scale
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rock-paper-scissors-festival-of-handmade-animation-tickets-1839813043339

The showing includes:
Nobuhiro Aihara
Jasper Daly
Steven Subotnick
Helder Sun
And others!

With Seattle premieres:Mutation exercise/ Theo Ellsworth
Animal Math/ Robbie C Ward
Busy Bodies /Kate Renshaw-Lewis
Thank You For Your Love /Jin Lin

Saturday September 13 2025 4 – 8:00PM

Art Potluck is a multimedia, multisensory art pop-up by a group of friends. It’s an open house with a casual atmosphere for sharing the art and food we make with each other and new friends we haven’t yet met in the community.

Including paintings, installation, video, interactive works, woven, sculpture, performance, tiny objects, reading corner, zines, books, scents, and a pop-up store. In typical potluck fashion, there will be food and snacks.

JUST BRING YOURSELF! The art collective will provide all the art and food for the community.

Featuring work from:

• Addy Elketami
• Alyza DelPan-Monley
• Andreas Baatz
• Arabella Bautista
• Ben Burnett
• Daphne Hsu
• EverlyHoracio Lopez
• James Stanton
• Janelle Abbott
• Jason Wong
• Jayme Yen
• Katherine Wong
• Kelsey Cole
• Lorraine Lau
• Misha Seibel
• Monica Docusin
• Nadine Aurora Tabing
• Nicole Ramirez
• Nicci Yin
• Ryan Diaz
• Stephanie Marie Cedeño
• Summer Li
• Szeyin Lee
• Velva Kelly
• Will Mianecki

Admission is free; RSVP not required but preferred to help us plan!
Come any time between 4 and 8pm on Saturday September 13.

Performances between 6:30–7:30pm:

Reading by Nadine Tabing, comedic monologue by Ben Burnett, and movement by Lorraine Lau and Alyza DelPan-Monley

Soft Gravity. A Sculptural tea garden and sound experience and concept installation by Theresa Wingert, was open one night only, Saturday July 19, 2025. It was a Seattle Art Fair VIP event, with limited timed slots available to the public.

Welcome to an imagined sculptural garden, suspended in moonlight and sonic memory. Tea will be made for each guest and served in delicate handmade vessels, as a quiet gesture of attention and presence.

Limited RSVP slots at timed intervals – reservations required.
Saturday July 19, 6- 9:30pm
At The Grocery: 3001 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144

About Theresa Wingert 

Theresa Wingert is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans printmaking, filmmaking, photography, ceramics and inventive culinary arts. 

Born in Seattle, she holds a BFA in Printmaking from Western Washington University, where she began crafting a visual voice guided by instinct and driven by a belief that sensory experiences can move us in ways that words cannot.

Her work has been exhibited in regional, national and international contexts, highlighting her ability to move fluidly between still and time-based media.

In 2000, Wingert founded her film production company and became a widely-commissioned director of commercial, documentary and narrative films for clients ranging from cultural institutions to global brands.

Beyond her studio and filmmaking practice, Wingert is the founder and artistic director of The Grass Is Unbelievably Warm, an experimental arts presentation space in Seattle that hosts immersive exhibitions and performances.

Deeply embedded in the Pacific Northwest arts ecosystem, Wingert has served on the boards of On the Boards (Contemporary Performance) and Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA Seattle), and supports numerous artist-led initiatives. 

A frequent collaborator and educator, Wingert brings an expansive, emotionally resonant approach to both her practice and her community engagement.

She lives and works in Seattle and Los Angeles.

http://www.theresawingertdirector.com/

We’re pleased to have the work of artist Chris Crites in the gallery windows of The Grocery Studios (WUG) from May 24 – June 28.

Join us for an artist talk by Chris in conjunction with his exhibition “Forgotten.”

Chris will discuss his mug shot paintings–how and why he chose this subject matter for the majority of his work throughout the past 26 years, with images from the very beginning to where he currently is in this art. His 20-30 minute presentation will be followed by a discussion and Q&A.

Saturday May 31st at 2pm
3001 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144

Snacks and beverages provided.
Free!

On May 17 2025, join us for an evening of improvised music with Paul Rucker (cello) and Hans Teuber (alto saxophone, woodwinds). Longtime collaborators of nearly 25 years, Rucker and Teuber use their distinctive musical voices to create lyrical soundscapes, drawing on their shared roots in Seattle’s improvisational music scene.

Come see this exciting musical duo making their debut at The Grocery! Every concert the duo presents is improvised and spontaneously produced.

Saturday May 17, 7pm doors, 7:30 performance
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paul-rucker-and-hans-teuber-live-at-the-grocery-tickets-1344889373319

Teuber, who is a top call saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, arranger and keyboardist in Seattle started working with Rucker, who is a cellist, bassist, visual artist and composer in 2001 and released the critically acclaimed CD “Oil” featuring 9 improvised pieces. Both have worked with jazz luminaries Bill Frisell, Julian Priester, Michael White and Wayne Horvitz. They have also both worked with Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam. Teuber was inducted into the Earshot Jazz Hall of Fame, and Rucker’s Quintet that includes Teuber won Best Outside Jazz Group from the Earshot Jazz Awards.

Their performance at The Grocery follows two sold out shows at the Jazz&TheCity festival in Salzburg, Austria.

All proceeds go to the artists. Light snacks and beverages provided.

About Paul Rucker

Paul Rucker is a multimedia visual artist, composer, and musician. His practice often integrates live performance, original musical compositions, and visual art installation. For nearly two decades, Paul has used his own brand of art making as a social practice, which illuminates the legacy of enslavement in America and its relationship to the current socio-political moment. His work is the product of a rich interactive process, through which he investigates community impacts, human rights issues, historical research, and basic human emotions.

Paul has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies for visual art and music. He is a Creative Capital grantee in visual art as well as a multiple grantee from MAP Fund for performance. He was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant as well as the Mary Sawyer Baker Award. In 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, becoming the first artist in residence at the National Museum of African American Culture.

Paul is a Guggenheim Fellow, TED Fellow and Senior Fellow, Rauschenburg Fellow, and an iCubed Arts Research Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, he is the Curator for Creative Collaboration for VCUarts at Virginia Commonwealth University.

About Hans Teuber

Hans Teuber has been a top call saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, arranger, and keyboardist in the Pacific northwest for over 30 years. In 2021, he was inducted into the Earshot Jazz hall of fame. Hans has recorded with many artists and toured extensively across North America, Europe, Japan, and Brazil.

He has performed with jazz luminaries like George Cables, Julian Priester, Bill Frisell, Chano Domingues, Michael White, and Wayne Horvitz. He toured and recorded with folk singer Ani DiFranco and recorded with notable Seattle rock bands Brad and Mudhoney. Hans has also been actively involved in the cirque world spending 18 years with Teatro Zinzanni and currently working with Montreal’s comedy duo “Monseigneures Tim et Joe.”

Hans’ albums as a leader:

• “Lucky” Origin Records
• “Looky” Jackson Street Records
• “Oil” w/ Paul Rucker Jackson Street Records
• “Deuce” w/Jeff Johnson Origin Records

Saturday February 15, 7 – 10pm
Explore the vibrant LGBTQ+ culture of Seattle through seen:scene, a stunning photo magazine photographed by Khadija Pugh showcasing inclusive spaces, from ballroom and fashion runways to intimate sapphic social mixers. Featuring the bold designs of Sloane Miller, this collaborative magazine brings a vision of queer expression and community to life. Don’t miss this celebration of creativity and culture in the Pacific Northwest!

Sounds by DJ Ube | Drinks & Tacos

Tickets via our fabulous partners HRVST House:
https://hrvsthouse.com/

About Khadija Pugh
I’m a narrative/documentarian photographer seeking to capture communities through a lens that only they can choose. I aim to center intersectionality in my work and provide the world with an intimate understanding of nuanced existences. I am currently fascinated with Seattle’s blossoming scene. There is a culture beginning here. Life is being birthed into this city by tenacious artists and innovators. I am one of the patient observers.
https://www.khadijapughphoto.com/

Immerse yourself in the virtual reality experience ‘Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!’ then join us for an interactive discussion with the artist Jo Cosme and writer Beverly Aarons, founder of Artists Up Close.  

Saturday, January 18
2:00 – 5:00pm Art and VR viewing
3:00 – 3:45pm: Discussion with Jo Cosme and Beverly Aarons

At The Grocery Studios on North Beacon Hill
3001 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144

Tickets are sliding scale $5 – $25
All proceeds go to the artist and interviewer
Grab your spot here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-to-paradise-a-vr-exploration-of-the-worlds-oldest-colony-tickets-1136176166499

Welcome to Paradise is an immersive multimedia installation featuring artworks that juxtapose the opulence enjoyed by some with the stark living conditions of others: lenticular photos contrasting housing inequities, a Discover Puerto Rico tourism campaign sign hand-stitched from hurricane tarps, a ten-foot inflatable Vejigante mask–-a display of cultural identity–-and a virtual reality simulation.

Bios 

Jo Cosme is a Native Boricua and award-winning multimedia artist who was displaced from Borikén to Seattle one year after Hurricane María. Her shock over North Americans’ ignorance of the archipelago inspired her to create works that provoke reflections on U.S. imperialism, disaster capitalism, and neocolonialism in her homeland. Cosme holds a BFA in photography from Puerto Rico’s School of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Museo de las Américas (PR), the Whatcom Museum, Out of Sight, Photographic Center Northwest, Dab Art Gallery (Los Angeles), and Galerie Rivoli 59 (Paris) among other venues. In 2021, she was granted the Puerto Rican Artist Fellowship at MASS MoCA’s A4A Residency, followed by Northwest Film Forum’s Collective Power Fund grant and Artist Trust’s GAP grant in 2022. Most recently, Cosme was awarded Pratt Fine Arts Center’s Bernie Funk Artist Scholarship, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture’s City Artist grant, McMillen Foundation’s 2023 Fellowship, and was named one of 4Culture’s 2023 Arc Fellows. She is currently participating in Inscape’s AiR program and plans to attend Anderson Ranch in the fall.

“Showing this project in the continental U.S. serves as an educational experience to raise awareness and as a call to action against imperialism. My goal is to have North American audiences contemplate what it’s like to be a native inhabitant of the places they vacation and take land from.”

With a professional writing career spanning 30+ years, Beverly Aarons is a distinguished storyteller, exploring the intersections of history, current realities, and imagined future worlds. As an award-winning journalist, she has interviewed a diverse range of individuals, from artists and business owners to scientists, for publications such as South Seattle Emerald and The Iranian. And she has facilitated several conversations at Town Hall Seattle.

Recognizing the need for in-depth arts coverage, Beverly Aarons founded Artists Up Close in 2022. Her passion for uncovering the deeper layers of artists’ lives and creative processes drives her to tell stories that transcend superficial hot-takes and soundbites.

In 2023, she began collaborating with Seattle artists and organizations to create unique, transformative artist conversations that are more than just a bunch of talking heads and a silent audience. Her artist gatherings are more than talks, they’re community discussions.

Aarons’ thoughts on founding Artists Up Close:
“I created Artists Up Close because I’m hungry for arts coverage that goes deep. I’m hungry to read it and I’m hungry to write it. We live in an era of quick hot takes, sound bites, and copy/paste press releases. I’m tired of that. I want to dig beneath the surface of artists’ lives and artistic practices. What makes them tick? What is their reason for existing and creating? I want to take a trip deep into the mind of the artist. Come take that journey with me.”

Please join us on Friday October 25, 7 – 9:30p for an evening to raise awareness and support for Creative Justice, at The Grocery Studios.

Creative Justice is a transformative organization that uses art as a tool to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, working with young people to help them become leaders in community and the workplace.

Together we’ll learn more about the work Creative Justice does, have some great food, and do a hands-on letterpress printing workshop with our friends Day Moon Press!

We’ll have catered appetizers, delicious cocktails and beverages, and a chill atmosphere flowing with creative energy and conversation about supporting our youth and building a positive future.

It’s a great opportunity to dream with other like-minded people with backgrounds in art, creative culture, and design.

RSVP to reserve your spot
All funds go directly to Creative Justice

Please carpool, rideshare, or take lightrail (we’re a 7-min walk from Beacon Hill Station) to reduce parking impact on our residential neighborhood.

ABOUT CREATIVE JUSTICE

ART AS A TOOL TO DISMANTLE THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
Creative Justice builds community with youth most impacted by the school-to-prison-(to-deportation) pipeline. Art makes us think and it feeds our spirit. It is also a conduit towards a more just world. By responding to personal and social issues through the creative process, youth and mentor artists engaged in Creative Justice articulate both the identity and potential of their communities. The program works to increase understanding of the root causes of incarceration, like systemic racism and other forms of oppression, while simultaneously strengthening the protective factors and pro-social behaviors that allow us all to make positive life choices.

CREATIVE JUSTICE USES ART AS A VEHICLE TO

• Prepare young people to be leaders in community and the workplace;
• Amplify youth voice as a source of community transformation;
• Promote teamwork, collaboration, and community engagement;
• Help lift up the power of young people of color, youth from low income-families, and LGBTQA youth;
• Increase youth and community understanding of the histories and conditions that create racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism and other forms of oppression; and
• Enhance skills that help young people reflect on their social position, choices, and personal power so they can stay out of jail.

Creative Justice has established a relationship with the KC Prosecutor’s office and offers this arts instruction for court-involved youth with an agreement that their time and creative work can be used in mitigating any active court case they may be facing.

In this way, Creative Justice asks our justice system to behave differently: to view our youth through a wider lens, to trust the community to address its own needs, and to celebrate the strengths and creativity of young people navigating a complex world.

ABOUT DAY MOON PRESS

Artisan-owned, Family-owned, LGBTQ-owned
Day Moon Press provides custom letterpress printing and consultation services to people excited about their print and design projects, as well as a retail venue for letterpress prints, cards, and various book arts. Using over 40 years of multi-generational experience and our extensive collection of tools and equipment, we have the ability to produce complex and elegant work while collaborating with the project creators. From business cards to stainless steel coffee filters, our craftsmanship and knowledge about printing and project engineering is respected among letterpress printers and designers.

Please join us for the book launch of Hysteresis: A Portrait of Brion Gysin by Roger Knoebber at The Grocey Studios.

Friday October 18 2024
6-9pm

Limited capacity–reserve your spot!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hysteresis-book-launch-tickets-1036487731707

Written between 1986 and 1996 by Roger Knoebber, Hysteresis includes first-hand recollections of Brion Gysin (1916-1986) by many of his closest friends and associates. This is the first time that this work has been published – a cooperative effort between Inkblot Publications and The Grocery Studios.

Program for the evening:
6:00 doors open

6:30-7:30pm
Theo Green of Inkblot Publications and Cosmo Knoebber, son of Roger Knoebber, will be joining us to celebrate this publication, with free but limited seating between 6:30 and 7:30pm for talks about Brion Gysin, Roger Knoebber, their history together, and the history of this unusual biography.

Copies of the book, both in softcover and in a limited lettered hardcover edition will be available for purchase. Theo Green will also have small quantities of Inkblot titles available for purchase.

We will have video, art, and photographs of Brion Gysin up for viewing during this event, which ends at 9 PM.

Saturday Launch event at Long Brothers

The next day, on Saturday, October 19th between 5 PM and 8 PM, Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books will be hosting a second launch event for Hysteresis. Theo Green, Cosmo Knoebber, and demi and janet from the Grocery will be in attendance to sell and sign copies of the book. This is open to the public, unticketed.

Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books is at 400 Occidental Street in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. Learn more at https://www.longbrosbooks.com/about.php

About Brion Gysin, briefly
Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) is best known for his literary collaborations with the author William S. Burroughs (directly in The Third Mind, Minutes To Go, The Exterminator, and others, but also through his contributions to Burroughs’ Cut-Up method of writing. Brion wrote non-fiction (To Master a Long Goodnight: The Story of Uncle Tom – for which he received one of the first Fulbright Fellowships), fiction (The Process, The Beat Museum, et al), interview (Here To Go: Planet R-101 with Terry Wilson), short stories (Stories), and more.

Brion was also a painter, photographer, performing artist, sound poet, and mystic. Brion was briefly in the Paris Surrealist group, he performed with the sound poetry group Domaine Poétique in Paris, ran a restaurant in Tangier, Morocco, lived in the “Beat Hotel” with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse and others, was briefly associated with Fluxus, invented the Dreamachine, performed with Steve Lacy and Ramuntcho Matta, collaborated with Keith Haring, and much much more – a very full and dynamic life.

About Roger Knoebber, briefly
Roger Knoebber (3 July 1939 – 15 September 2004) moved to Paris in 1959 entranced by the vibrant bohemian culture and found his way to the “Beat Hotel” at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, where he lived until 1962 along with many of the foundational figures of the Beat Generation, including William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Brion Gysin, and others. He quickly became close with Brion Gysin during that period, and corresponded with Gysin from 1962 through 1984 – through a long period in California raising a family and returned to Paris in 1984, living near to Brion Gysin in Brion’s final years.

Following Brion Gysin’s death in 1986, after an attempt to edit an anthology of Brion Gysin’s writings, Roger focused on developing a “profile” of Brion Gysin which became Hysteresis. Roger solicited first hand recollections of Brion Gysin for this work – which incorporates “the voice of Brion” – completing it in 1996. Sadly, Roger was unable to publish the creative biography prior to his death in 2004.
Roger Knoebber is also the author of many yet-to-be-published novels and short stories – such as Rupert & Beatrice and WOO.