This Art Here

Host
Matthew Offenbacher is a long-time Seattle artist and community organizer. His work has been called “freakishly egoless,” vulnerable, funny, and queer. Over the past several years, he has made an installation of protection charms in I-5 Colonnade Park, a painting installation with four dancers, a musician and a bystander intervention trainer, and a giant walk-in fish belly made of PVC pipe that was also a percussion instrument and temporary performance space.

Panelists
Nakisa Dehpanah explores the relationship between the body and imposed structures—political, spatial, and cultural—through sculptural installation and video. Using textile-based forms and movement documentation, the work examines how displacement shapes memory and belonging, tracing the body’s capacity to adapt, resist, and transform across different environments and lived experiences.

Titus Ross is a Seattle-based fashion designer, creative director, and founder of thirty+. A self-taught artist, he began creating with whatever resources he could find, shaping a vision that now reaches audiences across the U.S., the UK, China, France, and Africa. His work transforms discarded materials into garments that carry stories of resilience, identity, and community. Runways for Ross are never just about clothes—they’re living spaces where music, performance, and fashion collide to spark dialogue and connection. Projects like Grassroots and PNW Fashion Week: Sustainability Matters reflect his belief that fashion can be both sustainable and deeply inclusive. For Ross, fashion is more than clothes—it’s a movement, a safe space, and a chance to reimagine what we leave behind and what we carry forward.

Imani Sims is an alchemist and author from Seattle, WA. Wonder is Imani’s specialty, and drawing inspiration from the cosmos to integrate art, ritual, and the Black aesthetic into experiences tailored for QTBIPOC communities and allies. With a background spanning over three decades in performance & literature, they’ve dedicated themselves to fostering spaces where imagination thrives. Their shelves overflow with books delving into Afrofuturist realms, and their tarot deck, The Deck of N0NE, embodies their deep connection to the genre. Imani’s work is a world within a world. Find Imani on Instagram @bookthirtythree & thedeckofnone.com.

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