Jeff Ament is the bass guitarist and a founding member of Pearl Jam. Inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 with Pearl Jam, Ament was a leader in Seattle’s music scene in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, contributing to a generation of artists whose socially conscious songwriting transformed popular culture. Ament has also been a member of bands Deranged Diction, Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, War Babies, Three Fish, Tres Mts., RNDM, P.E.S.T, and Deaf Charlie. His solo releases include Tone (2008), While My Heart Beats (2012), Heaven/Hell(2018), American Death Squad (2020), and I Should Be Outside (2021). In 2022, he composed the score for FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven, and just released a soundtrack for the documentary Montana Grind. Ament has also earned two GRAMMY Awards for Best Recording Package, recognizing his work as a visual artist and designer. Born in Havre, Montana, in 1963 and raised in nearby Big Sandy, Ament was an art major at the University of Montana before moving to Seattle in 1983. A lifelong skateboarder, he founded Montana Pool Service in 1992, initially helping restore skateparks in Seattle before turning his focus to his home state. Since then, Ament has been a primary funder and organizer in building more than forty world class skateparks across Montana and the American West, many on Native American reservations. His nonprofit works to create safe, welcoming spaces where young people can skate, build community, express themselves, and develop confidence in some of the most isolated areas of our country.

Barry Ament is the co-founder of Ames Bros, the Seattle design studio he launched with partner Coby Schultz in 1994. For more than three decades, Ames Bros has produced distinctive work for clients including Pearl Jam, Nike, TOPPS, the Seattle Seahawks, Pagliacci Pizza, and many others. Barry began working as Pearl Jam’s in-house designer in the early 1990s, creating everything from album packaging and concert posters to T-shirts and tube socks. Since then, Ames Bros has illustrated more than 500 concert posters for Pearl Jam and other artists. Barry’s collaboration with his brother, Jeff, goes back to childhood—drawing together, building skate ramps, and later mailing artwork back and forth after Jeff split for Seattle. Those early exchanges grew into decades of collaboration, and they’re still finding new reasons to make stuff together.

Jonathan Evison is the New York Times Bestselling author of ten novels, including Lawn Boy, one of America’s most banned and challenged books. He is the writer, producer, and director of the forthcoming feature documentary, Metropolis, the story of Seattle’s seminal all-ages punk club. Evison hosts the weekly podcast, A Fresh Face in Hell. In his teens, he was the founding member and frontman of the punk band March of Crimes. He lives on the Olympic Peninsula with his wife and three children.

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