Our Most Memorable Books of 2020
December 21, 2020
Today is the shortest day of the year in Seattle—the sun rose at 7:55 a.m., and it will set at 4:21 p.m.
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A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures
A Comic from SAL & CD Forum’s Black Futures Event
December 18, 2020
If you’ve been following us for a while, you may know of Tessa Hulls, the “SAL Official Doodler” and author of the forthcoming graphic novel Feeding Ghosts (MCD Books, 2022). On Dece...
A Decade of Letterpress: Jules Remedios Faye
December 17, 2020
Each year, in a project led by Sierra Nelson and Ann Teplick of Writers in the Schools, and the School of Visual Concepts, long-term patients from Seattle Children’s Hospital and a team of letterp...
Faces of SAL: Kelly Cheeseman
December 16, 2020
We have a few new faces on the SAL Board of Directors to introduce to you over the coming weeks! Most of our board members began their SAL journey the same way you did: as readers and event-goers. Lea...
The Seattle Children’s Broadsides Project with Sierra Nelson, Ann Teplick, Jenny Wilkson
December 10, 2020
By Gabriela Denise Frank During our conversation about the Seattle Children’s broadsides project, WITS writer Sierra Nelson raised a familiar inner doubt. “As a writer and an artist, I wonder, wha...
Faces of SAL: Leigh Toner
December 9, 2020
We have a few new faces on the SAL Board of Directors to introduce to you over the coming weeks! Most of our board members began their SAL journey the same way you did: as readers and event-goers. Lea...
In Darkness, Delight: A Meditation on Tana French
December 8, 2020
In this lovely meditation, SAL Board Member Jennifer Leatherman Wong reflects on falling into the work of a recent SAL author. In this distanced, sanitized, and frightening time, Wong finds comfort in...
A Decade of Letterpress: Jenelle Weidlich
December 7, 2020
Each year, in a project led by Sierra Nelson and Ann Teplick of Writers in the Schools, and the School of Visual Concepts, long-term patients from Seattle Children’s Hospital and a team of letterp...
Introductions: Black Futures
December 3, 2020
By Sharon N. Williams, Executive Director of the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas I am so excited to be here today and to be teaming with Seattle Arts & Lectures.
“My Beautiful Legacy” by Sasha Koladycz Brown
December 2, 2020
I may not be perfect but I can bake. I always try my best to understand people. I want people around me to feel happy, safe and scared. Because if you are never scared you do not care about yourself o...