Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events for Capitol Hill Art Walk. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for the May edition, but, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the shows you shouldn't miss. Follow the links for more details and images, check out our complete visual art calendar for even more events, including the shows still on view from the Pioneer Square Art Walk.
Found something you like and don't want to forget about it later? Click "Save Event" on any of the linked events below to add it to your own private list.
100
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Amazingly, mischievous artist Ben Beres has curated 99 shows at the bar. Don't miss the 100th, which will feature art by some favorites, like snarky Amanda Manitach, frenetically colorful Nikita Ares, and striking graphic illustrator Kelly Bjork, from past exhibitions.
Joe Bar
Greg Lundgren: 1977
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Give into your human affinity for shiny things and trippy colors by peering into kaleidoscopes and admiring photographs of kaleidoscopic images by Greg Lundgren. You'll even be able to make your own apparatus!
The Factory
Jackie Hahn
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Cram into the bagel shop to take a gander at Jackie Hahn's pretty and charming floral and animal designs.
Westman's
Juicy: Pantertainment
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Every month, this studio hosts experimental performers for an unpredictable and interesting evening. In May, artist Nikolai Lesnikov will act as the Greek nature and sex god Pan, playing flute, dancing, and singing, amidst a multimedia, movement-activated installation.
Studio Current
Kreau
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Kreau (aka Kevin Knutson) makes silly, fun, occasionally dark-humored stencil images, featuring astronauts playing with plastic dinos, biking sloths, skater bears, and other endearing characters. Jazz vocalist and pianist Holly Thornton will also contribute to the festivities.
Good Weather
Lindsey Carr
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Carr's sumptuous animal paintings draw on natural history illustration, European chinoiserie, and medieval art and resemble beautiful tapestries in spirit, if not in medium. Check out that rampant lion!
Roq la Rue
Michael Alm: Mammals of Washington
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Alm pays watercolor tribute to the diverse mammals of Washington—all 141 of them! With the recent UN report on the horrific effect humanity has had on our fellow mammals—mammal biomass has declined by 82% since prehistory—it's a great occasion to remind yourself of the gorgeous creatures at risk of disappearance. Some profits from sales will go to the Burke Museum.
Ghost Gallery
The Other Beauty
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Celebrate weird loveliness on canvas by local artists like abstract painter Carolyn Hitt, collagist Kabriele Rosas, graphic artist Angelina Villalobos, and others.
True Love Tattoo & Art Gallery
Peter Christenson: Ass, Wood and Ass Sweat
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Fulbright Scholar and Governor's Arts & Heritage Young Arts Leader Award winner Peter Christenson is a Detroit-born artist who's co-founded a marketing and artist firm, left-of-center, as well as an "interventionist collaborative," Null Set. He is also the director of Guest House Cultural Capital Residency scholar program in Central Washington. Check out his pretty odd-sounding pop-up exhibition.
Cloud Gallery
Scream for Queer Art!
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This pop-up gallery will return to showcase an array of art and hand-crafted wares by queer artists and makers from the Seattle area.
Scream Seattle
Unidos Levantamos el Cielo | yəhaw̓ - Lifting the Sky Together
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In the third yəhaw̓-affiliated show at this gallery, artists reflect on the theme "Together, we lift the sky," the English translation of the Coastal Salish name of the artistic movement.
Vermillion
Valerie Niemeyer
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A lot of local artists are going for the witchy-femme aesthetic, and Valerie Niemeyer is one who does it extremely well: With an appreciation for the richness of flora and fauna and a gentle shading of the macabre, she's created a universe that's girly without conforming to the sexist expectation of attendant frivolity.
Ritual
White Bunnies, Arabic Cola, and the Last Passenger Pigeon: Comic Stories From Germany
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Graphic novels and comic arts are BIG in Germany, and this pop-up exhibition offers the chance to take in some of the most interesting, critically acclaimed, avant-garde pieces today. Make sure you stop by to appreciate the work of Nina Bude, Anna Haifisch (founder of the collective the Millionaires Club), Thoka Maer (who's illustrated for the NYT and Buzzfeed), and respected fantasy artist Robert Deutsch. This Goethe Pop-up is presented by Le monde diplomatique, an excellent journal of international politics.
Goethe Pop-up Space
Zoe Xiao
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Exult in spring with Xiao's urban and natural landscapes and seascapes. Xiao's bio explains that "she grew up in a beautiful southern town in China which raised in her a passion for visual art and nature," and her love of colors and shapes in nature is clear.
Seattle First Covenant Church
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