May 2025

Makaela’s work is vibrant, surreal, and deeply personal blending the feeling of a rural childhood with Seattle nightlife. Her work invites viewers into worlds filled with anthropomorphic creatures, layered textures, and familiar emotions inspired by pop-surrealism, wildlife, fashion, and candid human connection. Fabric, found materials, embroidery, and illustration captures fleeting moments of joy, chaos, warmth, and self-expression creating spaces where viewers can see parts of themselves reflected back.



April 2026

Valeria is a muralist and visual artist with over a decade of experience with works across painting, illustration, printmaking, and more. Since moving to Seattle, her love of murals has grown into a practice rooted in collaboration and storytelling- Creating work that reflects voices, identities, and experiences of the community around her. Her pieces explore emotion, connection, and self-discovery, capturing the essence of her subjects through a thoughtful and deeply human lens.

March 2026

Where words fail, art makes up the difference. Everett Lovrien is an autistic artist with a keen interest in symbolism, and its intersection with nature and intuitive perception. Using allegory and mysticism as a backdrop, Everett constructs intentional and striking works of art using objects and creatures to speak their personal experience through symbols. They hope to bring attention to the maiming of healing, mental fortitude, and beautify hard topics that deserve attention.

February 2026

This month the artists of Elevation share tattoos they themselves have; exploring the juxtaposition of the body as a canvas and how we interact with it.

January 2025

Claire is a trans 35mm film photographer whose work plays with color, place, and perspective. This show brings together vibrant color images, monochrome black and white pieces, and a couple incredible large format pieces of Kyoto, Japan.

December 2025

Our friends and resident artists will be bringing whatever they’ve been crafting lately. There will be art, clothing, crochet creatures, woodwork, and a bunch of things that don’t fit neatly into categories.

November 2025

Showcasing the work of Nahshon Joshua a Seattle-based mixed media and figurative oil painter. They explore themes of blackness, queerness, fantasy, and spirituality reconstructing socio-political narratives into vivid new stories through a dynamic color palette and dreamlike composition. Their work invites viewers to see identity and imagination intertwined in bold, transformative ways.

October 2025

October marks two years of Elevation Project, and we’re celebrating with a show close to our dark little hearts 🖤 For this month we’re showcasing a haunted gallery of spooky, strange, and shadowy works by our resident tattoo artists and apprentices. Expect eerie beauty, gothic flair, and a touch of the macabre just in time for Halloween.

September 2025

For this month’s Art Walk, Elevation Project is proud to feature the work of mix media artist and painter, Bill Brown!


August 2025

A Seattle-born oil painter and mixed media artist, AshaAung’s work is rooted in imagination, perseverance, and deep community connection. Through vibrant paintings and layered textures, she explores freedom from within—creating pieces that invite reflection and make space for others to be unapologetically themselves.

July 2025

Meet and ask our artists anything about tattoos!

June 2025

A solo exhibition by Emma Larkin, owner of Elevation Project and the creative force behind much of the studio’s vision. Ethereal, moody, and full of motion, Stormlight explores atmosphere, memory, and inner weather through Emma’s signature textures and layered palette.

May 2025

This May for Capitol Hill Art Walk, we're proud to present Ascending — a showcase of work from our tattoo apprentices. From sketchbooks to skin, this show captures the spark of artists in flight — exploring styles, themes, and the in-between spaces of learning and expression.

April 2025

Maya has embraced art as a powerful and transformative force throughout her journey as a professional multimedia artist. Through her art, she amplifies stories of resilience, fosters spaces for empowerment, and inspires unity and change.

March 2025

For our March artwalk we are an exploring things unearthly, ethereal, strange, and unusual.

February 2025

In celebration of Black History Month, Elevation Project will be using the studio space to ask local Black creators to vend their works for Capitol Hill Artwalk. A market full of photography, fine art, gifts, metaphysical goods, aromatherapy and more! All created by locals here in Seattle.

January 2025

See works that ignite the soul and widen the eyes. Mixed media works from multiple artists will be on display until March.

December 2024

This month we're showcasing small works, nothing bigger than 11x14! Little windows into the minds of local artists right here in the Puget Sound. All different styles and topics, and all small.

November 2024

Before they were tattoo artists, they were just artists. See what the members of Elevation Project create when it’s not on the skin

October 2024

This carefully curated exhibition of dark artwork for the fall.

September 2024

There are many dimensions and shades of life and everyone has their own reality. It is important to take time and look through a different lens. Photography is a great way to demonstrate this.

August 2024

Ghosts & Relics features a mix of new and old works by Emma Larkin. The pieces are evocative of dreams and memories, fragmented glimpses into other worlds and that invite the viewer to look beyond the surface and beyond the explicable.

June 2024

Creations from local queer artists will be on display through July 4th. Whimsical, contemplative, and intricate illustrations will be available for viewing and for purchase.

May 2024

Leather&Chains features the works of Leatherworkers, Chainmail artists, and Collectors. With gorgeous creations for purchase and custom orders open, these babes have something for everyone.

April 2024

Showcasing art from our current class of apprentices, with lights by Esemplastic studios.
Featuring:
Nalisha Estrellas
Alexander Hayden
Brian Marshall
Esemplastic Lights by Graham Wright

3/14 - 4/4/24

The Blade That Makes Us is a comprehensive exhibit of new work on canvas and paper that examines how trauma and adversity can shape the identity over time. Emma's process of addition and reduction builds up a rich background for the ghostly figures that populate her world, blurring the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, process and intent, self and other. ​​​​​​​​