Fine Art Gallery
Current:
Claire Violet
Opening January 8th 6 - 9pm
1506 11th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
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.
Past Exhibitions
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Artist Market
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.
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Nahshon Joshua
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.
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2 Year Anniversary
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.
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Bill Brown
September 2025
For this month’s Art Walk, Elevation Project is proud to feature the work of mix media artist and painter, Bill Brown!
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AshaAung Helmstetter
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.
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Ask an Artist
July 2025
Meet and ask our artists anything about tattoos!
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StormLight
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.
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Ascending
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.
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The Art of Maya Milton
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.
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Not of This World
March 2025
For our March artwalk we are an exploring things unearthly, ethereal, strange, and unusual.
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Black Creators to the Front
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.
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Fire Within
January 2025
See works that ignite the soul and widen the eyes. Mixed media works from multiple artists will be on display until March.
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Small Treasures
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.
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Fall Studio Show
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
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Unsettling & Beautiful
October 2024
This carefully curated exhibition of dark artwork for the fall.
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Another Lense
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.
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Ghosts & Relics
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.
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Queer Quality
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.
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Leather&Chains
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.
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Emergence
April 2024
Showcasing art from our current class of apprentices, with lights by Esemplastic studios.
Featuring:
Nalisha Estrellas
Alexander Hayden
Brian Marshall
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The Blade That Makes Us
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.
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Nightwave