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Kate is an artist and an architect. She founded Hinge Studio in 2010 and Side Rail Collective in 2019. A former mentor once told Kate that she had an amazing “zoomability factor” – the ability to move seamlessly between the big idea and vision to the small details. She has a passion for reinventing and reusing. For Kate, collaboration is key to great architecture and design. Side Rail gives Kate and Hinge Studio a way to broaden their scope of ideas and influences. Being surrounded by such a unique and passionate group of creatives makes all of the work bigger, bolder and better. Side Rail was also formed out of a desire to have a space that is a gift back to the community. A space that is about the growth and expansion of creativity and ideas.

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Essa is an interdisciplinary artist and Founder/ Director of the online art space Gallery Baird. She loves playing with texture and material to create unique pieces.

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I am an architect and artist and I find one discipline feeds the other constantly. I love to draw, sketch and paint in watercolor, acrylic and oils. I am happy to be a member of Siderail as well as work and create in the Georgetown neighborhood on a daily basis.

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Jen is a beer brewer by day and in her free time runs Eel and the Electrician - a web-based lifestyle market that offers high quality housewares, glassware and trinkets for the modern rebel. She also hosts pop up shops and mocktail bars using seasonal produce to create shrubs. Jen loves being apart of the collective and is constantly inspired by the creative energy the members of the studio provide.

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Based in Seattle, Francesca Rosati has been working as a Visual Arts Educator in a 6 through 12 Seattle Independent School for the past two years. Before she was living in Providence, earning her BFA in Painting and then MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) at the Rhode Island School of Design. In recent years, she has made paintings inspired by everyday objects and mementos, like postcards, old tin boxes, or books. Working from found imagery, drawings, collages, photographs, and life observation, she incorporates her experiences and makes paintings. What fascinates her is focusing on routine, ritual, memory, materials, and objects that surround her everyday life. In painting these subjects not only does she get to be able to continue to appreciate them, but she gets to extend the power they channel.

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Artist from Salt Lake City currently living in Seattle.
Exploring organic repetitive structures to attempt to capture the complexities of our connection to ourselves and the natural world.
As of late, the artist is working to explore the relationship between these organic connections and their gay identity. Exploring where the gay identity can connect to the natural world and find its place inside of it.

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Shawna is a multidisciplinary Artist and Designer from Illinois who lives and works in Seattle, WA. Her work is inspired by everything experienced just beneath the light of human consciousness.

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I am a Seattle-based musician and visual artist, mostly working with acrylic and collage. Making art is where I can drop out of the demands of daily life and just be busy with my hands. The launch point is either a vague concept, image, or visual pattern that has caught my attention. I rarely have a sense of how a piece will turn out–I see it as an opportunity for play and to relinquish the impulse to control outcomes. I am excited to be part of Side Rail!

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My name is Lily Hotchkiss. I have been making things since as long as I can remember! Doodling, constructing, collecting things and turning them into other things. I am unable to explore and dedicate myself to a single medium, I love them all! My primary focus is painting, mixed-media, and ceramics, well and small sculptures with reclaimed materials. I have several long term projects like my ancestor series and my exploration of home and our sense of place, in addition to small collections. The circle stories is my current small collection exploring fleeting moments and trees. In addition to art making I am a teaching artist, an art form in itself, and currently teach grades 6-12 at Seattle Academy. My dream job! I am thrilled to be a part of Side Rail Collective.