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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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STUDIO MEMBER

Essa Baird is an interdisciplinary artist whose focus is on abstract weaving.

During her undergraduate studies at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Essa took a class taught by Professor  Nathalie Miebach titled Sculptural Weaving. There, Essa was taught traditional basket weaving techniques and how to apply them in nontraditional or sculptural applications.

Baird grew up in upstate New York on Lake George, surrounded by the Adirondack Mountains. She double majored at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, earning her BFA in Sculpture and Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). After her undergraduate studies, Essa moved to Seattle, where she currently resides. Essa is one of the few original Studio Members of Side Rail Collective in the historic Georgetown district. She was recently appointed President and Lead Curatorial Chair of the Burien Arts Association and oversees their satellite location at  The Highline Heritage Museum.

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STUDIO MEMBER

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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STUDIO MEMBER

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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STUDIO MEMBER

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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I'm Christen Coomer and Deodata, known as Deo, was my grandmother. Today Deo’s inspiration lives on and takes the form of Deodata Design, my creative pursuit as a metalsmith and jeweler. Deo inspired and helped me to create my first business as a child, designing handmade greeting cards which she and her friends purchased. She supplied the watercolor paper and paints, and encouraged my creativity and business thinking. Deodata Design is a convergence of experiences, stories, and cultural reflections portrayed in the form of jewelry.

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NOMAD MEMBER

I specialize in teaching Vocal techniques that support: Classical, Jazz/Improvisation, Pop, Folk, Spiritual/Blues, Spoken Work & Experimental genres and am uniquely equipped to teach the a cappella form called Circle Singing. I’ve studied with Bobby McFerrin, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk's Ensemble, Kurt Elling and other renown musicians as well as having toured the US/Alaska, Canada and Western Europe as a soloist, choral director, studio musician and/or instructor.

Born in Chicago, my family moved to the PNW when I was 16yrs. Since then I’ve earned my Masters of Fine Arts in Improvisation from Goddard College and a Bachelor in Music from Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts in Vocal Jazz. My Voice Studio is based in Tacoma where I teach both In-Studio and Zoom lessons. Photography is a special interest of mine and I look forward to sharing both Music and Photography at Side Rail.

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Scott Harbine traces his love of art and music back to age five, when he served as his mother’s “assistant” in a finger-painting class she taught for older children. Around the same time, he began singing and performing—early sparks that shaped a lifelong creative path.

Today, his passion remains strong. Outside of work, he plays guitar and sings in bands, and explores sculpture through ceramics and carving. In his career, he has led design for websites and mobile apps as a Design Director.

He feels fortunate to continue pursuing creative work and is eager to share that energy with others in the community.

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Anjali is a practicing Architect and visual artist. Inspired by the experimental improv music scene in Seattle, she is interested in how visual artists can adapt the practice of collaborative improvisation to their work.