Alexa Macaulay 

Alexa is an herbalist, farmer and dancing queen who loves roses, willows and spring nettles. Inspired by sand dunes and cyclical patterns, she used wool dyed with coreopsis flowers to work freeform on a tapestry loom. Her work over the month was intended as a grounding nightly meditation, a creative oasis of simple colors and gentle curves to shake off the grind of productivity.

AM Schott

AM lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she patiently waits for summer to arrive so that she can enjoy swimming, foraging for mushrooms, and hanging out with plants. Each morning, AM drew a tarot card. She spent the day thinking and learning about the card, its meaning, and its symbology. She considered its more personal, contemporaneous message. Each evening, AM reimagined and drew the card she had selected for the day using micron pens and pastel pencils. She tried to be whimsical and not take herself too seriously. Some days were harder than others.

Audrey Kai

Audrey is a queer, Asian-American artist based in the bay area. They enjoy knitting, walking around gardens and reading about the brain, communication, relationships, or perhaps all three at the same time. Audrey wanted a small, easy to transport project so they opted for artist trading cards, highlighters and a micron pen. They were curious about the concept of lines and enjoyed the challenge of utilizing the same tools everyday to create different results. Each piece was made once with no prior planning of color scheme or outline.

To see more, follow @Audrey_ha on instagram.

Bernadette Wright

Bernadette is a queer femme who derives inspiration from dog walks, the forest floor, surrounding nature. They collected precious mosses on walks around Seattle and used those bits stowed in pockets as the basis of their embroidery project for Crush/Repeat this year - black femmevelvet mossbroidery.

To see more or to purchase works, follow @Femme_craft on Instagram.

Coco Decker

Coco is a white, trans and queer artist and designer living in Seattle, WA. Throughout March, Coco practiced and created linoleum relief prints as inspired by workshops and artists they learned from in Oaxaca, Mexico. Coco drew inspiration from photographs and objects around the house.

Follow @cocoinseattle for more.

Danielle Morgan-Scharhon

Danielle, a queer artist and filmmaker who has finally returned home to beautiful Bellingham, WA after 15 years in Brooklyn, loves spending time in the forest and on the ocean when she's not in the edit room. For her project which she playfully calls Forageries, Danielle took photos of the natural patterns and compositions created by the bark, moss and lichen of the trees she encountered while hiking. She sanded and gessoed the surface of cedar boards (using salvaged ends of fence planks) and then used acrylics, charcoal pencils and pastels to create abstract portraits of the trees she met while hiking. She was amused by the similarity to contour makeup or the filters used on social media which take a human face and erase the beauty of the natural imperfections, and replace them with something that is abstracted filtered and painted on.Danielle’s work is for sale.

To see more work or to contact Danielle directly, follow her on instagram @stellazdynamite, look up her website or email her at dmorganscharhon@gmail.com.

Darius X

Darius X is a trans BIPOC and former Seattle visual artist now living in Vancouver, BC. Darius chose a pocket-sized sketchbook, a fine-point ink pen, glitter pens and water-based markers to practice his love of urban sketching. Darius’ work is for sale.

To see more work or to contact him directly, find him on Instagram @dariusxstudio, look at his website or email him at darius@dariusxstudio.com.

Dom Juleon

Dom Juleon is a non-profit professional by day and a hobby artist by night. She spent March exploring flowers and watercolor. The project was done one flower at a time through the month. This was the largest project she has ever tackled and is excited it came together in one cohesive piece in the end.

More of her work can be viewed on Instagram @dommarie13.

Elan Robinson

Elan is a trans illustrator and zinester. For Crush/Repeat 2023, Elan set up a tiny etching studio at home. They etched a total of five new copper plates and created many more prints throughout the month.

Elan’s work is for sale and can be viewed on Instagram @elan.clement.robinson.

Eliaichi Kimaro

As a queer, mixed, 1st generation American, Eliaichi Kimaro makes art to better understand the stories she's inherited and the stories she's passing down. Not one for sketchbooks, Eliaichi made that her focus for this year's Crush/Repeat challenge. After 31 days of showing up on the page, she's starting to see the appeal. Small book, cheap materials and low stakes opens the door to playing and experimenting with reckless abandon...energy that is starting to spill over into her larger paintings.

Follow her on IG @elikimaro and check out her website to see more work, including some for purchase.

Em Fazza

Em is an artist who splits their time between Seattle and Portland finding the facial expressions of the emotions they want to depict. Em uses expression drawing and pan pastel to create intricate emotions in their art. Their process is purposefully unpolished, the tools are simple, and the drawings are fast. Em developed their style by subtracting elements of their technique and focusing on the interactions of the face. Pan pastel and paper is the final reduction of all their tools, and most drawings have less than five minutes allotted to them.

Em’s work is for sale and can be viewed on Instagram @em_analog.

Em Nitz-Ritter

Em is a queer white trans person who moonlights as a poet and daylights as a working communications professional. When not writing, they enjoy indulging in the finer things like horror movies and reality tv. Em generally writes regrettable things late at night in the Notes app of their phone, but occasionally writes feverishly after spotting inspiration in walks around the neighborhood, remarkable people around them, and in the wake of fruitful therapy sessions. They write often about gender and mental illness in an effort to encourage a world where authenticity is safe and celebrated.

For more, follow @lavenderandkerosene on Instagram.

Greta Flowers

Greta Flowers is a multifaceted artist and somatic guide who specializes in magical moments. G spent the month taking a moment with the sunset and welcoming the poetry of the moment.

For more, follow @thepleasureguide on Instagram or go to Greta’s website.

Haley Freedlund

Haley Freedlund is a genderqueer musician and tour manager based in Seattle, Washington. This year Haley completed their third installment of 31-word poems, marking three years of exploring the limits of concise storytelling while navigating their personal life and career as a touring artist. They plan to combine their three years of Crush/Repeat pieces into a collection for sale later this year, in conjunction with a song cycle that explores select poems as compositions.

For more, follow @haleyfreedlund on Instagram or go to Haley’s website.

Holly Maeder Sheehan

Holly is a middle-aged queer currently residing in Occupied Huichin (aka Oakland, CA) but dreams of returning to the Pacific Northwest if the time were ever right. She spent the month of March exploring all the fun ways to make digital collages with her new Canva account. Themes include but are not limited to; finding ‘home’ on stolen land, reconnecting with her ancestors, being a fat!so?, turning 50, and of course, horses, especially hers. Holly is going to keep making collages until she doesn’t want to anymore.

Holly’s work is for sale and can be viewed on Instagram by following @hollymaedersheehan.

Jess George

Jess George spent too much time looking into her aquariums and here is the proof. She used her iPhone as well as a macro lens attachment to photograph and video activity in her 7 nano tanks around her house.

For more, follow @_jaygee__ on Instagram.

Jupiter Bacchus 

Jupiter Bacchus is a 33 year old queer neurodivergent artist that likes to focus on gnomes, dogs, and bananas as their main sources of inspiration. This year for Crush/Repeat Jupiter focused on textile arts with a sprinkle of some other whimsy by making several crocheted gnome pouches and various dog and banana themed art. Jupiter's inspirations are their passions: gnomes, dogs, and bananas. This series has become a ritual build up of inspiration and artistic celebration for Jupiter.

For more work, including works for sale,  follow @agenderbanana on Instagram.

L.M. Zoller

L.M. Zoller is a non-binary queer writer and artist living on occupied Duwamish lands ("Seattle"). They mainly focus on the intersection of gender and queerness with food in their writing and collage art; however, they also love horror films and are an intermediate cross-stitcher. This project is L.M.'s first original cross-stitch design. Inspired by Gaylords of Darkness and Suspiria (2018, but also 1977), they researched the font used in the Suspiria (2018) poster to cross-stitch a quote from the movie: "Death to any other mother!" The font is a mixed-weight Bauhaus-inspired font in the colors of the film poster: yellow, red, light and dark gray, and off-white, and the border is inspired by the piano-like decorative border on the inter-title cards.

More of L.M.’s work can be seen by following @illmakeitmyself on Instagram and by going to illmakeitmyself.net or thecornersoftheirmouthpress.com.

Leah Radecki

Leah is a corgi enthusiast and storyteller. This pair of paintings are called “High Energy.” The orange corgi painting is called “Gordon” and the black corgi painting is called “Ziggy.” Both pieces will be shown at Who’s A Good Art Show? in May, 2023 at Martha’s Garden in Seattle, @whosagoodartshow on all socials.

The paintings are for sale for $500 each or $900 for the pair. The paintings cannot be delivered until June 2023 because they are scheduled to be at Who’s A Good Art Show? Leah’s social media handle is @seattle.leftist.

Luzviminda Uzuri "Lulu" Carpenter aka #LULUNATION 

#LuluNation206 is a local educator, community organizer, artist, and karaoke fan who identifies as a Dreamer and Snack Masta along with being a fabulous Queer Chubby Femme of Black and Filipinx mixed race ancestry who likes to be served as she is serving fierce gentle nerd and weirdo vibes; most importantly she is part of the Avatar Last Airbender Fandom, local 206 moon crew, and is a dreamy Pisces Sun and Aries Moon. Grief is unending and life and art transforms your heartache. Lulu used art to transform each moment of numbness.

Luna Piconelouro 

Luna is an extroverted, extraordinary, queer, boricua artist, poet, baker and so many other things. This month her medium was digital art, and the program was procreate. She focused on landscapes/waterscapes and trees! Each piece of art was inspired by a different landscape she came across in the world or in her mind. In 2020 she did CR for the first time, and she worked on a whole bunch of little landscapes, it was fun this month for her to come back to that and see how much she’s changed and grown from then.

Follow her on IG: @lunas.aaart or TikTok: @KarayaArts to see more work, including some for purchase. Luna can also be contacted at  lpiconelouro@icloud.com.

Rant Salt Casey

Rant Salt Casey is a Pacific Northwest born and raised artist working in costuming, modeling, handpoke tattooing, and portrait photography. Rant's daily skull project was initiated in order to help Rant grow their skills and knowledge in Procreate while focusing on a single subject, to be completed in a wide range of styles to allow for maximum creative exploration. They found the process to be enjoyable, challenging, and successful in improving their skills. They will continue to work on art daily as time allows to continue this growth and incorporate it into their tattoo work.

Follow @_salt_circle_ on instagram to see more work, including some for purchase.

Shara Sparks

Shara lives in Seattle and shares a life with Ezra - the most energetic, wild-eyed doggie around. Shara’s recent goal has been to focus more on quality time outside with Ezra. Proximity to C/R inspired a challenge to find adventure in new (to them) places together around home each day for the month and document the new view. Not all spots were gems, but there were many loved adventures together.

For more, follow @sharaflea on Instagram.