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Thursday, April 8, 2021; 7-8PM PST Comic reading and artist talk with Roger Fernandes and myself. I will be reading from THE CANAL WAS CUT, my new comic about the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Free! Virtual event. Register for the link with the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture This online event will be recorded and be available on the Office of Arts & Culture YouTube Channel. It will be live captioned and have ASL translation. Perched above the road and waterway in the University and Fremont Bridge towers, two artists spent four months thinking about their surroundings and creating graphic novel works inspired by the location and their experiences. The artworks created during this residency are beautiful, meaningful and vibrate with resonance to the iconic and unique Bridge tower locations. Join the artists as they share more about their artwork and experiences. The virtual event will begin with opening remarks by Jose Alaniz and ARTS Staff Maija McKnight, and questions submitted by the audience will be answered at the end of the prepared presentation. Printed copies of each of the graphic novels will be available at Seattle public libraries once they re-open. Individuals that register for this workshop will get first notice of availability. (at Occupied Duwamish Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZBEqPsEAG/?igshid=8q38s44v2ibc

Drawing DOUBLE CLEAR brought me into the drawing hole that I love to crawl into. In order to create the world I had to immerse myself in the world. I used charcoal pencils to draw this show. The cathedral, plants and bridge were the easiest to draw. The gargoyles were the hardest. Last week of DOUBLE CLEAR exhibition Hedreen Gallery hours Wed-Sat 1-6pm Closing night event March 1 Sunday 5-7pm #etrussian #multisensory #illustration #charcoalpencil #animation #multisensoryart #doubleclearshow #hedreengallery #kc4culture #4culture #seattleart (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KLXxCpoYE/?igshid=eelxdmgp9o2n

I’m not known for being a poet but I love writing poems. Poetry video sound installation has been a fun experiment for me. I wanted to create ways to interact with the poems that stimulated multiple senses - on the ground, on the wall, with sound, with visuals. These poems explore themes of living, dying, illness and dreams. Last week of DOUBLE CLEAR exhibition Hedreen Gallery hours Wed-Sat 1-6pm Closing night event March 1 Sunday 5-7pm Image one 📷: Joe Freeman Jr. #etrussian #poetryinstallation #doubleclearshow #hedreengallery #kc4culture #4culture #seattleart (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Fhn-HJ9VC/?igshid=a7g991gdrcpp

Kids know what to do with art installations: touch everything! Please join me for the closing week of DOUBLE CLEAR - my biggest solo exhibition yet, at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery. Special Hedreen Gallery Hours: Sunday, March 1, 2020 5-7pm. This celebration will feature a closing conversation with artist E.T. Russian and collaborators Rana San, Lucia-Leandro Gimeno, and Wynne Greenwood (the conversation starts at 5:30). This event will include ASL interpretation and CART. Please email [email protected] to request additional accommodations. Exhibition support from Seattle University, University of WA Harlan Hahn Award, Seattle Office of Arts & culture, Short Run and 4Culture. #etrussian #4culture #hedreengallery #seattleart #seattlecomics #shortrunseattle #disabilitystudies #installationart #multisensoryart (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9C1NYBpHNK/?igshid=13lp66aam3a9i

Y’all I am giving a talk (via zoom) to future nurse practitioners and doctors at Yale next week on disability justice and what they can do better in healthcare. Think “what do I want my doctor/ARNP to know?“ And please share with me @healthjusticecommons #ETRussian #medicalabusehotline #disabilityawareness #disability #disabilityadvocate #disabilityjustice https://www.instagram.com/p/B7pmjYapoLG/?igshid=f0jal0so9vxe

DOUBLE CLEAR • Come play with sculpture, dig through gravel and find hidden handmade treasures. Memories. Trash. Beauty. Sound, movement, animation, storytelling. Everything in DOUBLE CLEAR is touchable. Capitol Hill Arts walk tonight 5-8PM with love performances at 6 and 7pm. ASL interpretation and captioning. Verbal description of the visual aspects of the sculpture and animation. Please arrive scent free. #etrussian #hedreengallery #doubleclearshow #seattleart #installationart #sculpture #multisensory #multisensoryart #4culture #seattleofficeofartsandculture #harlanhahn (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7HKDqTpamM/?igshid=10nevjyayjkts

DOUBLE CLEAR at Hedreen Gallery JAN 9, 2020 Capitol Hill Arts Walk 5-8pm with live performance @ 6 & 7 I’m thrilled to present new works of sound and movement performed by Rana San, Neve Kamilah Mazique-Bianco, Seema Bahl, Wynne Greenwood, and Claire Barrera with storytelling and poetry by Anne Riley, Jaye Sablan, and LL Gimeno. This event is the culmination of a long term collaboration with each of these artists on the theme of choosing what to live for when facing an uncertain future. ASL interpretation and captioning offered. Please avoid wearing scent. FREE event. DOUBLE CLEAR is an interactive exhibition of animation, sculpture, and poetry I’ve spent two and a half years making. It follows gargoyle apparitions as they fly over cemeteries, bridges, land, and water, and experience a series of surreal events. Production Manager: Satchél Silvette Curator: Molly Mac #ETRussian #doubleclearshow #hedreengallery #seattleart #seattlecomics #artinstallation #animation #gargoyles #apparitions #installationart #multisensory #multisensoryart (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7A7fgDpXra/?igshid=kwbf5gsqh6vt

Work in progress sneak preview... DEC 7, 2019 - MAR 1, 2020 Artist and author E.T. Russian presents DOUBLE CLEAR, a new, multi-sensory art installation and a series of public programs at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery. DOUBLE CLEAR is an interactive exhibition of animation, sculpture, and poetry that follows gargoyle apparitions as they fly over cemeteries, bridges, land, and water, and experience a series of surreal events. This installation is a meditation on choosing what to live for. DOUBLE CLEAR will include multiple events. On December 7, 2019, Hedreen Gallery hosts a free, opening night celebration where food and drinks will be served. On Jan 9, 2020, regional artists working in sound and movement will perform live in the exhibition space with DOUBLE CLEAR as the backdrop (the evening will be ASL interpreted with live captioning). This event features Rana San, Neve Kamilah Mazique-Bianco, Seema Bahl, Wynne Greenwood, and Claire Barrera as well as storytelling and poetry by Anne Riley, Jaye Sablan, and LL Gimeno. Finally, on March 1, 2020, there will be a closing night event and artist conversation (the evening will be ASL interpreted with live captioning). (Images: a series of work in progress black charcoal drawings on white paper of gargoyle apparitions flying over a cemetery, bridge, bay and through a chapel.) #ETRussian #doubleclearshow #hedreengallery #seattleart #seattlecomics #artinstallation #animation #gargoyles #apparitions #installationart #multisensory #multisensoryart ... (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5T1cuAJMiR/?igshid=1sthu7wbezbs4

When author Nicola Griffith reposts about your book 🥰 always feels good to be recognized by other authors. #ETRussian #ringoffire #ringoffirezine #ringoffireanthology #zine #queer #disability #amputee #leftbankbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B49WozXJGe7/?igshid=1kire3qn1cd1q

Sneak preview of my new exhibition DOUBLE CLEAR opening DEC 7, 2019 at the Hedreen Gallery in Duwamish territory (Seattle). Image: charcoal drawings of a gargoyle apparition flying through an ornate arched doorway of a cathedral that is filled with shelves of urns. #doubleclearshow #doubleclear #ETRussian #seattleart #seattlecomics #hedreengallery #chapelofthechimes (at Hedreen Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B47-1iLpZ7Y/?igshid=4eepe4dzdvly

Please donate money for the citizenship application fee for a close friend of mine (link in my bio) We want to file this application quickly because of current and impending immigration policy in this country. All the donations will go toward the application cost. My friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, has lived in the US for over 25 years but does not yet have full citizenship, in part due to a brain aneurysm close to ten years ago. Now my friend is unable to apply for citizenship without support. This friend is an avid gardener, dog lover, gender-nonconforming/trans, black bibliophile who believes in community and collective power. We are hoping to get this application filed ASAP, so please donate if you can. Even $1 helps. Thank you sincerely 🖤 P.S. This is a drawing I did of my friend and hir dog on one of their daily walks. It’s from my 2016 installation CASTING SHADOWS #citizenshipfee #gofundme #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #disabledblacktranslivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/B174SeMpGCb/?igshid=1qgn825y7psgv

Neon dreams! Girlfriends of the Guerrilla Girls is up through Sept 21, 2019 • I will be there first Thurs come say hi • this piece of mine titled “CATCH MY AIR” is for sale • Ann Leda Shapiro, Sheila Klein, Alice Dubiel, Deborah Faye Lawrence, Hanako O'Leary, Cecilia Concepción Alvarez, C. Davida Ingram, Dawn Cerny, E.T. Russian, and Guerrilla Girls. #ETRussian #seattleart #neonart #seattlecomics #cocaseattle #crutches #neon #crutchdancing #catchmyair #guerrillagirls (at CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1iH13yn7_6/?igshid=19sdqidmlcns4

When some of your favorite people come to your art opening 🥰 the last image is of a special bracelet Alice Dubiel made for the artists on the show - notice the little gorilla in a sea of flowers on a beautiful gold bracelet #cocaseattle #guerrillagirls (at CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rpRbBJZOE/?igshid=16fzoinpsxuzg

When some of your favorite people come to your art opening 🥰 the last image is of a special bracelet Alice Dubiel made for the artists on the show - notice the little gorilla in a sea of flowers on a beautiful gold bracelet #cocaseattle #guerrillagirls (at CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rpRbBJZOE/?igshid=16fzoinpsxuzg

My first neon sign! Check this out and some of my comics at this free, and incredible, feminist art show at CoCA in pioneer square • Aug 1 - Sept 21, 2019 • Girlfriends of the Guerrilla Girls • Ann Leda Shapiro, Sheila Klein, Alice Dubiel, Deborah Faye Lawrence, Hanako O'Leary, Cecilia Concepción Alvarez, C. Davida Ingram, Dawn Cerny, E.T. Russian, and Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls, “conscience of the art world,” are a group of artists committed to exposing the overlooked, as well as gender unFairness in the art world since 1985. They wear gorilla masks in public as the anonymity keeps the focus on the issues; use facts, fur and humor to expose gender and ethnic bias and have creatively inspired millions to be themselves, speak up and express their truths. Artwork included in the show ranges from previously censored images, crocheted body-centered pieces, reproductive and seed installation, feminist content collage and video, clay in-your-face vaginal vessels, powerful mujeres/madre imagery, identity/gender exploration, invisibility/visibility watercolors, comics, and hot off the press new, as well as old — but sadly still timely — classic posters created by the original Guerrilla Girls. #ETRussian #seattleart #neonart #seattlecomics #cocaseattle #crutches #crutchdancing #catchmyair #guerrillagirls (at CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rlQ98JluT/?igshid=vb3ylkbbuxht

Never thought I’d be a sex expert in Cosmopolitan magazine 🔻💦hahahahaha it’s a long / short story, they offered to pay me in sex toys and asked me for my consultation as an expert on sex in a wheelchair. I think it’s great Cosmo is writing articles like this from people’s lived experience, but next time they should pay a sick and disabled author to do the story (not that Jill isn’t a great person, that’s not what I’m saying) I said yes to the article because it’s a novelty and because if I had a dollar for every time something like this happened to me since disability I’d treat everyone to free Netflix and ramps to their houses Illustration: Lucy Macaroni. Author: Jill Hamilton. #ETRussian #Wheelchairsex #sex #sexanddisability #queer #queersex #sexywheelchair https://www.instagram.com/p/By1jjamJzi-/?igshid=181u4ameoakfo

Tabling with friends is always the best 📚 Olympia Comics Fest 📸: @pegbndy #ETRussian #friends #mitamahato #olycomicsfest #comics #seattlecomics #dangerroom (at Olympia Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byv2MIWpRpW/?igshid=1lv4hhvkvspte