Our 6th annual festival will feature over 270 exhibitor artists from around the world including special guests from Lebanon, Greece, Mexico, France, and Croatia and programming such as live painting by Olympia artist-musician Arrington de Dionyso, a community coloring project with China Faith Star, Ilan Manouach’s tactile graphic novel “Arctic Circle”, Kundiman poets engaging with audience to answer the question, “Where I Come From”, screenprint masters Fogland Studios, new work from Seattle Experimental Animation Team (SEAT) and psychedelic visuals by Aubrey Nehring.

Special Guests: Vanessa Davis (LA, CA), Trevor Alixopulos (LA, CA), Arrington di Dionyso (Olympia, WA), Inés Estrada (Texas, by way of Mexico), Dash Shaw (NYC), Ivana Pipal (Croatia), Ilan Manouach (Greece/Brussels), Hatem Imam (Beirut, Lebanon) and French illustrators Kerascoët.

More info: http://www.shortrun.org

Made possible by The National Endowment for the Arts, 4Culture, and The Washington State Arts Commission.