Equinox Studios

From our June Artist of the Month: Collectiv.EQ ✨

Collectiv.EQ is excited to present Juneteenth celebrations at Equinox Studios! June through July, we’ll be hosting our friends Altared Roots and Seattle Hoodoo Society, who will bring their brilliance to “the block” through visual arts & performance honoring Black culture and celebrating freedom. Join us for a 3-part event What Price, Freedom all month long:

6/13: Georgetown Art Attack / Equinox Open Studios, 6-9p @ Living Room 211 + pop-up gallery space

6/19: Juneteenth community event @ Equinox Studios @ Living Room 211 + outdoors

Stay tuned at .eq and .roots on Instagram, and be sure to join us for the first-ever Juneteenth celebration at Equinox Studios!

Location: Equinox Studios 6566 5th Ave S. Seattle 98108 - Living Room 211

What is Juneteenth?

Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, is the celebration of the emancipation of Black enslaved folks in America. The word Juneteenth is a combination of the words June and nineteen. The date, June 19th, marks the final announcement of emancipation delivered to the 250,000 individuals still enslaved in Texas in 1865, after the original announcement in 1863. Celebrations began in 1866 and grew in popularity between the 1920s and 1930s, centering on faith, food, and the arts. The holiday became federally recognized in 2021, under President Joe Biden. Learn more at https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/moments/juneteenth.

More from the studio process of Ramona Lee, our Equinox Artist of the Month:

“In the studio—where figures shift, dissolve, and re-form. Working between clay and paint allows me to think through the body differently—what is held internally versus what becomes visible.”

Yellow Clay figure:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQtlzsIEeZ3JtemVnVs30lC1KJhFmozHycxJ2I0/?igsh=MTF5cmhjajZxd3A3Nw==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTmA1T2EeAm/?igsh=MTl3ZDI4YmRnaHMyMw==

Flower Figure:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWkkf-6kTnz/?igsh=MTQ2bWYxMzAyZ2hxdA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXGFMASFPUL/?img_index=1&igsh=MWRtdzQwaWM3cGtybQ==

🔎 Learn more about Ramona:
Instagram: .us


📍 Her studio is at Equinox Outpost.

A work from our Artist of the Month, Ramona Lee, titled "Worry From One Eye to the Other":

A gaze isn’t passive—it carries, holds, and sometimes transfers what can’t be said. From Worry from one eye to the other, this work traces how emotion moves between figures, blurring where one body ends and another begins.

🔎 Learn more about Ramona:
Instagram: .us

📍 Her studio is at Equinox Outpost.

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