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Accepting applications through May 11th

Huge thanks to and everyone else who joined us in celebrating ARCADE’S 45th birthday! 🎉🎂🥳

mark your calendars!! ARCADE and Tommy Gregory, with the Port of Seattle Public Art Program, are kicking off some rad events to highlight the breadth and accomplishments of the local, national, and international artists featured in the Port's collection. Starting with an artist talk at The Rainier Arts Center featuring Holly Ballard Martz and Barbara Earl Thomas - moderated by Casey Arguelles Gregory





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“Today, something (2020-25) brings together photographs from Tepepan, the southern neighbourhood in Mexico City where I grew up and where my parents still live. The title alludes to a diary entry by the Italian writer Cesare Pavese compiled in his book The Business of Living. On April 25th, 1936, feeling depressed and lacking inspiration, he simply wrote: “Today, nothing.” Pavese’s sentence can be interpreted as an effort to remain productive despite the creative difficulties of using everyday life as the raw material for art. Likewise, the neighbourhood we live in can significantly influence our sociopolitical awakening. This project is my attempt to capture how Tepepan has shaped me, focusing on idiosyncrasies and details that I believe carry cultural value, such as the variety of independent shops or the distinctiveness of living a block away from a major prison. The project also captures more abstract urban issues, such as the absence of communal spaces and the area’s uneven development.”

View Arturo Soto’s photo essay, “Today, something,” live on

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Published by ARCADE NW Publishing

ARCADE will be at for a pop-up event Friday, January 23, from 2-5pm! Grab your free copy of our latest print journal and learn more about ARCADE.

Founded in 1981 at the University of Washington, ARCADE has a strong history of collaborating with student writers on topics of art, architecture, and design. The latest issue of our legacy print journal, “42.2: Bend, Don’t Break” is a collaboration with UW’s College of Built Environments, co-edited by Lauren Gallow and Leah St. Lawrence.

Thanks to all of you for coming along on this wild 2025! We got up to a lot this year, and couldn’t have done it without the support of our members, contributors, sponsors, and everyone that’s been with us along the way. We’re already cooking up some exciting things for 2026, so become a member today to be among the first to know!

This year, for the first time, we had interns helping ARCADE with our operations. Our design interns hosted a showcase of all of the work that they did for ARCADE during their internship.

Go to our website to donate or become a member if you want to support our internship program.

We are so incredibly proud of everything that they accomplished this summer, and we are still obsessed with each of their projects. We couldn’t have asked for a better group of designers to be our very first set of interns.

Follow their work!
Audrey Di Girolamo - audreydigirolamo.com
Sharon Chen - sharonchen.cargo.site
Vivian Cho - viviancho.studio

Cameron Reeder is a Visual Designer currently living in Bellingham. At ARCADE, he designs compelling visuals for projects both in the digital and physical world. He can be found connecting with artists, designers, and art enthusiasts at art book fairs and zine fests as Cactus Press Zines.

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Introducing Issue 42.2: Bend, Don’t Break
Become a member to receive this issue and 42.1 Materiality in the mail

Issue 42.2: Bend, Don’t Break is ARCADE’s second collaboration with the UW CBE’s Architecture Writing class, taught by Lauren Gallow. 42.2 features 17 student essays covering topics ranging from informal urbanisms to designing for neurodivergence, the landscape of street vending in Capitol Hill, co-operative and multi-generational housing models, and circular design; the stories in this issue are inspirational and invigorating. They show us a way forward and invite us to be co-conspirators in making the world we want to see. If this issue is any indication, the future of design is thoughtful, inclusive, and most of all, optimistic.

Edited by
Lauren Gallow .ren
Leah St. Lawrence

Designed by
Cameron Reeder
Natalie O’Rourke
Sharon Chen
Burke Smithers

Featuring:
Brian Njoroge
Amy Kale
Shannon Hayamoto
Jessica Martinez Vaca
Skylar Lin
Khawthar Eltom
Ayami Kawasaki Matsushima
Nicolas Farley
Alex Huynh
Janeth Mendez Pacheco
Tush*ta Mehta
Paige Cardwell
Genesis Mota Aguilera
Daniella Nakamura
Stephanie Williams
Jacqueline Rosenbaum
Graycie Vision

Thank you to our organizational print sponsors for this issue:
Olson Kundig, Miller Hull Partnership, Schemata Workshop, Dyna Builders, Constance Wealth, University of Washington CBE, Cambium Landscaping, Marquand Books, MRA

Thank you to our print journal donors from “Build with ARCADE”
Gina Broze
Annette Toutonghi
Lara Behnert
Kelly Jimenez
Hillary Rielly
Joe Miller
Landry Kloesel
Tessa Andrews
Jason Lee Bergevin
Thomas Lawrence
Ben & Susan Viscon
Parker Eberhard
Chad Taylor
Kristine Matthews
Kristen & Saul Becker
Jennifer Chartraw
Sarah Smith
Amy Trulson

Special thank you to Paxson Fay for hosting our launch party!