Grace Athena Flott Studio

Fireweed
Oil on linen
10 x 12 inches

Thrilled to show this small painting in TONIC: A Medicinal Flora & Fungi at Ghost Gallery Opening tomorrow night March 13th 5-8pm.

This painting depicts two hands caressing a fireweed blossom. The hands are created from my “scar prints” and placed alongside a fire-resilient northwest native plant. Aptly named, fireweed is one of the first plants to return post-wildfire. It is, in fact, rejuvenated, by fire. The “scar print” is a source material I create by printing directly from my body, which was injured in a fire. It transforms the disfigured body into abstracted prints and here, with the hands reaching toward new blossoms, ties the body to an ecological lifecycle of both destruction and regeneration. Nature knows we must hold hope even in moments of pain.

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Come see all the beautiful work! And congrats to Ghost Gallery for celebrating 20 years this year of Art & Community! Join us at their Pacific Place location (2nd floor) to kick off 

Just returned from the island. Wow. I’m so grateful to Vashon Artist Residency for the time and space to be totally immersed in a new body of work. After spending much of the last two years on portrait commissions I feel like my studio practice is finally reignited. I went from months of designing and tip toeing into small works to stretching multiple 6 ft canvases on the wall, big brushes and 10 hour painting days. I missed that physicality of working large; dancing with fear of total failure. Unbeatable. Nothing is complete but the energy is back and it feels like it’s here to stay. Thank you so much to the generous founder Cathy Sarkowsky and incredible executive director Heather Dwyer for creating such a container of possibility. I cannot recommend this program highly enough.

“In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for
those who would climb through the hole in the sky...” Joy Harjo

Thank you above all to my fellow artists-in-residence Amir Sommer and Daren Todd , my new dear friends who gazed with me upon the sky. I can’t wait to say I knew you back when. Look out for these two, they are charting a map to a better world. Much love xoxo

Kicking off 2026 by exhibiting WASHING WITH THE ROOTS (2025) in NYC with Field Projects . Opening Thursday at 6pm ET !

This is a beautiful show of painting, sculpture, and works that bridge the gap between the two. Honored to be included.

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ALL💥⁠
Curated by: Ivy N. Jones (Welancora Gallery) ⁠
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Dates: Jan 8 - 31, 2026⁠
⁠Opening: Jan 8, 6pm

Featuring:⁠
Grace Flott ⁠
Duy Hoàng ⁠
Leah King ⁠
Natalya K Laudi ⁠
Cameron Meade .art⁠
Joseph Ni .art⁠
Mesoma Hammida Onyeagba ⁠
Hazal Õzgür .bad.surprises⁠
Ruby Perkins ⁠
Lin Qiqing ⁠
David Rios Ferreira ⁠
David Sackett ⁠
Virginia Wagner  ⁠
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Field Projects ⁠
526 W 26th St 807 (8th floor) NYC poster image: Virginia Wagner “Lapping at Your Door”, 2025

Looking back at 2025..here is my official portrait of Washington State University President Emeritus Kirk Schulz! I worked on this spring and summer and we unveiled the final work at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU in September. Thank you President Schulz, Dr. Noel Schulz, and the entire WSU team that collaborated to make this possible. It was an honor to bring your vision to life.

Special thanks to the committee who guided this work: Executive Director of Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Ryan Hardesty and all the museum staff, Dean of Libraries Trevor Bond, Chair and Professor of Art Squeak Miesel, former Office of the President Community Engagement Director Jeanne Weiler, and many others.

The background depicts a scene from the WSU Tri-Cities campus: Collaboration Hall, a new science and engineering building founded during Kirk Schulz’s tenure, with the dusty wine country in the distance. He holds a book called “Leading with the Crimson and Gray,” a WSU publication documenting previous presidencies.

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at WSU, in partnership with the Office of the President.

Join us tomorrow Oct. 16th at the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium conference!
I am speaking at Deep Dive Day, an accessibility in arts conference hosted by the at Town Hall. I am speaking about my challenges and opportunities as an artist and burn survivor in the local arts ecosystem. I would love to invite you to this event where there is an amazing community of people coming together to learn, share, connect, and sustain this very important work in accessibility in the arts. I hope you will consider coming to spend the day with us, learning about how we can all sustain accessibility during these challenging times.

Link in bio

I am so proud to announce two of my paintings are now part of the Permanent Collection of the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac International Airport. If you did any summer travel out of our airport, you know that it’s secretly an incredible art museum. It’s an honor to be part of this outstanding public collection and, moreover, to see my work preserved and enjoyed for generations to come. 

Find my paintings exhibited at Sea-Tac Airport near Checkpoint 1 (outside of security) by Baggage Claim 2. Airports may be an unconventional place for art, but ours is actually a world class collection that includes Louise Bourgeois, Frank Stella, and homegrown international giants like Barbara Earl Thomas. I am overjoyed that these portraits will be seen by millions of travelers every year. Thank you to the Port of Seattle , the selection committee, and Public Art Program Manager Tommy Gregory .g.human for making this possible. Of course these New Icons portraits would not be possible without the subjects themselves, Tonya and Claudia, and I am forever grateful to them for their collaboration and solidarity. This acquisition is one step toward greater representation of folks with disfigurement and disabilities. 

Super honored to be on this wall! Amanda Manitach wrote a great article about our airport collection last fall. Linked in bio.

Next time you fly through Seattle make an art pitstop by Checkpoint 1!

Three of my paintings are about to exhibit in Ohio at Manifest Gallery, in PAINTED 2025! Opening this Friday Sept 26th at 6pm. If you are in the area I hope you will support this wonderful institution.

PAINTED 2025�Manifest Gallery’s 7th Biennial Survey of Contemporary Painting Manifest Gallery
On view Sept. 26 - Oct. 24, 2025
At some point many generations ago society reached a level where ordinary people could spend a lifetime perfecting their ability to mix and apply paint in extraordinary ways. Manifest established this exhibit as a permanent biennial project in 2013 to inaugurate our expanded gallery. PAINTED 2025 is the seventh biennial presentation of this survey of contemporary painting.

On view:
Man Enough (Portrait of Adam), 2023
Oil on aluminum panel, 26 x 26 inches

Rooted in Self (Portrait of Jamie), 2023
Oil on aluminum panel, 40 x 30 inches

Let it Shine (Portrait of Kari), 2022
Oil on aluminum panel, 26 x 26 inches

WASHING WITH THE ROOTS / 2025

Oil on cradled birch, 20 x 30 inches

Exhibited at June 2025

Washing with roots equates to an altarpiece for the healing and health found in water and connection to ancestors. Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s painting What the water gave me, 1938. I began by printing my scar pattern as the blue on yellow shapes, then layered images of four plants: the bitterroot flower, ponderosa pine, an iris flower, and balsam root. Central is the arrowleaf balsamroot, native to the arid Mountain West United States where I grew up.

As a burn survivor, the balsamroot is especially meaningful because it’s extremely fire resistant and resilient. Thanks to its large root system that can extend for miles underground it is one of the first plants to return after a burn. Even in the most devastating barren landscapes, the balsam root springs back to life thanks to its wide network connections with other species. An apt lesson for our current political moment.

Artwork images by Stefan Gonzales.

Finally posting…here’s the last of a multi-panel piece 😬😁

THEY HUNGERED FOR MORE (BITE) / 2025

Oil on cradled birch, 8 x 8 inches

Exhibited in GRAB.HOLD.RELEASE at Common Ground Gallery, June 2025. Featuring work by myself, Sofya Belinskaya and Alyssa Zoe Putnam.

Artwork images by Stefan Gonzales

THEY HUNGERED FOR MORE (GRIP) / 2025

Oil on cradled birch, 8 x 8 inches

Recently exhibited in GRAB.HOLD.RELEASE at Common Ground Gallery, June 2025

Loved the reactions to this one at the exhibition.

THEY HUNGERED FOR MORE (SPEAR) / 2025

Oil on cradled birch, 8 x 8 inches

Recently exhibited in GRAB.HOLD.RELEASE at Common Ground Gallery, June 2025

THEY HUNGERED FOR MORE (SNAG) / 2025

Oil on cradled birch, 8 x 8 inches

On view in GRAB.HOLD.RELEASE at Common Ground Gallery.
316 2nd AVE S, SEATTLE, WA 98104

Come experience this surreal moment tomorrow Wednesday June 25th with a special evening performance by /BLOOD SUGAR/ We all needs spaces in which we can feel and process this world and I promise you BLOOD SUGAR is giving it. Join us xoxo

June 25th BLOOD SUGAR: POETRY, MOVEMENT, & SOUND PERFORMANCES.
✨7 pm, doors 6:30pm
An evening of sound, movement and poetry, featuring performances by Cass Garison, marco farroni leonardo, genesis, and BLUEs.WEAVE. Curated by

✨$15 suggested donation at the door. No one turned away for a lack of funds.