You, Me, & Everything Between Us

You, Me, & Everything Between Us

September 4, 2025 - October 11, 2025

Reception: September 4, 2025

You, Me & Everything Between Us is the gritty, complex experience of being human. This youth-curated exhibition showcases diverse voices exploring what brings us together and what keeps us from truly understanding each other. It’s an exploration of the literal and metaphorical borders that separate us and the ways in which we might cross those borders to find each other. Themes of identity, humanity, struggle, connection, and transformation permeate and raise questions: At what point do we lose our humanity? Why do we adapt to a world that refuses to adapt to us?

The youth curators chose work that tells a personal truth while reaching for something collective and celebrating every part of life that Seattle holds. This could include reflections on mental health, cultural roots, intersectionality, displacement, joy, injustice, city reflections, and the search for belonging.

A key aspect of the curatorial process involved considering perspectives that are often disregarded in mainstream spaces. Many of the works deal with themes of displacement and affinity. These perspectives and voices are shaping the narrative of Seattle because they reflect the community itself. By highlighting the rawness and realness of Seattle, we give voice to its strength, creativity, and resilience. We shine a light on the experiences of the communities who carry both resilience and grief, whose stories remind us what happens when we lose connection and when we seek repair.

Ultimately, this exhibition invites viewers to ask themselves what kind of city they want to build, from hardworking blue collar workers, to youth imagining futures beyond what they have inherited, to all of those who have ever felt lonely.

Led by teaching artist Janet Nechama Miller, the 2025 Fresh Perspectives Program was an intensive summer employment program in which 10 teens dove deep into the behind-the-scenes elements of the art world through curating this exhibition. This year’s youth cohort is Bunni Benoit, Audrey Mae Lumaguip, Billie Atkins, Bowie Logan, Bryan Emmanuel, Cam Koga, Giselle Kalei Balansay, Max Santiago, Sammy Tewelde, and Nico Charbonneau. The Youth Curators found the theme, chose the artists and pieces, wrote all the documents for this exhibition, creating the exhibition in front of you now.
 
This year’s Fresh Perspectives Program and exhibition was made possible through the Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art Fund. 

What to Expect

You, Me & Everything Between Us features 2D and 3D art showcasing the human form (including nudity), as well as landscapes, animals, mythic creatures, and abstract imagery.

It explores themes like cultural heritage, displacement, joy, intersectionality, protest, and the quest for belonging.