Nikki Jabbora-Barber

Nikki Jabbora – Barber (she/her), a gay Seattle-based printmaker and teaching artist, was born in Bellingham, WA to a Lebanese-German mother and Anglo-Swedish father. Printed like tattoos on skin, Nikki uses symbols that represent her mixed race heritage, stories from her childhood, the Pacific Northwest, and Queer Culture, to cover her hand-pulled woodblock prints. With this storytelling, she seeks to remove the passive acceptance of accessible exoticism and redefine being a mixed race woman who is white-adjacent. Nikki widens the viewfinder for others to include her life’s intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.

Nikki regularly teaches visual art classes in the greater Seattle area, including at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Coyote Central, Pilchuck Glass School, and others. Recently, she has had her work exhibited at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (solo exhibition) and Seattle Art Museum Gallery. Nikki is regularly invited to jury for organizations like Seattle Print Arts and Davidson Galleries for her knowledge and skill in the specialty field of printmaking.