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Gather: An Artist Trust Celebration
Start Date / Time: December 9, 2025 6:00 pm
End Date / Time: December 9, 2025 8:00 pm
Venue: Georgetown Ballroom
Price: Sliding Scale
Gather with Artist Trust as we celebrate another year of supporting Washington State artists!
Join Artist Trust on Tuesday, December 9 from 6 – 8 pm at Georgetown Ballroom. We’ll celebrate our 2025 grant recipients, reflect on the past year of artist support, and look ahead to a big milestone—Artist Trust’s 40th anniversary in 2026! Thanks to generous support from our community, this year we have granted $345,500 to 95 artists and reached thousands more through programming and resources. We can’t wait to kick off our 40th anniversary year and raise a glass to YOU, our Artist Trust community of artists, donors, and supporters!
A short program featuring a reading by 2025 GAP recipient Esther Lin and a keynote speech by 2021 Arts Innovator Award recipient Romson Bustillo will begin at 6:45 pm. Enjoy light bites and a hosted bar. Admission is offered with a sliding-scale donation* of $35 to $250. Proceeds benefit Artist Trust’s funding, training, and resources for individual artists of all disciplines across Washington State.
*If you are a 2025 Artist Trust grant recipient or panelist, please email maya@artisttrust.org for your promo code.
Gather is presented with support from Amazon.
Image: Ryana Lawson, (GAP 2025). Sacred Objects (detail), terracotta, glaze, lustre, house paint, 2024
ABOUT ESTHER LIN
Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for twenty-one years. She is the author of Cold Thief Place (2025), winner of the 2023 Alice James Award and longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry. She is also coeditor of Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (HarperCollins, 2024).
ABOUT ROMSON BUSTILLO
Born in the Philippines, Romson Regarde Bustillo is a Seattle based artist. His layered works and immersive collaborations are tied to his Philippine lineage, South Seattle Pacific Northwest upbringing, and extensive research travels. Carving his own path, Bustillo integrates a printmaking foundation with a transdisciplinary approach. Bustillo is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery.
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Image: Peggy Piacenza, 2024 Fellowship Recipient