ARTS WEEK 2025 JURORS

Liz Harris: An artist working out of the Pacific Northwest.  She releases music and art editions on her imprint YELLOWELECTRIC, and kranky records, and records/produces under the names Grouper, Nivhek, Raum, Helen and Mirrorring.

Anis Mojgani: Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate, co-creator of the Oregon Telephone Poetry Hotline, and a two-time individual winner of the National Poetry Slam. The author of six poetry collections, an opera libretto and a children’s picture book forthcoming, his most recent collection is, The Tigers, They Let Me. Originally from New Orleans, Anis lives in Portland Oregon.

Amanda Manitach: A self-taught multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator based in Seattle, WA. Manitach’s visual art blends her passion for drawing and language in large-scale works on paper and other media that play with the plasticity and power of language. Other adventures include co-founding scrappy, artist-run spaces in Seattle, serving as curator at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery (2013-15), and a seven-year stint as visual arts editor at City Arts Magazine. She is currently editor in chief at Public Display Art and co-manages the Recology King County AIR Program. She is represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle and New York.

Kristina Goetz Kristina has served as the Acting Executive Director of Artist Trust since 2020 after initially joining as the Director of Development in 2015. With nearly twenty years of experience in the non-profit sector, Kristina has served organizations representing almost every artistic discipline, including visual art, theater, modern dance, performance, and popular and classical music. Raised in New York City in a family of restaurateurs, she relocated to Seattle from Florida in 2009, first settling in at the historic Woodland Theater/ Josephine performance space in Ballard. She has held leadership roles in fundraising and administration at The Vera Project and Northwest Folklife in the Pacific Northwest, and the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival and Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida. Kristina lives in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood with her partner, guitarist Simon Henneman, a cat named Brownie, and a dog named Lola.

Julia Barbee Julia Barbee’s autobiographical works span performance, fashion, film, food, social media, photography, retail space, and publication. Born in 1978, in Portland, Oregon, where she resides, she has shown in Los Angeles, New York, and abroad. Frocky Jack Morgan was her deconstructed clothing line for 10 years in the early oughts, which is now a conceptual ephemeral line under her name. Spaceness (the predecessor of The Sou’wester’s Arts Week) was a five-year running art event she co-founded and curated with her friend and husband in 2015. She has had an antique and vintage picking business for over 20 years that has straddled her visual arts practice, her educational pursuits, and her child rearing.​