This show is a collaboration with Cedar Tree and Samish Woods. Student artwork is displayed alongside a local community artists’s reinterpretation.
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Rowan Ritchie
This creature is an alien from an unknown place. It can go without food for decades though it needs water often. In order to get food, it needs to travel down to the mountains of Earth and eat rocks because its home planet has different minerals than Earth. This is the reason it has only been seen once, when it flew over Bellingham to get to Mt. Baker. Its pet peeve: volcanos; too hot to eat, though rocks are good with a little bit of spice. It is solitary.
Karen Hanrahan, she/her
Feasting On Rocks, 2023
Mixed media - magazine and cat calendar photos, collage and stitching
7 ish x 9 ish
$75
Instagram @bestofkarenhanrahan
Artist Statement: “Amber The Alien Cat flies down to Mt Baker for its very rare feasting of rocks. The orange topped rocks are extra spicy.” Bellingham self taught creative Karen Hanrahan is middle-aged and owns a cat named Amber. She makes quilt like art with paper.
Thanks to Rowan for this awesome prompt.
Rowaen Kullas
The Arkins: The predators of the deep. Their talons sink teeth and claw into… love, in this unique and rare photo captured by Arwin Colosh, the diving photographer, in 1986. By now they must’ve raised happy and loving children. How many children? It ranges from 1-10. Their scale colors depict different states like mating is bright so you know not to go near them whenever they’re with their mate or children and if they’re lost, or their family is, they shine, and you should probably run. They mate for life and have complex emotions with an iq of 96 or 110.
Alison Witwer, she/her
Disco Arkins, 2023
Embroidery on textiles
22” x 9” x 5”
0 (for student)
Instagram @alisonshaye
Myles
My creature once ruled the earth until humans appeared. It hid in a giant mountain for about 100 years. It also has a world inside of it and it has a spiky tail that looks like a tree and has a river going through it.
Riley Currie, she/her
Untitled, 2023
Fabric and Mixed Media
Free for student
Ava
My creature is really cute. It’s called a Dust Bunny. It’s like a bunny with wings, that can fly. It’s so small you could hold it in your palms. It’s soft and silky. It makes a squeaking sound. It has a home underground, with miniature stuff like furniture and paintings. No one has found it because it’s so adorable that people pass out when they see one. Or it makes its high pitched squealing noise which also makes people pass out. It likes to eat carrots and it also likes to eat grass and lettuce, like a bunny. It lives in groups called a pack of squeakers.
Emily Campbell, they/she
”Down the dust bunnie hole”
Digital Print
11 x 17
free to student
Conrad
My creature is called a Boose. It is pretty large. It has the body of a bunny and the head of a goose. It likes to run and has a red fluffy tail. It eats oil and gas. It does not have any predators. It reproduces every hundred years. Its lifespan is 200 years. One of its habits is pecking at snow. It lives inside oil and gas pipelines in cold and icy places. Sometimes, it breaks out of the oil and gas pipelines to get to the surface to reproduce. Its eyes are always wide open. The only holiday it celebrates is called the Day of the Birds. On this day, it celebrates by meeting with all the other Beese (plural of Boose) in the biggest gas pipe. They celebrate by taking big oil cans and poking holes to see out of with their beaks and then they wear them over their heads and dance. During the war in Ukraine, when the Russians shut off the gas to Europe, the Beese got angry because they couldn’t drink the gas anymore so they broke out and they went to oil facilities and pecked at the pipes so there was a hole in them and they could drink the oil. They decided to take the oil cans from the Day of the Birds. They patched the eye holes in the cans with tape and they went to another oil facility and put the oil in the cans and went back into the gas pipes and they were savoring the oil for a long, long time until the Russians turned the gas back on. A few people have seen them but no one has told any scientists.
Rodney Lotter Jr.
The Boose is Loose, 2023
Acrylic and charcoal
11”x14'“
$60
Instagram @illuminaughtybynature
Saige
There’s only one pack of flying pigs. The pack is called the Piggy Pack. They don’t live in one place but they are visiting earth. They have an astronaut helmet so they can breathe in space. They are vegetarian so they eat plants and vegetables. They each have a different personality and mood. Three of them are girls and three of them are boys. They are pigs with wings and helmets and one of them has a bow and dress. They can live in space. Their skin can stand the cold. They each have a power but they don’t use it a lot. The one in the yellow helmet can read minds, the one with the red helmet can teleport, the green one has telekenesis, the pink one can blood-bend pigs, the purple one can manipulate pigs and people, the blue one can talk to people.
Sarah Lane, she/her
When pigs fly, 2023
Felt, thread, wood, plastic
36”x13”
$100
Instagram @sarahsartlife, @sewlaneembroidery
Charlotte Peterson
My creature is an elemental fox living in the top corner of Washington, USA, near Seattle and Bellingham, with 757 foxes, 121 families, and 5 towns. They have radios to listen to humans and they find it hilarious, but sometimes they are very serious about it. Like wars. They are not found because they kidnap anyone who finds them and keep them hostage and don’t let them go. They have fiery ears and colorful fur. Their unique ability to control the elements makes them able to expand very easily under the ground, which is where they live. Its predators are humans, bears and the most fierce of all: the bunny.
Steeb Russell, he/him
“HUMANS ARE HILARIOUS, AT BEST”, 2023
Acrylic on found wood
11 3/8” x 10 1/16”
$250
@steebrussellart
Inés
My creature is called a Spalawat because it can go into space, land and water. Their genders are only girls. They love cheese and live in little meadows covered by trees and with lots of ponds and clouds. They love trees and the sun. They are a mix of a shark, a dog, a bird, and an alien. It is mostly on land and likes sleeping on pine trees. It is never too cold there, and never too hot. They even have a big box of cheese. They have a bad habit of catching little mice but that is very rare! They can also control the weather if they are feeling like it. They are very picky on what they eat and drink (everything needs to look a little like cheese) but at the end of the day they just really love to sit by the fire and relax. (their favorite weather is rain.)
Cathy Crabtree
Spalawat and Their Love of Cheese, 2023
Watercolor paper mounted on 1/8" foam board, acrylic paint, paper strips, glass beads, wire.
Note from artist: The art of "Quilling" consists of paper strips rolled into coils. The coil can be tight, loose or anywhere in between and then manipulated into shapes. The outline of the trees is referred to as "On Edge" quilling.
8" x 18"
$0.00 if donated to my Kids Art Walk artist
Zubin
Hello. This creature is named Berry Picker mouse. Its scientific name is Acioius Mus. As the common name states, its main diet is berries. It also eats nuts, seeds & tadpoles. It lives in jungles. It was found Aug. 22, 2022 in the Amazon rainforest. It is unknown if it has been seen before but it has most likely been mistaken for other creatures like it. This is the one photo I captured of it before it scurried off. Its main predators are thought to be snakes that sneak up on it, but it is much faster than its chubby body shows. it is mostly fur. It uses its tail as a safety mechanism and its eyesight is amazing. It can also hear something slithering across the forest floor from up to 100m away. Its lifespan is around 2 years. It nests in holes in the ground. The holes systems are very long and complex. They live in groups of up to 30 creatures. The Berry Picker mouse has very sharp claws and teeth so it can fend off enemies from its home. We estimate that the total population is up to 385 creatures and those numbers are decreasing due to deforestation and climate change related events. The creature is nocturnal and uses its amazing sense of smell to find the berries. This creature is also an amazing swimmer. It has a territorial area of up to 3 sq. miles due to the size of the group.
Hanna Norris
Moonlit Forage, 2023
Oil on cradled wood panel
$120
18"W x 24"H x 1.5"D
Instagram @hannamarta.art
Jamisen
This is an immortal creature that digs tunnels in the earth slowly until the earth caves in on itself. There is only one in the entire world. When it has eaten all of it, it moves on to other planets, the galaxy, the others, then the universe.
JaycH
im-mole-tal, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
Free for the student
Chloe
My creature lives in a deep forest near the streaming rivers. It has the ability to walk on water no matter how strong the current is. The colorful trees behind it hold up the planets that are too delicate to float in space. The creature has a confident personality and has a beige body with bright yellow leaves for a mane and tail. It eats plants, leaves and flowers, and the more it eats, the longer its mane and tail grow!
Cory Lykaina, ki/they
Water Walker, 2023
Colored Pencil on bristol paper
Free for student
Kelly Sorbel, he/him
Confident Creature, 2023
Acrylic ink on paper
Free to student
Halilah
It is a Unipig. It talks in her tunnel with friends. It’s cute and strong. It eats bats and snow and flowers and leaves. It is brave. Fearless. It lives in Mt. Everest. It is beautiful, pretty, and has a happy smile. It is scared of wolves. It turns into a flower. It has a horn and wings. The wings are rainbow, average pig-sized wings with white sparkles. It lives in groups called Pig Packs.
Amber Sturgis, she/her
Den of the Unipig, 2023
Repurposed Music Box, tea lights and mixed media
11” x 7” x 4”
$100 but $30 for Halilah
Oly
My creature lives in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, where everything is covered in shadows. It lives in a deep, dark cave and only comes out when it’s nighttime. It has a child once every 10 billion years and when the child is two, it eats them. It was alive before the Big Bang and it lived inside of an asteroid. It has a scent that attracts creatures to its cave and has carnivorous plants in the cave that kills them and then spits them out, so the creature can eat them. The reason humans have never discovered is that no human can survive the pressure of the ocean at this depth, even in a submarine. It decorates its home with lots of seashells and sea plants. It takes the light from Anglerfish and hang them at the entrance of their cave.
Tony Walters, he/him
Deep Sea Devil, 2023
Digital (Procreate)
Print on wood canvas
8”x8”
$75
Instagram @fatlizarddesigns
David
I am writing about a creature that may or may not exist. The name of it is Barn Swallowtail. It has a purple-blue body and a brown head, and swallowtail butterfly wings, and many animals eat it. It’s main predators are barn owls. They eat seeds, bugs, and berries. People have not been studying its behaviors. They also migrate together in certain places in North America. They fly in a group that is called a Flap, and they live in North America. They are also quite rare. There have only been a few glimpses of it and no one has really studied it ever. I hope you enjoyed knowing a little bit about my animal that may or may not exist.
Micaela Lieseke, she/her
Barn Swallowtail Family, 2023
Watercolor paint, colored pencils, glitter POSCA markers
10.25x8.5”
$50
Instagram @iguanalypse
Artist Statement:
I started my painting alongside my sister, Carly, while spending valuable art time together. I have been creating my entire life, and art really moves me, so to see my little sister fall in love with art has been a rewarding experience. I find therapeutic qualities in painting which is why I love watercolors, but I also enjoy the way it brings people together. Projects such as this one which unites young artists and others who are passionate about creating are so important and I am so thankful for the community Make.Shift cultivates. Thank you.
Emmie
The Geep is a dog-like creature. It lives in the Pacific Northwest. It is strong, cute, tough, and friendly. If in the wild, they will hunt food for themselves. If they are pets they will eat dog food. Its weaknesses are dog treats or food scraps. They have not been discovered yet because they are very rare and very shy. They are also endangered which makes them even more rare. They are great at playing fetch in the water and they are also very good at playing fetch on land. They are very energetic and need at least an hour outside every day. It loves being outdoors. It can shapeshift and become invisible. It can also sprout gills when underwater.
Ray Sophia Sharpe, they/them
Geep in the Forest of Love, 2023
Chalk pastel
11 3/4” W x 14 3/4” H x 6/8” D (with frame)
$100
Instagram @raycreatesthings
Basil
It lives in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It likes to hide in caves and coves. It eats gum off subway rails in Vancouver because its very nutritious. It only eats other people’s food. It loves chomping on giant wheels of cheese!!! While he parties with his friends he also plays Mariocart 8 deluxe. He calls his friends trash at Mariocart 8 deluxe but they totally beat him. He flies almost everywhere. He sleeps in “empty” hotel rooms and steals extra drinks from conference rooms. But the people can’t punish him because he’s just too cute. He is a hybrid of a guinea pig snake and blue footed booby.
Jessyca Murphy, she/they
“It only eats other people’s food”, 2023
Craft felt, embroidery floss, PolyFil
Free to student
Instagram @farthousecinema
Alex
My creature is basically a cat. But it changes color and it has wings. It can change any color in the world. It can also change a little bit of its appearance, like the shapes of its ears or the length of its hair. It is a nice pet but loves being outside. It is the size of a medium cat. It loves being social and is great with other pets. It is hard to see this strong creature change color and see its wings. It only shows its color when alone or it has a strong bond with its owner. In my picture it is changing its color because there is a mouse on its head. The wing can match its surroundings but they are always there. My creature is in the window sill looking outside. It does not need a lot of help- it can take care of itself.
Boran
A cat lying on a keyboard. The cat pressed the letter Z. It showed a picture of an unknown species. The cat is drinking a cup of tea. The microphone starts to crack and fall. The phone starts to buzz. There is a big gust of wind. The gust of wind turns on the microscope.
Cynthia Hansen, she/her/hers
Press Z, 2023
Acrylic on wood
~6x12”
$100
Linc
My creature’s name is unknown. It kind of looks like a bird but it’s giant. It wears flaming sunglasses. It can be camouflaged like an octopus. It hasn’t been discovered because it lives in a different dimension. My creature is ten feet long. It’s a predator and its main food is cows and other big animals. It can fly. It has razor sharp claws. It likes to live on tall mountains and it likes cold weather. If it gets too warm, it will die. They live on their own and only live in groups while they’re babies so their mothers can keep them safe. When they’re born, they’re as big as a ten year old human kid.
Benjamin Higgins, he/him/his
Ice Cave Creature, 2023
Vine charcoal on canvas
~10x10”
$60
James
The sandfish is always found in sandy places and likes heat and can sense radar so it can stay hidden. It also has many rows of teeth and its skin is rough for protection, and it has great camouflage. It’s blind so its way of finding things is its hearing, and it does not follow other sandfish, it follows big animals and hunts with them.
Blake Read, he/him
The Sandfish, 2023
Acrylic on Canvas
24” x 36”
Not for Sale
@smoky_beard_mcread/@maudetattoo
Artist Statement: While traditionally a watercolor painter, this artist took the assignment in a whimsical approach by using acrylic paint to mark the canvas with gestural strokes. The creature being called a “Sandfish” is described to have rough skin and excellent camouflage as a survival mechanism, is blind and relies on sense of hearing, and loves to burrow through sand. While studying the student’s image, the artist draws comparisons to the Pacific Lamprey, a parasitic fish found in the Pacific Northwest, but scaled up to intimidating proportions.
I will not be selling this work as I wish to offer it to the kid I was assigned to if they would like to take it home once the show is over. Do feel free to email or call me if the kid is not interested in keeping the work.
Ben
Their scientific name is Brobonea in Rollow, a language made from 2027 to 2066 and itt means in English “is sneaky.” They also sometimes infect walls and make them gigantic blobs. The first time one of these were found and got on the news was between 2023 and 2024. These creatures have been around for five million, six hundred and twelve thousand years. These creatures are quite extraordinary and now you know of a creature nobody else knows of that will never be discovered so keep it a secret, ok?
Maya Dam, any pronouns
Brobonea at the Art Museum, 2023
Watercolor, graphite pencil
2’6” by 2’
free to student
Salish
I don’t think it’s that good, like I could have done a lot more! But that’s how it goes. Predator and prey! It doesn’t have any predators that can kill them with ease but they do fight with some types of sharks and orcas. Their prey is mostly fish. Why were they undiscovered?! 93% of water is undiscovered so it’s obvious why it wouldn’t be discovered. Its Latin would be whatever it would be in Latin.
Esmeralda Olguin, she/her
Untitled, 2023
Black sand, black acrylic paint, black glitter, and broken glass
Tiktok @pouringwithemy
$500
Emma
Orca-jel-a-bear-opolas:
The Orca-jel-a-bear-opolas is most commonly known as a Jelly Bear. Yes, a Jelly Bear, not to be confused with a gummy bear that you eat. Oh and a cool fact is that it LOVES to eat trash, it eats around one ton a day. It also drinks around 342 gallons of oil a day. It has a 6 ft. orca fin coming out of its head with a gray body and red splotches. On the bear side it looks a lot like a cartoon. It has rosy cheeks and a cute nose. It lives in Alaska in a boat shed.
Dai Starrlight
NotSoBrights!, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
30”x40”
Artist Statement:
A N I M A T E R I A N S
Landing in 3... 2... 1... easy, easy, and (sound of metal crushing rock Gentilly) success. You were right!
Polar said to Brown as tha Orca Starr settled gracefully and started to refuel...refueling off another
completely fully abandoned oil drum that has been disregarded and forgotten by tha not so brights.
Tha not so brights are a particular type of human beings that have a totally educated disregard and
dislike for tha little blue planet referred to as earth (we’ll get to that later).
Didn’t think that OS’s (orca starr’s) fuel would have been located in this part of Aqua Quadrant sector
206-564... Polar Bear chimed on as OS’s (pronounced OH’s) system started its systems check. OS ( tha
orca starr) is an interesting vessel or better known to tha travelers as tha zololopop or the
intergalactic inter-aquatic space/time starrship in which frm its outer appearance like a Massive Orca
(that’s right) a Whale.
But this isnt just any ol “Orca” this particular ORCA name is OS and it drinks large amounts of oil and
trasforms that Oil that otherwise pollutes and damages tha oceans on a little blue planet called earth
into new pure salty sea water while reducing tha blue planets pain. This is designed to help heal (what
tha humans call nature) earth restoring balance and harmony.
Now tha other great thing that OS (orca starr) does is that it eats aquatic debris...you know.... trash.
Yeah, that’s right ...trash...like for example empty oil drums old shoes forgotten shipwrecks... things
like that that pollutes tha entire Aqua Quadrant as a whole....
(Computer voice) systems are now fully operational.
Polar are we ready”? Brown bear asked. “Yes Sir” Polar Bear replied
“All systems are fully operational”. “Lets power up and lift off”!
AND SO THA JOURNEY CONTINUES.....
Jacobo
My creature loves cruising around Fairhaven at night so nobody can see him. There is only one on earth but he is immortal so he doesn’t need to worry about dying anytime soon. He loves to sneak into bowling alleys at 2 am and bowl. During the daytime he just suits on his beanbag in his two room house and watches youtube and plays video games. His favorite food is actually nachos. In fact, he likes it so much that it’s the only thing he eats! If people discover him, he’ll simply leave earth and go to another planet in the galaxy… Let’s hope that doesn’t happen though.
j paige, they/them
Night Nachos!, 2023
Polymer clay, acrylic, and Model Magic
Free to student
Instagram @yogurtybones
Io
My creature typically lives in packs, groups of 3-5. And they love to mess with humans and will hide up in trees and make noises, and hikers will often think they are ghosts. More than that though, they like to dig holes and once they have dug one deep enough, they plop themselves in the holes, then they have a packmate fill the hole back up, only leaving their head and wings exposed. They will do this over and over until they are all buried. They will stay buried for awhile, then all pop out at the same time. After that they fly until they can’t anymore, then they curl up in the trees to sleep and do it all again in the morning.
They live in forests far from civilization.
They are nocturnal, but they love to nap.
They are very funny and love to play tricks.
There are two kinds, though they often stay in the same pack, despite differences.
They two types are Cinese Moon Moth (one with skinny wings) and Luna Moth (one with thick wings.)
Amelia Ireland, she/her
Ghost Friends, 2023
Wood, mixed media
6x5”
$200
Instagram @ameliaanneartarmadillo
Camden
My creature loves to eat garbage and waste. Its name is the E.C. (Earth Cow). It sits on mushrooms and sleeps sitting. He has wild grass hair with leaves in it. His favorite place to sit is right between the forest and the meadow. He loves to play with his friends, when he’s not sleeping. He’s also very helpful and loves to give his advice to travelers. The E.C. lives in the forests of Prince Edward but no one has discovered the E.C. and it stays hidden easily because its very fast and quiet and it’s very stealthy. Well that’s my animal, I hope you liked it.
Sarah Kindl, she/her
The E.C. Kid’s Art Walk 2023
Screenprint using Black Light and Night-Glow Ink
24in.X19in.
2023
$250 (4 Available)
Neilan
The painting of life!
My painting has a creature that has a Seahawk head.
He lives in the Big Lemon, AKA the woods.
He needs a friend and a family.
There are many mountains guarding the place.
It likes football and watching it on the NFL+ app.
The Big Lemon is a forest but it is a forest that is only in Bellingham, WA. It’s like New York.
It hunts salmon in the Nooksack.
Kelly Sorbel, he/him
Big Lemon, 2023
Acrylic ink on paper
Free to student
Coolidge
6 foot wing span, sharp beak and claws, Seattle Seahawks on side of body. Eats only fish. Helps wounded animals, races other seahawks as fast as lightning, likes to move the sea with a beat of its wings, also chases tsunamis. They lives in packs of five called Waves, on trees or mountains by the beach. It can fly at the speed of light which makes shopping trips fun. Looks stellar.
Julius Luciano, he/him
PNW Thunderbird, 2023
Acrylic and gel on canvas
24''x36''
$650
Instagram @lucianofinearts
Finn
My creature is a spider, monkey, giraffe and ox. It lives in cold places and burns easily in hot places. It is palm sized and an inch thick unless it eats 2x per serving, then it’s two inches.
Brian Drake
Untitled, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
Chauncey
My creature lives in massive sky cities. The sky cities are actually living creatures they have tamed to do their work. These creatures are much more advanced than humans, are 12 feet tall, have black, leathery, scaly skin, red eyes, and hard masks that they wear for almost everything they do. These masks have horns on them and are required in combat. They spar with small training lances and maces. Although their skills are not needed for all-out wars like humans’ are, they do need their skills to depend against pirate raids, seeing as parts of their species have gone rogue and formed pirate clans. They make clans and sky ships which they use to raid sky ships to gain more territory. Sonar, radar, and many other forms of human detection pass straight through them so they are nearly invisible to most forms of detection. Clouds often form around them so on a very cloudy day, there will be a lot in the sky.
Paul Manz, he/him
Long Way Away, 2023
Fineliner, graphite
9”x12”
$10
paul.v.manz@gmail.com
Jasper
My creature’s name is a Mini-Plato-Transparentus. It is a Duck-Billed Platypus, but the body of an octopus. The reason why scientists have not discovered it is because the only bones in its body are the feet and pinchers (half of its population is extinct.) My creature eats anything that swims and that is smaller than it. It also lives in a swampy/rainforest/mountain biome. They have a GLOB which has 4-6 Mini-Plato Transparenti. The texture of Jello but like not as moveable.
Megan Yakavonis, she/her
Gelatinous Platypus!, 2023
Digital Painting
8” x 10”
Free for Jasper!
Instagram @Volcanova_
Ernie
My creature is called a Yellow Spined Otter. It was discovered in 2049 by a French explorer. Ironically, it is not yellow or an otter- it’s not even related to an otter! Its closest living relatives are things like cats, platypi and manatees. It lives in coastal regions and Mangroves in southeast Asia, Indonesia, India, eastern China and eastern Africa. Unfortunately there are very few of them left in the wild; there are only 28 living in the Yellow River right now due to pollution and erosion. There are two main species, the Chinese Yellow Spined Otter and the Indian Yellow Spined Otter. The Chinese Yellow Spined Otter lives in coastal China and Indonesia. It has a sleek body, dark eyes and a huge powerful tail. The most common place to find them is in Mangroves. The second species is the Indian Yellow Spined Otter, it has a stockier body and bigger eyes. It can see all the way around its head. The Indian Yellow Spined Otter is a bit smaller than the Chinese Yellow Spined Otter and primarily lives on the coasts of southeastern Africa. Its main predator is the estuarine crocodile, who devour even the toughest adults. Some other animals, such as birds, may steal their eggs and eat them. A typical Spined Otter diet consists mostly of shellfish, starfish, and small land mammals such as mice. If a bird flies too close to the water they may risk being eaten by a Spined Otter. the Spined Otter has a special gland in their spines which can paralyze prey with bursts of electricity but don’t worry- it is not enough to severely injure a human. Over all, Spined Otters are a beautiful creature that is close to extinction like many other animals in this world today.
Ezra Anisman, they/them
Yellow Spined Otter feat. Crocodile, 2023
Vintage National Geographic magazines on bristol
13" x 16"
$60
Instagram/website: extra.extra.ezra
Solly
My creature is very squid-like and small. It has big eyes and yellow-see-through fins. It is a vegetarian animal and only feeds on seaweed. But there is a plant that’s disguised as seaweed and it’s a predator of the Vamprosquidious… which is its name. One other predator is the pajama shark. The Vamprosquidious is a freshwater animal. They can survive extreme environments too.
Blake Irwin, she\they
Vamprosquidious In Pursuit, 2023
Digital Media
11" x 17"
Free to student
Lucita
The Gelatinous Fuzz is a hybrid of a moon jellyfish and a chipmunk. It lives in Northern Alaska and in Siberia. There are only ten of them in the world, and they are very shy creatures, so humans have never seen them. They make nests in trees and their only mating season is one week in June, so they do not reproduce very much. These creatures will live around Birch trees and thrive off of eating the sap from these trees. These creatures sometimes befriend squirrels, and they help each other find food. They are very sanitary and will bathe themselves in the frigid North Pacific Ocean. Like squirrels, they can survive a fall from almost any height by spreading out their body and acting like a kite. These creatures can also burrow, and a select few of them make their homes underground. The Gelatinous Fuzz have very good hearing and like the chickadee can warn the forest from predators. Their bushy tails are surprisingly a very good defense because when in danger they with puff up their tail and it will grow twice as large. These creatures can grow up to one and a half feet tall, and up to five pounds. Normally their tails are one foot butt when enlarged they can grow up to two feet! The papery bark of the birch tree can serve as a brush for their tails to prevent knots. Because they are part moon jelly they have a mild sting and can injure predators enough to escape and if that does not work they can use their tail thwack. Next time your walking in the woods, take a look around you, there might be more secrets unfound.
Kade Grossarth, he/they
Gelatinous Fuzz in Action, 2023
Soft Pastel, Colored Pencil, Oil Pastel, Alcohol Marker, Paint Marker
Each card is 5.25" by 3.25"
Not for sale
Instagram @clownincursive
Liam
Krylinds are genetically related to humans and are a genetic offshoot of humans. After humans began enslaving them, their species completely vanished from humanity’s knowledge. Luckily I have been among the Krylinds for long enough for me to tell you about them. Krylinds have green skin, cat like eyes, pointy ears, and small horns. Most Krylinds have black hair, though some have green or blue hair. The Krylinds live in clans of up to 100 people not including children. Krylinds use medieval weapons like swords and bows. Another interesting fact about Krylinds is their massive tree villages and their beautiful music and songs. Their songs are filled with such purity that you will lose track of time completely when listening. All Krylinds have psychic abilities such as levitating things or telepathy. No one knows about how they do it and they’re not about to to tell you. They all are hiding in the Amazon Rain Forest. Generally, Krylinds are led by a matriarch that are the smartest and most loyal in the clan. To test this, all old enough to and wish to face a series of trials every seen years. That’s all I’ve figured out so far.
Brooke Eolande, she/her
“The Secret World of the Krylinds”, 2023
Mixed Media
12” circle
$200
Malcolm
My animal is a tortoise. Its shell is a mud and bark color. It’s legs and head is the color of a very wet pine tree. They like to swim. The tortoise can hide in the forest with ease. They live in groups and are very social.
Veronica Major
Hide and Speak Turtles, 2023
Mixed media
$40
Isabel
Shreck Sharks: Shrek Sharks are sharks that live in the land of Shreck. They are an undiscovered species because when a human finds them, they eat that person. They are extremely endangered- there are only five left. Every morning they come to the surface and grab an unsuspecting human’s leg, no mercy for the kids, and if they are seen, they have food for the next day.
Charlie Sullivan
Shark Frenzy, 2023
Mixed media
$80
Samara
Rainbow Sea Mice! :) My creatures are mice… that are rainbow! They live in an underwater town called Squeakville . The town is in the middle of the ocean and everything in it floats. The mice live pretty much like humans. They go to school, they have restaurants, they live in houses. They eat cheese. The reason they haven’t been discovered is because everytime a human comes near their town, they capture them and put them in what they call the aquarium. The aquarium is a big tank that is full of oxygen. One of the mice’s favorite activities is to go to the aquarium and watch the humans. Once the humans are captured, they then live in Squeakville for the rest of their lives. They can’t get out of the tank because they then couldn’t breathe. So they either die of old age, or if the mice working therre forget to refill their oxygen tank. I just love happy endings, don’t you?
Aireekah Laudert, she/her
“The Mayor & Their Aquarium”, 2023
Laser cut acrylic; mirror for viewing yourself in the aquarium, since you found Squeakville.
9”x11”
Gift to young artist, reproduction available for $99.99
www.glitt3rlyfe.com / Etsy, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @ Glitt3r Lyfe
Felix
A fascinating reptilian sky-dweller. Its wings do not fly, but rather, it launches itself into the air and glides at a controlled pace before reaching the ground and launching again. It is born with 8-10 food pods on its stomach that it eats every 1-2 weeks when it takes a ground break (it can stay in the air for 1-2 weeks). A group of these is called a Fawlou (pronounced like “follow”) The reason it has not been discovered is that it spends most of its time slightly above the sky’s cirrus clouds (they’re the highest clouds). It dies when it runs out of food pods. When it dies, it drops 2 million teensy weensy tiny tiny tiny eggs. But only an average of 3-4 eggs actually hatch. The eggs start growing inside the parents’ body when it hatches. This animal can live in very hot climates like Death Valley, even though it mostly stays up in cold areas of the sky. Its extreme colors fade very quickly as its life progresses. Due to the lack of both food and population, it never fights its neighbors. I call it Coloratus Skyre.
Tom Yost, he/him
Alebrije Americano, 2015-2023
Materials: steel, wood plank, cardboard, clay made of house paint and paper fiber, acrylic paint, xerox copy of original photograph.
10”x8.5”x5”
NFS
www.tomyostontheweb.com
Artist Statement:
Indigenous people in Mexico have been making alebrijes (ah lay BREE hays) since before the Spanish arrived. Alebrijes are imaginary creatures that in modern times combine 3 kinds of animals: one part from an animal that lives in the water, a part from a land animal, and a part from an animal that lives in the air.
Often alebrijes are constructed from cardboard, paper, and papier mache although they have also been made of wood and ceramic materials. This alebrije was constructed from cardboard and. aclay made from left-over paint and papar fiber. All materials were either recycled materials or materials that would have been thrown away.
This alebrije follows the tradition of using parts from 3 different creatures. In this case, the 3 creatures are: a lizard (the body and tail); a chiton (the shell); and. a human swimmer (arms and legs).
The artist likes to draw on arts from other cultures and put them in a U.S. context to bring out hidden attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs of Americans.
Noah
This creature is a mix of an Axylotl and an Anglerfish. Its prey is attracted to the light on its head, like an angler fish. Its predators are anything that can fit in its mouth. My creature travels in packs called bubbles. To trap their prey, they shoot out bubbles, drowning them! The way these creatures stay hidden is that it changes color like an octopus. Its diet is plankton and small fish. Its habitats are lakes in Japan.
Jane
My creature has a fox-like body and cat-like ears. It has a lamp-post tail and light bulb antennae, and bright blue body. It lives in the Whimsey Woods, a forest of pure terror. Everywhere you look there is panic. No one goes to the whimsy woods but if they do, a mysterious creature will appear (AKA my creature) and will lead the way out. But the fog is so strong you can’t see the creature. But that’s only if you’re good. As you see it will lead you to the underworld where demons and monsters live and you’ll be stuck there til death do us part. But that’s only when you’re bad. Other spirits and ghosts live in the forest. And some control the deepest parts of the terrorizing torture of the underworld. Sending you to murder. But the normal side isn’t controlled by demons. But instead my creature controls the forest.
Jennifer Adamson, she/her/hers
"Panic", 2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
30x40 inches
$245
Instagram @emeraldsun01
Otto
Name: Ignis Avis (latin for flame bird)
Group name: Sunder (thunder, but sun)
My creature is a giant bird with a wing span of 14 feet. It has a rounded head with strict narrow eyes that can detect living things. The eyes can also see super far and the bird doesn’t have to blink. It’s beak is like a vulture in the sense that its nose has a hole and it has great smell. Its wings have many different colors, even some that humans can’t see. The wings also can reflect sunlight so thats a reason that no one has found them. The talons are as sharp as the sharpest knife. Their tail is basically a big fan that helps cool it off. Its entire body looks like a giant flying flame. Its eggs are the color of a robin’s egg. When born, the babies are as small as a baby robin. The life span of the birds can be 50-250 years old. The babies are abandoned at 5 years old and are fully grown at 12 years. The babies’ colors are dulled compared to the adults. The bird lays eggs around the end of their life and they do it at night alone in a big nest. The bird lives in a desert. Sometimes it moves around but it normally stays in one place unless abandoning the kids. The sand dunes are huge so they can accommodate the big bird. The area usually has an oasis nearby so humans don’t pay attention to the bird. If humans see the bird, they think they’re hallucinating. The sand is a perfect yellow with a lovely temperature. The cacti are giant and very sharp with a dark green color. Its prey arre mini mice that live under the sand where it is cool and where it has mini food that they eat. The mice have an underground tunnel system with holes to the surface to get special food. The bird is the biggest in the world and you better believe it!!! -Otto
Clare Casey, they/them
Ignis Avis and It's Shadow, 2023
Paper, found object, chalk pastel, acrylic, digital drawing
17"x 11"
IG: @clare_phoria
Artist Statement: Hot sand cradles hatching eggs and contrasts shadows, stark and intricate. A shrill screech of Ignis Avis echoes like fire-light off of each grain of sand. Small mice dart to and fro. Their shadows are just behind them. A crescent moon in the eyes of the mother eagle, bringing both night and day with the fiery flap of wings.
Some desert wanderers whom stray from the oasis gaze skyward to catch a glimpse, hoping to not blind their vision and be dazzled by the blazing, flying myth. It is said that if one can catch a look at the blue flame eyes or the curve of the moon in Ignis Avis' sharp talons, you can live to be as old as the ancient creature itself. Then again... no one ever returns after seeing the Flame. Maybe, they, too, catch flight and become the bird of flame and light?
Ash
Scopulum Incarnationis (reef incarnation) is a large sea creature that lives in shallow water off the coasts of tropical places such as the Hawaiian islands. It is shiny and scaly but it spends most of its time covered in sand, disguised from snorkelers and mariners. Its diet is not balanced on krill, yett somehow it can sustain itself for up to 300 years. They have no predators, but they reproduce by themselves roughly every 200 years, rarely twice. They live solitary lives, swimming around at night and eating krill. In the morning they slowly shuffle into the sand, activating their disguise. They resemble a quartermile stingray, with an ornate coral reef on its back. It has a long, glowing tail that fades away when the morning comes. It has a large mouth on its bottom side, in between two rows of gills. Thank you for reading!
Cherlynn Faith
Untitled, 2023
Mixed media
Iker
My creature is a snake-like creature with wings, a sharp tail, and a spiny back with little sharp fins. When they’re born, they’re about 3 inches long but they can get up to about 4 feet. They like to live in the Himalayan mountains or any mountains with a lake nearby. You might see little rock creatures on my piece. Those are the rock creatures. They collect the food for the snakes. If you ever run into one of the rock creatures, don’t fight them. In 1917, explorer Rebecca Albatross found them. She grabbed a truck, went back to her village, filled the truck with resources, went back and studied the snakes for the rest of her life. She died at age 94, surrounded by the snakes. No one else has ever discovered these creatures.
Ripley Whiteside
Don't Fight the Rock Creatures, 2023
Acrylic on panel
2023
Skyler
This is a Wolflion. It is a combination of a wolf and a lion. It has a shaggy brown mane and gray fur. They also have intense ears. It has strong, built legs for running. It lives in the Caribbean. It eats giant Elk and they live inside caves. These animals live up to 15 years in age then die either of age or protecting their babies. They also have infrared vision. The reason people have not found them is because if humans come close, the Wolflion dashes away (they can run up tot 30 mph.)
Jude
My creature is sort of like a lizard. It is grayish-black and it lives in volcanoes so that’s really why the world hasn’t discovered it yet. The only time it goes outside is to hunt and get water. Why it can live in volcanoes is because its scales are fire and lava resistant and it has spikes on its back so if somebody attacked it, it could get hurt by them. It hunts with a venomous thing at the tip of its tail. It has very big hand talon things to grab onto stuff and eat it. They sometimes get attacked by bears because they hunt and get water in forests with no people so they are not seen and if you did see one (not that you will) it would probably be alone hunting in a forest.
Sarjé Haynes, she/they
Volcano Lizard, 2023
Mixed media
10”x11.5”x4”
NFS/Free to student
Instagram @sarje.haynes
Artist Statement: I had a wonderful time creating Jude’s Volcano Lizard! While I usually create abstract mixed-media work, I had a ball stretching my skills with a representation of this lovely creature. The lizard’s design is inspired by the Galápagos marine iguana. I wanted this creature to really live, so I took a sculptural approach, inviting Jude’s lizard to break the 2D plane and join us in 3D.
The lizard’s head and right arm were constructed with a 3D printing pen, EVA foam clay, and painted marbles. The entire creature is textured with crackle and glass bead gel media.
It was my hope that this creature could be enjoyed by both sighted and blind audiences. I believe art is for everyone!
I gift this completed work to Jude, without whose imagination I would not have made a delightful new friend.
Benicio
My creature is called a Pampas cat. It is a nocturnal cat. They can be any color. It lives in a bamboo forest. It loves to eat mice, rats and it likes to stalk birds. It is very secretive and it lives high up in bamboo forests but also can swim. In the winter, it can puff up its fur to help it stay warm. It lives a solitary life. Its predators are the common Bald Eagle, Vulture and Hawk, if it gets caught by surprise. It has very sharp claws, so it can defend itself against other animals that might try to eat it. It has very pointy ears to help it hear quiet sounds. It really likes to pounce from tree to tree or from bamboo stalk to bamboo stalk. It lives in a hole in a big bamboo stalk during the daytime. No one has discovered it because it is nocturnal and very secretive. The pupils of its eyes sprout lines that look like a spiderweb.
Carly Brynne Schmitt, she/her
The Wild Cat, 2023
11x8.5”
$25
Artist Statement:
My name is Carly Brynne Schmitt and I am Micaela Lieseke’s sister. I am 9 years old and go to Sheridan Elementary in Tacoma. I drew this with my sister and she made her own artwork of birds for this show. This took me about 5 hours to do, I did a sketch first, chose colors, and planned it out. It took me a long time to figure out what the paws should be doing, but I decided to have them eat a mouse. If this Pampas cat was my pet, I would name it either Ela or Spike. My sister printed this out for me so it is on glossy professional paper like she does for her art. I love to draw mainly people and landscapes. Drawing is my favorite thing ever!! Thank you.
Cynthia French, she/her
Bambi, the Pompas Cat, 2023
Fabric, thread, and stuffing, plastic eyes
Free to student
Will
My creature lives in the upper stratosphere and feeds on all available gasses up there, including methane, ozone, hydrogen, nitrogen and helium. When it eats that, it excretes around 50 times the amount it eats and helps with pollution by eating the carbon dioxide molecules. It also helps holes in the ozone like little engineers by eating ozone, flying over to a hole and pooping on it to fill it up again. Its poop is made up of the gasses it eats. Sadly, it is being endangered by the holes in the ozone because when they try to fly to it to fix it, they get fried by the sun, in the hundreds of thousands. Luckily, they reproduce much faster than they get fried. They do not have any gender. They can automatically produce their offspring after they’ve eaten enough gasses. They eat about 100 pounds a second. They make millions of new ones to start a new life. Some of them get fried but trillions more survive, thus they have survived the holes in the ozone…. so far. They’re also becoming endangered because of rockets flying through the stratosphere. When they try to eat the gas coming out of the engine, they get fried by the exhaust and those that don’t get sucked into the engine get shredded. They also have a tendency to fly onto clouds and eat the high amounts of oxygen there. Clouds that appear stretched out have been exhausted by their constant eating. High flying planes come down with colonies of quadrillions of them living in colonies all over the plane. The exhaust from the plane is not as volatile as rocket exhaust so they don’t get fried, they just eat it. Birds have also returned with millions of them living on their feathers, feeding on bits of fish or food that fly out of their beaks and bits of their excretion. They also eat germs and parasites that are on the baby birds, that might make them sick. They congregate in septillions above freeways, as the exhaust is not as volatile as rocket fuel so they won’t get shredded. Their colonies there greatly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that gets to the atmosphere. They also congregate in massive numbers above neighborhoods, feeding on worms, fumes from cars, parasites, smoke from chimneys and some of them have managed to even find their way underground, forming large colonies as they go, feeding on bat guano and sulphur, plus all sorts of other rock minerals found down there. They thus have contributed a ton to the earth’s health and they constantly work to slow down climate change and prevent that awful smell from car exhaust from reaching your nose.
Yin Dwyer
Monster Mash, 2023
Fabric, embroidery floss, and sequoia branch
28”x10”
@youcancallmeyin
$350
Charlotte Powell
My creature can live in the air and on land and also it can live wherever demons live, and underwater. It can transform into a mermaid, a devil and some sort of thing that has wings. Their diet changes depending on what form they’re in. The devil eats deviled eggs, the mermaid eats coral and seaweed, and the thing with wings eats jalapeños and hot sauce. They travel in groups. Humans are their main enemies- they know about humans but humans don’t know about them. They hide from humans because they pollute and because they look weird (in their opinion.)
Guinevere Johnson, she/her
Feast of Three, 2023
Mixed media - collage, acrylic, ink, ModPodge
9x12"
$75
Instagram @cherryflavoredpaint
Leeya
You will find this underwater cactus in shallow salt water with warm water surrounded by other seaweed and coral. This plant is two inches tall. It communicates with other plants by blowing bubbles of different sizes and shapes. They have long roots that go 7-8 feet deep. The way it protects itself is by blowing bubbles in its predators’ face. They’re the right size and shape, when they pop they reproduce. Also other seaweeds and corals know when there’s that type of bubble it means there’s danger around. Now remember, don’t go near too many bubbles in your face.
