Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for May's event, but, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the things you shouldn't miss. Follow the links for more details and images, and, if you can't make it out tonight, check out our complete visual art calendar for even more events.

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Akira Ohiso
Writer, blogger, and artist Ohiso will show mixed media works combining photography and illustration inspired by Seattle sights. The colors are lovely, and the examination of enduring neighborhood institutions and gentrification is bittersweet.
Front Seat

All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party
This exhibition of photographs, from Michelle Dunn Marsh and Negarra A. Kudumu's 2016 book of the same title, undermines the popular idea that the Black Panther aesthetic was limited to "gun-toting, well-dressed black men with berets and gun-toting, well-dressed women with Afros." Contemporary photographers and visual artists—including locals like Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes and Christopher Paul Jordan, as well as nationally celebrated figures like Endia Beal and Carrie Mae Weems—flesh out themes of black identity, anti-racist resistance, and cultural, spiritual, and intellectual iconographies that reach far beyond surface-level militant chic. Through art, the curators hope to turn our focus to the Black Panther Party's cultural and societal ambitions and demands: freedom, justice, shelter, education, employment, and safety from police violence. Gain a more cogent appreciation of how aesthetic beauty can strengthen the art of protest. JOULE ZELMAN
Photographic Center Northwest

Art // Action: A Fundraiser for Reproductive Rights
Stop in to hear about the state of reproductive rights from Representative Nicole Macri, browse some art by Mari Shibuya and others, drink some wine, and donate to NARAL Pro-Choice Washington Political Action Committee.
Generations

A Daft Affair (Une Affaire Stupide)
Exult in art, light, beer, and EDM with Shoopolish and Friends, DJ dStarr, and artists Lucien Vedego/Axi-Ohm and William Lister.
Fred Wildlife Refuge

Kids/No Kids with Sheila Heti
Some of Seattle's most thoughtful artists, performers, and writers will muse on the choice to have or refrain from having children. The organizers write, "Half of the visual artists and performers in this show have kids, and half do not." Toronto's Sheila Heti, whose book Motherhood has just been published, will be a special guest. As Christopher Frizzelle (who will be performing) has described it, Motherhood addresses the question: "Can a woman make books instead of making children? Can art be her output, instead of human beings?" Heti will feature alonside Christi Cruz, Angela Garbes, Ken Jarvey, Sara Jinks, Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo, OK SWEETHEART, Lisa Prank, Anastacia Reneé, Sarah Rudinoff, and the Stranger's own Uh-Oh, and you can admire visual art by John Atkins, Aaron Bagley, Jessixa Bagley, Michael Colasurdo, Jeff Gardner, Marie Hausauer, Craig Kundiff, Brittany Kusa, Amanda Manitach, Timothy Rysdyke, Tara Thomas, Joey Veltkamp, and Jennifer Zwick.
The Factory

Le Carnaval Des Animaux
This group show features work by diverse artists inspired by the animal world, including pieces by accomplished surrealists and hyperrealists like Peter Ferguson, Travis Louie, Josie Morway, Scott Musgrove, Kari-Lise Alexander, Lola, Jim Blanchard, Jessica McCourt, and others.
Creatura

REVOLVE!
This exhibition is a celebration of the numinous and imaginary, with work by Michelle Anderst, Patricia Ariel, Carrie Ann Baade, Oliver Benson, Marlene Seven Bremner, Kim Evans, William Fahey, Don Farrell, Dean Fleming, Meesha Goldberg, Mark Henson, Martina Hoffmann, Brigid Marlin, Patrick McGrath Muñiz, Otto Rapp, Anthony Santella, Roku Sasaki, Carol Spicuzza, Miguel Tio, and Liba WS. During the Art Walk, enjoy DJ'ing by Beat Hussy.
True Love

Sean Gallagher: Loud Seas & Warm Lands
Fully titled Loud Seas and Warm Lands: Adapting to Changes in the Arctic and made using traditional tools, Sean Gallagher's show explores Arctic life, human and animal, in the anthropogenic age, as well as the fight for climate justice.
Vermillion

A Sense of Space: Tuan Nguyen and Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown, Tuan Nguyen, and Camden Bailey will reveal different aspects of the art of sculpture, "removing, replacing, adding, judging, or disrupting an object or moment in time." Explore the possibilties of "error" in art.
Amandine Bakeshop


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