Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events for Capitol Hill Art Walk. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for the December 12 edition. But, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the new shows you shouldn't miss, like 'Scapes and Peter Ferguson: Skip Forward When Held. Follow the links for more details and images, and check out our complete visual art calendar for even more events, including the shows still on view from the Pioneer Square Art Walk. Plus, check out more recommended happenings on Capitol Hill for Thursday, including Depression Fest.

'Scapes
The Totally Legit techno-art collective, joined by some friends, uses virtual and analog art to play with reality, color, and volume, with a special virtual reality painting installation by Nathan DiPietro called Bouquet Symmetry. Magic and biology meld to transform ordinary objects into glowing objets d'art.
Vermillion

13th Annual Holiday Mini Art Exhibit
Pay the Capitol Hill gallery a visit for its 13th annual holiday mini art exhibition, where you can choose from hundreds of 10"-by-10"-or-smaller works by locals and artists farther afield.
Ghost Gallery

Holiday Pop-up
Buy zines, stickers, stickers, prints, and more from cool, queer underground presses, distributors, and artists like Emerald City Distro, Push/Pull, Max Clotfelder, Jon Garaizar, Amy Beardemphl, and Travis Rommereim.
Zero Zero Hair

Jen Tucker: Feel It In My Bones
In thoughtful watercolor and mixed media, Jen Tucker explores physical manifestations of emotions and intuition in the body.
Joe Bar

Jewels Foster Rogers, Carmen Cano
Seattle-based, Madrid-born and trained Carmen Cano paints ghostly yet sensual paintings which focus on women, symbols, archetypes, the elements, and natural imagery. Her art will hang alongside Rogers's esoteric charcoal/paint portraits.
Ritual

Peter Ferguson: Skip Forward When Held
Peter Ferguson, a Roq la Rue regular, paints rich, imaginative, warmly hued pop surrealist works that evoke Northern Renaissance strangeness, Boschian creatures, and fin-de-siècle magic. JOULE ZELMAN
Roq la Rue

Scream for Queer Art! Special Holiday Market
This pop-up gallery will return to showcase an array of art and hand-crafted wares by queer artists and makers from the Seattle area.
Scream Seattle

There is more to safer sex than condoms
Facing government neglect in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, gay men formed safer sex education societies like CORE in West Hollywood. This fetish shop art exhibition displays some of CORE's explicit, photographic posters that promoted safer sex practices in the '90s. The posters will even be on sale, with a portion of proceeds benefitting PEER Seattle, so maybe you'll find an unusual gift for a special someone.
Doghouse Leathers

Yules & Mules
Need a handmade trophy from Colleen Louise Barry or a White Claw seltzer acrylic painting by Genevieve St. Croix? Your holiday shopping will be blessed at this local market of quirky artists, also including Brandon Vosika, Brittany Kusa, and Mary Anne Carter. Also featuring Moscow mules!
The Factory