Push/Pull

Push/Pull's Mission:

- Promote underground art and comics
- Foster community between those creating and viewing art
- Encourage emerging artists, illustrators and cartoonists
- Innovate the way art is consumed by presenting it in a unique environment and with nontraditional events
- Stimulate Diversity by actively seeking out marginalized and under-represented artists

Underground art is work that challenges the viewer to feel something, to think about something. It's art that is made by professionals that learned all the rules about making art and then broke them. It's art that is made by professionals that never learned any of the rules about making art and made it up as they went along. It's creepy, weird, controversial, strange. Push/Pull exists to show the alternative possibility of what an art collective can be.

Push/Pull's non-profit programming includes our free teen art program, featuring professional-level instruction and open studio hours for youth. Push/Pull is also the parent company of Bal-Art, a not-for-profit, community-focused arts and events program in Ballard (more info at bal-art.org).