The Art of Parties - The Tasty Years
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The Art & Music Avant Garde - Seattle After Hours 1990-2000
The end of the 20th century was a special time in Seattle — a creative era when the city was affordable and radiating with experimental energy. An underground ecosystem of collaborative artists and producers was emerging. We founded the Tasty Shows collective during this time, when queer and straight scenes collided to spark something entirely new: a world where drag queens, DJs, and dreamers transformed dance floors into living art.
It explores Seattle’s art and music underground of the late ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s — a time when Drag Mutation collided with Conceptual Art, Music of every genre and the early Internet.
Featuring archival photos, original poster and flyer art, and stories from the people who built one of the most inclusive, experimental, and genre-bending creative movements in the Pacific Northwest, The Art of Parties is both a love letter and a time capsule of a unique era that simply cannot be repeated.
Publishing early 2026. Only 1,000 copies will be printed. Reserve your copy today and celebrate a piece of Seattle’s cultural history.
Neverstop Publications
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KAWS C10
Paintings by KAWS, foreword by Carlo McCormick Michelin, the Simpsons, Mickey, Astroboy and Miffy all fall victim to KAWS in C10, the third publication from the Brooklyn based artist.
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KAWS EXPOSED
Published as a collaboration between the gallery at ARO.space and Colette in Paris to accompany shows in Seattle and Paris. The book features KAWS's early work from the 1990s — his appropriation and intervention of advertising material, cleverly reworked with variations of his hallmark skull and crossbones.
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Free Activation Series Vol. 1–3
Published to accompany a touring exhibition curated by Neverstop, Free Activation Series Vol. 3 documents a collaboration between neo-graffiti artists and Northwest Coast Native craftsmen — two traditions rooted in iconographic visual language, separated by centuries but sharing a commitment to symbol, repetition, and meaning.
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Identical
A portrait series exploring the space between two people who share a face. Sorum photographed twins in New York and Los Angeles, and on location at twins festivals in Twinsburg, Ohio and Lake Tahoe, Nevada — capturing what connects them and what distinguishes them.
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Hard Times
A monthly zine and weekly club night launched in 2009 as a response to the post-crash malaise in Seattle's queer arts scene.
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Habana Hip Hop
"Revolution in Cuba has a name and it's hip hop." - Junior Clan
The first complete retrospective of Cuban hip hop - a movement raised on free education, zero MTV, and years of fighting for legitimacy. Once illegal, Cuban rap earned its way into the establishment through persistence: an obstinate youth outlasting a concerned government.
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The Art of Parties - The Tasty Years
The Art of Parties chronicles Seattle’s late-’80s through early-2000s underground, when drag, DJs, conceptual art, and the early Internet collided to spark one of the Pacific Northwest’s most inclusive and experimental creative movements. Featuring archival photos, original flyer art, and firsthand stories, it serves as both a love letter and a time capsule of an era that can’t be recreated.
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HEAVY Vol. 1 & 2
A two-volume multimedia tribute to rock 'n' roll, co-published with Manhattan creative collective Alife.
Fifty-six artists reinterpreted classic rock album covers. Emerging recording artists contributed new music. Writers delivered rock-inspired fiction. The project revisits three pillars of rock 'n' roll's cultural impact - music, packaging, and writing - bound into two 12×12 softcover volumes with accompanying vinyl.
