Featuring Filipinx artists & businesses in our Shop
Holidaze 2020 Gift Guide
This year, we pivoted our business into a grab-and-go cafe with retail shop including arts and crafts from local Filipinx and Asian Pacific Islander-identified artists and small businesses. Visit the cafe (504 5th Avenue S, Suite 107A) in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District and shop small locally this holiday season.
ANNSISTARS Art + ADORNMENT
Mayann is a metalsmith and jewelry creator for Annsistars Art & Adornment, an arts collaborative with her sister Leeann. Her designs reflect a distinct influence of ancient themes & symbols inspired by her Filipino heritage, while the metal details add a modernist, futuristic aesthetic. She works in traditional metals of brass, bronze, silver and gold.
JEN SORIANO
My name is Jen Soriano (she~they~siya), I’m a second generation Filipinx-American who loves and works as a mama, a writer, and a social justice movement builder. Originally from Chicago, I came up as a political activist in Oakland and San Francisco, through Philippine human rights work and the multi-racial youth movement of the 2000s. I’ve been a musician and racial justice communications strategist for years now, and when my husband and I moved to Seattle in 2014 to be closer to immediate family, I finally gave myself permission to write.
In the spirit of kapwa, I’ll be donating proceeds from every chapbook to The Puget Sound COVID-19 Survival Fund for the People, FANHS, and the Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle.
LIVED INSPIRED JEWELRY
I’m Michelle Moises, I go by she/hers and I’m a self-taught jewelry designer residing in occupied Duwamish territory. In 2015, I launched my brand Live Inspired Jewelry and jewelry design quickly became my passion. Growing up in Hawaii, visiting my native homeland, the Philippines, and studying abroad in places such as Tahiti, Fiji, and Samoa sparked a deep connection with the Pacific which is why I use materials that remind me of these islands.
Raychelle Duazo
Raychelle Duazo (Ray-shell Dwah-so, she/her) is a queer femme Filipina-American illustrator & tattoo artist based in Seattle. She aims to combine dreamy aesthetics, vibrant colors, and cultural significance to both her tattoo & illustrative work. Her focus, as an artist, includes, but is not limited to: queer identity, language, floral symbolism, composition, pops of color, color contrast, love, visibility, transformative grief, diaspora, and cultural context.
Derek Dizon
Derek Orbiso Dizon is a Filipino American multidisciplinary artist and social worker residing on occupied Duwamish Territory. Much of Derek’s creative works revolve around his path of navigating mourning and remembrance. He uses mediums of storytelling, illustration, and installation, as ritual to keep alive memories of love that have passed on. Grief is a natural response to any type of death and it is through this portal of loss that we form meaning. Derek creates art that companions the griever, who everyday survives death over and over again.
KAREN BLANQUART
Hello, my name is Karen Blanquart. I’m a visual artist, illustrator, and designer of small goods. I’ve always had a soft spot for all things 60’s and 70’s music, fashion, and pop culture. This crush of mine happily found its way into the digital illustration art and design of Signs and Wonders Art Goods. I love to tell stories in my work, from capturing dreamlike experiences in nature to exploring what made me who I am through the lens of family and culture. Stories can be the magic catalyst for human connection and a reminder that we can still find wonder in the smallest of things.
NINANG NUNU
Ninang Nunu is a line of stickers, prints and stationery designed by Tammy Vince Cruz. The line was born from a continuing journey of self-acceptance and love for Tammy's Filipino heritage and culture. You'll find hints of 80s and 90s nostalgia, and pop culture from both the United States and the Philippines. It's presented with humor, as a means to heal a widely dispersed diaspora via laughter; it's comforting if you "get" it.
DEVIN CABANILLA
Devin Israel Cabanilla is an advocate for inclusive history and equity in local institutions. His family is in it's 5th generation in Seattle. He is a local board officer & public historian of the Filipino American National Historical Society. Pre-pandemic he hosted multiple mahjong lesson parties in the community. Some of his recent community initiatives include kicking off the discrimination prevention campaign for Coronavirus Asian Stigma with King County Public Health. In 2017 he drove civic legislation in recognition of Seattle's historic Filipino Town as founder of the Filipino Town Coalition. In 2019 he was a fellow proponent for permanent recognition of Filipino American History Month by the State of WA. He has also been an advisor on the Redlining project at the Wing Luke Museum. Devin is a frequent speaker on Asian Pacific American issues, and organizes public events around American Ethnic history and social justice topics.
ALEXA VILLANUEVA
Coming soon
Niki Waters
Niki Waters is a Filipino-American artist who grew up internationally and spent most of her formative years in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Laguna, Philippines. She currently resides in Vallejo, California. Her most recent work is a tribute to her childhood in the Philippines. Niki’s memories of her homeland are rose-tinted, and she strives to portray this feeling in her work. Niki has shown her work in various art shows throughout California and has illustrated for companies such as Vox, College Humor, and Blackout Comix.
Janelle Quibuyen
Coming soon
Visit the shop at 504 5th Avenue South, Suite 107A in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District!
We are open for walk-ins Thursday-Saturday 11am-4pm and by pre-order appointments on Wednesdays 11am-4pm.