Today would have been my Grandma’s 78th birthday. Happy Birthday Nana! 

Here’s a submission from chef/owner Matt Janke of restaurant Lecosho, SAM’s neighbor on Harbor Steps. His grandma wasn’t kidding around in 1912.

- Maria Bouvet via Lecosho Chef/Owner Matt Janke

Alex, my best friend for over 30 years has always encouraged me to be the artist and friend I always hoped I could be. A friends like this is SO are hard to find. Thank you Alex.

- Diana Kingsley-Artist

My mom is a health coach who moved away from the PNW last year. We miss her a lot! We were able to visit my parents in Virginia this summer, and here are my two favorite women, making healthy smoothies together.

-Hafidha Acuay Osuna

My Mom, Priscilla, in her United Airlines flight attendant uniform in the 60s. My Mom wanted to see the world and left her small, South Dakotah farm town to do just that.

-Noelle Sierra Smithhart

Twins Zoe & Kathryn.

-Claire Cundiff

My daughter Alice playing on Capitol Hill in the snow

-Dylan Markman

An amazing artist who always has a hug and a helping hand for those in need.

-Jacki Robbins

The look in bride’s eyes reveals the connection to generations of women before her, and to women everywhere. Every woman is a woman that matters to me.

- Mariana Tomas

My best friend, Carolyn, and my oldest sister, Tina, have both helped shaped all (…maybe not all!) the things I do and love.

- Linda Hanlon

The Two Women in Sunglasses have been my friends for 45 years we met living on a cul de sac in Southern California they taught me how to Count change at the ice cream truck, how to ride a bicycle, how to swim, but mot importantly how people can remain friends and Love You for who You are past who You keep thinking You should be ♥

- IndianLola Escalante

This is my mother, Suzanne Wolfe. She is a brilliant fiction writer and Literature professor at Seattle Pacific University. She has always been my biggest supporter and inspiration to be bold and never give up as a contemporary female visual artist.

- Helena Wolfe

Mom at age 18/19 back in the former Yugoslavia.

- Vedada Sirovica

Aug. 2011 Mary Ruth Amack (1928 - 2012)