Ian Ross is a prolific muralist, installation artist, and painter. Ross is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist whose love of the natural world deeply influences his practice. Born and raised in Marin County, he draws from his meditative, solitary experiences in Northern California’s forests and beaches to inform his signature approach to abstract imagery. Ross’s background in ceramic sculpture comes through in his painting style. Similarly to the way he works with clay, he paints with gestural marks that respond the medium’s tactile qualities. Whether working on a canvas,…

Earl Funk has been an artist for as long as he can remember and started tattooing in 2002. He’s summed up his artistic career with a haiku: “Last night was drawing; Today I'll paint or tattoo; Tonight I'll draw more.”

Earl gave us some cool insight about his background and artistic process.

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My name is Earl Funk, it’s my real name -…

Sophie Roach is a self-taught artist splitting time between her hometown of Austin, TX as well as Brooklyn, NY. By using familiar shapes, patterns, and her own intuition, she has created a unique visual language based on spontaneity and rhythm. Her abstract style is playful yet austere, extremely detailed and often vibrantly colored. In addition to showing her drawings in the fine art realm, her patterns have been applied to a variety of surfaces for commercial projects.…

This spring we tapped the shoulder of a few of our favorite artists across America to take part in the first installment of our art program, Mischief Makers. We partnered with artists from Austin, New York, Orlando, San Francisco and Seattle – and asked them to mischievously interpret, through their own creative lens, the artwork from two of our favorite beers, Space Dust IPA and Dayglow IPA.

In April, each of these artists came to Seattle for an immersive crash course in our culture. They met with our founders, our brewers and our design team to learn how the brewery has been creating its own mischief for the past 22 years. For added inspiration, they also sampled a lot of our beer. Afterwards, they…