Brangien Davis

Brangien Davis is the arts and culture editor at Cascade PBS, where she hosts the series Art by Northwest and writes the weekly Art x NW newsletter.

Latest work

Three Indigenous masks hanging on a walls in a side-by-side image. Each features Formline markings and long horsehair adornment.

Culture

Art x NW: At the Frye, Indigenous spirits haunt elaborate masks

Plus, eerie arts events — from surreal paintings to ceramic goblins — at museums and galleries from Tacoma to Seattle.

Brangien Davis • Oct 30, 2025

Photo of the Pacific Science Center entry gates with signage and white arches against a blue sky.

Culture

Art x NW: Pacific Science Center reopens with a spider infestation

The historic building’s courtyard is now open to the public daily. Plus, new music and movement shows across the city.

Brangien Davis • Oct 23, 2025

What looks like a stained glass windown with 12 panes depicting blue animals in a fantastical scene.

Culture

Art x NW: ‘Refract’ festival reveals Seattle’s heart of glass

Plus, local theaters present farce and fantasy from ‘Penzance’ to ‘Brigadoon,’ and SIFF Egyptian announces its closure, among other arts venue changes.

Brangien Davis • Oct 16, 2025

A man in glasses and a black t-shirt carves into a woodblock at a printing press studio.

Culture

Art by NW: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano carves bold explorations of home

The Venezuela-born, Spokane-based artist makes intricate woodblock prints, and is building printmaking communities both local and global.

Brangien Davis • Oct 3, 2025

Two pink and turquoise walled gallery rooms with intricately carved installations that case shadows all over the walls.

Culture

Art x NW: Finding respite from the darkness in Seattle arts spaces

Plus, the season finale of ‘Art by Northwest’ features a Caracas-born, Spokane-based artist whose woodblock prints conjure the many meanings of home.

Brangien Davis • Oct 2, 2025