The Apothecary
COMMUNITY IS OUR MEDICINE
Monday, Wednesday-Friday: 10AM-4PM
Tuesday, Saturday & Sunday: Closed
The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective is a welcoming, street-level space in Pioneer Square designed to foster community, creativity, and healing. We stock items to help support your daily rituals, growth, and grounding.
A Place to Gather
Our space is oriented around a communal table and our guiding mantra is "Community is our medicine.” Our vision is to steward an inclusive gathering place where people connect through shared experiences of beauty, creativity, and communion. We host Artists as a part of Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk as well as community events and classes.
Call for Art
P.S. We Love You —a love letter to one of Seattle's most enduring creative neighborhoods.
September 3 - October 30 2026
Shelterwood Collective invites artists to submit work inspired by Pioneer Square: its history, architecture, artists, streets, and the countless stories embedded within them. This exhibition is a celebration of the place built on its own foundation that has long nurtured creativity and continues to reinvent itself.
Since 1981, Pioneer Square has been home to the nation's longest-running monthly First Thursday Art Walk, creating a lasting tradition of artistic exchange and community. This year, the neighborhood reached another milestone when it was officially designated Washington State's 25th Creative District by ArtsWA.
We welcome work that explores the many layers of Pioneer Square, including themes such as:
* Beauty and grit
* Community, resilience, and resistance
* Memory, transformation, and historic preservation
* Renaissance, renewal, and reinvention
* The people, places, and creative spirit that continue to shape the neighborhood
All visual media are encouraged, including but not limited to painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, and printmaking.
P.S. We Love You celebrates Pioneer Square's enduring legacy as a place where people gather, histories overlap, and creativity persists. Whether your work reflects a personal connection, a historical perspective, or an imagined future, we invite you to join this love letter to a neighborhood that has inspired generations of artists.
Please submit artwork to Johanna Christianson by August 14 via email johanna@shelterwoodcollective.com. Applicants will be notified of selection by August 21. Art must be dropped off between August 26-28 to Shelterwood Collective in Pioneer Square: 108 S Jackson St.
On View:
Chrysalis
a solo Exhibition
May 7 - July 31
Chrysalis is group exhibition, featuring work by Austyn McCall, Serrah Russell, Soo Hong, and Sarah Kelley, centering around the delicate, often unseen moments of transition, thresholds crossed quietly, identities loosened and remade, forms still in the process of becoming.
Held in the heart of spring, Chrysalis unfolds alongside a season of unfurling. The world around us stirs, buds open, light stretching longer, the insistence of growth pressing through soil and skin alike. What was dormant begins to move. What was hidden begins to show itself.
These works dwell in that liminal space, not what was, not yet what will be. They trace the tension and tenderness of transformation, the vulnerability of emergence, the uncertainty of change, and the resilience required to inhabit both. Like the chrysalis itself, this exhibition holds a kind of suspended magic, a container for dissolution and reformation, for shedding and reimagining.
As the season shifts, so too do we, again and again, called to awaken, to open, to become.
Let’s Collaborate
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