Lindsey Dalthorp is a photographer, artist, curator, and educator based in Seattle, Washington. She works primarily with historical cameras and alternative processes on paper, incorporating natural elements and collected items into her work while exploring a sense of connection with nature, history, ancestry and memory. Each work she makes is a conversation with time, a collaboration with the tension and reciprocity of the natural and man-made worlds, and a recognition of the interconnectedness of our stories.
Lindsey received her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and Art from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her studies included extended time living abroad in Oaxaca and Mexico City, studying photography, history and political economy while working with community-based organizations on issues of responsible tourism, representation, education and economic justice. Her work has been published by Works in Progress, Borderline Press, Qué Pasa Oaxaca, and the Washington Post, and has more recently appeared on the walls of the Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, as well as various other exhibition spaces across Olympia and Seattle.
Lindsey is the Lead Curator and Founding Director at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, and is currently pursuing further education in photography and art at the Photographic Center Northwest and Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. In addition, she coordinates community events and public art projects for the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project, in partnership with the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice.
EXHIBITIONS
June 2026 | "Life on the Border". Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery, Olympia, Washington.
A multimedia art installation exploring the ways in which the militarized fence that has been constructed by the U.S. along its southern border with Mexico affects the physical and psychological experiences of the people and communities who live in its shadow. Curated in collaboration with Monty Montgomery, student at the Evergreen State College, who grew up in the border town of Naco, Arizona/Sonora.
August 2025 | Collective Exhibition, Quotation / Myth". Thurston County Museum of Art, Olympia, Washington.
"QUOTATION/MYTH is an examination of photographic image-making in the 21st century. Through the works of seven Washington-based photographers, we discover and question the stories and ideas uniquely defined by the medium of photography. Through a plethora of prints, objects, and mixed media presentations, explore the nuanced and ever-changing truths and fictions invented and presented by photographic images."
April 2025 | Collective Exhibition, "Labyrinths". Thurston County Museum of Art, Olympia, Washington.
Featuring works by over 28 artists working across a wide variety of mediums and exploring the symbolic and literal manifestations of the labyrinth. "The labyrinth is a symbol of mysticism and revelation dating back millennia and encountered all over the world. A labyrinth can both represent and facilitate humanity's highest impulses: self discovery, rumination, meditation and reflexive cognition. It can also symbolize the agonizing triviality of mortality, an unrelenting march towards an inevitable end."
July 2023 | Solo Exhibition, "Solar Flare". Ridgecrest Public House, Shoreline, Washington.
An exhibition of cyanotype prints on canvas, evoking the opposing elements of fire and water. Both elements are essential to life on earth, and simultaneously hold the power to destroy it – as the planet warms and climates change, over and under exposure to both these elements pose greater and greater risk. Through the creation of these prints I was exploring that point of tension and balance between the natural and man-made worlds, capable of producing such beauty from its unpredictability.
June 2022 | Solo Exhibition, Untitled (Capstone). Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery, Olympia, Washington.
A collection of photographs alongside collected works, created and gathered during my time as an Undergraduate student at the Evergreen State College, traveling countless times to, from and between Olympia, Oaxaca, and Mexico City. Each piece represented an important aspect of my learning, while the exhibition as a whole honored the individuals and communities who supported and influenced my education along the way.
May 2017 | Solo Exhibition, "A Border of Tulips". Burial Grounds Cafe, Olympia, Washington.
An exhibition of photographs from my first study abroad in Oaxaca and Chiapas, México, shown beside images of my hometown of Olympia. The exhibition merged the experiences of two very different parts of the world, drawing connections across borders of geography, language, and culture, which I was actively attempting to reconcile within myself at the time. The title makes reference to an example given in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary description of the uses of the word "border": one is a barrier that separates land, people, and societies, often militarized and weaponized by governments to control the movement of people and goods, while the other refers to a boundary, or edge, such as "a border of tulips" in a garden.
CURATORIAL
June 2026 | "Life on the Border"
A multimedia art installation exploring the ways in which the militarized fence that has been constructed by the U.S. along its southern border with Mexico affects the physical and psychological experiences of the people and communities who live in its shadow. Curated in collaboration with Monty Montgomery, student at the Evergreen State College, who grew up in the border town of Naco, Arizona/Sonora.
April 2026 | "Borderlands" for Olympia Arts Walk.
Held at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington. An exhibition exploring ways in which the lives of people, their families, and entire communities are affected by the militarization of political borders around the world–from the U.S. border with Mexico to Israel and Palestine. Curated from the permanent collection of the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery.
April & June 2025 | "Redefining Home : Volume I and II".
A two-part multimedia art installation exploring the connection to land and home in Palestine and beyond, featuring original photographs by Shoshana Cohen, made in Jenin, Palestine during the first Intifada (summer and fall 1990), and depicting the daily lives of children under Israeli occupation. Curated in collaboration with the daughter of the artist, Libi Cohen Ben-Yoar, student at the Evergreen State College.
April 2024 | Collective Exhibition and Fundraiser for the Middle East Children's Alliance, "Art for Gaza".
Held at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington. The exhibition called attention to the sister-city relationship between Olympia and Rafah, in Gaza, Palestine, by exhibiting the work of artists from both locations, harnessing the power of art to draw connections across great geographic, cultural, linguistic, and experiential borders.
October 2022 | "Olympia's Hidden Histories".
An exhibition of historical and contemporary photographs, as well as paintings and mixed-media pieces representing the downtown Olympia area history, as it relates to the first series of virtual walking tours of the same name. The tours were created by students at the Evergreen State College, in partnership with Art Forces and members of the community, and were sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Thurston County Historical Commission. Held at the Art Forces Peacemaker Gallery in Olympia, Washington.
EDUCATION
Expected June 2028 | Certificate of Photography (Alternative Processes, History of Photography)
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
June 2022 | Bachelor of Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Photography, Latin American History)
Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
June 2017 | Early studies in Art, Humanities, Early Childhood Education
South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Washington
EDITORIAL
"Juntas Somos Todas / Together We Are All: International Women's Day Protests in Mexico & the continued issue
of domestic violence during Coronavirus lockdowns", by Amanda Zavala and Lindsey Dalthorp. Photographs from the 8 de Marzo protest march in Oaxaca de Juárez, March 2020. Published in Works in Progress, June 2020. olywip.org
"Vida Nueva: Creating opportunities for Zapotec Women through tradition, education & community", Teotitlán
del Valle, Oaxaca". Photographs from Alternatives & Resistance to Global Capitalism: Mexico, U.S. & beyond, study abroad with the Evergreen State College in Oaxaca & Chiapas, Mexico, Spring 2018.
Published May 2020. lindseydalthorp.com/projects
"Wind, Breath, Sacred Life Force: Spanish wind farms on indigenous land", Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca.
Photographs from Alternatives & Resistance to Global Capitalism: Mexico, U.S. & beyond, study abroad with the Evergreen State College, in Oaxaca & Chiapas, Mexico, Spring 2018. Self-Published April 2020. lindseydalthorp.com/projects
"Ecosta Yuyu Cuii: Ecological conservation & community development on the Oaxacan coast", Río Grande,
Oaxaca. Photographs from Alternatives & Resistance to Global Capitalism: Mexico, U.S. & beyond, study abroad with the Evergreen State College, in Oaxaca & Chiapas, Mexico, Spring 2018. Self-Published March 2020. lindseydalthorp.com/projects
"Anti-fracking activists and anarchists are blocking rail tracks in Olympia", article by Kyle Swenson, photographs
by Lindsey Dalthorp. Published November 29, 2017, by The Washington Post.