House of Un-American Activities and RESIST by Gabi Clayton, 06-01-2025

I first created “House of Un-American Activities on 02-06-2017” (see below) – less than three weeks into the first presidential term of Donald Trump. I updated it yesterday, June 1, 2025, for the ‘No Kings’ protest on June 14, 2025 and beyond. It is now on my Redbubble shop on t-shirts, coffee cups, and more …

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About Viewing ‘Original’ Art

When I shared this image on Facebook on November 16, 2024, Alec commented: The expressive lines at the top show up more clearly in the original than here. But if she chooses to print it she can control the color and contrast.
I responded: Regarding the ‘original,’ my art is created digitally and every screen and monitor has its own settings of hue and saturation and contrast and value …

Join Us for the Claytons’ Art and Book Sale – December 16 and 17, 2023

We’re having a studio art and book sale at our home/office/studio in Olympia, Washington on the weekend of December 16 and 17.  We hope you will join us! We’ve recently been hit hard with home repairs—everything hitting all at once— a new roof, new gutters, replacing a furnace and electrical panel, cleaning ductwork, adding insulation, …

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In an Empty Green Room

In an Empty Green Room – by Gabi Clayton there are times now when I recognize that I have forgotten you spaces now where you are absent even in the everyday minutiae until my finger brushes against the tag from the crematorium kept in the same glass tray I keep earrings in and I recognize once again that you will always be seventeen you …

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Alec Clayton’s got big stuff happening and you’re invited!

A Six Person Art Exhibit! AZUL CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS IN PRIMARY BLUE MOOD Join us for the Artist Reception Thursday Jan. 17, 5-9 p.m. B2 Gallery 711 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA www.b2finearts.com The show runs through March 2nd. __________________________ Dramatic readings from his newest novel Return to Freedom Readings at bookstores in Olympia and Tacoma …

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A local public television station and a PFLAG-Olympia screening of the documentary “Two Spirits” – Sexuality, Gender, and the Murder of Fred Martinez

The documentary “Two Spirits” explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender. Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied boy with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his Navajo culture. Martinez was brutally murdered at 16 in Cortez, Colorado in 2001. “Two …

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Exciting event! A Reading of Alec’s Screenplay.

The staged reading of Alec’s screenplay “The Backside of Nowhere” based on the book by the same title is Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:30pm – 9:30pm. Lakewood Playhouse5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd.Lakewood, Washington It is a one night only free event. The screenplay is for a full length feature film. It is being directed by …

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Bullying: Breaking The Cycle – a documentary Alec and I were in – is now online

Alec and I were in a KIRO 7 (Seattle) Family Connection Special Presentation documentary, Bullying: Breaking The Cycle, which aired on March 17 and March 26, 2011. It can now be watched online in four segments: Segment 1, Segment 2, Segment 3, and Segment 4. Those segments are all linked from this page: http://www.kirotv.com/bullying/if you …

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