Nathan Abia Lawer-Yolar

Nathan Abia Lawer-Yolar is a Ghanaian-born imagemaker, filmmaker, writer, and curator living and working in Seattle, WA. His practice is an act of witness — to tenderness, to Black life, to the quiet architecture of family. He works in homage, in conversation with art history, reaching backward to honor what was made before so that what comes next carries its weight.

He is co-founder of Arrived Creative Collective, a non-profit dedicated to building exhibition space for Black and Brown artists across the country. He co-founded Kanea.tv, a creative production company, and Pillar Magazine — a biannual publication concerned with how we create, how we name ourselves, and how expression moves across cultural borders.

Underneath all of it: a commitment to the honest story. The kind that doesn't need translation.