2026 is the Summer of Play! Join Alexander Zastera from the Seattle Art Museum in a recap of the Summer at SAM programming in the Olympic Sculpture Park.

Seattle Art Museum invites tattoo artist to celebrate the opening of Ai Weiwei’s ‘Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads’ at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Manager of Public Engagement, Alexander Zastera gets a tattoo and reflects on the community programming for that day.

Manager of Public Engagement at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Alexander Zastera recaps the Seattle Art Museum’s ‘SAM Body + Mind’ 2026 program featuring community partnerships focused on wellness, and intimate sound healing evenings with artists UMI, Dianna Lopez, and Holistic Hertz.

Reflecting on the Seattle Art Museum’s Summer at SAM 2025 in the Olympic Sculpture park from the Manager of Public Engagement of the park, Alexander Zastera. The program featured concerts, art making, community partnerships, talented performing artists, and a fairy festival featuring electronic music artist HANA.

Alexander Zastera moves to Seattle to join the Seattle Art Museum.

A reflection on Days 3 & 4 from Artist as Catalyst 2024: Miami. A program produced by The Peace Studio for young artists (18-26) interested in social justice issues in South Florida. This blog is a personal recount from the program lead curating the 4 day retreat.

This year I had to privilege to serve as the Program Lead for Artist as Catalyst 2024. The program is a 4-day artist bootcamp for emerging artist in Miami and LA. My role was to pass along my knowledge of the arts ecosystem in Miami and curate the workshops, speakers and panels.

Grass Stains by Pioneer Winter Collective is a week long dance residency where artists make site specific works. 2024's Grass Stains was held at Vizcaya Museum. This blog post is a reflection from artist Alexander Zastera's experience making a dance work focused around heat.