Liz Morrow 10/12/26 Liz Morrow 10/12/26

Rooted Together • McKinley Hill Overlook | Tacoma Public Artist

Rooted Together, a permanent public art installation, is in her new home atop McKinley Hill’s overlook! This piece has come together over the past two years and is somewhat of a sister piece to my Welcome to McKinley Hill sculpture which currently resides at the intersection right next to Dusty’s Hideaway on McKinley Ave.

This installation began as a prompt to the residents of McKinley Hill— “What makes Tacoma beautiful to you?” I left this prompt up at the overlook for local residents and visitors to the overlook to answer, as they looked out over the city, went on a walk in their neighborhood, or strolled by on the way to the bus stop.

After a few weeks of people sharing what makes Tacoma beautiful to them, I took the temporary install down and read through all the additions to the piece. The plan was to draw inspiration from the community’s contributions to this prompt and use them as a jumping off point for the poem I would create for the piece. I chose some recurring words and concepts that stood out and those became the backbone for the poem.

Rooted Together

A village gathered
at waters edge
where the scent of brine
and rainsoaked grit
intermingle.

We rise up like
Təqʷuʔmaʔ,
head in the clouds
a sentinel spirit
since time immemorial.

Our voices
woven with pride
Cedar and salmon
Asphalt and steel

Each of us a tree
in this forest,
our roots connected,

Together we are
home.

I wanted this piece to feel engaging while also not distracting from or blocking the overlook’s view. The squiggle motif is the same as the one on the Welcome to McKinley Hill sculpture, and I like how these two pieces have a similar visual language now in the same neighborhood.

I created these with Richlite, which is a sustainable material made right here in Tacoma (you can probably actually see their facility from the overlook now that I think of it). It’s sturdy and lightweight, which was perfect for installing on the existing chainlink fence. The lovely folks at Edensaw Woods cut the shapes with CNC, and then I painted and finished them, and installed them with my partner Dan.

Huge thanks to City of Tacoma and the Tacoma Arts Commission Municipal Art Program for allowing me to create this piece for McKinley Hill. This artwork was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and produced in partnership with the City’s Neighborhood Planning Program.

Liz Morrow 5/11/26 Liz Morrow 5/11/26

Raven Triptych Install at Woolworth Windows | downtown Tacoma Art

For the month of May this Raven triptych is installed down at the Woolworth Windows in Downtown Tacoma! This installation was a part of Spaceworks Tacoma’s public art program where they showcase artists in the various display windows in the old Woolworth’s building downtown. I’ve seen many art installs at the windows over the years, Including seeing my Wayzgoose steamroller prints displayed the past two years as a part of the group Wayzgoose print show, but this is my first solo install!

As these three pieces came to me I wasn’t entirely certain of their connection. I knew they all revolved around the sun and daylight. As I engaged with the process of making them more and more I started to see their connection as all being about sun cycles. The far left piece is titled “Solstice.” Growing up in Alaska, both the summer and winter solstices were notable occasions. I always enjoyed the endless summer in the daytime, and the darkness of winter. I love being back in Alaska in June to spend summer solstice where the night never truly gets dark. This piece is focused on the sun. The two dichotomies of winter and summer solstice constantly pulling back and forth.

The far right piece is titled “Equinox.” These two ravens hold the sun and moon, equal in size— day and night perfectly in balance. The equinoxes always feels like more subtle days. Quiet reminders that a turning point has been crossed. Today the days become longer than the nights, or today the nights become longer than the days. For a brief moment, the day and night are in tandem.

The center piece is titled “Angalix̂/Amgix̂” (translated from Unangam Tunuu: Day/Night). While the other two pieces depict annual cycles, this piece is the sun cycle of our every day. It can be hung with the sun at the top and the central mask awake, or flipped with the moon atop and the mask asleep.

These were made with carved plywood for the ravens, painted black with acrylic, and the sun/moons are gold/sliver leaf. The carved mask in the central piece is carved out of basswood. In the Woolworth windows they’re suspended from each other and the ceiling with wire, but for normal wall display they can be hung like a normal artwork with standard hooks on the back.

These pieces hang about 22” off the back wall in the center of the display window space, and the wire visually disappears so they all look like they’re just suspended, hanging weightlessly in the space, which is exactly what I wanted them to feel like. All three are available for purchase so if you’re interested in acquiring one (or all!) of them, get in touch!

Liz Morrow 1/14/26 Liz Morrow 1/14/26

Fuck Ice | Free printable Download

These posters are free to download and print out to post around your local neighborhood, in the window at your storefront, etc. Click on the image and it will take you to the file you can download and print.

Don’t have a printer? Your local library does! It’s usually only a few cents per page to print things at your local library.

Liz Morrow 7/9/25 Liz Morrow 7/9/25

Relief printing as a reflection of traditional indigenous carving

As a part of my artist residency at Sheldon Jackson Museum, I was invited to do a couple artist talks. As I’ve continued my relief printing practice, I’ve felt a correlation between relief carved prints and more traditional indigenous carving practices. The connection was brought to the front of my mind after attending Pacific Northwest Aleut Council’s culture camp last year where I took part in a mask carving class. I loved the class, carving masks, and also recognized a connection in the carving to what I was already doing as a relief printmaker. Even the tools were the exact same as the ones I used at home for carving relief print blocks.

For my talk, I delved into that connection and how indigenous artists have incorporated new mediums and materials into artistic practice as trade and availability bring them in. I also take a look back at the origins of relief printing and how it’s a truly ancient method of art-making. Watch it above!

Liz Morrow 7/6/25 Liz Morrow 7/6/25

“Sitka Wild” | A Brave Heart Volunteers Auction buoy

The last couple years I’ve watched as artists in Sitka painted these hard plastic buoys that get auctioned off every September to support Brave Heart Volunteers, a nonprofit organization offering free social, emotional, and educational support services in Sitka, Alaska. Their mission is to provide compassionate care, companionship, respite, and education to those facing illness, isolation, end of life, and grief. Both of my grandparents spent the last few years of their lives at the Pioneer Home in Sitka so their mission is important to me, and beyond that, I wanted to make sure I was giving back to the community that I was invited into as an artist in residence. So before I flew up to Sitka in early June I messaged them and asked if I could paint a buoy for the fundraiser this year and they said yes!

For my buoy I decided to celebrate some of my favorite flora and fauna in the Sitka area. On one side of the buoy there are undersea creatures and plant life, and on the other side are topside creatures and plants. These buoys aren’t the soft, inflatable kind you’re probably more familiar with. This is made of hard, hollow plastic so they’re easy to paint on but relatively lightweight.

For the undersea side I included salmon, kelp, a seal, sea star, and an otter mama and baby.

For the land side I painted a slug, ermine, mussels (which count as undersea, but they’re topside for low tide!), salmonberry, ravens, lupine, and a bald eagle.

The buoys are hung outside downtown over the summer and then they’ll be auctioned off in September! Typically they’re auctioned online in a silent auction but this year there’s going to be a live auction event as well.

It was incredibly fun to be able to paint a buoy this year and I would 100% do it again. It was a cool design challenge to paint on a sphere and I actually finally started using Posca pens for some of the detail work and definitely understand the hype.

If you’re in Sitka, keep an eye out downtown for it to get hung from one of the light poles!

Hi, I’m Liz

I'm an artist, writer, designer, DIY renovator, and … well basically I like to do all the things. If it’s creative I’m probably doing it. I’ve spent over 30 years voraciously pursuing a life steeped in creativity and I wholeheartedly believe creativity and joy are inextricably linked.
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Women's Work Wayzgoose 2026 Steamroller Print

$350.00

Lino relief print created during the 2026 Wayzgoose Steamroller Print event in Tacoma. Each print was pressed using a 1.5 ton steamroller. See the entire process here!

The Wayzgoose theme this year was Tacoma Works, a celebration of the labor history of Tacoma, labor solidarity, Tacoma industry, and what work in Tacoma looks like.

As I thought about the theme, I realized I wanted to highlight the unpaid labor that women do, all the work that doesn't get acknowledged as “real work" and goes uncompensated but quietly forms the backbone of society. Care work, cooking and cleaning, household management, pregnancy and child rearing, carrying the emotional and mental load, etc.

I wanted to use the imagery of a quilt because this devaluing of "women's work" has extended into the art world by deeming mediums historically associated with women as merely "craft" - lots of fiber art, quilting, embroidery: highly skilled and artistically incredible work that wasn't considered "fine art."

Women's work is the thread that stitches everything together. It's the thread that goes unnoticed and under appreciated, but without it, everything would fall apart.

When I say “women’s work” I don’t mean that only women engage in these types of work, but historically these types of unpaid labor have fallen vastly upon women. I also don’t mean that women don’t or haven’t engaged in paid labor and industry throughout Tacoma’s history, they obviously have. To me, “women’s work” is the phrase that embodies how we devalue certain types of labor typically associated with women, and can extend into forms of paid labor— why is it that teachers are so underpaid in our society? Could it have anything to do with teaching having been a workforce of primarily women historically?

So when we talk about women’s work we’re talking about things like care work, elder care, feeding a family, procuring groceries, household management, keeping a home clean and stocked, rearing children, pregnancy, birthing and breastfeeding, emotional labor, mental load, community building and organizing. Without these forms of “women’s work” our society would unravel.

Women's work is work. The labor and industry history in Tacoma could not have happened without the women in the background supporting it all with the work they did that wasn't considered real work.

Tacoma Works because Women Work.

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Due to the nature of printing outdoors, on the ground, with a steam roller, there are variations and slight imperfections from print to print.

Prints ship rolled in a cardboard tube.
Local pickup is in Central Tacoma.

Paper size: 30.5 x 44 in
Print size: 24 x 36 in

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Mutual Relief Print

$65.00

Hand-pressed original linoleum block print.

When we live mutually we support one another, live in community, love one another.

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✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 12×18"
✸ Signed, edition of 15
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Talix̂tas Relief Print

$70.00

Hand-pressed original linoleum block print.

Unangax̂ dancing has seen a beautiful revitalization in the past few decades, and this piece is dedicated to the dancers who spent their lives reawakening Unangax̂ dancing, and to the dancers in the coming generations who will carry it forward.

50% of the proceeds of this print go towards disaster relief for the devastation Western Alaska is experiencing from the impact of typhoon Halong.

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✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks on Arnhem Warm White 245gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 14×20"
✸ Signed, edition of 50
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Flock Together Relief Print

$70.00

Hand-pressed original linoleum block print.

On the last day of my artist residency in Sitka, my kiddo’s homesickness hit its peak. We’d been away from home for almost a month and they didn’t want me to leave that morning to go to the museum. So I invited them to come with me and told them I’d draw them a goose— sometimes I call them “goose” which I think was initially a shortening of “silly goose” but now I just use Goose.

This print came out of that drawing. Two hugging geese— mom and child, lovers, friends. For me, this is a depiction of me and Jack, but for you? Who is your goose who needs a hug that feels like home?

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✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 12×18"
✸ Signed, edition of 25
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Fucus Distichus Relief Print

$30.00

Hand pressed original linoleum block print.

Inspired by the beautiful seaweed teeming on the shores of Sitka Sound.

✸ Handprinted on a lever press with archival inks on Arnhem Stonehenge Warm White 245gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 6×8"
✸ Signed, edition of 50
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Kith Relief Print

$65.00

Hand-pressed original linoleum block print.

We are not separate from nature, we are a part of it, despite the capitalist and religious values that have convinced many that we are set on earth to dominate, extract, and conquer her. We are one part of the circle.

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✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks on Arnhem Warm White 245gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 16×16"
✸ Signed, edition of 20
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Sea Kin Giclée Print

from $17.00

Giclée print reproduction of the original linoleum relief print. This is not an original relief print. Because size and pricing can be prohibitive on a larger print such as the original print, I wanted to offer a reproduction giclée version in a couple sizes slightly smaller than the original.

You can see the original steamroller print here.

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This print was inspired by a dream I had shortly before leaving for Sitka. In the dream I swam all the way from Tacoma to Sitka, then upon arriving in Sitka I was out on a spit of land across the water from town and a huge tsunami wave tossed me into the sea. I was tumbling underwater, the ocean was opaque from the wave kicking up silt, and I realized I couldn’t tell up from down to find the surface and was going to drown, alone beneath the waves. I woke up in a start— it was one of those almost-too-real dreams that had you wake with your heart racing. Later that day I was ruminating on the dream and realized that while I felt alone underwater because I couldn’t see anything, I wasn’t actually alone. I was surrounded by kin: Salmon guiding me to the headwaters of a stream, kelp growing towards upwards to guide me to the surface, seals who could pull me along.

I spent the first week of my residency carving the linoleum, then we got our steamroller rental delivered and printed! The steamroller was a little smaller than the ones we use for Wayzgoose so I wasn’t sure if it would be heavy enough, but it worked perfectly and we ended up with nine prints. So many people came out to watch and it was such a blast getting to do another steamroller print!

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Prints ship rolled in a cardboard tube.

Sizes available:

12×18 and 16x24 in.

What is a giclée print?

Giclée printing (pronounced zhee-clay) is a type of inkjet printing, but not all inkjet prints are giclée prints. The intention of giclée printing is to produce a product at a higher quality and with a longer lifespan than a standard desktop inkjet printer. For a giclée print, the paper must be of archival quality. The biggest difference between a standard inkjet print and a giclee print is that giclées are printed using pigment-based inks rather than dye-based inks that are found in lower-cost inkjets. Pigment-based inks have a longer lifespan: they can last anywhere from 100 - 200 years without significant fading.

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Sitka Swirls Relief Print

$45.00

Hand pressed original linoleum block print.

Inspired by the beautiful kelp teeming in the waters of Sitka Sound.

✸ Handprinted on a lever press with archival inks on Arnhem Stonehenge Warm White 245gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 8×10"
✸ Signed, edition of 100
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Haanux̂ Lessons Relief Print

$55.00

Hand-pressed original linoleum block print.

The sockeye salmon—Haanux̂—is the ubiquitous presence in the Alaska Native subsistence life. My family has spent generations harvesting haanux̂ from the icy waters of Bristol Bay, and wrote this poem while reflecting on the wisdom of a salmon’s instincts. A salmon lesson.

I know when to swim
upstream
pushing through
the current
called by an invisible
siren
home

and I know
when to let my body
be carried by the waves
weightless
and effortlessly
gliding

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✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks on Legion Stonehenge White 250gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 11×14"
✸ Signed, open edition
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Qanglaaĝix̂ Relief Print

$55.00

Hand-pressed original linoleum block print.

The raven is a creature of myth and magic, mischief and majesty. These talkative and playful corvids punctuate my time spent in Alaska, croaking to one another as I pad through moss-filled ancient forests. This print connects the Raven to her habitat— Kelp strewn on rocky southeast beaches, salmonberries and ferns tangled beneath pines, and the punctuation of bright fuchsia fireweed against grey skies. They talk to me and I talk back. Qanglaaĝix̂— Raven.

✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks on Legion Stonehenge White 250gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 11×14"
✸ Signed, open edition
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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Raven Sticker

$4.00

Matte Die Cut Sticker

Dimensions: 2.2" x 3"

Vinyl stickers are the OG multipurpose sticker. This material is strong, reliable, and versatile, perfect for indoor or outdoor use. Stickers made on our vinyl material will withstand any kind of weather, will hang on through the dishwasher, and are UV protected so they will stay shiny and vibrant for up to 4 years.

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Home Sweet Tacoma Relief Print- Small Version

$55.00

Hand pressed original linoleum block print.

This ode to the salty and sweet city we call home is a small version of my 2024 Wayzgoose steamroller print, which will be pressed live on May 4th at the Wayzgoose event at Moore Library here in Tacoma! Grab this small version, and come check out the 2ft x 3ft version get printed with a steamroller at the event!

Want a sticker version? Grab a sticker too!

✸ Handprinted on an etching press with archival inks on Legion Stonehenge White 250gsm (100% Cotton Rag, Acid Free)
✸ Linoleum Relief Print
✸ 11×14"
✸ Signed, open edition
✸ Ships flat

Due to the handmade nature of these prints, there is some slight variation between each individual print.

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LIMITED EDITION: Halfway Somewhere Screen Print

$40.00

6 color hand pulled original screen print, including shimmery gold ink on the sun which catches the light beautifully.

Size:
11 1/4 x 14 in

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ORIGINAL You'll Like Tacoma Wayzgoose 2025 Steamroller Print

$300.00

Lino relief print created during the 2025 Wayzgoose Steamroller Print event in Tacoma. Each print was pressed using a 1.5 ton steamroller. See the entire process here!

The Wayzgoose theme this year was Make Some Noise, a celebration of the music of Tacoma, bands from Tacoma, songs about Tacoma, and music venues in Tacoma. It was so fun seeing all the different interpretations of the theme. Here’s mine:

“Where’s that confounded bridge?” Led Zeppelin’s The Crunge’s final lyrics ask. What is a song’s bridge? A musical change of pace, intended to provide contrast to the rest of the composition. Here in the Northwest we’re the bridge. We’re not the fancy metropolitan city of Seattle, we’re not a densely wooded small town or coastal hamlet, and we aren’t rolling fields of agricultural land. We’re something different. Something gritty and creative. We’ve got a little bit of funk to us, and I’m not just talking about the aroma. We strut to the beat of our own rhythm. Blue collar, grunge, and art all steeped together under the watchful eye of our namesake peak.

And then there’s the bridge, or should I say bridges. We’re perched on our peninsula jutting out into the Puget sound, anchored on west and east by bridges— Tacoma Narrows, Murray Morgan, and the E 21st St bridge.

In this piece I wanted to share a poem about the music of Tacoma, it’s people, it’s land, the interweaving of everything we hear when we close our eyes in the middle of the city. Tacoma has birthed many amazing artists, some nationally known, like Neko Case, some with cult Tacoma followings, like Girl Trouble— but I like to think we are all a part of the song of Tacoma, being sung throughout the ages as we build our lives between bridges in this little gritty city, “a dusty old jewel on the south Puget Sound.”

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Due to the nature of printing outdoors, on the ground, with a steam roller, there are variations and slight imperfections from print to print.

Prints ship rolled in a cardboard tube.
Local pickup is in Central Tacoma.

Paper size: 30.5 x 44 in
Print size: 24 x 36 in

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ORIGINAL Home Sweet Tacoma Wayzgoose 2024 Steamroller Print

from $275.00

Lino relief prints created during the 2024 Wayzgoose Steamroller Print event in Tacoma. Each print was pressed using a 1.5 ton steamroller. See the entire process here!

The Wayzgoose theme this year was Sweet and Salty. There are so many ways in which Tacoma is both Sweet and Salty. Her people are the salt of the earth. She's nestled within the salty waters of the Puget Sound. Folks here feel a little salty about Tacoma changing— "Keep Tacoma Feared" is the refrain to maintain a Tacoma that’s an underdog, a sweet secret that only her residents could truly appreciate.

For those of us who call Tacoma "home," it's a sweet place filled with a vibrant creative community, balanced against the contrast of a salt-of-the-earth blue collar community often symbolized by our bustling seaport.

That's what this piece represents. Gritty Tacoma, sweet and salty, arts and labor, a little rough around the edges, but a sweet treasure we call home.

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Due to the nature of printing outdoors, on the ground, with a steam roller, there are variations and slight imperfections from print to print. Prints 2 and 3 have some slight smudging (shown in the images).

Prints ship rolled in a cardboard tube.

Paper size: 30.5 x 44 in
Print size: 24 x 36 in

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