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| title = Tariqa Waters
| url = https://artisttrust.org/artists/tariqa-waters/
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| author = Seattle Art Fair
| date = July 18, 2017
| title = Tariqa Waters: 'I Don't Need To Make Any Apologies For What I Do As An Artist'
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== Early life and education ==	== Early life and education ==
Waters was born in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. She has lived in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Atlanta, Georgia]], and [[Sicily]], relocating to [[Seattle, Washington]] in 2012. Waters is a self-taught artist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tariqa Waters|url=https://bellwetherart.org/tariqa-waters|access-date=2020-10-23|website=Bellwether 2019|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" />	Waters was born in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. She has lived in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Atlanta, Georgia]], and [[Sicily]], relocating to [[Seattle, Washington]] in 2012. Waters is a self-taught artist.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Tariqa Waters
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| access-date = October 23, 2020
| website = Bellwether
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==Career==	==Career==
Waters opened Martyr Sauce in 2013, as an artist-led gallery and neighborhood cultural institution, showcasing underrepresented artists.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graves |first=Jen |title=Best Discovery at Art Walk Last Night? That's Easy. Martyr Sauce. |url=https://www.thestranger.com/visual-...t-art-walk-last-night-thats-easy-martyr-sauce |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=The Stranger |language=en}}</ref> In 2015, along with Jonathan Moore, she founded RE: DEFINITION, a gallery at the [[Paramount Theatre (Seattle)|Paramount Theater]] bar with the same aim of elevating underrepresented artists, as well as redefining historic cultural space.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=REEFINITION - Events|url=https://www.stgpresents.org/events/redefinition|access-date=2020-10-23|website=www.stgpresents.org}}</ref>	Waters opened Martyr Sauce in 2013, as an artist-led gallery and neighborhood cultural institution, showcasing underrepresented artists.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Graves
| first = Jen
| title = Best Discovery at Art Walk Last Night? That's Easy. Martyr Sauce.
| url = Yükleniyor… www.thestranger.com
| access-date = July 9, 2022
| work = The Stranger
| language = en
}}</ref> In 2015, along with Jonathan Moore, she founded RE: DEFINITION, a gallery at the [[Paramount Theatre (Seattle)|Paramount Theater]] bar with the same aim of elevating underrepresented artists, as well as redefining historic cultural space.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web
| title = REEFINITION - Events
| url = https://www.stgpresents.org/events/redefinition
| access-date = October 23, 2020
| website = www.stgpresents.org
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Alongside her work at Martyr Sauce and REEFINITION, Waters continued work on her own art. Her solo exhibition, 100% Kanekalon: The Untold Story of the Marginalized Matriarch, opened at the [[Northwest African American Museum]] in Seattle in 2016.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Seattle Magazine">{{cite web |title=Full Extension: Tariqa Waters' Personal Art & Style |url=https://www.seattlemag.com/article/full-extension-tariqa-waters-personal-art-style |website=Seattle Magazine |access-date=3 August 2021 |language=en |date=16 May 2016}}</ref>	Alongside her work at Martyr Sauce and REEFINITION, Waters continued work on her own art. Her solo exhibition, 100% Kanekalon: The Untold Story of the Marginalized Matriarch, opened at the [[Northwest African American Museum]] in Seattle in 2016.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Seattle Magazine">{{Cite news
| title = Full Extension: Tariqa Waters' Personal Art & Style
| url = Yükleniyor… www.seattlemag.com
| website = Seattle Magazine
| access-date = August 3, 2021
| language = en
| date = May 16, 2016
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Waters, curated a group exhibition called ''Yellow Number 5'' at the [[Bellevue Arts Museum]] (BAM), in [[Bellevue, Washington]], held in 2020 and 2021. As BAM's first Black and Black woman curator, Waters succeeded in removing Executive Director Benedict Heywood and holding BAM's board and staff accountable for their racism and other intersectional systems of oppression.<ref>https://openlettertobellevueartmuseum.wordpress.com {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}</ref>	Waters, curated a group exhibition called ''Yellow Number 5'' at the [[Bellevue Arts Museum]] (BAM), in [[Bellevue, Washington]], held in 2020 and 2021. As BAM's first Black and Black woman curator, Waters succeeded in removing Executive Director Benedict Heywood and holding BAM's board and staff accountable for their racism and other intersectional systems of oppression.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = Yükleniyor… openlettertobellevueartmuseum.wordpress.com
| title = Open Letter to Bellevue Art Museum
| author = Waters, Tariqa
| date = August 2022
| website = openlettertobellevueartmuseum.wordpress.com
| access-date = May 5, 2024
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
| url = https://www.seattletimes.com/entert...havior-toward-a-curator-and-artists-of-color/
| title = Artists call for removal of Bellevue Arts Museum director
| work = The Seattle Times
| author = Burbank, Megan
| date = March 16, 2021
| access-date = May 5, 2024
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In the summer of 2021 Waters expanded Martyr Sauce into a pop art museum MS PAM.<ref name="thestranger.com"/><ref name="seattletimes.com"/> <ref>[https://seattlechannel.org/feature-shows/thank-you-ms-pam-episodes Thank you, MS PAM]</ref> Waters was recognized in 2023 as one of Seattle Magazine's Most Influential Artists.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://seattlemag.com/features/arts-tariqa-waters/ | title=Arts: Tariqa Waters | date=20 March 2023 }}</ref>	In the summer of 2021 Waters expanded Martyr Sauce into a pop art museum MS PAM.<ref name="thestranger.com"/><ref name="seattletimes.com"/> <ref>[https://seattlechannel.org/feature-shows/thank-you-ms-pam-episodes Thank you, MS PAM]</ref> Waters was recognized in 2023 as one of Seattle Magazine's Most Influential Artists.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://seattlemag.com/features/arts-tariqa-waters/ | title=Arts: Tariqa Waters | date=20 March 2023 }}</ref>

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