No, Mine! Studios

Welcome to No, Mine! Studios.

Hi, I’m Suzanne Skaar.

I’m a multidisciplinary artist, writer, mom, and the Founder/ Creative Director of No, Mine! Studios.

Over the years, I have lived in many places around the world, including Athens, Yonago, Olympia, and Seattle, but Tacoma is my adopted hometown. I earned my BA from The Evergreen State College with a dual focus in Media and Eastern European Studies, and my MAIS from the University of Washington Jackson School with a Political Science major through the Russian East European Central Asian Studies (REECAS) Program. I worked in the educational, non-profit, and vocational rehabilitation sectors for many years.

Now I draw and animate dinosaurs. And other stuff, too.

Projects on this page are sometimes educational, often humorous, and everything is political (whether or not we intend it to be). My written work has been published in The London Reader’s Motherhood Issue and in the Creative Colloquy Print Anthology, Volume 6. I have presented on topics ranging from immigration (Tacoma, WA, Tripod Series April 2019) to secret societies (Portland, OR, Drunken Discourse, October 2019). I’ve been a guest panelist and moderator at Seattle’s GeekGirlCon (2018, 2019, 2023) and a panel moderator at Jet City Comic Show (Tacoma WA 2019). In 2021, I was accepted into the Tacoma Artist Initiative Program to work on a 2D pixel art game. The City of Tacoma accepted the South Side Animation Club as a 2023 Community Arts Project.

And as of October 2025, No, Mine! Studios is a part of Tacoma Arts Live’s Accelerating Creative Enterprise program: this means I’ll be actively working to expand the team and hosting more community education opportunities at Tacoma’s beautiful Armory!

I love collaborating with other artists, so feel free to drop a message to nominestudios@gmail.com.

Yeetcosystem: The Game

No, Mine! Studios is developing our first game as a team! Click here to meet the wonderful developers behind the scenes. [I’m there, too, but you already know me.]

Upcoming Events

Are you an indie animator or game dev looking to connect with others and/ or workshop projects in the Tacoma area? Sign-up today to be notified of upcoming meetings! Email nominestudios@gmail.com, subject line “Animator/ Game Dev Meetup.”

[Supervised children are welcome to accompany parents in attendance, but this a networking opportunity, not a children’s animation class. If you are interested in animation classes, please contact me at the above email, subject: “Animation Classes [Age range], and I’ll let you know when the next series will resume.]

Social Media

No Mine! Studios (@nominestudios) is on the following platforms:

Bluesky (More active on my personal account, suzanneskaar, which you can follow if you want to talk politics.)

YouTube

Itch.IO

LinkedIn (Game devs, artists, illustrators, creatives, please feel free to connect via my personal account for Suzanne Skaar. There’s not too many people with my name out there, so I am not hard to find.)

Instagram (You can find my old my posts here, but I don’t feel good about using Meta platforms.)