Art Director

Jane Sherman designs covers, features, and various departments in Seattle Met. One of her many joys in life is working closely with talented illustrators and photographers to create images that enhance and complement the magazine’s editorial content.

She was born in Minneapolis—it’s a lot like Seattle but flatter, and decidedly snowier—and lived there until moving to Seattle in 2007. She cut her teeth in editorial design doing the weekly grind, first as associate art director at City Pages in Minneapolis and eventually producing hundreds of covers—one a week for several years—at Seattle Weekly (some of them even won an award or two). 

In her spare time you might find Jane at the dog park with her coonhound Watson, taking a pottery class, drawing, or more likely taking a nap.

RACK RANK

Every Nordstrom Rack in the Seattle Area, Ranked

I visited eight Nordstrom Racks in one weekend. Here's what I found.

06/03/2022 By Zoe Sayler

Best Places to Live

The Most Coveted Seattle Neighborhoods and Suburbs

When the housing market’s this fierce, competition is always pending.

05/24/2022 By Angela Cabotaje

Salty Salish

Guide to Tide Pooling and Beach Combing around Seattle

Searching for squishy sea life is a singularly Seattle sport.

05/12/2022 By Allison Williams

Group Chat

How Should King County Handle Fare Enforcement?

Three transit pros map a path forward.

05/04/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

Suburban State of Mind

6 Seattle Suburbs with the Highest Price Growth in March

The year-over-year median sale prices were up yet again, and the Eastside dominance continues.

04/12/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

BETTER LATE

Where to Find Last-Minute Gifts in Your Neighborhood

Berate yourself later—now's the time to shop.

04/12/2022 By Zoe Sayler

UP AND UP

We Needed This: Chunks Claw Clips Bring Back Vintage Style

The revival of 2000s fashion is still in full swing—and the claw clip is back, back again.

04/04/2022 By Zoe Sayler

Getting Warmer

A Guide to Seattle-Area Record Stores

A rundown of where to go crate digging in and around our very musical city.

04/01/2022 By Stefan Milne and Sophie Grossman

They Need Somebody

How You Can Help Ukraine from Seattle

Local organizations offering ways to support refugees fleeing the war.

03/10/2022 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Group Chat

How Progressive Is Seattle?

An extra-long election season gave us more time to weigh which side of the left we’re really on. In the aftermath, three insiders take our political temperature.

02/15/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

Heat, At Home

Takeout Valentine's Day Is a Thing Yet Again

These Seattle restaurants let you do your wooing to go, with fancy takeaway dinners and DIY pizza kits. Sexy sweatpants not included.

01/26/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

Group Chat

Why Are Women Leaving the Workforce?

A trio of occupational experts discuss what’s causing millions of women to exit their jobs.

11/23/2021 By Angela Cabotaje

Seattle Dining Guide

Seattle’s Best New Restaurants (and Bars)

This year’s been full of adjustments. But also beautiful bars, grilled meats, and the occasional aloo slider.

09/24/2021 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Float On

Never Have I Ever: Traveled by Seaplane

Taking off from an airport with no runways.

09/16/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

Oeno Files

28 New Washington Wines to Buy Right Now

Build your cellar or bolster your dinner with some of the most intriguing local bottles released this year.

09/14/2021 By Sean P. Sullivan

First Person, Last Word

The Power of Mutual Aid Extends Beyond Collective Crisis

For the past year and a half, we’ve relied on forms of support more than ever.

09/08/2021 By Shin Yu Pai

Group Chat

Which Pandemic Real Estate Trends Are for Real?

Three Seattle real estate experts weigh in on suburban flight, Zoom rooms, and other Covid-related developments.

08/31/2021 By Benjamin Cassidy

Tasting Notes

The Best Wineries to Visit in Walla Walla

The heart of Washington wine country has no shortage of producers. Here, in no particular order, are the ones to seek out.

08/13/2021 By Sean P. Sullivan

First Person, Last Word

Pike Place Market Has Offered Me Lessons of Resilience

After a rough stretch in my life, the market's vendors and bounty were restorative.

07/09/2021 By Holly Regan Illustrations by Jane Sherman

Hard Sell

Taste Testing Washington’s Hard Seltzer Boom

Alcoholic seltzers have proliferated around these parts; Seattle Met's editors have a definite favorite.

06/25/2021 By Allecia Vermillion and Zoe Sayler Photography by Jane Sherman