Sneak Peek

Check out the videos from Vortexhibition Polyphonica!  Below is just one of ten different videos shot right here at the Henry of staff members talking about their favorite piece in the show.  You can see them now on www.vimeo.com.  Doing my practicum for the UW Museum Studies course, I have been working here with Communications [...]

Flower Powder

Last week, while looking at the beautifully embroidered Lotus Shoes in Vortexhibition Polyphonica, I had the pleasure of talking with Henry’s Curator of Collections, Judy Sourakli, who told me some strange and cool things about these small wonders.  These are the shoes that were made for women with bound feet.  Yes, the painful disfiguring cruel [...]

COMING SOON: Videos from Vortexhibition Polyphonica

As a Museum Studies student at the UW, I have been working on a practicum project here at the Henry that involves shooting video of staff members with their favorite piece in Vortexhibition Polyphonica.  I asked people why they chose what they did and that’s what we get to see on the videos!  Some people [...]

It Takes Two

It’s Strange Coupling time again. And in honor of this annual, Spring artstravaganza, I give you Kim Weston and Marvin Gaye, who will sing while you check out this year’s (exciting) Strange Couples and the details: Strange Coupling, along with Ouch My Eye Gallery, is excited to present an exhibition of new collaborative work by [...]

You have to hit the ground running. (Kiki Smith in the New York Times)

“You have to have multiple things happening, so you’re not just standing around.” Read Dorthy Spears’ article about Kiki Smith’s  works in glass here. Excellent slideshow, here.

TODAY: UW BFA PHOTO

Opening Reception: CORRECTION – 4-6pm (NOT 2-4 as previously announced) Tues. Mar 30    &/or Closing Reception 2-4pm Sat. April 10. Open: Tues-Sat. 12-4pm.

“the deranged yet contented interior of an eccentric old lady’s sitting room.” (at the Henry!)

Champagne Truffles – the 6th of 6 artists projects for The Gift Shop reviewed on Slog. Join us there for a tea party, tomorrow at 2.

A day at the Henry, a night at the Opera

E.V. Day’s Cherry Bomb Vortex graces the Henry’s Stroum Gallery as part of Vortexhibition Polyphonica. Day’s recent installation, featuring sculptures created from New York City Opera’s Historical Costume Archive, floats above visitors to City Opera’s  David H. Koch Theater: More images, here, at evday.net. Story, here.

Wow.

The Kiki Smith show I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith, is a must-see. It is beautiful. I could not quit thinking about it for days after seeing it. The art, the photographs, the sculpture, it’s all fabulous. The thing that most impressed and completely floored me is the way the photographs are [...]

Search Me I’m Irish

In a collection of over 24,000 objects, my search found over 80 records that match this description, many of them costumes and textiles. Among the collection of early 20th century woman’s blouses and infant’s caps there were two pieces, by American expressionist painter and  notable North West artist Morris Graves, that seemed to stand out [...]