SONIC NOON August 5th: Free concert!

Download a printable flier here. Our Sonic Noon series continues with Ivan Arteaga (sax) and Jared Borkowski (guitar), who will perform next Thursday, August 5th, from 12-1 pm (NOT 1 to 2 ad the flyer says – sorry) in the Henry’s Sculpture Court. This event is FREE. If you missed July’s performance by Ethel’s Effel, [...]

New on the webs: AIGA Seattle

Design Community! Check it out! AIGA Seattle launched a brand new website. We’ve added them to the blogroll, and we’re excited about all the new features. Looks like a great resource for designers, students, and design-curious types.

MYSTIC SONS OF MORRIS GRAVES

Morris Graves Centenary Invitational Art Exhibition & Séance @ Rock/DeMent, the Corridor, and Angle Galleries, 306.S. Washington St., Seattle. Opening reception First Thursday, August 5 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM – Exhibition continues through August 28, 2010 July 15, 2010 – Seattle, WA. The Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, a chivalric order dedicated to furbelows [...]

Summer Shuffle in Photos

Thanks for swapping, swappers! Thanks for shopping, shoppers — but most of all, thanks for enjoying a lovely summer day with us at the Henry. Let’s do it again soon!

Musings

Students partaking in the UW Middle School Young Writers Workshop paid a visit to the Henry this past month to search for literary inspiration. They took an exploratory look through our dynamic exhibition Vortexhibition Polyphonica. Their instructor Storme Webber, an accomplished spoken word, vocal and visual artist with an extensive experience in writing, teaching and [...]

31 Years, 4 to 5 Hours A Week, for the Henry

The magic of Google Alerts led me to artist Susan Lenz’s embroidery and fiber arts blog. For this project, Susan wanted to illustrate  important and everyday decisions by creating portraits. For Volunteer, (other portraits listed here) she created a portrait of Henry Art Gallery volunteer Pat Albiston. Pat was one of the tireless volunteers who [...]

See It For Yourself

TeenTix our city’s radical, revolutionary arts-access program for teens sent Lucy H, one of their teen critics, to review I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith. Check out her review, here on the TeenTix blog: See It For Yourself.

Join Us for a Guided Tour this Saturday, July 24th, at 2pm

This Saturday in addition to the Arnold Palmer of Book Sales/Book Swaps there will be a guided tour starting at 2 pm featuring I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith and Vortexhibition Polyphonica Opus III. The tour will last 50 minutes and will be led by a trained guide. It’s another opportunity to [...]

The art comes and it goes…

Supervising Preparator Dan Gurney documented the de-installation of E.V. Day’s Cherry Bomb Vortex from Vortexhibtion Polyphonica back in May. Come check out the latest round of Vortexhibtion with new additions from Victoria Haven, Roy McMakin, Polly Apfelbaum, Charles LeDray, Christian Marclay and many other artists.

Summer Shuffle

Download a printable 8.5×11 flier here: SummerShuffle-FLIER to share with your friends! Arnold Palmer = Half Iced Tea & Half Lemonade Summer Shuffle = Half Sale & Half Swap (plus readings in the Skyspace) Come join us as we host our first summer book sale! We’ve gone through our storage and collected the greatest books [...]