Jan 31 | Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies The award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is noted for his use of inexpensive construction materials such as paperboard and cardboard tubes. While his designs for prefab housing have been adopted by the United Nations to house earthquake victims, Ban has also used these lightweight but sturdy [...]
On Friday, January 28th the members of SBC (John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler) go head to head with PDL (Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren) for the ultimate head to head sculpture competition. Seattle has never seen such trash-talking, bet making, ego bashing, smack down fronting and chest puffing. The Lego Spaceship [...]
Along with nine other outstanding individuals and organizations that are making big impacts in education. Last Friday, the 19th Annual Golden Apple Awards were presented to these ten recipients in a ceremony at Seattle’s own Intiman Theater. The awards are given out every year by KCTS 9 public television station to honor successful models and [...]
In partnership with the University of Washington Photomedia Program and Photographic Center Northwest, The Henry Art Gallery hosts a lecture this Thursday by Henry Horenstein in conjunction with the Photographic Center Northwest exhibition, Show. Horenstein earned his BFA and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1971 and 1973 respectively, studying with Harry [...]
The Close-Up Clue for this week is the following image captured by the Panoptos machine: Q. Can you name the title and artist of the work from which this image was taken? (Hint: The buttons and controls and stars and gauges and the image of a launch … might remind one of a certain kind [...]
Those of you who answered: A. Helen [Portrait of a girl] or The Blue Girl Parcell, Malcolm Stevens C. 1916 Were absolutely CORRECT, congratulations! The painting is part of the original collection that was given to the University of Washington by Horace C. Henry in 1926 to create Seattle’s first public art museum, the Henry! [...]
Coming up at the end of the month, the Henry Art Gallery will be hosting (ST)ART. This program celebrates the student contributors to the University of Washington’s art scene by inviting campus arts organizations to engage in an afternoon of experimentation, ad-hoc collaboration, and interdisciplinary co-mingling. The UW accommodates a wide array of entities that [...]
The exhibition Light in Darkness, on view from January 21 – April 30, 2011, presents works using light as a primary medium. Incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes, lit and unlit, real and replicated, will make one another visible in the darkened galleries of Western Bridge. “Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere [...]
Alright, here we have this week’s panopt-o-clue: Q. Someone captured this close-up image using the Panoptos machine. Name the title and artist of the work from which this picture was taken. (Hint: painted c. 1916, one of the portrait’s titles includes the color of her dress and her eyes). DIGging in the Henry’s collection online is [...]
For the highly observant and inquisitive: channel your Holmesian detective prowess into… PANOPT-O-QUIZ! As part of the spirited exhibition Vortexhibition Polyphonica, artists SuttonBeresCuller created an interactive installation called Panoptos, that invites viewers to engage with the Henry’s collection in an entirely new way. The three artists selected a variety of works from the Henry’s collection that [...]
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