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There are still spots available for the Capturing Shadows photography workshop this weekend! Join us for this very special opportunity to view selected photographs from the Henry Art Gallery’s collections in conjunction with the exhibition Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and the Seattle Camera Club. We begin with an interactive tour of the exhibition [...]

Members Only – Members’ Choice!

For the Spring Open House on May 6th Henry members have the opportunity to choose permanent collection objects to be displayed in the Reed Collection Study Center. Members are invited to search the Henry’s collection online for prints and photographs and submit a request. Henry staff will confirm availability* and pull works from storage for [...]

This Week @ Molly’s

Let your focus wander.

In case you missed Yann Novak’s performance last friday, here is a wonderful guest post by Henry Exhibition Guide, and all around awesome supporter of the arts, Kimberly Roberts. Last Friday, the Henry welcomed Yann Novak back to the galleries for a special performance of “Presence”. Previously performed using only audio manipulations, this live show [...]

Capturing Shadows: Exploring Pictorialism

Have you seen Shadows of a Fleeting World at the Henry yet? Did you love it? Do you want to see/hear/know more ? You’re in luck! The Henry has two programs coming up that explore the beauty and history of West Coast Pictorialism. On Saturday, April 2, Join Bridget Nowlin, History of Photography Instructor at the Photographic [...]

Ambient Intimacy at Northwest Film Forum

Make a night of it. Check out Yann Novak’s performance then head on over to the Northwest Film Forum for some ambient Intimacy. After the Hollywood film and its numerous awards, the words “the social network” are firmly in our vocabulary. Almost weekly news stories herald the loss of privacy due to the proliferation of [...]

Yann Novak: Presence

This fridy the Henry will be hosting a performance by Los Angeles based sound, video and installation artist Yann Novak. You may remember him from the Henry’s recent exhibition +Room-Room, curated by Sara Krajewski, where he collaborated with Jamie Drouin to explore how the perception of familiar places can be transformed by sound. Listen to the Podcast here. Novak’s work utilizes different [...]

Seattle Artists For Japan + The Pleasure of Tiny Things for Japan

Artists For Japan: Art Sale to Benefit Relief Efforts in Japan March 26, 12pm – 8pm Sunday, March 27, 12pm – 5 pm KOBO at HIGO 604South Jackson Street Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 381-3000 info@Koboseattle.com www.Koboseattle.com About this event A number of Seattle artists with connections to Japan had the same idea at the same [...]

Artist Lecture: (Be)Longing

Join curator Mercy Trent and visiting artists Sonny Assu, Diem Chau, Tess Martin, Saya Moriyasu, and Remedios Rapoport for a conversation about (Be)Longing: Opportunity and Apprehension at the Cultural Crossroads on view at the Kirkland Arts Center March 5th – April 9th, 2011. We live in an increasingly international world where different cultures are coming [...]

A New Header for Hankblog: Thanks, Jon Manning!

Jon Manning designed our newest Hankblog header, using one of the Alternumerics v.4 fonts created by New York-based artist and publisher, Paul Chan, all of which he makes available for download here. The font used for this particular header is THE FUTURE MUST BE SWEET–after Charles Fourier (truetype font + prints, 2001). Chan writes: “Utopian [...]