Monthly Archives: August 2011

Get Ready for a Digital September

We’re in the final month of The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, but we still have plenty of fun programs and events remaining. This Friday, September 2, is Gallery Talk: Paul Berger. Photographer and exhibiting artist Paul Berger will give an informal gallery talk on his work and the impact of photography and [...]

SONIC NOON – SEPTEMBER EDITION

Join  Aryn O’Haleck, Madison Bates and Erica Boling this Thursday, September 1s,t  for  SONIC NOON, the Henry’s summer music series held every first Thursday at noon in the sculpture court. This vocal trio, who call themselves  No Love for Fire, performs melodic pop with folk flavors and clever three-part harmonies. In addition to performing original songs the trio also covers  a [...]

Salavon, Playboy Centerfolds, and Golems…Oh My!

One of the Henry’s own currently-exhibting artists, Jason Salavon, and The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age was featured in a recent Stranger SLOG posting! Click here to read the full article… You can see Salavon’s Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1970s in The Digital Eye until the exhibition’s closing on September 25th. “Jason Salavon [...]

The Emancipated Spectator Rocks On!

THE FINAL EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR GROUP DISCUSSION HAS BEEN MOVED TO ROCK BOX KARAOKE! This month’s Talent Show discussion group, The Emancipated Spectator: Broadcast yourself, part 2 (Art, Entertainment and Reality), will meet in the lobby of Rock Box Karaoke this Thursday, August 25, at 7pm. Come embrace Karaoke culture and talk about the Talent Show. Join Henry [...]

This Sunday at Shelf Life: Gently Reading with Gentle Readers

At the last meeting of the Gentle Reader — Shelf Life‘s reading and discussion group — just talking about books got me so fired up that after we ended I promptly went up the street to Magus and picked up the first book that caught my eye (Steven Johnson’s Ghost Map, which I highly recommend). [...]

Like songs? Like books? How about songs about books?

The Fremont Abbey Arts Center will host the concert premiere of Songs About Books, TOMORROW NIGHT, August 19, at 8:00PM (doors open at 7PM). The five participating songwriters, organized by Levi Fuller and funded by a grant from the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, were invited to participate in this most recent quarterly compilation album from [...]

Shelf Life: last chance to catch Wave Books’ book making tutorial!

This Sunday at 1pm, Wave Books is giving their LAST book making tutorial. Haven’t come to one before and curious about what goes on at these events? Check out pictures from last week’s reading with Hitomi Yoshi and Steven Karl, and tutorial with Wave’s editor Joshua Beckman here! If you’ve come to a previous tutorial, [...]

Last Call for “The Talent Show”

The Henry is starting its countdown to the closing of our The Talent Show exhibition. There’s no more time to put it off with only t-minus 5 days left! The Talent Show examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that [...]

How Would YOU Disappear in America?

We asked for your responses to weekly screenings of “How to Disappear in America” in the Student Tech Lounge. Here is what some of you had to say: “Disappearing is easy. Do not sign up for a Facebook. Contribute nothing to YouTube. I would bring along my bicycle nicknamed “The Mighty One”. I would go [...]

Seattle Times review of “The Digital Eye”

Read all about the Henry exhibition in this Seattle Times review that reminds you that an image is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, but those thousand words might all be a lie. Technology has driven the art and science of photography since the invention of the medium in the early 19th century. [...]

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