Monthly Archives: September 2011

Friday, September 30 at Shelf Life: Poste Restante c/o Eric Fredericksen

  Since September 7th Shelf Life has welcomed the trickling-in of the exhibition Poste Restante, curated by Eric Fredericksen, director of Western Bridge. The objects of Poste Restante are large and small, oblong and round; a few are completely flat and one is shaped suspiciously like a sculpture. They lie in their original mailing packaging [...]

Currently Installing: Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises

Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises opens this Saturday, September 24th. For more information and to see related tours and events (including a symposium!), click here.

Extra, Extra! The Fall 2011 Newsletter is Here

Henry exhibiting artists around the world

If you are heading to Vancouver, be sure to check out Matthew Buckingham‘s new installation “Creative Destruction” at the Or Gallery. It is thoughtful and colorful! Matthew’s work “The Spirit and The Letter” (seen here at the Henry in 2008) is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum. For all Swiss-based Henry fans, Walid Raad’s [...]

This Sunday at Shelf Life: Book Arts Performance Exhibition with Sandra Kroupa

Sandra Kroupa, legendary Book Arts and Rare Book Curator for UW Libraries’ Special Collections, joins us for the third installment of “Book Arts: Performance Exhibition” this Sunday, September 18, from 2-3 pm. The third and final rotation of artists’ books, drawn from the Book Arts Collection at UW Special Collections, is now on display inside [...]

Festival tickets are now on sale!

Tickets to 3 Days of Poetry: Poetry in Translation are now on sale on the Wave Books website! General passes are $25, student passes are $15. The cost of a pass gains you entry to all three days of festivities at the Henry, a welcome packet, and a ticket to the Sunday night event, “Translators [...]

Jason Salavon is in the building

He’s mid-workshop right now, and will lecture here tomorrow evening. Come see his work in The Digital Eye, before it closes at the end of this month. Here’s a note from The Seattle Times on his Seattle activities this week. And here’s the photo that wasn’t in the Seattle Times, as they are a family newspaper, [...]

A fond farewell Hank!

Well, the summer is wrapping up and so is my internship. It is time for this blogger to move on to other adventures. We’ve had some good times, Hank, and so many memories among my 40+ posts in the past 3 months. Do you recall “Hey, Let’s Talk!” when I gave you the gift of [...]

Seattle’s Emerging Museum Professionals Kick-Off Event tomorrow!

Seattle’s new Emerging Museum Professionals chapter is holding their big, initiative kick-off party tomorrow evening, September 8, 2011. EMP is affiliated with American Association of Museums and facilitates networking between new museum professionals within the first 10 years of their career. They offer opportunities to: -Connect with colleagues from other institutions. -Discover ways to increase [...]

Flashback: Matthew Buckingham

Back in the summer of 2008, the Henry was the proud host of Matthew Buckingham: Play the Story. Henry-goers may recall his three, historically themed video installations: Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century woman of letters; Louis Le Prince, a Frenchman who invented a prototypical motion picture projector in the last decades of the 19th century; and [...]

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