Monthly Archives: October 2011

Graduate Student Welcome Party TOMORROW!

Friday, October 28, 2011, 6:00 – 8:00 PM FREE to UW Graduate Students Henry Art Gallery Graduate students interested in the arts are invited to the museum to learn about the Henry Art Gallery and get to know one another. Throughout the night students will have the opportunity to meet museum staff, take a tour [...]

Sprout V

Sprout is a locally sourced community dinner that funds emerging Seattle artists with a vote. Participants pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they receive a homemade dinner and a ballot. Diners watch presentations and vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of the dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the [...]

3 Days of Poetry: Poetry in Translation schedule now available!

The schedule for 3 Days of Poetry: Poetry in Translation, Wave Books’ upcoming festival at the Henry, is now available! Friday, November 4, schedule HERE Saturday, November 5, schedule HERE Sunday, November 6, schedule HERE There is a limited number of tickets available, so get them while you can! Buy a festival pass HERE. A [...]

Unique Together: Works from Current Faculty Opening Reception Tonight!

October 25th 4:00pm - 7:00pm Art Building, Jacob Lawrence Gallery (Room 132). (map) This exhibit features work by Division of Art faculty in the UW School of Art, representing this community of artist-educators through their creative output. Paintings, photographs, video, sculptural objects, and installations are just a sample of the modes used by the faculty members to manifest [...]

Molly’s in Food Lifeline

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Writing for Their Lives Event Tonight!

Writing For Their Lives (WFTL) features writers and artists, for whom writing is a means of exploration and discovery.  Writers read, and sometimes perform, their works–and engage in lively, probing conversations with University of Washington Bothell professors and you, our audience. WFTL has sponsored over thirty readers, panels and special events. Past writers include Rebecca Brown, Dodie Bellamy, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Cris Cheek, Don [...]

More Merce

Inspired by the Shared Sensibilities lecture? Needing more Merce in your life? Attend some of (or all) other Merce Cunningham events happening in Seattle. Merce Cunningham, whose legendary career spanned over 60 years, was born in Centralia, WA and attended Cornish College of the Arts. With an artistic career distinguished by constant innovation, Cunningham expanded the frontiers not only [...]

Shared Sensibilities: Cunningham, Rauschenberg, and Johns

Sunday, October 23, 2011, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Henry Auditorium FREE for Students and Henry Members | $5 General Audience. Advance tickets recommended. BUY TICKETS   Between 1953 and 1980, the visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns frequently designed décor, costumes, and even lighting for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. This lecture will examine the [...]

STUDENT events

Free Food & Drinks FOR STUDENTS @ 2 GREAT Museums! First up… After Hours @ the Burke: Carnival Celebration! Thursday, October 20, 2011 | 7-9PM FREE with UW ID, $5 general public Groove to live music from the UW steel drum band Learn Carnival dances from the Caribbean Get creative and make a carnival mask [...]

Carel Balth: The Gift of Perception

Join us tonight in celebrating the opening of Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries. Tonight’s lecture, Carel Balth: The Gift of Perception, is officially SOLD OUT, but all are welcome to attend the public reception from 7-10pm. For those of you who reserved or requested tickets, please arrive early to check in at the front desk. For those [...]

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