gallery4culture: exhibition opportunity

Call for artists from our friends at 4Culture! Deadline:  Monday, January 9, 2012, 5:00 P.M. Gallery4Culture’s application for the exhibition season from September 2012 through August 2013 is now available online. Review the guidelines and online application here. Individual artists, artist teams and independent curators residing in King County, WA are eligible to apply. Artists may [...]

ARCADE 30th Anniversary / 30.1 Launch Party

ARCADE is a Seattle-based nonprofit that publishes a magazine on design and holds related events. As a platform for discussion and exploration, all are invited to join, participate and collectively add to the greater whole. ARCADE provides a place where those with inspired ideas about design can openly and enthusiastically share them. ARCADE’s turning 30! [...]

Collections in Focus: Getting to know the Henry’s Permanent Collection

Thursday, December 1, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 PM FREE, space is limited, RSVP required RSVP by TODAY to RachaelF@henryart.org The Henry is launching a new program series called Collections in Focus. This public program, hosted in the museum’s Reed Collection Study Center, will feature special guests from the Seattle community speaking about specific areas of the Henry’s [...]

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Dreams of a Liberated Idiot: Guest Post from Bronwyn Lewis

dearest hank blog readers, my name is bronwyn lewis. i worked with whitney and rachael to produce the burlesque performances for tonight’s reception, and will be performing as wiggy stardust in a piece inspired by my research on carolee for this symposium. a few months ago, i checked out some of carolee’s books of works [...]

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Carolee Schneemann TONIGHT!

Tickets are still available to see Carolee’s performative / lecture TONIGHT! The format for the lecture was pioneered by the artist and employed throughout her career—Schneemann, as she describes it, “travels backwards and forwards in time.” During the lecture the artist will analyze recurring formal properties of her work, beginning with obsessive childhood drawings of a [...]

Sopheap Pich Review in the Seattle Times

  Have you seen Sopheap Pich’s Compound yet? Michael Upchurch from the Seattle Times wrote a wonderful review of the exhibition. Here’s an excerpt: “The piece seems fancifully “architectural” at first. But on closer scrutiny, it’s more chilling. Its rectangles feel like claustrophobic cages. Its tapering domes, when viewed from a sidelong angle, resemble undetonated bombs. [...]

REMINDER: Call for Artists for CITY PANORAMA

CITY PANORAMA: A PUBLIC ART PROJECT WITH PHOTOCENTER NW + KING COUNTY METRO + 4CULTURE This project is organized in conjunction with King County Metro and 4Culture that will see 125 photographic murals installed in bus shelters around King County. You might have seen some of these murals already – last year (the first year of [...]

Art Discovery Family Workshop

This Sunday, November 20th at 2:00 PM, dig deeper on the art on view at the Henry and get dirty with an art-making activity! We’ll explore Dutch artist Carel Balth’s Videowatercolors in an interactive tour and art-making activity where you’ll experiment with mixed media collage techniques to create original artworks that explore light and color. For [...]