Monthly Archives: December 2011

Readers’ Choice Survey for Morning Serial: Webcomics Come to the Table

Coming to Test Site*at the Henry next Spring (March 3rd – June 30th, 2012)  Morning Serial: Webcomics Come to the Table is a pocket-sized exhibition on the art and culture of webcomics, created in partnership with UW Museology Masters candidate Sarra Scherb. This exhibition will examine what makes webcomics unique to comics-making, and will include both physical and digital [...]

One Minute Sculptures

Have you been to the Henry’s Test Site lately? Erwin Wurm‘s How to Make a One Minute Sculpture is currently on and it requires some audience interaction and creativity. You are invited to come and make your own One Minute Sculpture using the objects in the Test Site. Visitors are encouraged to question their definition of [...]

New Art on Campus

A new mural by Ray Troll is now on display in the Fisheries Sciences Building. The mural depicts a various species found in the Salish Sea as well as Seattle landscape markers such as the Space Needle and Mount Rainier. What’s even more awesome is that the mural is 3-D. Be sure to grab a [...]

RICHARD (DICK) ELLIOTT: CYCLE OF THE SUN

Intrigued by the colorful paintings on the windows of the Henry? Watch Watch this video to learn about them! This video is the first in a suite of five which will highlight the museum’s permanent collection. The project is a collaboration between the Henry and Solstream Media. The videos will be posted on the Henry’s [...]

The Touch of Light Lecture TONIGHT

Tonight at 7 pm in the Henry Auditorium, curator Marek Wieczorek will give a lecture onVideowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries. Read more here, here or here. Tickets are still available and are free for students and Henry Members. Reserve your tickets here. General audience can purchase $5 tickets here or at the door. Hope to see [...]

YEAH Seattle! Yeah, Carolee!

USA FELLOWS! Winner Winner Chicken Dinner: Ceramicist Akio Takamori, filmmaker James Longley (already a Stranger and MacArthur Genius), and choreographer Donald Byrd win $50,000! Also: “Roger Shimomura, another artist with many close ties to Seattle despite living in Kansas, is a winner this year, and so is Carolee Schneemann, whose wild, anarchic, terrific retrospective is currently at the Henry Art Gallery.” From SLOG.

The Touch of Light: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries

Friday, December 9, 2011, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Henry Auditorium FREE for Students and Henry Members | $5 General Audience Purchase or reserve your tickets HERE. Join guest curator Marek Wieczorek for a discussion of Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries, an exhibition that shows works by Dutch artist Balth in relation to a selection of [...]

We Need Your Feedback!

  The Henry is wrapping up our application for AAM’s self-evaluation program, known as MAP or the Museum Assessment Program.  This program will help the Henry to improve and to better meet the needs of our community, aka YOU. The Henry is a hub for audiences of all ages to experience the discovery, wonder, and surprise that contemporary art, [...]

Collections in Focus TONIGHT

There are still a few spots available for the program tonight. It starts at 6:30 in the Reed Collection Study Center. Want to learn all about the Henry’s awesome print collection? RSVP to RachaelF@henryart.org Read more about the program here or here.

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