The UW Hall Health Center has released a call for artwork from UW students to be displayed in in the building during the 2012-2013 school year. The exhibition’s intent is to promote the theme of physical and mental wellbeing. Any size and media of work will be considered. Please provide the composition and dimensions of [...]
Interested in exercising your writing skills this summer? Want to explore the exhibitions at the Henry through a different medium? The Henry and Richard Hugo House have precisely the class for that. Meeting at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, this class will use visual art as a springboard for writing. We’ll [...]
Seattle International Film Festival opens this week (Thursday, May 17th)! SIFF is the largest film festival in the country and it’s right in your backyard! SIFF kicks off with an Opening Night Gala on Thursday at 7:00 pm and runs through June 10th. There is also a great SIFFTER tool to help people sift through the more [...]
Hello there, dear Hank Blog readers, This is a friendly reminder (I know, I know, of course you didn’t forget!) about the amazing Queer events happening at the Henry, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Space this weekend. TONIGHT (may 11th, more details HERE) Join us for a reception at Molly’s Cafe at the [...]
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Fin Records and the Next 50 present “One in a Future,” four curated events featuring musical performances and panel discussions on the history, present and future of music in the Northwest and beyond. Part ONE: Returning Music – Why Roots Music Can Stabilize the Turbulent World of Music Intiman/Playhouse @ the Seattle Center Monday, May 14th Doors [...]
The Queering the Art Museum symposium is a manifestation of all the questions I have about queer inclusion in museums bringing together the best people to answer them. On Friday May 11, Jonathan D. Katz (co-curator of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture), Rock Hushka (co-curator of Art, AIDS, America 2014) and Stephanie Stebich [...]
Henry exhibiting artist, Eirik Johnson, will be giving an Artist Talk at the G. Gibson Gallery on Saturday, May 19th at 2 pm. Johnson’s Sawdust Mountain was exhibited at the Henry from October 2009 through January 2010. Johnson explores 19th-century myths about a powerful and romantic West full of promise and bountiful assets, myths that are [...]