This Week Ahead @ the Henry

 

School’s out! Come hang with us at the Henry!

Wednesday, June 19th

Public Tour, 12:00 – 12:30 pm:  Seattle artist and newly-minted UW MFA Dave Kennedy will lead a tour through Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty. Dave’s work shares themes of passion, self-doubt, inner struggle, and introspection with the works exhibited in Out [o] Fashion. Recently awarded a solo show at 4Culture in April of 2014, Dave’s work has been shown at GGibson, Photo Center Northwest, and Seattle Art Museum’s Gallery.

Thursday, June 20th

ArtsDawgs Series: MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition and Reception, 6:00-8:00 pm: You are invited to the final ArtsDawgs event of the year! After a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception at 6 pm, take a walk-through of the UW MFA + MDes thesis exhibition. Buy your ticket here or at the door (only $8; unless you are a Henry member, then you are FREE)!

What’s an ArtsDawg? The UW Alumni Association and ArtsUW have partnered to offer UWAA members an exciting opportunity to experience the arts at UW as an insider. With just a click of your mouse and a flash of your member card, you can attend select performances and exhibitions, indulge in exclusive pre-show receptions, and hear from knowledgeable artists and faculty.

 

Closing this Sunday!

You have just a week left to see the 2013 UW MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition. Seventeen burgeoning artists all in one gallery: visit now so you can say you saw them when. Small Change by first year MFA candidate Rebecca Chernow also ends on Sunday. Have you checked out her wares? Traded or bartered anything? Everything must go!

MDes Candidate Mike Fretto (right) talks with visitors. Photo credit: Dan Bennett

BIKE SUMMER. BIKE HENRY.

With the days getting longer and the evenings getting warmer now is the perfect time to hop on your bike, trike, or extra-cycle and head to the Henry! We’re happy to announce our Bike Friday summer program with a special kick-off event on June 28th! All summer long we are  offering complementary admission on Friday’s to all cyclists. Ride your bike and get in FREE!

Join us on the 28th for an evening of workshops and demos from Bicycle Alliance of Washington, Cascade Bicycle Club, Back Alley Bike Repair and The Bikery. Enjoy bike-friendly brews from Peddler Brewing Company and dance to live music from Seattle bands Punishment and Pitschouse. Class up your bike style with fashion forward activities brought to you by Iva Jean and Hub and Bespoke.

Cant wait to participate in bike-friendly summer fun? Then visit our friends over at the Bikery TONIGHT from 7-11pm for their Housewarming Party in the Artspace Hiawatha Lofts. Enjoy snacks, drinks, a raffle and Sponsor-A-Tool table, live music, faces old and new, updates on what’s new around the Bikery, and lots of good times.

Who: The Bikery, Bikery friends and neighbors, cyclists and cycling advocates, and community members and advocates
What: Bikery Housewarming Party
When: This Friday, June 14th, 7:00pm-11:00pm
Where: Artspace Hiawatha Lofts, 843 Hiawatha Pl S, Seattle

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Making plans for the week? Check out what’s happening here at the Henry.

Industrial Effects: Photographs from the Henry Art Gallery Collection is open now through September 1.

Over the years, photographers have traced the rise and fall of industry’s popularity, from sweeping views of skyscrapers to critical looks at industry’s effect on workers and the environment. Through a selection of photographs from the Henry’s permanent collection, Industrial Effects traces evolving attitudes toward industry from the 19th century until now. This exhibition is organized by Sylvia Wolf, Director.

Edward Burtynsky. Shipbreaking #12, Chittagong, Bangladesh. 2000. Chromogenic color print. Henry Art Gallery, gift of Dale and Leslie Chihuly.

Thursday, June 13

Mindfulness Meditation, 12:30 – 1:00. Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Thursday’s session will be held in the East Gallery which is currently showing Paul Laffoley: Premonitions of the Bauharoque. This event is free. Please check in at the front desk.

Saturday, June 15

Public Forum: Free Market, 1:00 – 3:00. Everything must go! Toward the close of Small Change, once all of the handmade currency has been dispersed, artist Rebecca Chernow will be hosting a “liquidation sale” during which time everything that has accumulated in the space through means of trade and barter will be made available to the public.

Visitors are encouraged to empty the gallery space of its contents in this final week, exchanging real U.S. dollars (on a strictly donation basis, at their discretion) for objects of their choosing. All donations support the Henry’s mission of advancing the art, artists, and ideas of our time.

Items ready for purchase in Small Change

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Here’s what’s happening this week at the Henry!

Thursday, June 6th
4:45-6 - The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Henry Gallery Association - Come hear about what we have accomplished in the past year and what we have to look forward to in 2013-14.

7-8 - Artist Talk: Rebecca Chernow - Join us for a discussion on and around issues of labor, trade, currency, and gift economies inspired by Rebecca Chernow’s concurrent study on the topic. Small Change is a four-week presentation of research into themes of reciprocity, barter, debt, and the emergence of markets and related value systems through the creation and distribution of an invented currency.

Rebecca Chernow works on installing “Small Change” (photo credit: Robert Wade)

Sunday, June 9th
2-3:30 – Family Sundays at the Henry! -  Family Sundays at the Henry are especially designed for adults and children to learn and create together. Join us as we explore Richard Elliott’s Cycle of the Sun and the influences that helped shape his work including geometry, quilting patterns and basket weaving designs.  Register at Stranger Tickets.

If you liked the Arty Party, you’ll love Family Sundays! (photo credit: Marilyn Montufar)

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Here’s what’s happening this week at the Henry!

Wednesday, May 22th
12-12:30 - Student-Led Tour: Join a Henry Student Exhibition Guide for a 30-minute tour. All tours meet in the museum lobby.

Thursday, May 23rd
7-8:30 – Collection in Focus: Off with the Corset. Join Kimberly Hereford, UW Art History PhD candidate, for a discussion about the key characteristics of Aesthetic attire while examining a selection of garments from the Henry’s extensive costume collection. Please RSVP by Tuesday, May 21 to contact-collections@henryart.org.

Friday, May 24th
7-9 pm - May Openings: Sanctum & the 2013 UW School of Art MFA + MDes Exhibiton. Join the artists, their friends, and families for a reception at the Henry to celebrate the opening of Sanctum and the 2013 UW School of Art Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design exhibition. Please note: The preview (5-7 pm) is limited to students, faculty, and their guests. At 7 pm, the reception opens to the public.

Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty is open through Sept 1 (Photo credit: R.J. Sanchez)

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Here’s what’s happening this week at the Henry!

Wednesday, May 15th
12-12:30 - Faculty Focus Tour with UW Painting + Drawing Associate Professor Helen O’Toole.  O’Toole was born in the west of Ireland and moved to Chicago in 1987 to pursue an MFA in painting at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Provincetown, and Seattle. She will guide visitors through Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces. 

Check out this blog post from Jeremy Buben’s le Dandysme about our May 1st Staff Spotlight Tour with Feney Perez.

All day — Give Big! How can you support the Henry and be part of a dynamic community event? Participate in The Seattle Foundation’s third annual GiveBIG community day of giving this Wednesday. We would greatly appreciate your gift to help us to continue to inspire audiences of all ages with the discovery, wonder, and surprise that contemporary art provides.

Thursday, May 16th
7-8 pm - Music of Today with Cuong Vu. Cuong Vu and his guest(s) will perform and discuss the avant-garde, free improvisation, and the experimentation/innovation he uses to create his forward-looking music.This performance is part of the UW’s ongoing centennial celebration of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

Friday, May 17th
10 am – 4 pm – Symposium: The Mechanics of Beauty.  UW’s History of Art Department will host a one-day symposium at the Henry that will explore the means, techniques, tools and strategies behind the production of art objects. The symposium will be held in conjunction with the Henry’s exhibition Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty.

6 -9 pm – The Brink Bash. Meet the six Brink Award finalists, enjoy a Hilliard’s beer, and take away an exclusive Brink Finalists publication. Tickets are available online for a suggested donation of $15 or at the door.

Film Screenings @ the Henry

In conjunction with our exhibition Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty, the Henry offers two film screenings this month to expand upon the ideas and concepts presented in the exhibition.

Paris is Burning: May 9th, 7-8:20 pm
Paris is Burning is a documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston that explores issues of race, class, and gender in the context of the New York City drag balls of the 1980s. This intimate and controversial film immerses the viewer in a subculture where contestants compete in categories that often skew and mimic hetero normative notions of race and gender. Regarding the film, philosopher Judith Butler questions whether, “parodying the dominant norms is enough to displace them…whether the denaturalization of gender cannot be the very vehicle for a reconsolidation of hegemonic norms.” The film will be introduced by Seattle filmmaker Tiffany Gannon.

We chose to screen this film as it explores the idea of seeing and being seen and also considers the notion of idealized beauty and “the gendered image,” a prominent theme explored in Out [o] Fashion. Until recently, Paris is Burning was, according to NPR, “difficult to see except at late-night art house showings and on vintage VHS, only a few years ago did some kind soul uploaded it to YouTube” (Read more of the NPR article here). You can now watch the film on Netflix, but this screening at the Henry will be via vintage VHS.

Cleopatra Jones: May 30th, 7-8:30pm
Cleopatra Jones is a Blaxploitation film starring Tamara Dobson which reflexively deals with themes of feminism, sexuality, race, and pop culture during a transitional time in the 1970’s, a social climate that witnessed the rise of both second-wave feminism and the Black Power movement. In this film, Dobson takes the role of the first black superheroine in the genre – a striking, fierce, and fashion-conscious spy who travels the world on a mission to cut off illicit supplies at their source. This screening will also feature an introduction and discussion with African American Film Studies scholar Sonnet Retman.

Cleopatra Jones creates a counter-narrative to earlier images of women, much like the photography of women photographers such as Gertrude Käsebier, Lisette Model, and Imogen Cunningham, all of whom are featured in Out [o] Fashion.

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Here’s what’s happening this week at the Henry!

Wednesday, May 8th
12-12:30 pm – Student Led Tour: Join a Henry Student Exhibition Guide for a 30-minute tour. All tours meet in the museum lobby.

Thursday, May 9th
12:30-1:00 pm – Mindfulness Meditation: Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Join us to recenter and relax during your busy workday.

Thursday, May 9th
7:00 pm – Paris is Burning Screening. This is a documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston that explores issues of race, class, and gender in the context of the New York City drag balls of the 1980s.  This intimate and controversial film immerses the viewer in a subculture where contestants compete in categories that often skew and mimic hetero normative notions of race and gender. This film explores the notion of idealized beauty and the gendered image also explored in Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty.

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Here’s what’s happening this week at the Henry!

Wednesday, May 1st
12-12:30 pm - Staff Spotlight Tour – Join Feney Perez, our Museum Education Coordinator, as she leads you on a tour to celebrate public art on the UW campus and at the Henry  by looking at the work of James Luna, found in University of Washington’s new Kane Hall Collection to explore “Imagined Identity,” a theme prevalent in our current exhibition Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty.

Installation Image: Mark Woods. Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty.

 

Thursday, May 2nd
7-7:30 pm - First Thursday Guided Tours – Join a Henry Student Exhibition Guide for a 30-minute tour.

Sunday, May 5th
11:30 am -3:30 pm – Arty Party! – Join us here at the Henry for our first Arty Party. LOOK * LISTEN * EXPLORE * LAUGH. Caspar Babypants will perform two first-come, first-served sets at 11:30 and 12:30. Bring the whole family for a day of fun at the Henry. Doors open at 11 am.

The Week Ahead @ the Henry

Here’s what’s happening this week at the Henry!

Wednesday, April 24th
12-12:30 pm – Art Break Tour: Henry Exhibition Guides will encourage a lively discussion around a selection of objects in our exhibitions.

Thursday, April 25th
7-8 pm – Music of Today with Abby Aresty. Abby Aresty, a UW School of Music graduate student, investigates the role of breath in music through creative manipulations of a performer’s relationship to her own breath. This performance is part of the UW’s ongoing centennial celebration of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

Have you seen Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces yet?