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Path with Art: Poetry, Creative Writing, and Performance Showcase

Melissa Beseda — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:43:09 +0000

January 28
2 – 4 pm
Molly’s Cafe at the Henry

We hope you will join us on Saturday, January 28th from 2-4 PM in Molly’s Cafe at the Henry Art Gallery (UW campus) for an inspiring afternoon of student readings from recent Poetry and Creative Writing classes, and a performance from Acting & Movement class students. Admission to the museum is free for anyone coming to experience this showcase and all are welcome. We appreciate your support and look forward to celebrating the achievements of our students with you on Saturday!

Path with Art is a local nonprofit organization that produces free arts-based classes and events at partner sites where adults are receiving services and/or are welcome. By bringing together social service providers, arts organizations, and artists, we provide adults the opportunity to engage in the creative process as a unique means to improve and rebuild their lives. Annually, Path with Art produces 20 classes, facilitates 12 Access Art outings, and hosts biannual student exhibits.

Swimming to Egypt

Whitney Ford-Terry — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:07:14 +0000

Throughout the Henry’s presentation of Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures visitors will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of participatory experiences designed to explore the concepts introduced in Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures. From interactive sculpture making and object-based movement workshops to afternoon residencies with local artists, Visitors are encouraged to question their definition of sculpture by encountering their own unexpected relationships with everyday objects.

Tonight’s residency will be with Seattle choreographer and experimental dance filmmaker, Karn Junkinsmith.

Karn’s dance film work began in 1990, when she collaborated with Lena Sharpe on GIRLS FIND WAYS TO GETTHERE, a dance of three female archetypes: Joan of Arc, witch and pregnant virgin. Her directorial debut, the whimsical DAYOFF, produced in association with Northwest Film Forum and shot by Lynn Shelton screened at Lincoln Center, BUS STOPscreened at the Red Cat in Los Angeles, and ALCHEMY OF THEORACLES screened at Local Sightings. THE CHRONICLES OFCLEO & JACK shot on 16mm black & white is a story told with pictures, music, skateboarding and dancing screened at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings and the Sans Souci Film Festival in Boulder Colorado in 2010. Her most recent film NIGHTFALLS ON JACK AND CLEO shot by Ben Kasulke on super 16 screened at Local Sightings in October of 2011.

Check out her Workshop here

Karn teaches advanced ballet at Velocity Dance Center and will be performing March 29-April 1 at On the Boards in Mark Haim’s choreography, THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND.

Eyes of the Skin: first performance tomorrow!

Melissa Beseda — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:54:31 +0000

January 26th
7:30 pm
Henry Art Gallery

The Henry welcomes media artist, Maja Petrić (PhD candidate,DXARTS), choreographer, Jennifer Salk (Associate Professor, Dance), and over 15 dancers for a 40-minute dance/mixed media installation that delves into the complex nature of tenderness.

This cross-departmental collaboration explores concepts of tenderness and fragility with a multi-sensory journey allowing viewers to experience the entire museum in unexpected ways. Upon entering the Henry viewers move through the interstitial spaces — hallways, stairwells, elevators, ramps — experiencing sound, light, and dance. These small environments create places of vulnerability, playfulness, intimacy, fragility and cruelty among a tightly knit group, choreographed by Salk.

Using light and projection technology, Petrić’s installations will appear in distinct locations in the Henry where the dancers interact. In the Stroum gallery, a large wall provides the backdrop to the main dance; it slowly “cracks” and discloses an illusion of a realm behind the wall.

Sea-Cat #2 OPENING TONIGHT @ The Hedreen Gallery

Melissa Beseda — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:05:41 +0000

January 24, 5-8pm
Hedreen Gallery

The Hedreen Gallery presents Sea-Cat #2, an exhibition and programming in support of a new print and online catalog initiative, Seattle Catalog. There will also be a performance by SEACATS at 6 pm.

Seattle Catalog is for U.S. Government Inspected Art, Grade A art, Regular Price art, Yellow Ripe art, Extra Fancy art, Ready-to-Eat art, Best-for-Less art, Ready-to-Cook art, Fully Cleaned art, Spend Less art, Eat Better art, ham art, pork art, chicken art, tomato art, banana art, apple art, turkey art, cake art, cookie art.

Seattle Catalog, LLC is both an art project and a for-profit company. As a for-profit company, Seattle Catalog (Sea-Cat, for short) takes the form of a tri-yearly sales catalog supporting creators from atypical communities and backgrounds. As an art project, it is a collaboration by Gretchen Bennett, Wynne Greenwood, and Matthew Offenbacher, three artists associated with experimental object-based art, film, video and music scenes, institutional critique, and social outreach projects. All three have also worked with the Henry as part of the Gift Shop (Gretchen and Matthew) and Erwin Wurm (Wynne). Sea-Cat is also a yearly artist grant, created by gathering a percentage of each artwork sold through the catalog.

Learn more about Sea-Cat HERE.

The show will run from Jan 24 – March 17, 2012. The partnership between the Hedreen Gallery and Sea-Cat will result in a symposia/public discussions involving writers, artists, activists, economists, students, and the public in an extended conversation about value, art, space, and success.

WORKSHOP: How to Make a One Minute Sculpture w/ Wynne Greenwood

Whitney Ford-Terry — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:25:20 +0000

Don’t miss tomorrow’s FREE workshop with Seattle’s own Wynne Greenwood!

Join us in the TEST SITE this sunday, Janurary 22 at 2pm, for an afternoon workshop held in conjunction with the Henry’s presentation of Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures. Throughout the duration of this presentation visitors will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of participatory experiences designed to explore the concepts introduced in Wurm’s Sculptures and question definitions of sculpture by encountering their own unexpected relationships with everyday objects.

For this workshop participants are encouraged to bring a working lamp with lightbulb, a dish of some sort (plate, bowl, cup, mug, etc), preferably one decorated with a pattern or image and a pillow with pillowcase or blanket. If you can’t bring all of these objects, please bring what you can. Register for this FREE workshop at henryart.org

Greenwood’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions and performances at The Moore Space, Miami; Participant, New York; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles; On The Boards, Seattle; the Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York; Foxy Productions, New York; and at The Kitchen, New York (curated by Debra Singer and Sacha Yanow).

Greenwood is adjunct faculty at Seattle University and teaches workshops about video and performance.
She is also one of the nicest people you will likely ever meet.

The Henry is CLOSED today – Thursday 1/19

betsey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:35:09 +0000

Yes, we are still closed. That sled-able snow was fun, wasn’t it? This freezing rain business, though – not so much.

That also means tonight’s Quorum is cancelled, and the beginning of Seattle Arts and Lectures SAL U program Eternity in a Ruffle: Fashion in Art, Art in Fashion will be postponed to less slippery days.

If you’re interested in the SAL U program, and have questions, you may email sal@lectures.org.

Meanwhile, feel free to browse the Henry’s online collection - try searching “snow!”

Or enjoy another snowy day poem:

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground

BY KENNETH PATCHEN

The snow is deep on the ground.

Always the light falls

Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

This is a good world.

The war has failed.

God shall not forget us.

Who made the snow waits where love is.

Only a few go mad.

The sky moves in its whiteness

Like the withered hand of an old king.

God shall not forget us.

Who made the sky knows of our love.

The snow is beautiful on the ground.

And always the lights of heaven glow

Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

Snow Day

betsey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:22:52 +0000

The Henry is closed for the day, and it’s snowing sideways in Seattle’s Central District. After the jump, I’m posting a few snow poems for your reading enjoyment, because, well – if you can’t go to work, and you can’t go to school, and you’re bundled up inside….

The Snow Man
BY WALLACE STEVENS

One must have a mind of winter

To regard the frost and the boughs

Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time

To behold the junipers shagged with ice,

The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think

Of any misery in the sound of the wind,

In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land

Full of the same wind

That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,

And, nothing himself, beholds

Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc.

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Alfred A. Knopf, )

White-Eyes

BY MARY OLIVER

In winter

all the singing is in

the tops of the trees

where the wind-bird

with its white eyes

shoves and pushes

among the branches.

Like any of us

he wants to go to sleep,

but he’s restless—

he has an idea,

and slowly it unfolds

from under his beating wings

as long as he stays awake.

But his big, round music, after all,

is too breathy to last.

So, it’s over.

In the pine-crown

he makes his nest,

he’s done all he can.

I don’t know the name of this bird,

I only imagine his glittering beak

tucked in a white wing

while the clouds—

which he has summoned

from the north—

which he has taught

to be mild, and silent—

thicken, and begin to fall

into the world below

like stars, or the feathers

of some unimaginable bird

that loves us,

that is asleep now, and silent—

that has turned itself

into snow.

Source: Poetry (October 2002).

Snow Day

BY BILLY COLLINS

Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,

its white flag waving over everything,

the landscape vanished,

not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,

and beyond these windows

the government buildings smothered,

schools and libraries buried, the post office lost

under the noiseless drift,

the paths of trains softly blocked,

the world fallen under this falling.

In a while, I will put on some boots

and step out like someone walking in water,

and the dog will porpoise through the drifts,

and I will shake a laden branch

sending a cold shower down on us both.

But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house,

a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow.

I will make a pot of tea

and listen to the plastic radio on the counter,

as glad as anyone to hear the news

that the Kiddie Corner School is closed,

the Ding-Dong School, closed.

the All Aboard Children’s School, closed,

the Hi-Ho Nursery School, closed,

along with—some will be delighted to hear—

the Toadstool School, the Little School,

Little Sparrows Nursery School,

Little Stars Pre-School, Peas-and-Carrots Day School

the Tom Thumb Child Center, all closed,

and—clap your hands—the Peanuts Play School.

So this is where the children hide all day,

These are the nests where they letter and draw,

where they put on their bright miniature jackets,

all darting and climbing and sliding,

all but the few girls whispering by the fence.

And now I am listening hard

in the grandiose silence of the snow,

trying to hear what those three girls are plotting,

what riot is afoot,

which small queen is about to be brought down.

Billy Collins, “Snow Day” from Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Billy Collins. Reprinted with the permission of Sll/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

Source: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House Inc., 2001)

The Henry is CLOSED Wednesday, 1/18

betsey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:22:50 +0000

Even though our esteemed University of Washington colleague, Cliff Mass, says that the snow may be a no-show; the UW Campus and its normal operations will be closed Wednesday. That means the HENRY IS CLOSED for the day.

Keep warm and drive safely, if you must drive.

snOMGeez!

Whitney Ford-Terry — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:32:20 +0000

Planning a visit to the Henry?
Wondering if the museum will be open?

Check back here for updates on possible snow closures or visit our Facebook page and Twitter Feed. In the interim, we ARE open today so come on in out of the cold and see an art or two. OR if you are at home/work/by a computer try taking a look through our collections online, I just did a search for snow.

Tender Forever and Your Heart Breaks

Melissa Beseda — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:59:57 +0000

Did you miss last night’s performance of Tender Forever and Your Heart Breaks? Do you want to reminisce about the intergalactic night of music and multimedia performance?

Check out what you missed or relive what you experienced:

Click to view slideshow.