For Eric(s)’s a Jolly Good Fellow!

Yesterday, Henry Staffers celebrated the recent nuptials of Visitor Services Supervisor Eric Carson, and the much-anticipated new baby of prep crew member Eric Adami.
Operations Manager Owen Santos manned the grill, Exhibitions Manager Paul Cabarga made a lovely speech and led the singing – and the Henry loading dock was the perfect place to spend a perfect summer afternoon! Congratulations, Erics! We’re so happy for both of you – and it was great to have such an awesome excuse to enjoy the sunshine together.

Nominations Sought for 2009 Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement

Nomination deadline: September 3, 2009

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Artist Trust is accepting nominations for the Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement until September 3, 2009. The annual award of $10,000 is given to a Washington State female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated 25 years of her life to creating art. The award recognizes creative excellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to the visual arts.

Parallel Lines: 8 Contemporary Seattle Artists – opening at the Wing Luke tonight

EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, June 11, 2009
6:30pm–8pm: Open to the general public | Free

Tram Bui // Mark Takamichi Miller
Jason Huff // Akio Takamori
Pattatti Warashina // Saya Moriyasu
Thúy-Vân Vu // Joseph Park

Tomorrow! Art-on-a-Stick Parade in Capitol Hill

Get all the details here, on the CHS Capitol Hill Seattle Blog.

MFA – “More Lively!”

Jen Graves posted about the MFA exhibition on the  Slog today. Check it out here.

Fantastic photos from the opening celebration are here on ‘Round About Seattle, Robert Wade’s excellent photo blog!

My paws don’t reach the pedals!

But I am on my way to Bike Friday at the Henry!

DXARTS 2009 BFA Thesis Exhibition

The University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media will be exhibiting the thesis work of the  BFA graduates in Fremont. The Opening is tomorrow, Thursday, at 6pm in the Oddfellows Building in Fremont on the corner of Fremont and 35th.

Untitled
Erik Parr

“Works included in the exhibition explore themes of memory, temporality, perception, and the intersection of phenomena and materiality. Transforming the space will be works of light, sound, immersive installations, and experimental film. The exhibition fuses contemporary artistic practice with emerging technologies toward the creation of new experimental art forms.

Here sounding the trails upon fingertips and toes
Daphne Chu

The exhibition is undertaken by fourteen emerging artists engaged in the field of contemporary art practice and digital technology research. The exhibition marks the completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree through the DXARTS program and represents the culmination of various courses of artistic inquiry. DXARTS is a production-based fine arts program that focuses on the advancement of contemporary art through new and experimental technology.”

Transient
Alexis Eggertsen

seriously, check it out.
6pm. Oddfellows Building Fremont &35th.

We have a winner.

Congrats Cynthia.

Enjoy the dreaming…

DREAMY! (Win NWFF tickets)

Gentle Hankblog readers, WIN two tickets to In a Dream, showing next weekend at Northwest Film Forum for the screening of your choice.
Be the first to E-mail hankblog@henryart.org with DREAMY in the subject line. Please include your name, e-mail, and phone number in the body of the e-mail!

Northwest Film Forum presents
In a Dream
June 13-18

This loving, complex portrait of risk-taking septuagenarian artist Isaiah Zegar and his wife Julia, directed by their son Jeremiah, explores the obsessive passion that possesses Isaiah to create 50,000 square foot mosaic murals in their south Philadelphia neighborhood. Isaiah’s single-minded, narcissistic and unstable personality takes its toll on his wife and his family.

Isaiah’s single-minded, narcissistic and unstable personality takes its toll on his wife and his family. Visually stunning and emotionally raw, In A Dream presents a world of chaotic extremes. The art is nothing short of magnificent—dizzying, reflective towers and wall upon wall of beauty—yet created by an artist living within a stone’s throw of insanity and destroying his family. What price art, indeed.

“As a portrait of a sweet but slightly fractured man, it’s one of the most unexpectedly touching documentaries I’ve ever seen.” —Cinematical

Nine Spaces, Nine Tacos

A lovely day for a taco truck run and a picnic in 9 Spaces, 9 Trees. Henry staff in action!