Mar 29 Friday
Opening April 29th. Museum hours Wednesday – Sunday | 10am–5pm
Do you think your kids are too young for glass? Does picturing your toddler at a glass museum remind you of a bull in a china shop? Well, Museum of Glass is not just for grown-ups! Illuminate is an exhibition for early learners and their grown-ups which explores what makes glass a unique art material – the ability to capture and manipulate light.
Art, science, and play collide as visitors learn about color, light, reflection, and shadow. The exhibition will unfold through world-class artworks created by Nikola Dimitrijevic, John Kiley, Richard Royal, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Veruska Vagen, and more. Each piece of art will be activated by opportunities for early learners and their families to create, to move, to play, and to experience what makes glass extraordinary in the world of art. Create your own design with a larger-than-life LiteBrite™, make art from your own shadow, and discover what makes glass glow-in-the-dark!
Sound Check! The Music We Make
October 15, 2023 through September 14, 2024 Special Exhibition Gallery
This exhibition explores the role music has played in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander lives & communities as an element of cultural heritage/identity, a form of personal/creative expression, a commercial industry, a connecting/healing force, and an integral part of thriving communities and culture.
The interactive exhibit includes behind the scenes-photos, framed artworks, podcasts, artifacts, storylines, audio, and video that feature Asian artists’ expressions of cultural identity.
Sound Check! The Music We Make reflects the Wing Luke Museum’s mission to highlight stories from the Asian American experience while connecting the community to the dynamic history, cultures and art of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders through vivid storytelling and inspiring experiences to advance racial and social equity.
Hours: Wednesday 10 AM–5 PMThursday 10 AM–5 PMFriday 10 AM–5 PMSaturday 10 AM–5 PMSunday 10 AM–5 PMMonday 10 AM–5 PMTuesday Closed
The textile-based works in Soft Power are declarations: potent expressions of care, rebuke, resistance, and resilience. These soft manifestations of cultural heritage - the natural, tangible, and intangible- amplify personal narrative and social criticism through process and materiality. Visitors are encouraged to join in the creation of a large-scale collaborative soft artwork within the gallery.
In 1936, the University of Washington men’s rowing team did the unthinkable: despite injuries and illness, they defeated British, German, and Italian crews and brought home a gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. In celebration of the film The Boys in the Boat, directed by George Clooney, MOHAI is proud to display a selection of rare artifacts and photographs related to the 1936 champion crew which offer a look into the rich history of rowing in Seattle.
On view at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) November 24, 2023-June 2, 2024, Pulling Together explores how the sport of rowing has united the city around the shared values of teamwork and inclusion and connected us to the world beyond.
The opening day festivities on November 24 including a panel discussion with former UW Olympic rowing medalists, screenings of the critically acclaimed American Experience documentary film, The Boys of '36, courtesy of KCTS 9, and a special Pop-Up-Shop at the MOHAI Mercantile featuring a wide-range of rowing-themed merchandise.
La Vaughn Belle: A History of Unruly Returns features the paintings, ceramics, and collages of contemporary artist La Vaughn Belle. Based on the island of Saint Croix, Belle investigates the legacy of colonialism. The exhibition will feature large-scale paintings from her series “Chaney (We Live in the Fragments)” (2015-present). “Chaney” refers to ceramic shards found in abundance in the soil of Saint Croix.
Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century illuminates the untold story of African American visual and performing artists, such as Doug Crutchfield, Herb Gentry, Dexter Gordon, William Henry Johnson, Howard Smith, and Walter Williams, who sought new possibilities, inspiration, and environments in the Nordic countries as an alternative to Paris. This exhibition is the first comprehensive examination of this topic.
Join MOHAI for a chance to learn more about the Junior League of Seattle and its 100-year history of volunteer service to the community. This exhibit will includes a stunning selection of art from the Northwest Art Project, founded in the 1960s and the longest lasting program of the Junior League of Seattle. In addition to highlights from the organization’s century of service, the exhibit on view at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry from February 3-April 21, 2024 will include works by Seattle artists George Tsutakawa, Jacob Lawrence and Barbara Earl Thomas.
This exhibit was organized by MOHAI and the Junior League of Seattle.
For adults.Delve into the text and contexts of William Shakespeare’s intimate and epic tragedy, Othello. Investigate the language, story, characters, themes and contexts of Shakespeare’s devastating and dynamic story of passionate love, desperate jealousy, illusive honesty, and the differences that bind and divide us.Theatre director and Shakespeare scholar, Leah Adcock-Starr will lead the discussion and share her insights.Please register at kcls.org.
March’s Whatcom READS Art Challenge & Cultural Festival Showcase
March 1- March 30, 2024
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 4pm
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 6pm-9pm
1418 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225
Allied Arts of Whatcom County is delighted to present a compelling array of artistic talents for the annual Whatcom READS Art Challenge, in collaboration with the Bellingham and Whatcom Libraries' Whatcom READS program. Local artists embarked on an inspiring journey inspired by this year's chosen book, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe. Each artist brings their unique perspective to the challenge by creating art that reflects their own personal legacy. Applications to participate in the exhibition are available at https://www.alliedarts.org/exhibits/#whatcom-reads Featured artists include: Akiko Victorson, Anita Merina, Jason LaClair, Lucia Enriquez, and Vina Brown.
Allied Arts is a non-profit gallery, all proceeds from sales go towards supporting the arts in our community.
For more information visit www.alliedarts.org or contact Xandra Blackburn at 360-676-8548 or gallery@alliedarts.org.
New York-based artist Sara Jimenez’s exhibition Why should our bodies end at the skin?* explores the intersections of geology, mythologies, and intergenerational bonds as they relate to the artist’s Filipino ancestry. An inverted volcanic form of bent steel extends from the ceiling towards the studio entrance, the looming structure housing a lava flow of fuchsia fabric that tumbles to the floor. Mirroring the volcano’s shape in miniature, bright pink pedestals support an array of ceramic vessels, while an audio composition made in collaboration with Finnish composer Lau Nau produces a rumbling soundscape of collected sounds, vocals, and synth. The elements of Why should our bodies end at the skin? are an immersive exploration of spaces and objects that contain and reveal the past and present.