Mar 29 Friday
Tacoma-based international artist Anida Yoeu Ali makes her SAM debut with this solo exhibition that celebrates performance, public encounters, and political agitation as powerful art forms. In her work, Ali enacts fantastic mythical heroines as assertions of feminist, queer, and alternative visibilities. These personas are hybrids of different religious aesthetics to disrupt ideas around otherness. Her performances are invitations for viewers to wander, witness, and joyfully experience moments that transcend the ordinary. Central to many of her performances is her use of textiles, a practice rooted in her Cham-Muslim refugee migration experience—her family fled Cambodia with only the clothes on their backs.
Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence explores two of Ali’s iconic performances: The Buddhist Bug and The Red Chador. The colorful, transformative garments worn by the artist and others during the performances—which the artist considers “artifacts” rather than artworks when not enacted by her—are on view. Video, photography, and other installation art bring viewers into previous performances of the works from site-specific locations around the world. During the run of the exhibition, Ali will enact the works in two separate performances: The Buddhist Bug will be performed on March 23, 2024 and The Red Chador will be performed on June 1, 2024.
The festival features guest artist companies Newport Contemporary Ballet (Rhode Island) and Olympic Ballet Theatre (Edmonds, WA). Feel the excitement of the creative process in action as these companies perform and collaborate together to present new works through a week-long residency in Seattle.
This Spring Break, the Hands On Children’s Museum will chomp, stomp, and roar with awesome dinosaur-themed activities and exciting special guests from March 23 – April 14. Examine real fossils with experts from the Burke Museum and Fossil Team PDX. Meet the Raptor Ambassadors with The Falconer and learn about birds of prey and their dinosaur ancestors. Explore epoch extinction events, create prehistoric cave paintings, dig for dino bones, watch wacky Dr. Science demos, join the dino stomp dance party, and more!
Special events and activities vary daily. See dates and times below.
Exciting Spring Break Activities & Special Guests · Build dinosaur skeletons · Make dino feet, hats, and enjoy dinosaur coloring sheets in the Art Studio · Make Pterodactyl flyers for the wind tunnel · Draw with chalk and walk with giants as we compare ourselves to dinosaurs in the ODC · Examine feathers, skins, and scales at the science table (March 25–30) · Design dinosaur decorated rumble bots (March 25–30) · The Museum will be closed for Easter, March 31 · Uncover ice cube archeology (April 1–4) · Create prehistoric cave paintings (April 1–4) · Explore epoch extinction events and make volcanoes erupt (April 1–7) · Examine dinosaur fossils at the science table (April 1–7) · Play with loose parts and learn about dino eating habits (April 1–7) · Meet paleontologist and fossil preparator Kelsie Abrams and see real fossils from the Burke Museum (April 3–4, 10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) · Meet paleontologist and founder of Fossil Team PDX Nico Spadafora and enjoy their fossil collection (April 5–6, 10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) · Meet the Raptor Ambassadors with The Falconer and learn about birds of prey and their dinosaur ancestors (April 5–6, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) · Launch comet catapults & design colorful asteroids (April 5–7) · Silkscreen dino prints (April 6–7) · Watch wacky Dr. Science demos (Intermittent) · Join in the dino stomp dance party (Intermittent) · Excavate dino bones in the ODC (weather permitting) · Learn about the total solar eclipse (April 8) · Examine fossils of the deep at the science table (April 8–14) · Design dino pop up cards (April 9–14) · Create tinfoil dino sculptures (April 9–14)
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.