This annual festival celebrating creative uses of glass returns to Seattle this October with more than 60 local artists.
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Jacob Lawrence Illuminates the American Struggle
The American Struggle is now in Seattle, where the painter spent his final decades.
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During Quarantine, an Artist Learns That Her Art “Has a Place in This World”
A comic artist speaks to artists across the world to see how they — and their practices — have been holding up.
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Artists Celebrate Their “Anarchist Jurisdiction” by Parodying Nostalgic Postcards
Artists and activists on social media responded to the Department of Justice’s announcement by ridiculing, and sometimes proudly embracing, the new label.
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Frye Art Museum Workers Say Layoffs Motivated by Union Busting
Donning face masks and gloves, and standing six feet apart, workers picketed the Seattle museum, saying two union representatives were unjustly targeted.
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Nature-Inspired Artworks Tap Into the Dark Side of the Psyche
Rebecca Brewer’s complex and dynamic compositions hint at the murky depths of psychological and emotional experience.
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A Gallery Prioritizes Care in a Historically Black Seattle Neighborhood
Also acting as a space for community gathering, Wa Na Wari offers a long-term solution against gentrification and displacement as vehicles of white supremacy.
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A Relief Fund Helps Seattle Artists Impacted by Coronavirus Cancellations
To help meet its growing needs in the face of COVID-19, celebrated author and Seattle native Ijeoma Oluo has launched a relief fund for her city’s art community.
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Seattle Museum Falls Short of “Reimagining” Asian Art as It Promised
Hopefully this renovation is not the endpoint of this institution’s reimagining of what an Asian art museum should be.
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A Team of Curators Designs a System for Indigenous Artists to Thrive In
The term ‘decolonization’ has been used frequently to describe the exhibition yəhaw̓. But you won’t hear its curators call it a decolonial project. So what is it, if not that?
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A Poetic Feast Conjures Familial Immigrant Histories
Rather than being haunted by the past, Jane Wong views “going toward the ghost” as a method of reclaiming her family’s silenced histories.
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Discover Why the Pacific Northwest Is the Center of Glass Art at Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience
A new festival celebrating the region’s creative glassmakers opens October 17-20, 2019 and features 50+ artists and organizations.