Visual Art Search
Art, Ecology, Community
Thurs June 20, 6-8 pm.Event
Join this panel discussion with artists, academics, and a biologist, as part of the Art+Science Salon series, a collaboration of the Tacoma Art Museum and the University of Puget Sound. Free.
Long Shot 24-Hour Photo Shoot
Fri June 21, 6 pm-Sat June 22, 6 pm.Event
Photographers have one calendar day to capture “a theme, community, or subject” of their choosing. Free.
Solstice Party to Benefit Fremont Arts Council
Friday 8 am-2 am, Saturday 10 am-2 am.Event
Celebrate the tilt of our planet's semi axis directly towards the sun with two days of eating, drinking (beer garden!), and supporting local arts. Free.
Artist Talk With Patte Loper
Sat June 22, 1 pm.Event
The Brooklyn artist on How to Stay Alive in the Woods, her fourth solo show at the gallery. Free.
Walking Tour of Alden Mason: In Memoriam 1919-2013
Sat June 22, noon.Event
Co-curators Phen Huang and Greg Kucera offer a walking tour of this soon-to-close exhibition. Free.
Robert Hardgrave
Wed–Sat. Through June 22.Gallery
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Robert Hardgrave: Drawings and other paper-based, wild-pattern-happy work for this Seattle artist’s first solo exhibition at Cullom. Free.
Artist Talk: Sean Alexander and Henry Lee Walls
Sat June 22, 1 pm.Event
Artist Alexander and Hilltop celebrity Walls discuss their Life is OOD collaboration. Free.
Greet the Dodge Challenger Race Car
Sat June 22, 11 am-2 pm.Event
Al Young, the color-line-breaking Seattle drag racer, helps welcome his championship-winning 1970 Dodge Challenger into the MOHAI collection. Free with admission.
Art Car Blowout
Sat June 21, 10 am-8 pm; Sun June 22, 11 am-6 pm.Event
More than 50 overdecorated cars on display a stone's throw from underclothed bicyclists at the Fremont Fair. Free.
Bars of Seattle: Recent work of Jessica Jorgensen
Through June 23.Gallery
Bars of Seattle: Recent work of Jessica Jorgensen: Come see if you can recognize them all without feeling a creeping sense of shame! Free.
Small Change
Wed–Sun. Through June 23.Museums
Small Change: A new project in the Test Site from MFA student Rebecca Chernow that experiments with "reciprocity, barter, debt, and the emergence of markets and related value systems through the creation and distribution of an invented currency." And cigarette butts too, it seems.
$10 suggested.
University of Washington MFA and M.Des Thesis Exhibition
Wed–Sun. Through June 23.Museums
University of Washington MFA and M.Des Thesis Exhibition: Y'all know what it is already. Student work from artists surviving in the warrens of a giant research university. Features Stephanie Klausing's ceramic agglomerations set in rows of escalating material dilapidation, even ugliness (some pots, finger-pressed and still bearing the prints, shaped like feces-full intestines), and Ryan Weatherly's painted concoctions, depicting melting, candy-colored women's faces.
$10 suggested.
Swimming the List
Mon-Wed June 24-26, 5-7 pm.Event
Check out the open rehearsals for Stranger Genius Award winner Susie Lee's fusion of dance, technology, and music before the ensemble leaves for the Beijing International Fringe Festival. Free.
Ben Waterman
Through June 27.Gallery
Ben Waterman: returns from six-months as a visiting artist to Northern Arizona University with new ceramics that look like they've beaten/fired to within inches of their lives. And then fired again.
Free.
It’s Growing on Me
Mon–Fri. Through June 28.Gallery
It’s Growing on Me: NEPO House/5K Don't Run organizer Klara Glosova shows the ceramic sculptures and digital photographs that are the product of her efforts to live in the moment.
Free.
Dane Youngren: Prospecting
Tues–Fri. Through June 28.Gallery
Prospecting: Dane Youngren makes pre-abandoned objects of industrial decline.
Free.
Duane Pasco: Life as Art
Mon–Sun. Through June 28.Gallery
Life as Art: A retrospective of master carver Duane Pasco’s work. Unofficially included are his monumental totems a few blocks away in Occidental Park.
Free.
Work Readiness Arts
Deadline Fri June 28, 11 pm.Calls to Artists
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The Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative and the Office of Arts & Culture are asking for proposals from arts, cultural and community organizations who would like to provide out-of-school programing that link the arts and work experience.
Andrea Joyce Heimer
Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Andrea Joyce Heimer: Paintings of dark and funny suburban scenes. Free.
Latent Utility: Present But Not Active Worth
Wed–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Latent Utility: Present But Not Active Worth: Drawings of natural materials used in a “post-industrial context” from Allyce Wood.
Free.
Metaphors of a Landscape
Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Metaphors of a Landscape: research-based paintings inspired by study in Phnom Penh by Adrianne Smits.
Free.
Nothing Is as Eloquent as Nothing
Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Nothing Is as Eloquent as Nothing: Mark Calderon's own statement about the show refers generally to "personal losses," in addition to other specific and universal sorrows, some readily recognizable.
Free.
Octahedron
Wed–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Octahedron: Eight artists, each making up one side of this show, which includes Jenny Heishman and Sean Gallagher.
Free.
Sherry Markovitz
Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Sherry Markovitz: This artist has been living in Seattle and making art for decades, and at this very moment she’s up for a Stranger Genius Award.
Free.
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