The Henry is excited to welcome Catherine Opie as this year’s Monsen Photography Lecture speaker. This annual lecture brings key makers and thinkers in photographic practice to the Henry. Named after Dr. Elaine Monsen, the series is designed to further knowledge about and appreciation for the art of photography.
What secret creature dwells inside of you? Join local artist Clyde Petersen for an afternoon of stop-motion animation in which we’ll use everyday art supplies to explore what lurks within. Drop in and design a paper puppet to think about what your inner creature looks like, how it moves, where it lives, why it stays hidden. Then give your creature life on the big screen through the magic of animation!
Dora Budor’s work repurposes the hidden materiality of films and architecture to explore what happens to our bodies and minds in the grip of these powerful forms, which she conceptualizes as living systems. Her sculptures have incorporated screen-used cinema props, bringing together the material, affective, and ideological dimensions of Hollywood special effects. In recent site-specific works, she has composed nondeterministic systems out of sound, dust, and light, dramatizing the lived history of specific works of architecture.
Join the Seattle Art Museum for a screening of this documentary film with director Linda Hoaglund. Edo Avant Garde: How Japan Invented Modern Art (Linda Hoaglund, Japan/USA, 2019)
An original copy of the score of Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka” (inscribed by the composer to legendary dancer Vaclav Nijinsky) is just one of the remarkable treasures from UW Libraries’ Slavic, Baltic and East European collections on display at this open house.
In the early 1970s, Shawn Wong and group of young Asian American writers discovered the novel, "No-No Boy" by John Okada, in a used bookstore for fifty cents. Originally published in 1957, it had not sold out 15 years later. No one had read it and the author had died believing his novel was rejected and forgotten. Wong will share the rediscovery story of "No-No Boy" — how young Asian American writers urged a new audience to recognize the book’s importance and launched its journey from obscurity to canonical work in Asian American literature.
López Rivera has continued to energetically advocate an end to U.S. colonialism, and has resumed his role as an organizer, working to establish a holistic community center to train community organizers as well as working on educational and community-based projects to help the island recover from Hurricane Maria and its unjust $74 billion debt. López Rivera also became an accomplished painter in prison and continues to be a visual artist.
In this collaborative ArtVenture, join artist Juliana Kang Robinson as we build temporary shelters and sanctuaries using cardboard boxes, fabrics, and found papers to create an atmosphere of safety and calm. Participants will make and add elements (including unique “welcome” signs that families can take home) to make the shelters feel like “home.” Let’s create a collective refuge through art!
Join us for an afternoon of making unique family portraits in the spirit of the art of In Plain Sight! Inspired by a selection of archival images of daily life in Seattle, as well as other fascinating sources that help us think about the “place” of family, we’ll experiment with sumi ink and other art supplies to explore and imagine what families look like and what they mean to us.