How can our bodies help us understand or imagine how liberation looks and feels? Join dance artist Cheryl Delostrinos for this intergenerational movement workshop in conversation with Donna Huanca: Magma Slit. Huanca’s installation is a complete sensory experience, evoking slippages of space and time that invite participants to both find and lose themselves, thus creating the conditions for liberatory meditation. Pausing within these slippages, Delostrinos will guide participants to celebrate the beautiful shapes, woven complexities, and hardworking vessels of our bodies.

Join us for a conversation between ektor garcia and Henry Curator Nina Bozicnik in conjunction with the opening of ektor garcia: matéria prima. Together they will discuss the development of the exhibition, the traditions that inspire garcia’s materials and methods, and how questions of labor and metamorphosis guide his creative vision. ektor garcia earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Columbia University.

In conjunction with the closing of Math Bass’s a picture stuck in the mirror and the performance if I could sing you back (featuring Bass and collaborator Eden Batki), the Henry will feature three of Bass’s short films that resonate with the exhibition. The films will be on view on a continuous loop for a limited time, March 5 - 6, in the Henry auditorium. Drop in anytime or view them directly before the performances! ABOUT THE ARTIST Math Bass earned their BA from Hampshire College and MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Join us to celebrate the opening of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas and Diana Al-Hadid: Archive of Longings.

The exhibitions will open to the public on October 2, with a celebration from 1 – 4 PM, to be held in conjunction with the U District Partnership’s festival and the opening of the new light rail station at 44th Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue.

Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass has created a site-specific installation featuring a series of recent oil paintings (a new medium for the artist), a kinetic wall work, sculpture, and large-scale wall applications.

Packaged Black brings together the work of artists Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas in a collaborative, multi-media installation developed from their shared dialogue about representation, Black identity, and practices of cultural resistance. 

Diana Al-Hadid’s work explores the interplay between the female body and the European art canon; Syrian, Muslim, and immigrant histories and mythologies; and architectural icons and the natural world. 

In Everlasting Stranger, New York-based choreographer and writer Will Rawls (b. 1978, Boston, MA) activates relationships between language, dance, and image through the fragmentary medium of stop-motion animation. In his installation, time and movement slow as a live, automated camera photographs the frame-by-frame actions of four dancers.

The Henry and Jack Straw Cultural Center are pleased to partner to commission a three-part series of audio artworks, to be released free and online throughout the summer of 2021. The participating artists were invited to consider the theme of place, and its unique resonance throughout the pandemic, to offer directed sonic experiences for listeners wherever they might find themselves. Participating artists are Byron Au Yong (b. 1971, Pittsburgh, PA), Chenoa Egawa (b. 1964, Ellensburg, WA), and Bill Lowe (b. 1946, Pittsburgh, PA) and Naima Lowe (b.

Set in Motion is the Henry’s first city-wide public art exhibition, organized by Shamim M. Momin, Director of Curatorial Affairs. This multi-artist project asks what it looks like to mobilize art and encourage community engagement under lockdown and while socially distanced. How do creative communities respond or adapt to shifting or exacerbated spatial and financial constraints? What is the role of public art now? Joined in conversation are four of the ten Set in Motion artists, Marin Burnett, Amir H.