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)
Reception and poetry reading by Naomi Shihab Nye, followed by conversation with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
This year's film lineup focuses on the many issues the Southeast Asia region faces today, which may initially seem isolated and disparate. But if we look close enough, we may find that they are deeply connected with each other, as if they were many heads of the same entity. What does it mean to be a woman and refugee at a time of ecological crisis? How does modernity and development impact traditional community practices? Only when we envision the “many-headed” nature of this demon can we deign to start thinking of ways forward.
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.
Coinciding with November's first-ever UW Global Month, sponsored by the Office of Global Affairs, this exhibit taps into the UW Libraries' collections surfacing just a sampling of the UW, Seattle, and Northwest-based international initiatives of the past century that have brought our region into productive and often enduring contact with groups, institutions and events throughout the world. Featured connections include Bosnia, Cambodia, China, Korea, India, Japan, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and more.
Labor Archives of Washington and the UW Libraries’ Special Collections present in partnership with Solidarity Centennial, a year-long statewide series of events commemorating the anniversary of the Seattle General Strike and the Centralia Tragedy of 1919.
The exhibit features the work of Walter Bodle and Frank Silva, highlighting a different point of view from the vantage point of individuals and groups that helped shape the city’s ever-evolving labor history.