Arts91 – 91 News /news Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:45:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 ArtSci Roundup: Labor On-line: A Virtual Seminar Series, The Henry’s Re/Frame moves online, and more /news/2020/04/23/artsci-roundup-labor-on-line-a-virtual-seminar-series-the-henrys-re-frame-moves-online-and-more/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:01:36 +0000 /news/?p=67651 During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunitiesto connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91, and greater community, together online.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91 faculty, staff, and students have access to.

Film Screening: “Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat” with Kota Takeuchi

April 28, 3:30 – 5:00 PM| Zoom Event

پKota Takeuchiwill screen and talk about his short film “Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat” (32 min., 2019) which explores how balloon bombs were created, propagandised, and used in Japan during World War II. The film combines interviews and historical data, while developing a loose relationship between an animal (the bat) and the fictional Japanese monster Te no Me.

Astrobiology Spring Colloquium Series – Juan Perez Mercader (Harvard University)

April 28, 3:00 – 4:00 PM | ZoomLecture

Join the Astrobiology Department in continuing their biannual colloquium series featuring key speaker Juan Perez Mercader from Harvard’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. Mercader will present a lecture titled Mimicking simple life without biochemistry. Synthesis and boot-up from a homogeneous mixture of functional polymer vesicles: birth, growth, self-replication, extinction and competition cycles.

Please be aware that the talks in this colloquium series are scientific presentations geared towards the Astrobiology Community and will contain theories and terminology common to the field.

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Labor On-line: Virtual seminar Series, Spring 2020

Tuesdays at 1:15 PM and Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

This Spring,Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studieshosts two weekly online seminars with a wide range of labor scholars and activists. These sessions are free and open to the public.

 

This week’s seminar:
Hosted by Labor Studies faculty at 91 Bothell

April 28 –Japanese Teacher Unions
1:30 PM | Zoom:
Presented by:Keith Nitta, Professor 91 Bothell & Jordan Woljter, Law, Economics and Public Policy

 

This week’sseminar:
Hosted by the 91 Tacoma Labor Solidarity Project

April 29 – “Rebooting Big Tech”
6:00 PM | Zoom:
Presented by: Professor Rob Larson, Economics, Tacoma Community College

Quick Talk:Chagall, Modigliani, & Jewish Painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement”

April 28, 4:00 PM | Zoom

The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies invites Dr.Galya Diment, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the 91, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on how early 20th-century painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art — and how their work contrasts with that of other Jewish painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement.”

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, with questions submitted via www.slido.com and moderated by a staff member.

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Re/frame: The Built Environment

April 30, 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Zoom

The Henry’s current exhibition,In Plain Sight, includes multiple works by artists who are exploring the concept of the built environment. These human-made spaces in which we live, work, and recreate, heavily influence many facets of our lives. Join us to see how artists have grappled with the built environment in a variety of works from our permanent collection.

Re/frame is a recurring program that delves into the Henry’s extensive collection, highlighting a different group of objects each month. Join us for group discussions and the opportunity to see art rarely on public view.

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Reading Recommendation: Helen Sword’s Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write

Looking for a good excuse to look away from your screens? Caitlin Palo, Program and Events Manager with theSimpson Center for the Humanities, suggests Helen Sword’s Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write.

In the midst of overwhelming pressure to stay productive during a global pandemic (with nothing less than a dissertation to complete), Palo reflects onSword’s suggestions for making space to write.

“Air & Light & Space & Timeis not an instructional book. It is an orchestration of voices, an ethnography of writers. It is a picture of the rich diversity of writing practices at the heart of intellectual endeavors in the sciences as well as in the humanities, and an invitation to think more broadly about one’s own practices in the company of other successful writers.”

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#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night: Now starting at 7pm

Every Friday, 7:00 PMVirtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 7 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back—this time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers!

Free, please register for access|

Staying home? Here’s what to watch

Ongoing | Your favorite streaming service

Looking for ways to stay entertained while staying at home?If you’ve already binged all the shows in your Netflix queue, fear not. Faculty in the Department of Cinema & Media Studieshave gathered television and film recommendations to fit every mood.

Looking for more?

Check out 91AA’s Stronger Together web page formore digital engagement opportunities.

]]> ArtSci Roundup: Earth Day with the Department of History, Ask Your Farmer, and more /news/2020/04/15/artsci-roundup-earth-day-with-the-department-of-history-colloquia-series-lecture-returns-online-ask-your-farmer-and-more/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:57:56 +0000 /news/?p=67480 During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunitiesto connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91, and greater community, together online.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91 faculty, staff, and students have access to.

Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever

April 22, 2:00 PM| Livestream

Join the Department of History, College of the Environmentand 91 Earth Day in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.Dr. Jennifer Thomson will give a talkuntangling the history of oil corporations, climate justice, and environmentalgovernance. Beginning with physicist James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, she’ll discuss the involvement of oil corporations in climate research, and explore a trulyliberatory environmental politics.

Free, please register for access

COURSE:Introduction to Basic Plant Morphology – Learning the Parts of the Plant

April 22 and April 23, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Online Classroom

Celebrate Earth Day by expanding your plant vocabulary!David Giblin, Collections Manager of the 91 Herbarium,teaches this two-part class. Learning the basic vegetative and reproductive parts of vascular plants that we know from our gardens, kitchens, and walks in nature, provides an opportunity to improve plant identification skills.

This class is offered online. Viewing instructions will be sent before the start of the class.

Cost is $20Register & More Info

After the Blast The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens: Webinar with Dr. Eric Wagner

April 22, 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Zoom Webinar

In anticipation of the 40th Anniversary of the major Mount St. Helens eruption, 91 Libraries and 91 Press are proud to host a zoom webinar featuring Eric Wagner, Ph.D., author of After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens.

Since it’s eruption in 1980,Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists and in After the Blast,Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals forest scientists saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.

Free, please register for accessRegister & More Info

Ask Your Farmer!

April 23, 11:00 AM |

The 91 Farm is still producing food, but under restricted operations and without the usual dedicated crew of student volunteers. Farm manager Perry Acworth will host this Instagram Live session, showing the work that’s happening on the 91 Farm and answering questions about the Farm and our food systems. If anyone has questions on how they can grow food for themselves, this is your moment!

Livestream takes place on and will begin at 11 AM.

More Info

Virtual Poetry Café for Poetry Month

Month of April | Online engagement

Since launching in April 1996,National Poetry Monthhas given people an annual occasion to celebrate the importance of poets and poetry in our culture. This April feels like an especially great time to explore the power of poetry and how it can be used to craft connection and celebrate the things that mean most to us!

Join Whole U this April for a virtual91 Poetry Caféto share the poems we love, write some of our own, and connect with our wider community over the written word.To help get your creativity flowing, The Whole U devised 91-themed poetry prompts to try on your own or with colleagues and friends.

Pick the prompt that resonates most with you then share your favorite poems or original compositions with us by sending them towholeu@uw.eduor by tagging them#91PoetryMonthon social media.

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Crossing North Podcast

Ongoing | Online

Crossing Northis a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.

In the most recent episode, released April 15, Colin Gioia Connors interviews author Nora Ikstena andassistant professor Liina-Ly Roos. Learn why Ikstena’s novelSoviet Milk about Soviet-occupied Latvia was so popular that libraries had to create a special loan policy for the book.

Missing the Henry? View the online collection!

Ongoing

From photography to textiles, the Henry Art Gallery’s permanent collection contains more than 27,00 objects from around the world. The collection originated with the gift of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings donated to the 91 byHorace C. Henryin 1926. It has grown over the years through acquisitions from exhibitions and through the generosity of art collectors, artists, and donors.

Luckily for those looking to reconnect with art while working remote, the Henry has an extensivethe online collection database. Learn more and .

Looking for more ways to engage? The Henry is also sharing content across their social media platforms daily!

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#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

Every Friday, 8:00 PMVirtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 8 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back—this time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers! Check out for a preview!

Free, please register for access|

Staying home? Here’s what to watch

Ongoing | Your favorite streaming service

Looking for ways to stay entertained while staying at home?If you’ve already binged all the shows in your Netflix queue, fear not. Faculty in the Department of Cinema & Media Studieshave gathered television and film recommendations to fit every mood.

Looking for more?

Check out 91AA’s Stronger Together web page formore digital engagement opportunities.

]]> ArtSci Roundup: Lecture with IVA Professor Whitney Lynn, In Plain Sight Screening, Childhood Bilingualism Talk, and more /news/2020/04/08/artsci-roundup-lecture-with-iva-professor-whitney-lynn-in-plain-sight-screening-childhood-bilingualism-talk-and-more/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:56:08 +0000 /news/?p=67324 During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunitiesto connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91, and greater community, together online.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91 faculty, staff, and students have access to.

Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever

April 22, 2:00 PM| Livestream

Join the Department of History, College of the Environmentand 91 Earth Day in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.Dr. Jennifer Thomson will give a talkuntangling the history of oil corporations, climate justice, and environmentalgovernance. Beginning with physicist James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, she’ll discuss the involvement of oil corporations in climate research, and explore a trulyliberatory environmental politics.

Free, please register for access

Author Tim Egan presents 2020 Sustaining Our World lecture

April 13, 7:00 PM|

91School of Environmental and Forest Sciencesis proud to welcomeTimothy Egan, National Book Award winner andNew York Timesop-ed writer, as the 2020 Sustaining Our World lecture.Egan will present, “Using the Power of Nature to Forge a New National Narrative.”

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Faculty Lecture with Whitney Lynn

April 14, 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Zoom Livestream

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Assistant Professor Whitney Lynn gives a lecture titled “Ambiguous Figures.”

Whitney Lynn mines artifacts from art history and popular culture to reframe narratives of familiar objects, images, and events. Utilizing expanded forms of sculpture, photography, drawing and performance, her work amplifies and subverts embedded meanings, seeking to destabilize what is seemingly inherent.

In Plain Sight Film Series: Sight Lines – Video Poetry Showcase

April 15, 7:30 – 9:30 PM | Livestream

Presented in partnership with,, and the 91 Bothell, The Henry Art Gallery and Northwest Film Forum co-present theon the occasion of the Henry’s exhibition,.
This series invites engagement with hidden histories and contexts unearthed with the aid of moving image media. Programs explore the myriad shades of nuance in disciplinary synthesis and delight in the discovery of new relationships between poetry, artifactology, and cinema.

Tickets are sliding scale: $0-$25, please register for access

Professional Actor Training Program – Virtual Showcase Launch

April 15 | Goes live at

Join the School of Drama and the Professional Actor Training Program Classof 2020in launching the first-ever Virtual Showcase!

The 91 Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) has been a highly regarded three-year conservatory training program for more than forty years. The program leads to a Master of Fine Arts in acting. The program is devoted to preparing carefully-selected actors for the professional world of theatre, film, television, and new media.

Free, RSVP to receivea reminder to check it out

Gardening with the Seasons: Spring

April 16, 7:00 – 8:30 PMLivestream Class

91 Botanic Gardens welcomes Christina Pfeiffer to share advice to kick start your seasonal garden care.

As spring approaches and things start moving fast in the garden, it can be hard to keep up or decide what to do first. With a focus on seasonal growth patterns, and best tools and techniques, this session will help home gardeners determine what tasks will have the most effect for the progress over the next months. Key topics will include planting, seasonal care for shrubs, vines, and perennial plants, lawn care, mulching and preparing for summer irrigation.

This class is offered online. Viewing instructions will be sent before the start of the class.

Tickets are $28| Tickets & More Info

Childhood Bilingualism and Biliteracy:What are the cognitive, linguistic, and education benefits?

April 16, 4:00 – 5:00 PMZoom Livestream

91 Friends of Chineseand Department of Asian Language and Literaturedemystify childhood bilingualism and biliteracy, especially when the two languages are as disparate as English and Chinese.

Even though over 150 different languages are spoken in the United States, learning two languages simultaneously is not always viewed positively or well supported in our school systems. Yet, other parts of the world embrace the opportunities of bilingualism and biliteracy. Are there cognitive, linguistic, and educational benefits of childhood bilingualism and biliteracy based on current research evidence? If so, what are they? How can parents foster such skills?

Free, please register for access| Register & More Info

#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

Every Friday, 8:00 PMVirtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 8 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back—this time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers! Check out for a preview!

Free, please register for access|

Looking for more?

Check out 91AA’s Stronger Together web page formore digital engagement opportunities.

]]> Arts91 Roundup: Guest Artist trio Meridian performs and hosts a master class, Scandinavian 30 lecture asks us to contemplate Tom of Finland, and more /news/2020/03/04/artsuw-roundup-guest-artist-trio-meridian-performs-and-hosts-a-master-class-scandinavian-30-lecture-asks-us-to-contemplate-tom-of-finland-and-more/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:48:38 +0000 /news/?p=66543 Updated March 6, 2020: Many of the events in this roundup have been postponed or cancelled. Information for a specific event will be at the link provided for that event.

This week in the arts, School of Art faculty Whitney Lynn gives a lecture at the Art Building, 91 Symphony and combined choirs perform at Meany Hall, Dr. Charlotte Cotéshares lessons from the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House, and more! To learn about more events taking place,.

Faculty Lecture with Whitney Lynn

March 9, 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Art Building

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Assistant Professor Whitney Lynn gives a lecture titled “Ambiguous Figures.”

Whitney Lynn mines artifacts from art history and popular culture to reframe narratives of familiar objects, images, and events. Utilizing expanded forms of sculpture, photography, drawing and performance, her work amplifies and subverts embedded meanings, seeking to destabilize what is seemingly inherent.

Guest Artist Concert: Meridian

March 11, 7:30 PM| Meany Hall

Percussion trio Meridian—Tim Feeney,Sarah Hennies, andGreg Stuart—performsboth improvised and composed works, approaching percussion in a way that places the exploration of sound in the foreground in favor of a musical approach that is concerned with exploring acoustic phenomena,rather than rhythm, gesture, or technique.Meridian performs unique original compositions and improvisations in this performance, and the 91 Percussion Ensemble joins thegroup in a few pieces written by Meridian Ensemble members.

Tickets are $10 – $20

Note: The group also leads a free master class on March 12. Details

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

March 11, 4:00 – 8:00 pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

To help address the imbalance of representation on Wikipedia, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.Childcare, snacks from local businesses, editing tutorials, books, and lists of artists will be provided.

Everyone is welcome, no previous Wikipedia experience needed! Please bring your own laptop and create a Wikipedia account before the event.

Scandinavian 30 – Tom of Finland: Out of the Shadows into The National Spotlight

March 12, 7:00 PM | Nordic Musuem

Hanna-Ilona Harmavaaraasks has Tom of Finland become the new Finn Family Moomin Troll? Drawings by the artist Tom of Finland helped empower gay men in the US and around the world, at the same time as homosexuality remained classified as criminal activity and an illness in Finland. Today Tom of Finland’s art has been taken out of the closet and elevated to the national pedestal – but not without the criticism of what looks a lot like exploitation by the nation-state.

Short, snappy, entertaining: Scandinavian 30 is a series of free, thirty-minute talks by 91 Scandinavian Studies faculty the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 PM at the Nordic Museum. The talks will tell you what you really need to know about Scandinavia to understand it.

Free

Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Lisa Robertson

March 12, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM| Henry Art Gallery

Lisa Robertson is one of Canada’s most celebrated poets. Her subject matter includes political themes, such as gender and nation, as well as the problems of form and genre. She has written works that explore literary forms such as the pastoral, epic, and weather forecast. She currently lives in rural France and works as a freelance teacher, lecturer, translator, and essayist while continuing her independent work in poetry.

This lecture wraps up the 2020 Critical Issues Lecture Series! Critical Issues is organized by the School of Art + Art History + Design in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. The general public is invited to sit alongside degree-seeking individuals studying fine art in order to share ideas and raise questions about contemporary art.

Free, RSVP encouraged|

Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture:Dr. Charlotte Coté

March 12, 5:30 PMwǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

Charlotte Coté, associate professor in the Department of American Indian Studies, will present her lecture titled “‘Indigenizing’ the 91: Lessons from the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House.” The lecture will be followed by a special panel discussion reflecting on the first five years of the longhouse.

Named in honor of the 91’s first vice president for the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (1970), the annual Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture is dedicated to acknowledging the work of distinguished faculty by spotlighting nationally recognized research focusing on diversity and social justice. This year, the lecture will be held in conjunction with the five-year anniversary of the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House opening its doors, creating an Indigenous intellectual and cultural space at the 91.

Free, RSVP required|

91 Symphony with Combined 91 Choirs

March 13, 7:30 PMMeany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University Symphony in a performance of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and music by Italian composerLuigi Dallapicolla. The orchestra is then joined by the Combined 91 Choirs to perform Schumann’sNachtlied,Op. 108 and Ravel’sDaphnis et Chloé:Suite No. 2.

Tickets are $10 – $15|

]]> Arts91 Roundup: Ted Poor debut album release show, The Women of Lockerbie opens, and more /news/2020/02/28/artsuw-roundup-ted-poor-debut-album-release-show-the-women-of-lockerbie-opens-and-more/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:08:18 +0000 /news/?p=66476 This week in the arts, Art History professor Foong Ping discusses thereconceptualizing of the Seattle Asian Art Museum, four Native American Huskies share what “home” means to them, the exhibition As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes opens at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and more! To learn about more events taking place,.

Concert– Hélène Grimaud

March 4, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

French pianist Hélène Grimaud brings a virtuosic program to Meany Center, performing music from her 2018 recording,Memory. In exploring music’s ability to bring the past to life, she stirs profound emotions through the elegant simplicity of miniatures by Chopin, Debussy, Satie and Silvestrov which, in the pianist’s own words, “conjure atmospheres of fragile reflection, a mirage of what was — or what could have been.”

Colloquia Series – Foong Ping; An Asian Art Museum Transformed

March 4, 4:00 – 5:00 PM| Art Building

The Seattle Asian Art Museum has reopened after extensive modernization of its historic facility, and the original Art Deco architecture and interiors are renewed. These physical changes spurred a new curatorial direction that reenvisions how the permanent collection of Asian art is presented and interpreted. Foong Ping will discuss some concepts and processes behind this rare opportunity to reconceptualize the museum’s significant collections and the experiences it offers.

Foong Ping is theFoster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum and Affiliate Associate Professor of Art History at the 91. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Exhibition Opening – As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes

March 4, 5:00 – 8:00 pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutesis an incomplete historical survey of work created by African-American graphic designers over the last century. These practitioners are absent in too many classroom lectures, and their methods are mostly invisible or uncredited in the field. This exhibition aims to promote the inclusion of neglected Black designers and their developed methodologies and challenge the ubiquity of White and anti-Black aesthetics in our designed world.

The exhibition is on view at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Non-Breaking Space in Pioneer Square:

Jacob Lawrence Gallery
March 5 – 26, 2020
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 4, 5–8pm
Workshop with curator Jerome Harris: Saturday, March 7, noon

Non-Breaking Space
March 5 – April 23, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6-8pm
Design Lecture Series: Friday, March 6, 7pm (sold out)

Free, please RSVP

Short Talks: Home

March 5, 7:30 PM | KEXP Gathering Space

Finding place in your ancestral lands, your family, wherever youare.In celebration of the five-year anniversary of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House, four Native American Huskies share their personal stories of what “home” means to them.

Apps and drinks included. Doors open at 7 p.m.; program begins at 7:30 p.m. with reception immediately following.

Tickets are $7 – $10More Info and Tickets

91 Drama Presents: The Women of Lockerbie

March 3, 7:30 PMtoMarch 15, 2:00 PM| Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre

In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was bombed mid-flight, and the fiery pieces rained down on the peaceful town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Two-hundred-and-seventy people lost their lives that day: 243 passengers, 16 crew members, and 11 people on the ground. The Women of Lockerbie tells the story of a group of women fighting U.S. government bureaucracy to accomplish a stunningly simple, humane goal: washing and returning the clothes of the crash victims to their families. Playwright Deborah Brevoort uses the structure of Greek tragedy to tell this story of grieving and healing, powerlessness and control, joy and darkness. Second-year MFA director Kristie Post Wallace directs.

Tickets are $10 – $20 ($5 with )|

 

Press Corps Pop-Up at 91 Drama for Teens

The TeenTix Press Corps is presenting a free Theater Criticism Workshop at91 Drama! This workshop is a two-day experience with meetings on March 7 and 8, 2020. Students will learn the basics of theater criticism, attend a performance ofThe Women of Lockerbie, and try their hand at writing reviews.

Free, registration required|

Ted Poor “You Already Know” Album Release

March 7, 8:00 PM| Columbia City Theater

Join School of Music faculty and acclaimed drummer Ted Poor in celebrating his debut album! This release show featuresCuong Vuon trumpet and video projection by Abigail Portner.

From Earshot Jazz: Ted Poor—“a trustworthy engine in countless modern-jazz settings” (New York Times)—isn’t your typical jazz drummer’s recording, almost defiantly so. But if you’re at all familiar with the Seattle-based Poor’s explorative career this should come as no surprise.

Tickets are $10 – $21|

]]> Arts91 Roundup: 3D4M Open House, Niyaz The Fourth Light Project, Katz Distinguished Lecture with Anna Tsing, and more /news/2020/02/20/artsuw-roundup-3d4m-open-house-niyaz-the-fourth-light-project-katz-distinguished-lecture-with-anna-tsing-and-more/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 23:27:53 +0000 /news/?p=66400 This week there are many opportunities to get involved with the arts includingthe opening of CabLab’s Frozen: A Play, a free whirling meditation workshop, Critical Issues lecture series, recitals with School of Music faculty, and more! To learn about more events taking place,.

3D4M Open House

February 25, 6:00 PM | Ceramic And Metal Arts Building ()

Join the School of Art + Art History + Design to explore the facilities of our 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture Program; talk with 3D4M faculty, staff, and students; see student studios and watch people work in the glass hot shop; visit two exhibitions of student work, and leave with a custom-made cup.

One of the exhibitions will be a juried selection of undergraduate work. The other will feature the first-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students: Payton Cahill, Jacob Fetterman, and Jia Jia.

Free, RSVP encouraged|

Bach cello suites examined in lecture-recital by Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

February 25, 1:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Join the School of Music for the second to last lecture-recital before faculty cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performance at Meany Hall in May.

Thorsteinsdóttir presents six Tuesday afternoon lecture-recitals in 2019-20—one for each ofthe six cello suites of J.S. Bach. She performs the complete works at Meany Hallover two consecutive evenings, May 21 and 22, 2020.

Music of Today / DXARTS: Winter Listening

February 25, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

TheDepartmentof Digital Arts and Experimental Media and the School of Music are pleased to present a program of holographic sound works. Jonathan Harvey’s seminalMortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, is presented along with recent works from composers deploying the latest technical and aesthetic advances in Ambisonic sound holography.

Katz Distinguished Lecture: Anna Tsing, “Feral Atlas and the More-than-Human Anthropocene”

February 25, 7:00 – 8:00 PM| Kane Hall

Humans have been unable to make the Anthropocene by ourselves. Indeed, the Anthropocene is a series of “feral” ecologies—ecosystems that have been encouraged by human infrastructures (such as dams, drilling rigs, and industrial parks), but which develop and spread beyond human control. Bringing together a hundred scientists, humanists, and artists, the Feral Atlas studies these ecologies and how they’ve changed the conditions for how humans interact with each other and with nonhuman others, whether biological, technological, or ephemeral. Drawing on her collaborative and interdisciplinary work curating the Feral Atlas, Anna Tsing’s lecture will explore how digital visualization and storytelling might create a new community of resisters in this more-than-human Anthropocene.

CabLab: Frozen: A Play

February 27, 7:30 PMtoMarch 1, 2:00 PM| The Cabaret, Hutchinson Hall

One sunny evening, a young girl walks to visit her grandmother. She never arrives.A play about retribution, remorse, evil, and redemption, Frozen explores the interwoven lives of three strangers as they try to make sense of the unimaginable. Second-year MFA director Andrew Coopman directs.

This show is part of the School of Drama’s newCabLabseries. CabLabs take place in the Cabaret Theatre in Hutchinson Hall. They are free for students and subscribers.

Free for students and subscribers, $5 for 91 Employees, $10 general admission|

CANCELLED: Critical Issues with Trisha Donnelly

February 27, 7:00 PM| Henry Art Gallery

Trisha Donnelly’s work encompasses sound, video, drawing, performance, photography, installation, and sculpture. She has participated in international exhibitions such as the 2011 and 2013 Venice Biennales, the 2011 Sharjah Biennial, and Documenta 13, and she has had one-person exhibitions at museums and galleries across the United States, Europe, and Japan, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2012, she curated the exhibitionArtist’s Choiceat the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Donnelly was born in San Francisco in 1974 and currently lives in New York.

Free, RSVP encouraged|

Whirling Meditation Workshop

February 27, 2:30 PM| 91 Department of Dance, Studio 266

Join us for aFREESufi whirling meditation, or sema,workshop with Tawhida Tanya Evansonof Niyaz. Sema is a fusion of mystic audition, sacred music, poetry and movement. It’s a powerful, challenging and ecstatic meditation based on the practice of Rumi, the Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes and beyond.No experience necessary and everyone is welcome.

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Niyaz: The Fourth Light Project

February 28, 8:00 PM| Meany Hall

Known for its electroacoustic trance music, Niyaz is “an evolutionary force in contemporary Middle Eastern music” (Huffington Post). The band embraces the collision of the old and the new as a means to create something entirely its own. WithThe Fourth Light Project,Niyaz pays tribute to Rabi’a al-Basri, the first female Sufi mystic and poet. Persian folk songs and poetry meld with the immersive multi-media projections by artist Jérôme Delapierre and the sacred dance of the dervish to create a shared experience that’s both sensual and devotional.

Craig Sheppard, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, Rachel Lee Priday

February 29, 7:30 PM| Meany Hall

Spend your leap day with School of Music faculty colleagues Craig Sheppard, piano; Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello; and Rachel Lee Priday, violin, with a presentation of the second part of a three-concert performance, of the complete Beethoven piano trio cycle.

Tickets $10 – $20

]]> Arts91 Roundup: Brazil’s Grupo Corpo, Scheidel Lecture with Regina G. Lawrence — and more /news/2020/02/18/artsuw-roundup-oscar-lopez-rivera-presents-at-the-henry-art-gallery-2020-uw-department-of-communication-scheidel-lecture-and-more/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:16:54 +0000 /news/?p=66285 This week in the arts, attend Critical Issues lecture series with Sadie Barnette, Grupo Corpo performs at the Meany Center, and more! To learn about more events taking place,.

2020 91 Department of Communication Scheidel Lecture

February 19, Reception: 3:45 pm, Lecture: 5 pm | Walker Ames Room, Kane 225

Join the Department of Communication and Dr. Regina G. Lawrence for a presentation on how journalists may be able to reframe their institutional and information authority through bold experiments in building deeper connections with the communities they serve.

Dr. Lawrence is the Associate Dean of theSchool of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) in Portland, and Director of theAgora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on press-state relations, journalism innovation, journalistic norms and routines, and the role of the media, gender, and social identity in political communication.

Free, RSVP encouraged|

Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Sadie Barnette

February 20, 7:00 pm | Henry Art Gallery

The 2020 Critical Issues Lecture Series takes place on Thursday evenings during winter quarter. It is organized by the School of Art + Art History + Design in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. The general public is invited to sit alongside degree-seeking individuals studying fine art in order to share ideas and raise questions about contemporary art.

Sadie Barnette utilizes drawing, photography, found objects, family memorabilia, and reimagined social spaces to effect earthly resistance and speculative escape. Combining the glittery, maximalist aesthetics of her childhood with the necessity of political resistance, her recent works engage as primary source material the 500-page FBI surveillance file kept on her father, Rodney Barnette, who founded the Compton, California, chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968. In the artist’s hands, these repressive documents are reclaimed—splashed with pink spray paint and adorned with crystals—in an intergenerational assertion of the power of the personal as political.

Free, RSVP encouraged
Grupo Corpo

February 20-22, 8:00 | Meany Hall

Combining the sensuality of Afro-Brazilian dance forms with the technical prowess of ballet, Brazil’s leading contemporary dance company, Grupo Corpo, returns to Meany with two wildly different works, both Seattle premieres. InBach, choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras renders the baroque beautifully modern, unveiling an intoxicating game between what is heard and what is seen. WithGira, he delves into the religious traditions of his homeland with rich poetic imagery animated by gestures of praise and worship.

Arrive early and learn more about the performance!Join us at 7:10 p.m. in the Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater for an engaging and informative discussion with Pedro Pederneiras, founder and general director of Grupo Corpo.Pre-show talks are included with your ticket purchase.

Free Dance Criticism Pop-Up Workshop for Teens

February 22, 6:30pm andFebruary 23, 12 – 2 pm| Meany Hall

The TeenTix Press Corps is presenting a Dance Criticism Pop-Up Workshop at Meany Center for the Performing Arts! This workshop is a two-day experience, with meetings on February 22 & 23, 2020. You’ll learn how to approach writing about dance, attend a performance ofGrupo Corpoand try your hand at writing a dance review! The workshop will be taught by Seattle-based dance journalist and artist, Kaitlin McCarthy.

This workshop is free and includes a ticket to see Grupo Corpo at Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the 91.

Free, limited registration

 

 

]]> Arts91 Roundup: a Valentine’s Day concert with Mark and Maggie O’Connor, Money can’t buy you HYGGEPresented byKristian Næsby, and more /news/2020/02/06/artsuw-roundup-a-valentines-day-concert-with-mark-maggie-oconnor-money-cant-buy-you-hygge-presented-by-kristian-naesby-and-more/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:49:52 +0000 /news/?p=66123 This week in the arts, attend a student jazz ensemble concert, hear from Department of Communications faculty about creative ways to tackle challenges within your community, join Rahel Aima for another Critical Issues lecture, and more! To learn about more events taking place,.

Lecture-Recital: Bach Cello Suites: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

February 11, 1:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Faculty cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir presents six Tuesday afternoon lecture-recitals in 2019-20—one for each ofthe six cello suites of J.S. Bach. She performs the complete works at Meany Hallover two consecutive evenings, May 21 and 22, 2020.

Jazz Innovations, Part I

February 12, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Student jazz ensembles pay homage to the icons of jazz and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions.

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Scandinavian 30: Money can’t buy you HYGGEPresented byKristian Næsby

February 4, 7:30 pm | Jones Playhouse

HYGGE – No other Scandinavian topic has drawn more attention over the last decade. Hundreds of books and articles have been written to explain the quaint combination of coziness, candles, woolen socks and hot chocolate to the American audience. But there is more to HYGGE than meets the eye. This talk looks beyond the tranquil representation of HYGGE outside of Denmark to discuss the real pros and cons of this Danish and international sensation.

Short, snappy, entertaining: Scandinavian 30 is a series of free, thirty-minute talks by 91 Scandinavian Studies faculty the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 PM at the Nordic Museum.

Envisioning Better Cities: A Global Tour of Good Ideas

February 12,6:00 | U District Bookstore

Join Department of Communications faculty, Nancy K. Rivenburgh and A.V. Croftsin discussion withPatricia Chase.Envisioning Better Cities: A Global Tour of Good Ideastakes readers on an international tour of useful, feasible, and novel ideas for making cities more livable and sustainable. The book visits cities of all sizes to share what people are doing – now – to tackle the economic, social and environmental challenges their communities face.

Free

Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Rahel Aima

February 7, 7:30 pm| Henry Art Gallery

Rahel Aima is a freelance writer and editor from Dubai who is currently based in Brooklyn. She is an editor atThe New Inquiry, a correspondent atArt Review Asia, and a contributing editor atMomus, and she has contributed to dozens of additional publications. She was the founding editor-in-chief ofTHE STATE, a periodical investigating global South-South reorientations, alternative futurisms, transgressive cultural criticism, and the transition from analog to digital. She has been profiled inElle IndiaandNew York Magazine, and she is a recipient of a 2018 Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.

Free, RSVP encouraged

Mark & Maggie O’Connor:American Classics for Valentine’s Day

February 14, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

Mark and Maggie O’Connor presentAmerican Classics,combining folk and classical artistry in a concert of popular, spiritual and patriotic music. Performing on violin, vocals and guitar, this virtuosic duo mines a vast repertoire of American music spanning 400 years. Audiences will find themselves inspired by the songbook of America as they have never heard it before.

 

]]> Arts91 Roundup: the Orlando Consort performs at Meany Hall, The Best of Everything kicks-off, and more /news/2020/01/31/artsuw-roundup-the-orlando-consort-performs-at-meany-hall-the-best-of-everything-kicks-off-and-more/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:18:00 +0000 /news/?p=65878 This week in the arts, attendJacob Lawrence Legacy Resident Marisa Williamson’s artist talk, join the Henry Art Gallery for a trumpet and American Sign Language performance, listen asDavid Alexander Rahbee leads the 91 Symphony, and more! To learn about more events taking place,.

Open Rehearsal with the 91 Symphony

February 3, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Meany Hall

Get a special behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsal process of the 91 Symphony Orchestra on Monday, February 3. Under the direction of David Alexander Rahbee, the Symphony will rehearse pieces by Monteverdi, Stravinsky, and an arrangement of the suite from Bizet’s Carmen.

Free, RSVP required

Orlando Consort: The Passion of Joan of Arc

February 4, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Acclaimed as one of the finest films ever made, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent film,La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc(1928), chronicles the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution. Actress Renée Falconetti’s haunting face channels the agony and ecstasy of martyrdom in a legendary performance that remains a landmark in the history of cinema. Britain’s celebrated early music vocal ensemble, the Orlando Consort, transports us to Joan’s world, accompanying the film live with a deeply moving soundtrack of sacred and secular music from her lifetime.

$47 Tickets|

The Best of Everything – Preview

February 4, 7:30 pm | Jones Playhouse

Adapted by Julie Kramer from the book by Rona Jaffe
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

A sensational career, thrilling adventures, and a husband and children (eventually)—that’s what the women in the Fabian Publishing typing pool want: nothing less than the best of everything. 91 Drama faculty member Valerie Curtis-Newton directs Julie Kramer’s adaptation of Rona Jaffe’s 1958 novel. The play gives us afunny, candid, clear-eyed glimpse into the lives of working women inMad Men-era New York, through the gaze of the women themselves (as well as fabulous costumes, of course).

Can’t make it to the preview? Showings areFebruary 6 through February 16 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm. See the link below for exact dates and times.

$5 – $20 Tickets
Artist Talk with Marisa Williamson

February 7, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Join us for a talk by Marisa Williamson,this year’s Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident. An exhibition reception will follow.

In Walter Benjamin’s interpretation of the Paul Klee painting,Angelus Novus(New Angel) in hisTheses on the Philosophy of History, he explains Klee’s angel as moving away from something he is fixedly contemplating. Since 2013, Williamson has been fixedly contemplating the life, work, choices, and legacy of Sally Hemings, enslaved mother of four of Thomas Jefferson’s children. This exhibition moves out from that extended contemplation, engaging with questions of monument and memory.

The exhibition is on view through February 28.

Free, RSVP encouraged

91 Symphony: Re-Imagination

February 7, 7:30 pm| Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee leads the 91 Symphony in a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Igor Stravinsky, and Bizet/Shchedrin.David Alexander Rahbeeis currently Senior Artist in Residence at the 91 School of Music in Seattle, where he is Director of Orchestral Activities andChair of OrchestralConducting. He is Music Director and Conductor of the 91 Symphony Orchestra and founder of the 91 Campus Philharmonia Orchestras. He is a recipient of the American-Austrian Foundation’s 2003 Herbert von Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors, the 2005 International Richard-Wagner-Verband Stipend, and a fellowship the Acanthes Centre in Paris in 2007.

$10 – $15 Tickets

The Tuba Thieves Performance and Conversation

February 8, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Henry Art Gallery

Join us for an experimental trumpet and American Sign Language (ASL) performance directed byIn Plain Sightartist Alison O’Daniel. Echoing and engaging the themes and soundscapes of O’Daniel’sThe Tuba Thievesvideo installation, the performers will echo both scripted and improvised visual, aural, and haptic vocabularies in an exploration of communication that tethers silences and sounds.

Directly after, join us in the auditorium for an informal discussion and reflection onThe Tuba Thievesfilmseries and performance, featuring Alison O’Daniel, the performers, and Patty Liang, Executive Director of Deaf Spotlight. ASL translation will be provided for this conversation.

 

]]> Arts91 Roundup: Low Brow/High Culture exhibit opens in the Allen Library, guest pianist Conor Hanick performs, and more /news/2020/01/09/artsuw-roundup-low-brow-high-culture-exhibit-opens-in-the-allen-library-guest-pianist-conor-hanick-performs-and-more/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:18 +0000 /news/?p=65538 This week in the arts, attend a film screening at SAM, visit museums on campus for free with your Husky card, and more!

Guest Artist Recital: Conor Hanick, piano
January 13, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Brooklyn-based concert pianist Conor Hanickperformsworks ofGalina Ustvolskaya and Morton Feldman on Monday evening and leads a free master class with 91 piano students on Tuesday.

Hanickis regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music old and new. With a unique adeptness for contemporary music reinforced by a commitment to music of all ages, Hanick’s interpretations demonstrate a “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation that benefit works by any master.” (Anthony Tommasini,New York Times)

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Film: “Edo Avant Garde: How Japan Invented Modern Art” with filmmaker Linda Hoaglund

January 20, 1:00 – 4:00 pm | Seattle Art Museum

Visit the Seattle Art Museum for a screening with directorLinda Hoaglund.Edo Avant-Gardeis a feature documentary film that tells the untold story of the vital role Japanese artists of the Edo era (1603 – 1868) played in pioneering “modern art.” During the Edo era, Japan prospered in peaceful isolation from Western powers, while audacious artists innovated abstraction, minimalism, surrealism and the illusion of 3-D. Their originality is most striking in images of the natural world depicted with gold leaf on large-scale folding screens that anticipate 20th-century installation art.

Free, RSVP required

 

Off-Campus Concert: Indigo Mist

January 13, 7:00 pm | The Royal Room

Initially the brainchild of electro acoustic pioneer/composer and School of Music professorsRichard KarpenandCuong Vu, Indigo Mist has become a vehicle for the musical musings of a group of forward reaching artists with tendencies towards experimentation. Having crossed paths over the years as 91 music faculty, the group is currently comprised Vu, Karpen, electro-acoustic composer and DXArts directorJuan Pampin,Ted Poor, whose prodigious drumming has recently been enlisted by Chris Thile and Andrew Bird, and 15 time Grammy winner, bassist/producerSteve Rodby.

Tickets are $15|

Exhibit: Low Brow/High Culture

January 13 – April 24 | Allen Library South Basement

Low Brow/High Culture traces the line of lowbrow art from its origins in hot rod and custom motorcycle culture to the art movement it is today. Showcasing materials from all areas of Special Collections, Low Brow/High Culture focuses on zines, comics, flyers and other methods of DIY culture.

Free

Burke Museum
Daily 10 am – 5 pm

Experience natural and cultural collections at the Burke Museum. The Burke brings research and collections out from behind the scenes so you can bring your perspective and your passions forward. We can use them to learn about the past, connect to the world around us, and create a better future together.

Present your Husky Card for free entry

Henry Art Gallery

Wednesday – Sunday 11 am – 4 pm, extended hours until 9 pm on Thursdays

Explore contemporary art, artists and ideas at the Henry Art Gallery.

In Plain Sightis a group exhibition that engages artists whose work addresses narratives, communities, and histories that are typically hidden or invisible in our public space (both conceptually and literally defined).

These Are Their Stories by Samantha Schereris an ongoing series of black watercolor drawings on small squares of lightly tinted paper depicting victims from the television crime dramaLaw & Order.

Present your Husky Card for free entry

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