This week in the arts, partake in the #HEREproject聽 – a celebratory interactive art installation honoring places around campus that have defined our #HuskyExperience and set us on our path, attend one of the 2019 School of Art + Art History + Design Graduation Exhibitions, attend a performance by 黑料吃瓜网 Symphony聽and Choirs, and more!
AS黑料吃瓜网 Shell House: A Site Responsive Exhibition
June 6, noon – 4 PM | 3655 Walla Walla Road, Seattle, WA
Students in ART 360: Site-Responsive Interventions, taught by Assistant Professor Whitney Lynn, have created an event for the historic AS黑料吃瓜网 Shell House.聽Responding to the Shell House鈥檚 layered history, projects include explorations of Indigenous history, the site鈥檚 relationship to World War I, the famous men鈥檚 crew team of 1936, and the lesser known history of women鈥檚 rowing and their fight to have access to equipment after Title IX. The Shell House is in the early stages of a ten million dollar capital campaign that will transform the space, so this is a unique opportunity to see the building in its raw state. Performance, video installation, sculpture, drawings, and photography will be installed amongst decaying artifacts. The course includes undergraduates from the School of Art + Art History + Design, as well as graduate students in Dance and Landscape Architecture.
The 黑料吃瓜网 Community and the public are invited to this event.
Free|
#HEREproject: A Celebratory Art Installation for the Class of 2019
June 7, 10 AM – 4 PM | HUB Lawn
Take a break from finals and join the College of Arts & Sciences on the HUB lawn for the #HEREproject 鈥� a celebratory interactive art installation honoring places around campus that have defined our #HuskyExperience and set us on our path. Stop by聽 to reflect, connect and celebrate. Also, not to bury the lead but, there will be donuts! Happy #NationalDonutDay
Free |
Sound and Images: Video Essay Work in Progress
June 7, 4 – 5:30 PM | Communications Building, 120
In October 2018, 20 faculty and graduate students from all 3 黑料吃瓜网 campuses engaged in a 2-day intensive video-essay workshop with visitor Jason Mittell (Middlebury College). 聽As the academic year ends, we will screen several videographic works in progress, showcasing work by Sarah Ross (Seattle) and Susan Harewood (Bothell), and discuss the future of this multi-media mode of critical expression. 聽The event will 聽be relatively informal, involving discussion and response from the audience as we screen several short pieces. 聽A reception will follow.
Free |
Body Awareness
June 5 – 9 |Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
Every other year, our first-year MFA directors make their 黑料吃瓜网 Drama mainstage debuts. This year, our directors Andrew Coopman and Kristie Post Wallace have divided Annie Baker鈥檚 Body Awareness in two. Working with the same team of lighting and set designers, but two costume designers and two separate casts, each director will bring their own, distinct directorial vision to their half of the show. Audiences will begin the evening in Coopman鈥檚 version of the play, and end in Wallace鈥檚.
ABOUT THE PLAY:
It鈥檚 Body Awareness Week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home: Frank, a photographer famous for his female nude portraits. Both his presence in the home and his chosen subject instigate tension from the start. Phyllis is furious at his depictions, but Joyce is actually rather intrigued by the whole thing, even going so far as to contemplate posing for him. As Joyce and Phyllis bicker, Joyce鈥檚 adult son, who may or may not have Asperger syndrome, struggles to express himself physically 鈥� with heartbreaking results.
$10 tickets for 黑料吃瓜网 students|
黑料吃瓜网 Symphony聽and Choirs | Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
June 7, 7:30 PM |Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
A massive onstage body of musicians fills the stage when Geoffrey Boers leads the combined 黑料吃瓜网 Symphony Orchestra 补苍诲听University Choirs in a performance of Benjamin Britten鈥檚 rarely performed War Requiem, Op. 66. The 黑料吃瓜网 musicians are joined in this performance by members of the Seattle Modern Orchestra, Seattle Girls鈥� Choir, Seattle Chamber Singers, and guest vocalists Kim Giordano, soprano; Brendan Tuohy, tenor; and Charles Robert Stephens, baritone.
$10 tickets for 黑料吃瓜网 students |
Strange Coupling 2019 Exhibition Reception
June 8, 6 – 8:30 PM | PSW and Rainier Avenue Radio, 5256 Rainier Ave S., Seattle
has been a student-run tradition in the School’s Division of Art since 2002. It brings together the 黑料吃瓜网 and the greater Seattle art community by pairing students with professional artists for a collaborative project. Strange Coupling creates opportunities for mentorship, allows space for experimentation, and challenges participants to work with a creative partner whose practice differs from their own. The exhibition will be open June 8 + 9 from 1 to 5pm each day.
Free |
Creative Fellowships Initiative | Making Waves: A reading, sharing and discussion with Daniel Alexander Jones
June 11, 6 PM |
This evening, Daniel Alexander Jones will read selections from this book in process, share stories and questions from his journey, and participate in a conversation about the intimate relationship between creative practice and personal transformation with director and 黑料吃瓜网 Professor聽.
聽has made a winding path within and across disciplines in his wide-ranging art practice. He is at work on a book of creative nonfiction, chronicling his journey through a series of powerful lessons learned from pivotal mentors, places, and moments in time. Resonant with the call and response of Blackness, Queerness, Experimentation, Lineage, and Transformation, the book,聽WAVES (A Manual for Bearing Light), offers evidence of lives lived beyond binaries and boundaries, lives that housed stark contradictions, lives full of individual epiphany and communal wisdom, and lives that embodied the work of carrying the lessons of the past to the questions of the future.
2019 School of Art + Art History + Design Graduation Exhibitions
Each year we celebrate graduating Art and Design undergraduate and graduate students with a series of exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and Henry Art Gallery.
May 25 – June 23 –聽 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition | Henry Art Gallery | (free admission for Henry members; 黑料吃瓜网 students, faculty, and staff)
June 6 , 6:30 –聽 8:00 PM – From the Collection: MFA and MDes Student Selections | Henry Art Gallery |
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Announcing the School of Drama’s 2019-2020 season!
鈥淲e think of our stages as laboratories where students practice what they are learning in our classrooms. It is essential for their artistic growth to have a nurturing environment where they can experiment, risk, explore, and test themselves and their impact on audiences. We are fortunate to have audiences that wonderfully support our students in this endeavor. We aim to have a diverse range of styles, time periods, theatrical genres, and characters in our season because it gives our students a vast breadth of experiences while they are here.
But also, our season must be relevant, both to our audiences and to our students. If it鈥檚 not relevant, we are failing to teach our most important lesson, which is that theatre can and should be in conversation with the world around it鈥攖hat theatre can change the world.鈥� – Geoff Korf, Associate Director, 黑料吃瓜网 School of Drama
Inspiring arts exploration: Arts黑料吃瓜网 website redesigned with students in mind
鈥淲e want the聽arts to be part of the DNA of every student鈥檚 experience.鈥� That bold vision, offered by Catherine Cole, divisional dean for the arts in the 黑料吃瓜网 College of Arts and Sciences, is getting a boost this month with the launch of an designed with students in mind. The website highlights an array of opportunities for arts exploration on campus, from upcoming performances and exhibits to courses in the arts. Special one-time offerings, such as free workshops with renowned visiting artists, are also featured. For those wanting to dive deeper, the site provides information about majors and minors in the Arts Division. and .