Anne Depue
Jan 1, 2019
Bold As Love: Jimi Hendrix at Home
The November opening of the current exhibit at the Northwest African America Museum was a vibrating affair replete with music, energy,...
Susan Noyes Platt
Jan 1, 2019
Contemporary Native Activism and Culture in the Northwest
Native leaders, artists, poets, musicians, storytellers, political activists (usually these identities overlap and intersect) ever more...
Susan Noyes Platt
Dec 1, 2018
Alfredo Arreguín: Life Patterns
In these dark days, both literally, the depths of December, and in our political climate, the Alfredo Arreguín exhibition at the...
Susan Noyes Platt
Nov 1, 2018
Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India
The distinguished curator/director Karni Jasol of The Mehrangarh Museum Trust elegantly explained for me the high points of “Peacock in...
Susan N. Platt
Oct 1, 2018
WWI America
As we approach the hundredth anniversary of Armistice Day for World War I on November 11, our very own Museum of History and Industry is...
Susan Noyes Platt
Sep 1, 2018
MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête á tête
Mickalene Thomas strategically presented her amazing work to an almost all white press gathering (one Asian came from Microsoft). MUSE:...
Susan Noyes Platt
Jun 1, 2018
Rethinking Edward Curtis Everywhere This Summer
(And a few notes on other events) On the 150th birthday of perhaps our most famous local photographer, Edward Curtis, you will not be...
Susan Noyes Platt
Mar 1, 2018
In our Face: “Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickelene Thomas”
In promoting “Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickelene Thomas,” the Seattle Art Museum asks these big...
Leschi Council
Feb 1, 2018
Artists, Immigration and Activism: A Panel and Community Conversation
What is the role of the artist in addressing social issues? What does it mean to be American? How has art been a catalyst for immigrant...
Susan Noyes Platt
Feb 1, 2018
Seattle and the Central District ‘On the Spot’ Then and Now
A man named Al Smith named his photography business “On the Spot” as he recorded life in the Central District from the 1940s to the end...
Susan Noyes Platt
Jan 1, 2018
Migration: A Perspective from London
A small red sweatshirt reads “My first Christmas ever,” one of hundreds of pieces of children’s clothing hanging above my head in the...
Georgia S. McDade
Nov 1, 2017
A Veritable Feast at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
It may be too late for you to see the wonderful plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, but the eight-hour drive or...