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Nov 16 2020

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Object of The Week: Coiled Basket

Nov 26 2020

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Nov 6 2020

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Dec 2 2020

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Nov 14 2020

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Nov 23 2020

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Nov 16 2020

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Nov 24 2020

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$Curator talks, artists in conversation, Saturday University Lectures—all these incredible (now virtual) programs are made possible thanks to SAM Fund donors! This #GivingTuesday give to SAM so we can continue to serve online programming to art lovers like you. If you didn\'t catch these programs live, they are all available on our Facebook page! • #LinkInBio #SeattleArtMuseum #SeattleArt #SeattleArtists$
$Reopening the reimagined Asian Art Museum wouldn\'t be possible without your help! This #GivingTuesday support every aspect of SAM, including the crucial aspect of opening all three SAM locations to the public. Your support during these challenging times will play an integral role in SAM’s recovery and future successes. After a three-year renovation and expansion, the Asian Art Museum hosted a grand reopening in 2020. Unfortunately it was only able to be open for one month! You can help make it possible for the museum to re-reopen in spring 2021 by donating today. • #LinkInBio #SeattleArtMuseum #SeattleAsianArtMuseum #GivingTuesday [Installation views of \"Boundless: Stories of Asian Art,\" Asian Art Museum, 2020, photo: Jueqian Fang. Installation view \"Be/longing: Contemporary Asian Art,\" Asian Art Museum, 2020, photo: Adam Hunter/LMN Architects.]$
$This Thanksgiving, learn about this berry good coiled cedar basket, it\'s our #SAMObjectOfTheWeek! This Muckleshoot basket was used when harvesting blackberries, salmonberries, and huckleberries and is an excellent reminder of Indigenous philosophies that Earth is the First Teacher. From her body come the gifts of food and medicine that nourish our bodies and souls. Many Native practices, old and ongoing, like the First Foods ceremony and the Salmon ceremony, celebrate these gifts and teachings of gratitude and giving. For generations, Coast Salish Peoples have respectfully shaped wild spaces and harvested the natural materials and foods of the Pacific landscape and waters, practices that renew their living link with the land. Read more to find Muckleshoot tribe\'s Valerie Segrest\'s fresh huckleberry pie recipe on #SAMBlog. _ [Image: Coiled basket, 19th century, Muckleshoot, coiled cedar root; imbricated with bear grass, horsetail root, and leather, 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in., Gift of the Native American and Oceanic Arts Council and friends in memory of John Putnam, 2001.1048.]$
$Explore Jinny Wright\'s art-filled legacy outside of our exhibition \"City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle\"—the art collector acquired and commissioned many artworks Seattleites walk past every day. Find a walking tour on #SAMBlog that will take you from the University of Washington, through Seattle Center, Myrtle Edwards Park, the Olympic Sculpture Park, and land you downtown in front of the Seattle Art Museum. • #LinkInBio #SeattleArtMuseum #JinnyWright #HammeringMan #StayHomeWithSAM [\"Hammering Man (detail),\" 1992, Jonathan Borofsky, Seattle Art Museum 1% for Art funds, Museum Development Authority, Virginia Wright Fund, and Seattle City Light 1% for Art funds, photo: Spike Mafford.]$
$Imagine discovering a long-lost original Jacob Lawrence painting has been hanging in on your wall for 60 years!🤯 In October, a Met Museum visitor to \"Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle\" realized one of the five missing panels in Lawrence\'s series was decorating her neighbor’s living room. Panel 16 has now been reunited with the series and will be on view in \"Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle\" when it opens at SAM March 5! The series is rarely exhibited in entirety and SAM is the only west-coast venue that these important artworks will be visiting during their tour. Mark your calendars, this is major! • #SeattleArtMuseum #JacobLawrence #StruggleSeries #painting [\"There are combustibles in every State, which a spark might set fire to. Washington, 26 December 1786,\" Panel 16, 1956, Jacob Lawrence, from \"Struggle: From the History of the American People,\" 1954–56, Private collection, ©️ 2020 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]$
$Who\'s ready for a legendary Saturday night?!🤩 Legendary Children is bringing the sublime artistry of the Pacific Northwest\'s premier house-and-ball performers and drag royalty (kings, queens, and all the crowns in between) to you virtually this Saturday, 11/21, at 8 pm! Enjoy fab live performances and a deluxe set with @riz.rollins at this free trans-affirming, QTBIPOC-led, all-ages virtual event! • Houses: @houseofprinceton @theroyalhouseofnoir @themonets @essencedahouse @houseof.boba @celestialhouseofarcadia Curators: @idebelle76 @infinitedakota @adeahmir @davidrue212 [🎧 @swampxaddiii🎥 @heymommanikki] #SeattleEvents #LegendaryChildrenSPL #SeattleTogether #SeattleArtMuseum #QTBIPOC$

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