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What to Know When SAM Reopens

Feb 1 2021

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Object of the Week: The Lost Boys

Feb 26 2021

With Love From Dick and Jane

Feb 25 2021

Object of the Week: James Baldwin

Feb 19 2021

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Jan 26 2021

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Lunar New Year: Celebrating the Year of the Ox

Feb 13 2021

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Muse/News: SAM Prepares to Reopen, Local Jazz Struggles, and New Museum’s New Show

Feb 22 2021

Muse/News: A Prize for Lauren Halsey, Sites of Power, and Prince in The Rain

Feb 8 2021

Muse/News: A SAM Anniversary, Native Entrepreneurs, and the Black Romantic

Feb 1 2021

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Jan 20 2021

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Jan 6 2021

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Seattle Art Museum acknowledges that we are on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish and the customary territories of the Suquamish and Muckleshoot Peoples. As a cultural and educational institution, we honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future. We also acknowledge the urban Native peoples from many Nations who call Seattle their home.

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$\"Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle\" opens in 1 week! We can\'t wait for you to #ComeBackToSAM and experience Lawrence\'s 30-panel series reunited for the first time since 1958 and shown alongside multimedia works by contemporary artists Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas. A limited number of timed tickets are still available for SAM\'s March 5 reopening! • #JacobLawrence #DerrickAdams #BethanyCollins #HankWillisThomas #SeattleArtMuseum #LinkInBio$
$Despite facing discrimination within the larger community, most tragically during World War II, Japanese-American artists continued to foster an inclusive artistic environment and produce work. Our new installation, \"Northwest Modernists: Four Japanese Americans,\" celebrates four of Seattle’s leading Japanese American artists: Kenjiro Nomura, Kamekichi Tokita, Paul Horiuchi, and George Tsutakawa. As Issei and Nisei (first- and second-generation Japanese Americans, respectively) these artists created in solidarity as they established themselves within Seattle’s mid-20th-century cultural scene, sharing ideas, friendship, exhibition space, and common cause with their fellow Northwest Modernists. Look forward to seeing their work on view when you #ComeBackToSAM—we reopen March 5! • #SeattleArtMuseum #PaulHoriuchi #SeattleArt #SeattleArtists #JapaneseArt [\"Monolithic Impasse,\" 1964, Paul Horiuchi, casein on mulberry paper mounted to canvas, 77 9/16 x 78 9/16 in., Gift of the Seattle Art Museum Guild, 79.6, ©️ Estate of Paul Horiuchi.]$
$Don\'t sit on the talented artists on view #AtSAMGallery!🪑We\'re putting the #SAMGallerySpotlight on artist Gabriel Fernandez who uses his art to explore the environments in which we dwell, like these plastic forms. See this painting, \"Plastic #2,\" next time you visit SAM. • #SAMGallery #GabrielFernandez #OilPainting #SeattleArt [\"Plastic #2,\" Gabriel Fernandez, oil on panel, 17.5 x 21 in.]$
$Happy #LoveYourPetDay!🐶💕🐱 Seeing you and your furry friends enjoying art at the #OlympicSculpturePark brings us so much joy. No matter the weather, fresh air and free art are here for you and your four-legged family members. #MaskUp, take a walk through the park, and don\'t forget to tag SAM! • #OlympicSculpturePark #yourSAMstories #DogsOfOlympicSculpturePark [📸@popgongora @_travelingcorgi @saturn.bluecat @gucciaceaussie @mr.shikoku @buzzpawldrin @theworldofrussell @lola.corgi @rae.kiara.aussies @mia_the_rescue_pup_ ]$
$“People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.” – James Baldwin, \"Stranger in the Village,\" 1955 We\'re looking at Joseph Norman’s 1993 portrait of poet, essayist, novelist, and activist James Baldwin on #SAMBlog this week. This portrait of James Baldwin is part of Joseph Norman\'s series “The Last Poets,” featuring portraits of Black cultural icons. Learn more about Norman and this portrait portrait in the #SAMObjectOfTheWeek. • #LinkInBio #SeattleArtMuseum #JamesBaldwin #JosephNorman [\"James Baldwin,\" 1993, Joseph Norman, lithograph, 10 x 8 in., Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan, 2000.26 © Joseph Norman.]$
$\"Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle\" is a revolutionary story as told through a modernist painting series by Lawrence and multimedia works by contemporary artists Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas. See these powerful works in person when you #ComeBackToSAM—timed tickets and are now available for our March 5 reopening! • #LinkInBio #SeattleArtMuseum #JacobLawrence #DerrickAdams #BethanyCollins #HankWillisThomas [\". . . . is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? –Patrick Henry, 1775\", Panel 1, 1955, Jacob Lawrence, from \"Struggle: From the History of the American People\", 1954–56, Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, © 2019 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]$
$This finely beaded patch was one part of artist Larry Bannock\'s Mardi Gras suit, an article that cost thousands of dollars to make and weighed over 125 pounds! The patch\'s maker, Larry Bannock, was a leader of the New Orleans “Mardi Gras Indians” and Big Chief of the Golden Star Hunters. To Bannock and other Black and Indigenous folks, Mardi Gras is not another party. Bannock said, “It’s like your heart and soul.” Learn more about Bannock and our #SAMObjectOfTheWeek this Mardi Gras with a visit to #SAMBlog! • #LinkInBio #MardiGras #SeattleArtMuseum #LarryBannock [\"Center patch from Mardi Gras Indian suit,\" 1989-90, Big Chief Larry Bannock of the Golden Star Hunters, muslin, satin, seed beads, rhinestones, velvet, 18 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 5 in., Gift of Dr. Karen Morell, 2016.22 © Artist or Artist’s Estate.]$
$Do something special for someone special, today or any day. 💝 It\'s #ValentinesDay and SAM Shop has gifts for all the special people in your life. We have locally made jewelry, art books, handmade gifts, and so much more—shop the selection Fridays through Sundays, 10 am to 5 pm, or online. Curbside pickup is also available!$
$Happy Lunar New Year—it\'s the year of the ox!🧧🧨🐂 Learn a little more about the origins of the Chinese Zodiac with artist Ray Yang, who is leading an art-making activity centered on a few of the zodiac animals. Though we are sad we can\'t hold our usual Lunar New Year Celebration, celebrate with us virtually while you #StayHomeWithSAM. Tag us in your Lunar New Year creations so we can see your wonderful art and share it to our stories! If you want to watch this video with closed captioning, check the #LinkInBio to watch this (and lots of other art videos) on SAM\'s YouTube channel. • #SeattleArtMuseum #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheOx$

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