See the homeland of the ikats in "Colors of the Oasis."
Ryan Peterson observes the musical minutia in SAM's Aboriginal Art collection.
Artist Sandra Cinto transforms the Olympic Sculpture Park's PACCAR Pavilion.
Struck by Cupid’s arrow, Venus conceived a defenseless passion for the handsome god Adonis. The lovers’ brief period of happiness will soon end tragically when Adonis is killed by a wild boar while hunting. The myrtle tree refers to eternal love, associated with Venus, and...
“From a water-woven land come creatures of convoluted imagination. They know where the power lies-in essences of female and reptile.” -collector Katherine White, 1979 Water flows through the Cross River area, which is the second largest delta system on earth. A crocodile guarding these waters...
In the past couple of weeks I’ve heard a lot of talk in the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) offices about an infamous group called The SAM Goes Green Team. The more email notices the Green Team sent out about daily “green” tips or “green” contests...
On Saturday, May 5, bring your family to the Seattle Asian Art Museum for Free First Saturday! Explore the exhibition Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats, and design your own wearable art inspired by gorgeous garments from central Asia. This fun-filled day will feature...
Iskra Johnson, like most of us, navigates the territory between the natural and the modern world. She has a successful business providing custom letterform solutions and logotypes for packaging materials for companies looking to personalize their branding aesthetic. That Gardenburger logo? She created it. The...
When I found out about MIR Corporation’s promotional contest for Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats I instantly became really jealous of the future winner. A free small group land tour to Uzbekistan and across the Silk Route sounds amazing. And that was before...
Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes is known for his interactive forms, installed in public spaces around the world. For the opening of SAM’s Olympic Sculpture Park in 2007, Reyes produced his signature interactive Capulas, as well as the Evolving City Wall Mural, all of which were...
When walking into the Oceanic gallery on the third floor you may be struck by a mix of the familiar and the unusual. This occurs with both the art and the display. The pieces that comprise the collection include shields, masks, clubs, and figures. There...
There is a display in SAM Downtown’s Wright & Runstad Gallery for African Art holding two pairs of sculptures that provide a transcendent view of “togetherness” and what it means for the spiritual to be connected with the earth. The first is a pair of “Male...
This may be your final week to see Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise (it closes on Sunday), but don’t despair. SAM’s collection of Oceanic art remains on view. A heroic guardian, this figure was strategically placed precisely at the water line of a decorated...
