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Thank You

This is my final week as the museum’s Director.  When I inaugurated SAM’s blog in September of 2009, I imagined that this would become a place for demystifying the inner workings of an art museum.  I hope it has served this purpose on a few...

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Spend Your Summer with SAM

People in Seattle make the most of the all-too-short summers and so does SAM! We’ve got a diverse array of art exhibitions, events and experiences at all three of our sites this summer. Whether you’re interested in Bollywood, baseball, yoga or landscape painting, we’ve got...

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SAMart: Beauty Bounty & Bierstadt

A Portrait of a Place Although Albert Bierstadt had not traveled inland into the Washington Territory in 1863, he had amassed the materials he needed to paint a portrait of a place that he could identify as Puget Sound. He had made oil studies of...

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Beauty Shot Fridays!

From the PR Office at SAM comes a new and fun project called “Beauty Shot Fridays.” In order to promote Beauty & Bounty and Reclaimed, we are asking our Facebook Fans to send us photos in response to a weekly question that is based on...

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Our New Modern & Contemporary Art Curator, Catharina Manchanda!

We are thrilled to welcome Catharina Manchanda to the Seattle Art Museum as our new Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art! Manchanda will be joining the SAM team in August. To introduce Catharina to our community, we asked her a couple...

GiveBIG Donors Contribute $30,000 to SAM

GiveBIG Donors Contribute $30,000 to SAM

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the GiveBIG campaign, to all who donated to SAM, and to The Seattle Foundation for making this incredible day of philanthropy possible. Generous donors contributed more than $30,000 to SAM on GiveBIG day. These dollars will be stretched...

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Winning, SAM style

The Seattle Art Museum won first prize in the 2011 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition for our “Kurt” exhibition poster designed by SAM graphic designer Rebecca Nickels. While a certain actor’s career took a nosedive, SAM won a number of awards recognizing the...

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On June 23, GiveBIG!

Today you have the opportunity to be part of one of the biggest days of giving in King County. Take the GiveBIG Challenge, and your gift to SAM will be stretched even further! The Seattle Foundation and GiveBIG sponsors will match a share of every...

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A SAM Intern’s First Visit to the Seattle Asian Art Museum

My name is Madeleine Dahl and this summer I am working in the Marketing and Communications Department of the Seattle Art Museum. Today I visited the Seattle Asian Art Museum for the first time. Situated in Volunteer Park, the museum’s entrance is guarded by two...

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