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Two Sculptural Pair & A Next 50 Affair

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke on Apr 27 2012

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 …

Art Going Dark: SAM’s Participation in Earth Hour

Seattle Art Museum on Mar 26 2012

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about global warming and the issues facing the world due to climate change. What you might not have heard about is a little event called Earth Hour. Earth Hour is …

Luminous Labels: Krishna in a Garden Labels

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke on Oct 27 2011

We received some great entries for our first label challenge! Here are our favorites. We chose these submissions because they all exemplify techniques that curators use to help audiences engage with works of art.

Write Your Own Luminous Label

Seattle Art Museum on Oct 4 2011

In honor of our exhibition, Luminous: The Art of Asia, opening October 13, we are launching something fun and interactive for all you SAM fans! We are kicking off a promotion called “Luminous Labels” today. SAM curator Catherine Roche recently …

SAM Art: Summer’s last stand

Seattle Art Museum on Sep 27 2011

Summer may be over, but you still have one final weekend to enjoy On-Site, the summer installations at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Since June, On-Site has brought together new sculptures by Gretchen Bennett, Nicholas Nyland and Carolina Silva. These three …

Preserving the Piece: Conserving the Olympic Sculpture Park

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke on Sep 23 2011

In light of the re-painting of Alexander Calder’s The Eagle I wondered what it took to keep the art housed at the Olympic Sculpture Park looking like new. I spoke with Liz Brown, one of the museum’s conservators. She gave …

Jenny Heishman Announced as 2011 Betty Bowen Award Winner!

Seattle Art Museum on Sep 13 2011

Today the Betty Bowen Committee announced that Jenny Heishman is the winner of the 2011 Betty Bowen Award. The award comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000. In addition a selection of Heishman’s work will be on view at …

SAM Art: Some Thoughts from Our Interns, Part II

Seattle Art Museum on Aug 16 2011

For this week’s SAMart, I would like to share with you the reflections of two summer interns I have been lucky enough to work with for the past several weeks. Katie Tieu and Jasmine Graviett have been friendly, thoughtful, conscientious, …

SAM Art: Some Thoughts from Our Interns, Part I

Seattle Art Museum on Aug 16 2011

Satisfaction Guaranteed for Thursday at the Park

Seattle Art Museum on Jul 28 2011

FINALLY—we’re going to have nice summer weather for this week’s “Thursday at the Park,” an evening of live music, art and food at the Olympic Sculpture Park from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. I’m really looking forward to seeing hip-hop duo …

Thursdays at the Park–Rain or Shine!

Seattle Art Museum on Jul 7 2011

So the weather isn’t exactly what we were hoping it would be like for the Olympic Sculpture Park’s first Thursday Night at the Park of the summer season. However, this being Seattle, we are fully prepared.

Silva Thinks Outside (and Inside) the Box

Seattle Art Museum on Jul 5 2011

On-Site, the second summer exhibition at SAM’s Olympic Sculpture Park, brings together new sculptures by Gretchen Bennett, Nicholas Nyland, and Carolina Silva. Silva titled her sculpture Air Below Ground. The wooden platform and frame, as well as a series of …

Thank You

Seattle Art Museum on Jun 30 2011

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 …

Beauty Shot Fridays!

Seattle Art Museum on Jun 29 2011

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 …

SAM Art Comes to SOAP!

Seattle Art Museum on Apr 21 2011

Each week for the past two years we have shared one work out of the nearly 25,000 in our collection on Facebook, in a feature called “SAMart.” Starting this week, SAMart comes to SOAP! Check back each week or subscribe …

Report from Japan from Our Assistant Curator of Asian Art

Seattle Art Museum on Mar 24 2011

This month, I traveled to Japan on a study tour for American curators of Japanese and contemporary art. Sponsored by the Japan Foundation, the two-week adventure took us on a whirlwind tour of museums in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Osaka, …

A Fire in My Belly

Seattle Art Museum on Dec 16 2010

As the director of the Seattle Art Museum, I am concerned about the recent removal of David Wojnarowicz’s film “A Fire in My Belly” from an exhibition in Washington, DC. Wojnarowicz, who died of complications from AIDS in 1992, made …

Behind the Scenes: In Space & Time with Gretchen Bennett and D.W. Burnam

Seattle Art Museum on Jun 29 2010

Two weekends ago, on the gloomiest of Saturday afternoons, I had the pleasure of participating in Gretchen Bennett and D.W. Burnam’s “Unconventional Portraits” workshop on songwriting. Created in conjunction with the Kurt exhibition and Gretchen’s video installation I don’t blame …

Letters from the Road: Atami, Japan

Seattle Art Museum on Jun 7 2010

SAM Exhibition Designer, Chris Manojlovic, recently returned from two weeks in Japan, where he and Collection Care Manager, Julie Creahan, were traveling with SAM’s exhibition, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art from the Seattle Art Museum. The show, comprising highlights from SAM’s Asian …

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