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ARTIST
LECTURES
Artist Lecture: Liz Magor
Friday, September 12, 6:30 PM
Auditorium
FREE to members; $5 general admission
Tickets available at the Henry Admission Desk beginning
September 5; seating is limited.
Exhibiting artist Liz Magor will discuss the unexpected relationship
of photography to her sculptures. Magor’s favored techniques
of casting and molding offer an illusionistic connection to
the objects they represent in much in the same way photographic
images mirror their subjects.
SUMMER PROGRAMS
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Presented by the Henry Art Gallery and the University of Washington School of Music
Thursday, September 11, Noon to 1 PM
Sculpture Court
FREE
Featuring Colin Pulkrabek & Ensemble
Second Thursdays throughout the Summer, University of Washington School of Music Students perform in the Henry’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Sculpture Court. Grab lunch at the Henry’s Baci Cafe, pick a table under the James Turrell Skyspace, and enjoy a performance by these talented emerging artists!
GRAND OPENINGS: The Henry Art Gallery Satellite
at Bumbershoot
Friday, August 29 – Monday, September 1
Rainier Room -Northwest Rooms, Seattle Center
Visit bumbershoot.org
for ticketing details and hours
This year’s Henry Art Gallery Satellite at Bumbershoot celebrates performance in contemporary art through multiple video programs and live performance art. The Rainier Room will be transformed by New York-based group Grand Openings, featuring collaborators Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, Emily Sundblad, Jay Sanders, and Stefan Tcherepnin. Grand Openings will work with local artists and invited guests to create their singular,
immersive, participatory, and often chaotic events. These updated Happenings are designed to challenge the presumed roles of performers, producers, and observers. During non-performance times, visitors can watch video reels that highlight the recent resurgence of performance created for the camera.
This presentation is curated by Henry Associate Curator Sara Krajewski and Associate Director for Communications and Outreach Betsey Brock.
2008 Mayor’s Arts Awards
Friday, August 29, Noon
FREE
On Friday, August 29, Bumbershoot will be hosting the 2008
Mayor's Arts Awards. In celebration, the visual arts exhibits
will be open and free to the public from noon to 8 PM.
AFFILIATED
PROGRAMS
Open Floor
Tuesdays, August 26 and September 30, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Open Floor is a monthly laboratory of ideas brought
to you by Henry Art Gallery staff. Part artist survey, part
lecture, part sing-along, part belly of the beast, each month
Henry Staff, local artists, musicians, performers, and filmmakers
present work with the hope of generating new creative relationships.
As its title suggests, Open Floor encourages the release
of whatever vibrancy you may have swirling in your chest.
Discussion is appropriate. Debate seems necessary. Random
shouting is required. Contact us at openfloor@henryart.org
for more information, or visit us at openfloored.com.
Skyspace Meditations
Linda Tennant, Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Saturdays, August 23 and September 13, 10 AM
James Turrell Skyspace
Admission is by donation
Linda Tennant leads a 30-minute Vipassana meditation in the
contemplative space of James Turrell’s Skyspace, Light
Reign. Please wear loose clothing; a meditation pillow
is optional. Space is limited so reservations are required.
Come and enjoy this unique meditation experience. Please call
206.616.9894 to make your reservation.
Wednesday University
Wednesday University, a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures
and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, provides
Puget Sound residents with an intellectually stimulating and
fun way to continue their education in the arts and humanities.
Each year, the Wednesday University offers three courses taught
by distinguished professors at the University of Washington.
These courses, which meet on Wednesday evenings in the Henry's
Auditorium, are open to anyone—from high school students
to senior citizens. Past courses have included Early Modern
Art, Greek Myth, Silent Film, and Race in the American West,
among others, and are taught by professors at the University
of Washington known for both their scholarship and their teaching
ability.
Subscriptions for the 2008-09 Wednesday University Series
are on sale now online
or by phone at 206-621-2230. (Single course tickets will go
on sale Monday, August 4, 2008.)
2008-09 Wednesday University courses:
FALL: For the Good of the Nation? Media Politics in America
(David Domke)
Wednesdays, September 10, September 24, October 8, October
22, November 5 at 7:30 PM
Henry Auditorium
$80/person for the Fall 2008 series; register online at http://www.lectures.org/boxoffice.html,
in person at the Seattle Arts & Lectures office, or by
calling (206) 621-2230.
David Domke is Professor of Communication and Head of Journalism
at the University of Washington. His research and teaching focus
on the relationships among U.S. politics, journalism, and public
opinion. His is the author of God Willing? Political Fundamentalism
in the White House, the War on Terror, and the Echoing Press
(2004) and The God Strategy: How Religion Became A Political
Weapon in America (2008, with Kevin Coe).
WINTER: Food for Thought: The Ethics, Culture, and Politics
of Eating
Ann Anagnost (Anthropology and Chinese Studies) and Lucy Jarosz
(Geography)
January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, March 11
SPRING: Art and its Publics, from the Renaissance to the
Present
JoLynn Edwards (Art History)
April 1, April 15, April 29, May 13, May 27
For more information about Wednesday University, please visit
Seattle
Arts & Lectures' website.
Open Satellite Artist Lecture: Anna Hepler
Wednesday, August 27, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Anna Hepler, a Portland, Maine artist, creates two and three-dimensional work – drawing, sculpture and installation
– that captures the delicate transitory essence of the moment. Her drawings and installations consist of small repetitive marks or fragments that evolve into suspended systems of tiny geometries or exploded spatial volumes. Her exhibition at Open Satellite, curated by Beth Sellars, is on view August 21 until October 4. For more information,
visit opensatellite.org.
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EXHIBITION
GUIDE TOURS
Specially
trained exhibition guides are available in the galleries
to answer your questions and give tours
Thursdays and Saturdays, between 1 and 3 PM.
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