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ARTIST
LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
Music Dialogue with Jon Kertzer and Philip Schulyer
Wednesday, May 7, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
World music KEXP DJ Jon Kertzer and UW School of Music Professor Philip Schulyer will share a music dialogue related to Kader Attia’s Algerian musical interests.
Artist Lecture: Roger Ballen
Shadow Chamber
Thursday, May 8, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Tickets available at the Henry admissions desk beginning
Thursday, May 1. Seating is limited. First come, first served.
Celebrated photographer Roger Ballen will present a lecture
on the breadth of his outstanding career. Ballen’s early work
in South Africa in the 80s and 90s is highly regarded for
its unflinching views of village life. His recent Shadow Chamber
series reveals a new interest in creating painterly effects
in surreal tableaux.
Seeing the Big Bang: Lecture by Thomas Quinn
Thursday, May 15, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Josiah McElheny brings together the diverse fields of conceptual
art, studio art and cosmology through his installation The
Last Scattering Surface. In this presentation, Thomas
Quinn (UW Research Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Adjunct
Associate Professor of Physics) will discuss the way The Big
Bang is visualized in the field of astronomy through images
and animations selected in relation to McElheny’s work.
SPECIAL
SCREENINGS
The Gates
Saturday, May 10, 2 PM
FREE
In 2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed The Gates,
one of the largest art installations created in history. Beginning
with footage from the artists’ first announcement of the project
in 1979, this new HBO documentary by renowned filmmakers Albert
Maysles and Antonio Ferrera chronicles the 25 years Christo
and Jeanne-Claude dedicated to their ambitious work of art
and its impact while on view in New York’s Central Park from
February 12 through 27, 2005.
UP: DXARTS Undergraduate Student Video
Wednesday, May 21, 5 PM
FREE
The University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and
Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents a special screening of
ten video shorts created this year by students — final projects
from a year-long, in-depth study.
AFFILIATED
PROGRAMS
Open Floor
Tuesdays, May 27 and June 24, 6 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.
University of Washington Art History Lecture Series
Auditorium
FREE
Tuesday, May 13, 6 PM: Marek Wieczorek
RSVP to Bernard, 206.616.6544 or nab5@u.washington.edu.
For information, contact University of Washington Art History
Office uwah@u.washington.edu
Skyspace Meditations
Linda Tennant, Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Saturdays, May 10, June 14, 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.
The Warren Report presents
Film Rap
Henry Auditorium
FREE to Warren Report and Henry members, RSVP required: rsvp@thewarrenreport.com.
Every month, The Warren Report invites critically-acclaimed
filmmakers from around the world to share their movies and
their secrets. At Film Rap, Oscar®-winners and independently-spirited
auteurs present a film of their choice from their own filmography
at 12, followed by an in-depth conversation with Warren Etheridge
about their craft at 2.
Saturday, May 3, 12 PM: Uncounted, a controversial
feature-length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt,
examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how
easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election
integrity across the U.S. Filmmaker David Earnhardt will join
host Warren Etheredge for an exclusive post-show discussion
about voting fraud and voting reform.
For updates and details, visit thewarrenreport.com
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.
Spring 2008
American Sabor: Latinos Shaping U.S. Popular Music
Wednesdays, 7:30 PM
April 2, April 16, April 30, May 14, and May 28
Auditorium
$80/person for the Spring 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.
From the re-drawing of the U.S. Mexico border with the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, to the post World War II nightlife
explosion ignited by the sounds of Tito Puente and Celia Cruz,
to Richie Valens' pioneering of Chicano rock, to how the Civil
Rights movement affected Carlos Santana's guitar, to the Cha
Cha Cha surfacing in the music of the soulful Marvin Gaye
and country music star Shania Twain, WU's American Sabor:
Latinos Shaping U.S. Popular Music is sure to be a flavorful
learning experience.
For more information about Wednesday University, please visit
Seattle
Arts & Lectures' website.
Open Satellite Artist Lecture: Sergio Vega
Saturday, May 24, 4 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Artist Sergio Vega will be presenting excerpts from El
Paradíso en el Nuevo Mundo, an ambitious decade-long project
on the notion of “tropicalism” and the myth of earthly paradise,
that involves photographs, videos, sculpture-objects, dioramas,
scale models, and installations. Vega mischievously blends
theory, personal experiences, and an incisive critique of
the structures of power and society in order to endlessly
reconsider and explore a paradise in the field of art.
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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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