Past Exhibitions

Child's drawing of a landscape depicting both underwater and tropical scenes with an airplane and volcano

NewArt Northwest Kids The Road Not Taken

Education Corridor

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NewArt Art Northwest Kids, our annual exhibition of K–12 student art, returns to the Education Corridor Galleries. This year’s theme, “The Road Not Taken,” explores students’ visual depictions and definitions of their lives, travel, or hopes for the future. Students have been encouraged to read Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken and consider the ideas conveyed to them through the poet’s words.

Lithograph with a black and white ancient Greek vase with the word “cultural” written above it next to a log with the word “natural” above it

Everyday Is Not The Same Squeak Carnwath’s Prints and Papers

Artist Project Space

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Contemporary American painter Squeak Carnwath is currently a tenured professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In her work, she combines personal references and icons from anthropology and art history with purely visual elements, and creates thought-provoking combinations of text and image. Regardless of media, everything relates back to the act of painting.

Photograph of a dark-skinned person from the mouth to ribcage. Their hands are held against their chest. The contrast between their light fingernails and dark skin is stark.

From the Heart The Photographs of Brian Lanker

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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This retrospective exhibition explores the range of photographic work by one of America’s masters of the medium, Brian Lanker (August 31, 1947 – March 13, 2011).

Title page of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies with an engraving of Shakespeare.

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library

Focus Gallery

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The exhibition — part of the international events planned for 2016 in observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death — will bring the 1623 original edition of the playwright’s first published collection to 53 sites: one site in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each location will host the exhibition for four weeks.

A mentor and a child are engaged in a hands-on activity at a table. The mentor is wearing a green shirt and a purple apron, while the child is in a white t-shirt. Both are focused on the task, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Art of the Athlete IV

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This year’s exhibition features the work of Casey Benson, Jordan Bell, Dwayne Benjamin, DeForest Buckner, Megan Conder, women’s golf, Tyrell Crosby, Tony Brooks-James, Jalen Jelks, Jordyn Fox, Janita Iamaleava, Glen Ihenacho, Canton Kaumatule, Haniteli Lousi, Austin Maloata,Tui Talia, and Kira Wagoner.

Icon-style painting of 'St. Calla Lily,' featuring a serene-faced figure in a white veil holding white calla lilies, with a golden halo.

Olga Volchkova The Nature of Religion

A. Dean & Lucile I. McKenzie Gallery

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Trained as an icon painter and conservator, Russian artist Olga Volchkova uses her knowledge of Orthodox iconography and her love of botany to create provocative paintings that explore the history of florae.

Print on yellowed paper of a woman in a robe and leaning on a crutch holdig the arm of a child-size skeleton. Words frame the image and there are various paint spatters on the print.

Enrique Chagoya Adventures of Modernist Cannibals

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Painter and printmaker Enrique Chagoya describes his work as a “conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities” and employs what he calls “reverse anthropology.” His provocative works incorporate diverse symbolic elements from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American popular culture.

Black and white papercut artwork depicting two figures on either side of a central tree, surrounded by faces and intricate patterns.

Voces de Mis Antepasados/Voices of My Ancestors The Papercuts of Catalina Delgado Trunk

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Drawing on the rich tradition of cut paper crafts (or papel picado) in Mexico, Catalina Delgado Trunk creates intricate works that tell the stories of pre-contact indigenous cultures as well as treating more contemporary subjects. Voces de Mis Antepasados examines her pieces with pre-Columbian themes.

Three women with haggard expressions and wearing headscarves look intently at a crescent moon face in a dark, cloudy sky. The scene has a mystical and eerie atmosphere.

Contemplation & Confrontation The Satirical Print in Europe, 1750–1850

Focus Gallery

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The political and societal changes in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries motivated artists to contemplate the implications of those transformations through their works. This exhibition features prints by five European satirists who did just that: British artists James Gillray and William Hogarth, Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and French artists Honoré Daumier and Paul Gavarni.

An elderly Chinese man and woman in white robes sit on stools while a younger man sits on the floor in front of them

Benevolence & Loyalty Filial Piety in Chinese Art

Betty and John Soreng Gallery

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Co-curated with Professor Ina Asim in support of her Chinese and Asian history courses, this selection of paintings and objects represents ideals of benevolence and loyalty, Confucian values that exerted strong ethical and political influence in China, Korea, and Japan for more than 2,500 years.

Korean folding screen with painted mountains on blue backing material.

“True” Korean Landscapes & Virtuous Scholars

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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This exhibition, co-curated by Anne Rose Kitagawa, chief curator and curator of Asian art, and Gina Kim (MA, art history, 2014) Korea Foundation Global Museum Intern, features a number of distinctive Korean landscape paintings, maps, and travel attire.

Brightly colored embroidered animals, birds, and flowers

Birds & Beasts Animal Imagery in the Permanent Collection

Artist Project Space

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Prompted by a generous gift of Mexican folk art by collector Robert Bradley, this exhibition features images of domestic and wild animals from around the world. Among the works featured in the exhibition are an Otomi embroidered textile and coconut masks from the Mezcala region of Guerrero State, as well as prints, photographs, paintings, and sculptures highlighting all manner of birds and beasts.