arts and entertainment
January 12, 2022
Through public events and exhibits, connect with the UW community every week!
Many of these opportunities are broadcast through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff and students have access to Zoom Pro via YOUR-IT.
Re / frame: Illumination
January 20 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | In line
Light allows us to perceive our environment, it shows us the way to go and it focuses our attention. It evokes emotions and sensations, brings us comfort, emphasizes tension or induces playfulness, to name a few. Join Henri art gallery to experience and discuss the many forms and effects of light in a selection of works from the collection.
Free | Register and more info
2022 Critical Issues Lecture Series: Andrea Chung
January 21, 12:00 p.m. | In line
The 2022 Critical Issues Lecture Series is organized by the School of Art + Art History + Design in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. The general public is invited to join fine arts students seeking a degree in order to share ideas and raise questions about contemporary art. In addition to public lectures, undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in ART 361/561 communicate with lecturers in additional sessions.
This week’s speaker is Andrea Chung (born 1978, Newark, NJ), who lives and works in San Diego, California. His recent biennial and museum exhibitions include the Addison Museum of American Art, Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennial, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. She has participated in national and international residencies, including at the Vermont Studio Center, the McColl Center for Visual Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Free for UW faculty, staff and students | More information
“At the crossroads of invisible paths”: indigenous Russian writers in a local and global context
January 20, 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. | In line
Join Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Ellison Center for Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies for the second event in the 2021-2022 public lecture series.
This presentation of Naomi Caffee, Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College, situates the indigenous literature of Russia within broader critical discourses of indigenous cultural expression. With a focus on writers from Siberia and the Russian Far North whose careers spanned the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, the presentation examines the role of literature in shaping conceptions of indigeneity and sovereignty practices amid rapidly changing political and ideological circumstances. Additional attention is paid to the formal, stylistic and thematic innovations of the texts themselves, particularly the way the authors write in, between, and across Russian and native languages, while merging elements of oral and written traditions. In doing so, the presentation highlights the relevance of the Russian context for the study of indigenous literatures around the world.
Free for UW faculty, staff and students | More information
Queer visibility: Dean Sameshima & Anthony White
In progress | Henri art gallery
Points of View is a series that highlights works from the Henri art gallery collection, associated with community contributions from the University of Washington.
This iteration of Perspectives brings together paintings from Berlin and Los-Angeles Dean Sameshima (born 1971, Torrance, California) and based in Seattle Antoine Blanc (b. 1994, Santa Maria, CA) who reflect on queer desire and visibility. Torso (black on silver), 2006, by Sameshima expands cartoonist “Sean “‘s creative transformation from a pornographic image into a bridging activity, originally featured in gay leather magazine Drummer in the 1970s. The image is only complete with participation and relies on secret codes and hidden meanings, as well as the implicit need for such measures. Complementing the paintings, two of Sameshima’s zines are also on display, extending the artist’s fusion of queer history, found imagery, and cheerful, personal pleasure from the vast surface of the canvas to the intimate space of the printed page. In the whites BOY THE WILD, 2020, portraits of the artist’s undressed male friends appear amid a landscape of sticker-like brand names, overlaid with a digital processing symbol in the center of the composition. White’s work has enlivened the way screen culture mediates public and private life, his characters both exhilarated and exposed, vulnerable yet organized amidst cultural artefacts.
Free for UW faculty, staff and students | More information
Native Art of the Northwest
In progress | Burke Museum
What is your artistic heritage?
Six Indigenous artists from the Pacific Northwest from across the region answered this question by creating the first Burke Museum exhibit in the Native Art of the Northwest Gallery. Showcasing both newly created and historic basketry, sculpture, multimedia art and more, these women bring personal meaning to Indigenous art while embracing the legacy of their ancestors and cultures.
In addition to future rotating exhibitions of artists, the gallery is anchored by permanent exhibitions of monumental objects, including a 35-foot canoe, a welcome figure, totem poles and house poles.
Free for UW faculty, staff and students | More information
Looking for more?
Discover the UWAA Stronger Together webpage for more digital engagement opportunities.
Tag (s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Slavic Languages and Literature • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + design
