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February 2015
Exhibitions Opening Reception – 1900 and Pan
The Frye Art Museum Board of Trustees and Director Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker invite you to celebrate the opening of Pan: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule of Europe 1895-1900 February 21–May 3, 2015 An exhibition of graphic works published in the journal Pan, which recorded the transition from modern forms of representation in the nineteenth century to the emergence of abstraction and expressionism in the twentieth. 1900: Adornment for the Home and Body February 21–May 3, 2015 Drawing on the collection of…
Find out more »July 2015
Debacle Fest presents Noise Yoga feat. Jason E Anderson, a collaboration with Hollow Earth Radio, the Frye Museum and Poseurs
Noise Yoga returns for the summer season with a new home in the Frye Salon gallery space. *** Note that space is limited in the gallery, and very few walk-in spots are being held. Please register in advance to guarantee entry. Prices listed below. http://fryemuseum.org/program/noiseyoga *** ------------------------------------------- Artist :: Jason E Anderson ------------------------------------------- This special performance is presented in collaboration with Debacle Fest (https://www.facebook.com/events/916512225060813/) and will feature Jason E Anderson, "a Seattle-based artist whose work includes performance, recorded works, video,…
Find out more »September 2015
Genius / 21 Century / Seattle Opening Reception
The Frye Art Museum Board of Trustees and Director Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker invite you to celebrate the opening of Genius / 21 Century / Seattle. Featuring DJ OCnotes performing in the galleries. RSVP at the link below https://36200.blackbaudhosting.com/36200/genius-opening Genius is an unprecedented, large-scale celebration of exceptional multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice in Seattle in the twenty-first century. It features over sixty-five visual artists, filmmakers, writers, theater artists, composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, and arts organizations. The exhibition and its more than thirty-five…
Find out more »October 2015
Genius Literary Festival – Matt Briggs, Gary Groth, and John Olson
Break the Genre What are the boundaries and limits of genre? Readings by Matt Briggs, Gary Groth, and John Olson are followed by a moderated panel discussion as part of an ongoing Literary Festival taking place at the Frye this Fall as part of the exhibition Genius / 21 Century / Seattle. Use the link above to register, seating is limited. Matt Briggs is the author of eight books. The Publication Studio recently released Virility Rituals of North American Teenage…
Find out more »Pacific Northwest Ballet Performance
BECOMING SOMETHING, WITHIN WITHOUT This work aims to showcase the process, progression, and product of a new dance. Over the course of the work you will watch a new dance be created and performed. This work features Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division students and a selection of songs by musical group Animals as Leaders. —Ezra Thomson Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation. This performance is presented as part of Genius / 21 Century /…
Find out more »Chris Jeffries and Sarah Rudinoff Performance
MIX/WORRY The first two Genius Award winners in Theater, Chris Jeffries (2003) and Sarah Rudinoff (2004) will present a night of scintillating repartee and song, created especially for The Frye Genius / 21 Century / Seattle exhibition. Composer/lyricist Chris Jeffries and performer Sarah Rudinoff have 50 years of experience between them in every kind of medium from camp to the avant-garde. The performance will include original music, interpreted classics and as much truth and lies as can be held in…
Find out more »Chris Jeffries and Sarah Rudinoff Performance
MIX/WORRY The first two Genius Award winners in Theater, Chris Jeffries (2003) and Sarah Rudinoff (2004) will present a night of scintillating repartee and song, created especially for The Frye Genius / 21 Century / Seattle exhibition. Composer/lyricist Chris Jeffries and performer Sarah Rudinoff have 50 years of experience between them in every kind of medium from camp to the avant-garde. The performance will include original music, interpreted classics and as much truth and lies as can be held in…
Find out more »Genius Literary Festival – Rebecca Brown and Ellen Forney
Why Seattle? Seattle, this dim, beautiful place—why make it home, how does it affect your writing? Readings are followed by a moderated panel discussion as part of an ongoing Literary Festival taking place at the Frye this Fall as part of the exhibition Genius / 21 Century / Seattle. Use the link above to register, seating is limited. Rebecca Brown is the author of twelve books including American Romances, The Gifts of the Body, and The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary.…
Find out more »Marya Sea Kaminski Performance
THE MYSTERIOUS OTHERS First they came to the office, snickering and spreading vicious lies. Then they started driving through his neighborhood at night, slowing down in sinister fashion and speeding off before he could catch a good look. Finally, they climbed inside the walls of his house and under the surface of his mind, scratching on the other side of sense. In this multi-media performance, Kaminski returns to the solo form, and uses text, video and terrible jokes to conjure…
Find out more »November 2015
We were. zoe | juniper
Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation. Frye Art Museum presented zoe | juniper in Mw , 2012. 2013 Stranger Genius award winner and three-time Princess Grace awardee zoe | juniper is a Seattle-based dance and visual arts team that has been described as a “crazy dream you just can’t…
Find out more »Genius Literary Festival – Heather McHugh and Maged Zaher
The Embarrassment of Genius The embarrassment of genius—what did being described as genius do to these authors? Readings are followed by a moderated panel discussion as part of an ongoing Literary Festival taking place at the Frye this Fall as part of the exhibition Genius / 21 Century / Seattle. Use the link above to register, seating is limited. Heather McHugh’s works of poetry, essays, and translation include Dangers (Houghton Mifflin), A World Of Difference (Houghton Mifflin),To The Quick (Wesleyan…
Find out more »City Light – John Osebold
In lieu of a formal retrospective, John Osebold / Jose Bold put together a selection of music, theatrical moments, and video from his catalogue and re-arranged them, along with a few new bits, into a new work that showcases his penchant for unique arrangements, surreal humor, and Pacific Northwest imagery. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation. John Osebold is a writer, musician, and performer in Seattle. In addition to creating more than 20 original…
Find out more »We were. zoe | juniper
Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation. Frye Art Museum presented zoe | juniper in Mw , 2012. 2013 Stranger Genius award winner and three-time Princess Grace awardee zoe | juniper is a Seattle-based dance and visual arts team that has been described as a “crazy dream you just can’t…
Find out more »Cherdonna Shinatra, Patron Saint of Velocity
Jody Kuehner will perform Cherdonna Shinatra, Patron Saint of Velocity—an early manifestation of a performance to premiere in June 2016 as part of Velocity’s 20th Anniversary season. This performance is part of a suite of queer, feminist dance performances by drag/dance bio-fem Cherdonna to be developed, in part, through Velocity’s Made in Seattle new dance development program. Cherdonna’s “action painting” performance is an homage to the feminist performance tradition of the female body as canvas and political territory for social…
Find out more »December 2015
We were. zoe | juniper
Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation. Frye Art Museum presented zoe | juniper in Mw , 2012. 2013 Stranger Genius award winner and three-time Princess Grace awardee zoe | juniper is a Seattle-based dance and visual arts team that has been described as a “crazy dream you just can’t…
Find out more »Lori Goldston: Pollen Performance
Pollen is a suite of scores that create a space for collective vision among and between performers and observers from similar or widely divergent backgrounds. The scores are a means of conveyance for ideas, atmospheres, ways of working from person to person, and place to place, and collective envisioning. The scores will be premiered throughout a three-day residency of open rehearsals and informal performances in the Large Greathouse Gallery as a platform to bring ideas, intuition, experience, and a receptive…
Find out more »C. Davida Ingram: Artist Talk
C. Davida Ingram will give a talk on her video installation Avatar: Fanon and Decca, which explores subjectivity and narrative conventions through nonlinear storytellingand the ersatz interviews with her avatars, artist Fanon Brown and art critic Decca Jones. Ingram and her collaborators, Amontaine Aurore and Inye Wokoma, will engage in discussion that examines the nature of their collaboration for Avatar but also their experiences as artists working in multiple disciplines. About the Artists C. Davida Ingram received the 2014 Stranger…
Find out more »October 2016
African Art of the Early Twentieth Century
The Frye Art Museum and the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) have partnered to develop a series of four lectures on the visual culture of the African continent and its diaspora. This series will explore the history and practice of artists of African descent, drawing connections between the African continent and its diaspora as the locus of Africanity. This is the second lecture of the series. Mark Auslander, Ph.D., anthropologist and scholar of the Black Atlantic, presents a lecture examining…
Find out more »December 2016
Root to Branch: The Film Work of Ousmane Sembene, Gloria Rolando
The Frye Art Museum and the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) have partnered to develop a series of four lectures on the visual culture of the African continent and its diaspora. This series will explore the history and practice of artists of African descent, drawing connections between the African continent and its diaspora as the locus of Africanity. This is the fourth lecture of the series. A lecture by Frye Art Museum Educator Negarra A. Kudumu addressing the aesthetic tendencies…
Find out more »June 2017
ALIVE Exhibition Public Opening
Join us to celebrate the opening of ALIVE Flora, Light, and Water in the Seattle Landscape! ALIVE Flora, Light, and Water in the Seattle Landscape, a Partnership for Youth Exhibition, is an exploration of Seattle’s urban landscape through digital photography. Created during twelve after-school sessions in March–May 2017, this collection of images showcases the city as it emerges into spring—at times blooming and verdant, at others drenched and gray. ALIVE Flora, Light, and Water in the Seattle Landscape is organized…
Find out more »REAL TALK: LGBTQ Conversations for Change
SEATTLE PRIDE KICK-OFF EVENT: Seattle Pride is hosting "REAL TALK: LGBTQ Conversations for Change" - a town hall seriesthat will focus on critical, frank discussions of Seattle’s community perspectives, including conversations about pride, racism and nationalism in LGBTQ communities, access to safety and spaces and LGBTQ experiences with local law enforcement. This town hall will include both experiential activities, small and large group conversations. This town hall will feature a short panel of perspectives navigating LGBTQ communities by three well-known…
Find out more »September 2017
Storme Webber in Conversation with Miranda Belarde-Lewis
Join artist Storme Webber and curator Miranda Belarde-Lewis in conversation about the exhibition Casino: A Palimpsest. Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis, and may be picked up at the information table located in the foyer outside the auditorium thirty minutes prior to the start of the program. There is no late seating and capacity is limited, so please arrive early. As a special benefit, Frye members may reserve free tickets in advance to guarantee seating. To…
Find out more »Valorizing Our Beloveds Workshop Series
Saturday, September 16, 2017 12 - 3 pm Saturday, September 23, 2017 12 - 3 pm Saturday, September 30, 2017 12 - 3 pm Location Frye Art Studio Storme Webber invites the community to participate in a workshop facilitating a process of creative remembrance as social and personal history. In this three-session course, participants bring in family photographs to use as a mechanism for considering evidence and imaginings, facts and fiction, and above all to reflect upon the spirits of…
Find out more »Uncollectable Treasures | Storme Webber + Ernestine Hayes
Uncollectable Treasures Performance with Storme Webber and Ernestine Hayes Storme Webber and acclaimed author and scholar Ernestine Hayes will perform a new collaborative work, combining spoken word, and song. Together they will share urban, Alaskan Native mixed-blood stories from the place of poetry, spirit, and the sacred land, woven together with the jazz shadings that illuminate journeys and wanderlust. http://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/6706/ Free tickets are available on a first come, first served basis, and may be picked up at the information table…
Find out more »October 2017
Safe Thus Far | Storme Webber + Patrick Haggerty
Experience tales of love and creative resistance within Seattle’s LGBTQ community told through song and poetry. This special performance features Storme Webber and longtime family friend, fellow activist, and mentor Patrick Haggerty. http://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/6697/ Free tickets are available on a first come, first served basis, and may be picked up at the information table located in the foyer outside the auditorium thirty minutes prior to the start of the program. There is no late seating and capacity is limited, so please…
Find out more »December 2017
Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings Screening
Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris is one of seven artists who contributed to the Visual AIDS video project for World AIDS Day 2017, "Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings" which screens around the country, including at Seattle's Frye Museum on December 1, 2017, World AIDS Day. In honor of World AIDS Day and the 28th iteration of Visual AIDS' Day With(out) Art, the Frye Art Museum has partnered with Visual AIDS to present the film ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, a collaborative video project curated by…
Find out more »October 2018
Special Halloween Tour
Peer into the dark, mystical recesses of the human psyche through the lens of art history, just in time for Halloween! Explore the Munich Secessionists’ obsession with séances, the occult, and primal human urges through favorite works from the Frye Salon. Tap into your subconscious—whether that leads to the divine or into despair—with contemporary works from special exhibition Group Therapy. What could be scarier than confronting our own demons? This tour will engage with mature subject matter and is intended…
Find out more »November 2018
Alternate Endings, Activist Risings
In honor of World AIDS Day and the 29th iteration of Visual AIDS' Day With(out) Art, the Frye Art Museum has partnered with Visual AIDS to present the film ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS, a collaborative video project featuring short videos by six community organizations and collectives ACT UP NY, Positive Women’s Network, Sero Project, The SPOT, Tacoma Action Collective, and VOCAL NY. These works highlight the impact of art in HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy. ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS reflects the…
Find out more »April 2019
Last Ditch Effort: Discussion with Cherdonna Shinatra and DONNA
Join Jody Kuehner, aka Cherdonna Shinatra, and DONNA dance artists Allison Burke, Jenna Eady, Carlin Kramer, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Julia Sloane, and Katie Wyeth for a post-show discussion following their final performance of DITCH, moderated by exhibition curator David Strand. This talk-back will offer a chance for the dancers to reflect on their experiences performing at the museum over the course of three months and take questions from the audience. --- https://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/7151/ --- ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Jody Kuehner is a 2017…
Find out more »September 2019
The Confining Image of Femininity
In a discussion of themes addressed by Unsettling Femininity: Selections from the Frye Art Museum, exhibition curator Naomi Hume will explore how painters structured the viewer’s relationship to the depicted girls and women. Nineteenth-century European artists usually framed such encounters to reinforce socially accepted power dynamics between men and women. How do subtle painterly choices convey a glance, as opposed to a stare? How does a painter suggest that a woman accidentally, thrillingly, catches the viewer’s eye rather than steadily,…
Find out more »June 2022
Summer Exhibitions Opening Preview @ Frye Art Museum
Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Frye Art Museum's latest exhibitions: Romare Bearden: Abstraction Jeremy Shaw: Liminals Enjoy a preview of the exhibitions and reception with no-host bar. Pre-registration for this event has closed. Didn't get a chance to register? No problem—please check in at the door. Images: Romare Bearden. River Mist (detail), ca. 1962. Oil on unprimed linen, and oil, casein, and colored pencil on canvas, cut, torn, and mounted on painted board. 54 ¼ x…
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