Your last chance is fast approaching! Stop by and see artworks spanning four decades from the city’s Portable Works Collection in the retrospective exhibition Seattle as Collector: Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40 at Seattle Art Museum (SAM). The exhibition is free and closes this Sunday, Oct. 23. Today from 6:30 to 7 p.m., artist Joseph Park, featured in Seattle as Collector, will discuss his work in the exhibition and illuminate other works in the museum’s permanent collection as part of SAM’s My Favorite Things tours. My Favorite Things tours bring artists, cultural producers and community figures into the SAM galleries to discuss their favorite works of art. The tour is free with museum admission and meets in the Brotman Forum. Go here for more information. Seattle as Collector features 112 artists, including Northwest luminaries Jacob Lawrence and Guy Anderson, and artworks in a variety of media, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and textiles. The exhibition also highlights some of the permanently sited artworks in the city’s public art collection. Seattle as Collector celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. |
City curator to present talk on Seattle as Collector retrospective at SAM, Oct. 7
Get an inside perspective on the retrospective exhibition on view at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Seattle as Collector: Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Turns 40. City Curator and Collections Manager Deborah Paine will present a talk at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 7, at SAM’s Plestcheeff Auditorium. The talk is free to seniors and SAM members; others pay museum admission.
Seattle as Collector celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and showcases artworks spanning four decades from the city’s Portable Works Collection. Featured are 112 artists, including Northwest luminaries Jacob Lawrence and Guy Anderson, and artworks in a variety of media, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and textiles. Paine will discuss the artworks in the exhibition, tell some humorous back-stories, and talk about how the city purchases and collects works. She will also highlight some of the permanently sited artworks in the city’s public art collection.
City curator to present free talk on Seattle as Collector retrospective, Sept. 14
Get an inside perspective on the retrospective exhibition on view at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Seattle as Collector: Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Turns 40. City Curator and Collections Manager Deborah Paine will present a talk at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 14 at Hotel 1000 as part of SAM’s In the Studio series. The discussion is free.
Seattle as Collector celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and showcases artworks spanning four decades from the city’s Portable Works Collection. Featured are 112 artists, including Northwest luminaries Jacob Lawrence and Guy Anderson, and artworks in a variety of media, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and textiles. Paine will discuss the artworks in the exhibition, tell some humorous back-stories, and talk about how the city purchases and collects works. She will also highlight some of the permanently sited artworks in the city’s public art collection.
Deborah will present another talk at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 7, at SAM’s Plestcheeff Auditorium (free to seniors and SAM members; others pay museum admission).
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Join Mayor Mike McGinn to celebrate Seattle’s creative community and the award recipients of the 9th annual Mayor’s Arts Awards, 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 1, at Seattle Center’s North Fountain Lawn. Community groups planning a neighborhood arts or cultural event in 2012 can apply for funding through the Neighborhood & Community Arts program. We’ll open the 2012 CityArtists Projects funding program, Tuesday, Sept. 27. City Curator and Collections Manager Deborah Paine will present two talks on the retrospective exhibition Seattle as Collector: Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Turns 40. Our public art conservation team took advantage of the dry weather in August and restored several artworks. And from theater and performance art to R&B and folk rock, catch up on what’s happening in the local arts scene on Art Zone with Nancy Guppy.
Read about all this and more here.
“Seattle as Collector” extends to City Hall, celebrates Office’s 40th anniversary
An extension of the exhibition at Seattle Art Museum Seattle as Collector: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40 is on display at City Hall through the end of the year.
The smaller-scale City Hall exhibition—Seattle as Collector at City Hall—continues the celebration of our agency’s 40th anniversary and features works by 49 artists collected by the city over the past four decades.
See artworks by regional favorites such as Judith Poxson Fawkes and Michael Schultheis, as well as national luminaries such as Richard Serra and Pat Steir.
City Curator and Collections Manager Deborah Paine selected the featured artworks from the city’s Portable Works Collection, which includes more than 2,800 artworks.
Image: Michael Schultheis, Confocal Cycloids 08 (detail), 2005, acrylic paint on stretched canvas, 48″ x 36″. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Seattle Public Schools just announced a $1 million planning grant to enhance arts instruction in the schools. We opened two calls for artists. The 2011 Mayor’s Arts Awards are coming up soon. The Seattle Mural at Seattle Center’s Mural Amphitheatre is getting a facelift. And Pioneer Square’s Occidental Square has turned into an experimental art gallery.
Read about all this and more here.
“Seattle as Collector” exhibition reviewed in The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times featured a review of the exhibition Seattle as Collector: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40, on view through Oct. 23 at Seattle Art Museum. Read it here.
Seattle as Collector is a retrospective exhibition of artworks from 112 artists showcasing four decades of the city’s Portable Works Collection. The exhibition also highlights the city’s public art program with photos, drawings and proposals for more than 60 permanent artworks.
The Portable Works Collection includes paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, glass, ceramics, textiles, mixed-media and video works. Deborah Paine, city curator and collections manager, selected and grouped the artworks in the exhibition by decade, from the 1970s through the 2000s.
Photo by Robert Wade.
