Seattle Art Museum

👣Next Thursday! Get ready to step into the visionary world of Joyce J. Scott. SAM presents the Baltimore-based artist’s 50-year retrospective, “Walk a Mile in My Dreams,” featuring over 140 sculptures, jewelry, quilts, garments, and mixed-media installations. In her work, Scott weaves radical truths and beguiling visions, captivating with beauty, humor, and a fearless exploration of issues including racism, sexism, classism, and what she calls “all the ‘isms’ society offers.” “Walk a Mile in My Dreams” is on view at the Seattle Art Museum October 17, 2024 through January 19, 2025. It is co-organized by SAM and the Baltimore Museum of Art. 🎟️Learn more and get tickets: https://lnkd.in/gF6Q9n95

Eight days… That's how much time you have left to see “Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection” before it closes at SAM on Sunday, October 20. Get your tickets to see this extraordinary collection before it goes off view! visitsam.org/calder [📸 Alborz Kamalizad © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]

⏰There's still time to join SAM’s figure drawing series! In six sessions over three months, you’ll explore lighting, poses, and foundational techniques, each in a different theme sparked by a specific artist or artwork. SAM Creates: Figure Drawing with Studio Paradiso is led by the talented Wyatt Landis and features the dynamic model Kirsten McCory. Registration for the series includes two classes per month, taking place on Saturdays over three months: ✏️October 12 & 19 ✏️November 9 & 16 ✏️December 14 & 21 SAM members get a discounted rate of $125! Don't miss this chance to elevate your art in a truly inspiring environment. Sign up and embark on this creative journey: https://lnkd.in/giEGX9NM – [ 📸Alborz Kamalizad]

📚 Applications for the next class of Seattle Art Museum docents close October 18! Docents are volunteer gallery educators who facilitate tours for school groups at SAM. Here’s what docents at SAM give: ✅ Passion for art and learning with diverse youth audiences ✅ Skills in gallery education and tour facilitation for a K-12 audience ✅ Time toward training, including attending lectures and research, as well as weekly tours during the school year And here’s docents at SAM get: ❗Access to exclusive lectures, workshops, and trainings with curators, artists, scholars, and SAM staff ❗Free entry to SAM and other museums, six free guest passes to SAM each year, and a discount at SAM shop ❗Connection with a vibrant community of fellow volunteer docents – Don’t wait! Apply to volunteer today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gV5R8jVJ [📸 Robert Wade]

🎉 Congratulations to our pals at Friends of Waterfront Park and the City of Seattle's Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects on the opening of Overlook Walk! This beautiful and thoughtful new viewpoint connects downtown to the waterfront and is a public space for everyone to enjoy. Its debut marks an exciting time for the city. And a special high five to Maggie Walker, board chair of Friends of Waterfront Park (as well as a longtime SAM trustee!) for her tireless work and vision. Learn more about their work at the link! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dYWE-tBu

From SF to Seattle! “Suchitra Mattai: she walked in reverse and found their songs” is opening at the Seattle Asian Art Museum on April 9, 2025 after a successful run at Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco this summer. In this exhibition, Mattai turns inward, examining the power of memory in the creation of her own stories. The history of her ancestors—brought from India to work as indentured laborers in Guyana—deeply influences her practice. At the core of the exhibition, Mattai reimagines her grandparents’ home in Guyana. Using techniques passed down through generations, she weaves materials marked by the past into a collective story of migration and gendered labor. Suchitra Mattai was recently highlighted in artnet as one of 5 artists that “speak to our cultural moment": https://lnkd.in/gPn2y7_Y [🎨 "Pappy’s house," 2024, Suchitra Mattai, Guyana, b. 1973, worn saris, aluminum, beaded trim, tinsel, 216 x 110.96 x 81.38 in., Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California, photo: Nicholas Lea Bruno]

🎉 Big news! The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced a suite of eight grants totaling $9 million+ to support the cultural vitality of downtown Seattle. SAM is one of the recipients and will receive $500,000 over two years to support extending our Free First Thursday program into the evening. Free First Thursdays at the downtown museum—when the museum is free to all, all day on the first Thursday of each month—will now run until 8 pm and feature programming from 5 to 8 pm. With this funding, says Scott Stulen, SAM’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO, “local artists will create dynamic programs, our community partners will have a platform, and audiences will be able to visit the museum who may not otherwise have been able to do so. Philanthropic support like this is critical for organizations of all sizes, and SAM relies on substantial investments like this to be sure that we are here for generations to come.” Read the full announcement, including what to expect at the first edition of Free First Thursday supported by the grant on October 3: https://lnkd.in/gYrrd8rR [📸 @alborzk]

🌧️A popular Haitian proverb says: “Remember the rain that makes your corn grow.” There's just a few weeks left to see "Remember the Rain" at the Seattle Art Museum, a show featuring works by Haitian artists from SAM's collection. The proverb inspires the selection of a group of mid-20th century Haitian paintings. Full of vibrant colors and strong graphics, each painting presents a narrative scene drawing on different vantage points of Haitian life: the relationships between landscape and community and between the celestial and the earthly environment, and the mundane thrums of daily life. Artists on view include Hector Hyppolite, Fernand Pierre, S. Bernadel, Toussaint Auguste, Castera Bazile, Philomé Obin, and Jacques-Enguerran d'Gourgue. The show closes on Sunday, October 14! Learn more and get your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ggc8wTiP _ [📸 Alborz Kamalizad, Chloe Collyer]

🚨 ONE MONTH! That’s how long you have left to see “Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection” at SAM before it closes on October 20. The inaugural exhibition in the multiyear "Calder at SAM" initiative, “Calder: In Motion” traces Alexander Calder’s career, highlighting the most important themes, styles, and materials from the 1920s through the 1970s. With more than 45 artworks by the revolutionary American artist on view, it’s one exhibition you don’t want to miss. Reserve your tickets to see it at SAM today! visitsam.org/calder [📸 Alborz Kamalizad © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]

⏪ Time for a flashback! We're missing our homegrown summer exhibition, "Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture," and all of its offbeat, colorful, irreverent art that filled the galleries. Tune in to our YouTube playlist of zany infomercials, fascinating curator spotlights, and artist interviews we created for the exhibition: https://lnkd.in/g4vhzCqQ