Events on Thursday, February 23
BOOST: Poetry to Uplift Your Spirits
Thursday 2/23 @ Fremont Abbey Arts Center
Performance poet (and published author) Tara Hardy is a badass force of nature onstage. Offstage, however, the former Seattle Poet Populist...
Thursday 2/23 @ Henry Art Gallery
There are these flat, black, circular things called vinyl records. Ever heard of them? Ever sat around with other people and...
Ongoing Events
Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses
Thursday 2/23 @ EMP Museum
A pleasantly surprising exhibit that provokes way more than mere worship of the raucous rock 'n roll band. Find intimate photos...
Around the Bend and Over the Edge: Seattle Ceramics 1964-1977
Thursday 2/23 @ Henry Art Gallery
The years between 1964 and 1977 were trippy times in the United States. Fittingly, the ceramic creations showcased in Around the...
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Thursday 2/23 @ The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture- Northeast 45th Street Seattle, WA 98195
Everybody eats. Traveling exhibit Hungry Planet: What the World Eats examines who's eating what. The show documents 10 different families from...
Christopher Derek Bruno: Seeks Proof
Thursday 2/23 @ Flatcolor Gallery - 528 First Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104
Seeks Proof is the shape of shapes to come. Artist Christopher Derek Bruno starts with straightforward, solid-color geometric shapes (triangles, circles,...
Malick Sidibé: "Studio Bamako"
Thursday 2/23 @ M.I.A. Gallery - 1203A 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Since 1957, Malian photographer Malick Sidibé has been distilling moments of vibrant joy and beaming pride. The subjects of Sidibé's photographs...
Thursday 2/23 @ [storefront] Olson Kundig Architects 406 Occidental Ave. S Seattle, WA 98104
Pop-up shops are popping up like mushrooms, and this one's actually growing them. Olson Kundig Architects, the brains behind January/February's Record...
Christopher Boffoli: Big Appetites
Thursday 2/23 @ Winston Wächter Fine Art - 203 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109
Plastic people interact with real food in Christopher Boffoli's Big Appetites. Showing through February 23rd at Winston Wächter Fine Art, this...
Thursday 2/23 @ Rare Medium Gallery - 1321 E Pine St. Seattle, WA 98122
Are you sitting down? Stations, a solo show by Mark Tracy, features drawings and paintings of chairs. By concentrating on commonplace...
Xenobia Bailey: The Aesthetics of Funk
Thursday 2/23 @ Northwest African American Museum
For decades, Seattleite Xenobia Bailey has been crafting domestically charged artwork that embraces the aesthetics and spirit of African American identity....
Thursday 2/23 @ Pratt Gallery at the Tashiro Kaplan Studios - 312 South Washington Street, Studio 1A, Seattle, WA 98104
There's a lot to love about Lisa Geertsen's anatomically correct sculptures of the human heart. A blacksmith, sculptor, co-owner of Firelight...
Thursday 2/23 @ Tacoma Art Museum - 1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402
See the best of the best of the Pacific Northwest. Of 179 artists who submitted work to Tacoma Art Museum's 10th...
Theaster Gates: The Listening Room
Thursday 2/23 @ Seattle Art Museum
With a background in urban planning and religious studies, Theaster Gates’ work explores the ways history, place and performance intersect. Gates...
Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise
Thursday 2/23 @ Seattle Art Museum
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) is one of the true larger-than-life figures in art history. The key feature in his personal mythology is...
