Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE and the museum is open until 8 pm on the first Thursday of every month. Get closer to the daily work happening in the Burke Museum’s visible collections storage, labs and workrooms during Free First Thursday.

Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE and the museum is open until 8 pm on the first Thursday of every month. Get closer to the daily work happening in the Burke Museum’s visible collections storage, labs and workrooms during Free First Thursday.

Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE and the museum is open until 8 pm on the first Thursday of every month. Get closer to the daily work happening in the Burke Museum’s visible collections storage, labs and workrooms during Free First Thursday.

Join us for the opening celebration of In Plain Sight, a museum-wide exhibition featuring the work of fourteen national and international artists.

Visit the Allen Library South Basement to immerse yourself in the influences on Morris and his creative artistic work in textiles, stained glass, furniture, wallpaper, ceramics and ultimately type designing and letterpress printing.

Scandinavian Studies professor Marianne Stecher will discuss Hans Christian Andersen’s futuristic fairy tales, which were inspired by science and technology. Stecher’s talk is the latest in the Scandinavian 30 series at the Nordic Museum, featuring 30-minutes talks by UW Scandinavian Studies faculty.

Join us in the galleries for a reading with members of the African-American Writers' Alliance as they present new works written in response to the content and themes of Edgar Arceneaux’s Library of Black Lies. The AAWA, a diverse and dynamic collective of Seattle-area writers of African descent, provides an informal and supportive forum for new and published writers. AAWA has published five anthologies: Sometimes I Wander… (1998), Gifted Voices (2000), Words? Words! Words. (2004), Threads (2009), and Voices That Matter (2018).Image credit: Edgar Arceneaux (U.S., born 1972). Library of Black Lies. 2016. Wood, mirrored glass, mylar, newspaper, hard-bound books, sugar crystals, lighting fixtures, audio component. Courtesy of the artist. [installation view in EdgarArceneaux: Library of Black Lies, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 2018]. Photo: Mark Woods, courtesy of the Henry.

What is the future, present, and past of the objects we live among? Take a new look at the discarded or precious things that surround you. Bring your own personal curiousity or pick from a selection of found objects to write stories, poetry, or create portraits that honor these things for all that they are or could be.Offered on select Sundays throughout the year, this free drop-in style program encourages families to think about art in new ways. We take big ideas and explore them through playful and experimental activities. Drop in anytime between 1 and 3 p.m.!

Write, paint, and imagine the future of the world with us!Gather inspiration from the ways that artists in Between Bodies have imagined new possibilities for humans and their relationships with the environment.Use inventive writing and thinking exercises to create your vision for a world a hundred years into the future.Offered on select Sundays throughout the year, this free drop-in style program encourages families to think about art in new ways. We take big ideas and explore them through playful and experimental activities. Drop in anytime between 1 and 3 p.m.!