Arts and Culture

BE Great Celebration - Black Excellence Festival

BE Great Celebration – Black Excellence Festival

Celebrate Black Excellence at BE Great! In honor of Black History Month, this free two-day event brings together Black culture, arts, music, food and more. Enjoy performances from local musicians, shop the pop-up night market and immerse yourself in Black creativity and community. All are welcome at this soulful celebration. Feb. 16, 4 p.m.-7 p.m….

Mozart: Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers, Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat

Mozart: Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers, Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat

Shake off the drear of winter with the uplifting music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph Adam conducts the St. James Cathedral Cantorei (choir & soloists) and Chamber Orchestra in the Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers, and Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat (featuring Jeffrey Fair, principal horn of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra).

Preston Wadley: The Dark Season

Preston Wadley: The Dark Season

The Behnke Family Gallery at Cornish College of the Arts is pleased to present The Dark Season by Preston Wadley. Preston Wadley, born in Los Angeles, CA, is an artist and educator working in Washington State. He received his MFA from the University of Washington. “This collection of photographs is not so much a ‘body…

Free Family Day: BAM-O-WEEN

Free Family Day: BAM-O-WEEN

Attention crafty creatures, handy heroes, and fun-loving families. Bellevue Arts Museum is hosting a spooktacular spread of activities that your whole family can enjoy whilst exploring the art exhibits and showing off your crazy costumes. The activities are best suited for kids, monsters, and witches aged 4-10, but of course, all ages are welcome to…

Unexpected Legacy: Selected Works of Kenneth Showell

Unexpected Legacy: Selected Works of Kenneth Showell

Kenneth Showell Artworks presents Unexpected Legacy: Selected Works of Kenneth Showell (1939-1997) at Slip Gallery (2301 1st Avenue, Seattle) September 6-30, 2023. In 2018, Hannah Palin, a Seattle film archivist, received a storage pod filled with work created by her estranged father, Kenneth Showell, a New York painter and photographer who died in 1997. Palin…

18th Tasveer Film Festival

18th Tasveer Film Festival

The Tasveer Festival will create a lively, stimulating environment focused on exploring issues facing the South Asian diaspora. Through in-person film screenings, fireside chats, panels, Q&As and networking in Seattle, the festival aims to engage audiences beyond the films themselves. The goal is to foster prolonged discussion and understanding around the social, political, personal and…

26th Annual Architectural Model Exhibit | CommUNITY

26th Annual Architectural Model Exhibit | CommUNITY

Opening Reception of CommUNITY, SAF’s 26th Annual Architectural Model Exhibit. Each year, SAF’s Model Exhibit celebrates the creativity of local and international designers and firms by connecting audiences to the process of architectural design. Opening reception on August 10, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Tickets. $28 – $44 Logos designed by Jennifer Primm of Weber Thompson

Caribbean Seafest 2023

Caribbean Seafest 2023

Seattle Caribbean Festival aims to bring together the culturally and linguistically diverse members of the Caribbean Community in the Pacific Northwest along with those interested in learning and experiencing Caribbean cultural expressions to share in a day of cultural performances, cultural expression, and cultural exchange.

Celebrate Pride with Print Making

Celebrate Pride with Print Making

Visitors of all ages are invited to decorate linocut prints with artist, Eileen Jimenez. Participants will make prints using blocks designed by Eileen, featuring images of LGBTQIA+ community pride and of the natural environment. Watercolors and brushes will be made available for visitors to make each print their own unique vision. Need further inspiration? Be…

Art Lecture: One Work, Many Voices: Wendy Red Star

Art Lecture: One Work, Many Voices: Wendy Red Star

One Work, Many Voices invites you to be part of an intimate discussion inspired by a single work of art. The program takes place in the Strange Weather exhibition after the museum is closed to the public. Registration for this small group discussion is limited to 15 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Our upcoming…

Julie Williams performs at Fremont Abbey

Julie Williams performs at Fremont Abbey

All ages performance. Black Opry artist and CMT Next Women of Country Julie Williams is turning heads in Nashville’s Americana/country music scene with songs that tell the stories she wished to hear as a mixed race child. A regular host of The Song Suffragettes, Julie was named in Rissi Palmer’s Color Me Country Class of…

BAM ARTSfair 2023

BAM ARTSfair 2023

Bellevue Arts Museum hosts the largest award-winning arts & crafts festival in the Northwest. We are committed to handmade excellence and supporting national designers, artists, and craftspeople. Shop from over 300 inspiring artists showcasing unique, handmade craft and art. This marketplace represents modern, traditional, and emerging work. In addition to this unique shopping experience, BAM…

Painting Workshop: The Change we Experience, the Change we can Become

Painting Workshop: The Change we Experience, the Change we can Become

Join this two-hour acrylic workshop in dialogue with the exhibition Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This adult studio workshop gives participants the opportunity to use contemporary painting techniques to address the roles, responsibilities, and emotions that we encounter within the strange atmosphere of our modern world. Instructor…

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