Seattle Public Utilities Fresh Perspectives 2020, Part 1 of 3
29 Artworks by 23 Artists
(A total of 70 artworks by 57 artists were purchased)
This exhibition consists of 29 contemporary artworks by 23 Northwest artists. The artwork was selected and curated by seven young people for Seattle Public Utilities latest 1% for Art purchase. They each participated in the Fresh Perspectives Youth Curatorial Training Program, jointly organized by Seattle Public Utilities and the Office of Arts & Culture.
This program includes conversations with curators and arts administrators from galleries, museums and public collections. It also provides the opportunity to serve on the selection panel, and learn about budgets and art handling. The program, now in its second year, seeks to support young creatives of color and incorporate youth voice, eye, and perspective into the City of Seattle’s art collection.
Artists
- Marit Berg
- Mary Ellen Bowers
- Patti Bowman
- Yvonne Chan
- Meghan Crandall
- Amjad Faur
- Mike Ferguson
- Kathy Fridstein
- Randi Ganulin
- Hsinyi Huang
- Nico Inzerella
- Juliana Kang Robinson
- Elise Koncsek
- Alan McNiel
- Maya Milton
- Hanako O’Leary
- Akira Ohiso
- Joe Rudko
- Roger Shimomura
- Miya Sukune
- JoEllen Wang
- Michelle Zeidman
- Jennifer Zwick
Youth Curators
Michael Anderson, Rosália António, Christa Chan, Helena Goos, Moe’Neyah Holland, Harsimran Kaur, Melody Lin
Program Administrators
Blake Haygood, Elisheba Johnson, Alison Post, Benjamin Gale-Schreck, Mami Hara
Image: Detail from Akria Ohiso, Muslim Neighbor, 2019.
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Uncover the history of redlining and its impacts through individual stories in this new exhibit. Beginning with the exclusion of Native people from Seattle, follow the ongoing confluence of interconnected financial, environmental, physical factors that have plagued people of color and the instrumental history of response through resistance, innovation, solidarity and creativity that has shaped Seattle.
The Wing Luke Museum invites you to explore our newest photo and video exhibition focusing on the vibrant Asian Pacific American enclaves that are the backdrop of everyday life around the United States.
Curator Carina A. del Rosario brings together works from artists Dean Wong, Andrew Hida, Melissa Ponder, and the Chinatown Art Brigade to examine the history of ethnic enclaves, the role they play for established communities and new arrivals, and their resiliency in the face of economic and cultural pressures.
Museum hours are 10am – 5pm, Tuesday – Sunday (closed Mondays)
Join us for a restoration work party at East Duwamish GS: S Chicago St – See website for important details on what to bring and where to meet.
Every Tuesday from 10AM-12PM, enjoy hands on work with staff gardeners and other like-minded volunteers. Practice your skills while you enjoy the company of other gardeners. Work on a project with Garden Staff. Afterwards, enjoy a hot beverage and more conversation; bring your lunch if you’d like.
Tools and gloves are provided. If you have it, please bring your by-pass hand pruners and favored weeding tool. Dress in comfortable clothing, in layers that you don’t mind getting dirty. Wear sturdy closed toe shoes and a hat. Bring your raingear! Bring your water bottle.
Come any Tuesday that you can make it, rain or shine!
Meet at the Crew Quarters (brown building, south of Parking Lot) prior to 10 AM.
"Tuesdays in the Garden" work parties are opportunities for individuals or very small groups to work with experts in horticulture. If you are interested in scheduling a custom Work Party for your corporate or community team, please contact Kubota Garden Foundation's Volunteer Engagement Coordinator at volunteers@kubotgarden.org for special arrangements.
The Seattle City Light Review Panel was created March 22, 2010, by a unanimous vote of the City Council on Ordinance Number 123256. The Review Panel is the successor to the City Light Advisory Board/Commission (2003 – 2010) and the Rate Advisory Committee (2009).
The nine panel members come from City Light’s customer groups. Five members are nominated by the mayor and four members are nominated by the city council, serving staggered three-year terms. In 2010, the focus of the panel will be helping to develop a six year strategic plan for City Light.
Seattle-based choreographer Donald Byrd works at the forefront of contemporary performance. For four decades, he has created innovative and startling dance theater works that explore the extraordinary capacities of dancers’ bodies, the complexities of Africanist aesthetics, and the ways that theatrical dance can open audiences toward social change. Presenting selected works from across his prodigious career, Byrd’s first solo museum exhibition reflects Americans’ ongoing struggles to care for our complex diversity. The show centers the artist’s firm belief in an America that is to be: one that is “multi-racial in every aspect.” For Byrd, the future of performance will include “a full spectrum of who lives in America on the stage…a reflection of our world.”
More than any other statesman of contemporary dance, Byrd concerns himself with the terms of social encounters that produce racialized and gendered subjects. His works test suppositions: he wonders on public stages about the conditions of gender and misogyny, race relations, eternal warfare, sexual identity, and the price of obsession. Working across multiple genres—in Hollywood, on Broadway, in opera, and with major ballet and modern dance companies—Byrd always moves toward the most difficult questions, boldly, forcefully, and thoughtfully. In so doing, he presses us all to understand the potential of dance as an act of defiance, as a demonstration of expertise, and as a meditation on what else could be.
The America That Is To Be incorporates archival performance footage and ephemera from various stages of Byrd’s forty-plus years of creativity with in-gallery dance performances. The exhibition traces his beginnings at California Institute of Arts, where his dance work took on a punk-inspired aesthetic, to his early works with his first dance company Donald Byrd/The Group (active from 1978–2002), through crucial collaborations with groups including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and his work since 2002 as Artistic Director of Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater. Reflecting the way Byrd’s vision has evolved into its full expression across a remarkable array of dance-theater works, The America That Is To Be demonstrates the passionate affirmation of a mature artist’s belief in dance to inspire social transformations; to dance toward social justice.
Donald Byrd (American, b. 1949, New London, North Carolina) is a Tony-nominated (The Color Purple) and Bessie Award-winning (The Minstrel Show) choreographer. He has been the Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle since December 2002. Formerly, he was Artistic Director of Donald Byrd/The Group, a critically acclaimed contemporary dance company, founded in Los Angeles and later based in New York, that toured both nationally and internationally. He has created dance works for many leading companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, and Dance Theater of Harlem, among others, and worked extensively in theater and opera.
His many awards, prizes, and fellowships include Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Cornish College of the Arts; Masters of Choreography Award, The Kennedy Center; Fellow at The American Academy of Jerusalem; James Baldwin Fellow of United States Artists; Resident Fellow of The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center; Fellow at the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, Harvard University; and the Mayor’s Arts Award for his sustained contributions to the City of Seattle.
Donald Byrd received the 2016 James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award, which is funded by the Raynier Institute & Foundation through the Frye Art Museum | Artist Trust Consortium. The award supports and advances the creative work of outstanding artists living and working in Washington State and culminates in a presentation at the Frye Art Museum.
Donald Byrd: The America That Is To Be is organized by Frye Art Museum and curated by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Professor of Dance, Duke University. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Raynier Institute & Foundation through the Frye Art Museum | Artist Trust Consortium. Additional generous support is provided by Graham Construction. Media sponsorship is provided by Encore Media Group.