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Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective

Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

Painting and calligraphy, jades, ceramics and sculpture, as well as contemporary art in a range of media. $5. Tues.-Sun. Ongoing.
Black Sun

6:00 a.m. daily

As the most touched, caressed, and fondled piece of public art in Seattle, I would nominate Black Sun, installed at the old SAM (now SAAM) on Capit...
Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. first Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. of every month from March 7 until August 5

Over 60 ultra-colorful ikats, the traditional robe-like garment of Uzbekistan, are displayed, along with vintage and recent photos of the region, a...

The Fussy Eye: Hey, What's an Ikat?

By Brian Miller | Wed, April 25, 2012

Dig those crazy striped bathrobes! Oh, wait, they're ikats, the traditional garment of Uzbekistan. Far from the Gauguin-going throng of shoppers and tourists downtown, SAAM can host some odd little exhibits without much commercial appeal. The 60-p... More »
Painting Seattle

By | Wed, December 28, 2011

Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura ran a sign shop in Japantown, the neighborhood destroyed by WWII and the illegal internment of its residents. Before that catastrophe, they were both hard-working Issei, first-generation immigrants legally exclu... More »
Visual Arts: Ghosts of Japantown

By Brian Miller | Wed, December 14, 2011

Six hundred miles southeast of Seattle, where they'd previously lived in the same small enclave, a photographer and two painters met again. There also in the Minidoka Relocation Center, in the Idaho desert where no white farmer would willingly set... More »