World-renowned sound artist Janet Cardiff created this sound installation based on Spem in Alium by the English composer Thomas Tallis. Written for a forty-voice choir in 1573, Spem in Alium is one of the most intricate and beautiful compositions of the English Renaissance. In Cardiff’s installation, eight groups of five speakers arranged in a large oval allow visitors to experience the choral composition from the vantage of individual performers.
Cardiff received the Millennium Prize in 2001 for international excellence in contemporary art from the National Gallery of Canada, and Artforum magazine featured the work in the “Best of 2003” issue. Editions of the Forty Part Motet are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and it is a promised gift from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich collection to the Tate, London. This exhibition will be Cardiff’s first solo exhibition in the Pacific Northwest.
Tacoma Art Museum
June 28–September 7, 2008
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Second Tuesdays: The Musical History of Renaissance Composer Thomas Tallis
Tuesday, July 8
10:30 am
Douglas Fullington, Director of the Tudor Choir in Seattle, discusses the historical context of Thomas Tallis’s sixteenth-century forty-voice musical composition featured in Janet Cardiff’s sound installation.
Seattle’s Tudor Choir Performs Works by Renaissance Composer Thomas Tallis
Saturday, July 12
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Enjoy a spectacular musical survey of choral works by Thomas Tallis, composer of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui, which is featured in The Forty Part Motet, by Janet Cardiff. Tallis was the only sixteenth century English composer to have worked under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I—during decades of political and religious upheaval. The Tudor Choir is a professional a cappella ensemble that has been acclaimed by The New York Times and Gramophone magazine. Tickets are $5 for members; $12 for non members (includes museum admission and members’ opening reception to follow). Seating is limited. For advance tickets, call 253.272.4258 or e-mail programs@TacomaArtMuseum.org. NOTE: Late arrivals will be seated as concert breaks allow.
The Seattle Art Museum salutes Gay Pride Month with three outstanding films on June 13, 20 and 27 that explore the gay image in mainstream cinema. In Gods and Monsters, Ian McKellen portrays the aging James Whale, director of Frankenstein, whose eye for male beauty remains undimmed. Directed by Bill Condon, 1998, with Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave. In color, 105 min.
Watch the trailer:
June 27, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Plestcheeff Auditorium
$7 for everyone, sold day of show at the auditorium, cash only.
Skibska molds thin, transparent glass bars into ribbon shapes, which are then fused together to form larger pieces and eventually structures. Her stunning and complex constructions defy the notion of the fragility of glass, showcasing the incredible strength in Skibska’s structural adhesions and firmness in her filament – a skeletal logic that is more grounded than our senses can reckon. This installation will be on view in The Pilchuck Glass School Gallery of Bellevue Arts Museum.
Exhibit runs through September 21, 2008
For those who love the show, there is also an opportunity to meet the artist during a small gathering at her studio in Seattle. Visitors will hear from the artist and get to see some of her other works during a personal tour.
The University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media program and the Lawrimore Project are pleased to announce a BFA thesis exhibition of cutting-edge artistic inquiry, opening Thursday, June 12th from 6 to 10PM, running through June 22nd.
Featured works include installations that explore spatiotemporal aspects of light and sound in relation to the viewer, memory, kinetics, and real-time interactions. Intersecting these installations are environments that employ dance performance, stereoscopic cinema, animation, and a selection of experimental video.
This exhibition is undertaken by thirteen emerging artists investigating areas of convergence between technology and hybrid art forms. The Bachelor of Fine Arts acquired through the DXARTS program emphasizes creative academic research and experimentation through the arts, and this thesis exhibition showcases the final products of that process. The nature of this course of study merges the use of modern tools, techniques and modes of thought to pioneer new directions in contemporary, interdisciplinary art practice.
Seattle’s Lawrimore Project presents some of the most ambitious and innovative shows in the Northwest and is dedicated to carrying forward a critical dialogue between artists, curators, collectors, and the community. Scott Lawrimore’s curatorial instincts, matched with his unique historical perspective, are evident with a quick glance at the wide breadth of shows he has exhibited. From radical installations that transform the entire gallery, to unhinged video, painting and photography exhibitions, Lawrimore’s interventions in Northwest contemporary arts reinforces the new collaboration with DXARTS and will deliver a new emerging artistic logic heavily focused on the frontier of experimental arts.
The University of Washington Interdisciplinary Visual Arts (IVA) program is proud to announce the opening of the 2008 Senior Exhibition: Synthesis, the culmination of four years of study executed in a capstone project during spring quarter.
The exhibit will be on display at the School of Art Sandpoint Gallery, in Magnuson Park in Seattle, from June 11th through 14th. The exhibition reception will be at the gallery on Friday, June 13th, 6-9 pm.
For a showing this grand and diverse, thirty-six students have decided to collaborate under the leadership of Timea Tihanyi and Anne Stevens. Participating artists come from diverse and wide-ranging backgrounds and experiences in the visual arts. The artworks on display range in media, from wearable art to video installation, using techniques of oil painting, photography, printmaking, and sculptural fabrication in new and fresh ways; there’s big, there’s small; traditional and unconventional. By no means is any piece constrained to a single medium. Because of the inherent diversity in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts major this show is proud of its all-embracing approach.
June 11th - 14th 2008
Opening Reception: 6pm-9pm, June 13th, 2008
Sandpoint Gallery, School of Art, University of Washington
Building 5 Bay C / 2nd floor
7527 63rd Avenue NE Seattle
A Night with Poet Populist, Cody Walker
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
HUB 106A “The Gallery”
Join Cody Walker and members of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors society, for an evening of poetry and lively discussion. Cody Walker, voted Seattle “Poet Populist” for 2007-2008, teaches English at the University of Washington and poetry through Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program. He also serves as a writer-in-residence at the Richard Hugo House and
the Seattle Art Museum. Cody received the 2003 James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah and the 2005 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UW English Department. His work
appears on buses and bookmarks, as well as in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Parnassus, Slate, Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, and Light. His first book, “Shuffle and Breakdown,” will be published in the fall of 2008 by Waywiser Press.
Cody Walker and student volunteers will read selections from “Shuffle and Breakdown” and other poems and open up discussion about the texts. This is not a traditional poetry reading, but a fun, interactive, and informal evening with one of Seattle’s most popular poets and one of the UW’s most beloved English teachers. Come hang out with Cody and company next Wednesday evening at the HUB!
Lavinia, second wife of Aeneas, has only a line or two in Virgil’s Aeneid. Ursula K. LeGuin has decided to give Lavinia a voice of her own in this new novel- Lavinia published by Harcourt.
It was a wonderful thing to be out on the hills and see a great stag come walking calmly from the forest, balancing his crown of horns. He would kneel and put his nose in Silvia’s hand, and folding his tall delicate legs under him, sit there between us while she stroked his neck. He smelled sweet and strong and gamy. His eyes were large, dark, and quiet; so were Silvia’s eyes. That is what it was like in the age of Saturn, my poet said, the golden time of the first days when there was no fear in the world. Silvia seemed a daughter of that age. To sit with her on the sunlit slopes or run with her on the forest trails she knew so well was the delight of my life. There was no one in all that country of our girlhood who wished us any harm. Our pagans, the folk of the plowlands, greeted us from their fields or the doorstep of their round huts. The surly bee-keeper saved a comb of honey for us, the dairy women had a sip of cream for us, the cowboys showed off for us, riding bull-calves or vaulting an old cow’s horns, and the old shepherd Ino showed us how to make piping flutes of oat-straw.
Sometimes in summer as the long day drew toward evening and we knew we should be starting home to the farm, we’d both lie face down on the hillside and push our faces right into the harsh dry grass and the hard clodded dirt, breathing in the infinitely complex smell, hay-sweet and soil-bitter, of the warm summer earth, our earth. Then we were both Saturn’s children. We leapt up and ran down the hill, ran home — race you to the cattle ford!
April 23, 2008, 12:00 pm
Filed under: English, Events
POETRY & CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ART IN SEATTLE: Untitled [Intersection], 2008
The only live art series in Seattle that sends you home with a work of art!
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Seattle poets JOHNNY HORTON and STEVEN DOLD will present work alongside a guest performance artist MONICA GILLIAM, contemporary dancer, gardener & recent 12 Min Max artist!
Wine reception with light fare and a complimentary copy of the April Untitled Manifesto, a booklet of artist manifestos with hand-printed, signed and numbered covers made by printmaker Kate Freeman.
UNTITLED [INTERSECTION] features contemporary NW performance art & poetry in an ongoing series intended to strengthen the arts community by cross-fertilizing, fostering dialog and bringing fresh talent to
the fore. Untitled [Intersection] happens on the 4th Friday of every month, from 7-9pm, at Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center in Seattle.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
7 PM at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
104 17th Ave. S (Off Yesler); Seattle, WA
American Heritage Series is an ongoing series of lectures and discussions that offer new perspectives on the role of African-Americans in American history. This second installment continues to explore the history of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ) African-Americans but specifically focusing on transgender history. Gender identity beyond just Male or Female and transgenderism is not new in the African-American community. To be clear, this is separate from ones sexual orientation but generally refers to someone whose “gender identity or expression differs from the sex of their birth, whether they have surgery or not.”
Join moderator Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor, UW Department of English and panelists Dean Jackson, Regional Organizer and Racial Equity Initiative Project Coordinator, Pride Foundation, Vanessa Grandberry, former Program Manager for the HIV education and prevention programs, Transgender Time (T-Time) and 4Every Man and Imani Henry, Artist, Activist, and Staff Organizer at the International Action Center as we provide information and discuss the contributions African-American transpeople have made to our community.
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World-renowned sound artist Janet Cardiff created this sound installation based on Spem in Alium by the English composer Thomas Tallis. Written for a forty-voice choir in 1573, Spem in Alium is one of the most intricate and beautiful compositions of the English Renaissance. In Cardiff’s installation, eight groups of five speakers arranged in a large oval allow visitors to experience the choral composition from the vantage of individual performers.
Skibska molds thin, transparent glass bars into ribbon shapes, which are then fused together to form larger pieces and eventually structures. Her stunning and complex constructions defy the notion of the fragility of glass, showcasing the incredible strength in Skibska’s structural adhesions and firmness in her filament – a skeletal logic that is more grounded than our senses can reckon. This installation will be on view in The Pilchuck Glass School Gallery of Bellevue Arts Museum.
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
