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Last time it was dinosaurs. This time it’s daggers. Can’t beat it, really.

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The Evolution of Tlingit Daggers
Burke Museum

This presentation will provide an historical and visual overview of the changing function and form of the Tlingit dagger. Along with this evolutionary process, issues of authenticity and marketplace status will be addressed. McClelland will discuss how the materials used to create daggers were tied to historical events on the coast and reflect the impact of contact, trade, and public demand.

Tuesday 7:00pm
05/06/2008
Admission: $8/Adults, $6.50/Seniors, $5/Students, Free/Members, Children Under 6 and UW Staff/Faculty/Students
Burke Museum
1701 45th Avenue NE, Seattle
(206) 543-5590
dso@u.washington.edu
www.burkemuseum.org

Josiah McElheny makes installations and discrete sculptures that explore crucial moments in the development of modernity, its visual and theoretical undercurrents. His interest in the history of modern science finds its fullest expression in The Last Scattering Surface. Working with astrophysicists at Ohio State University over several years, McElheny has created a vivid tangible model of the Big Bang, the explosion postulated to represent the beginnings of organic matter. Characteristically the form also quotes visual culture, specifically the gigantic chandeliers of New York’s arch-modern performance space, Lincoln Center. In celebration of the exhibition’s opening, McElheny will discuss The Last Scattering Surface and the relationships between concepts such as history, fiction, and memory at play in his work.

When he was named a Macarthur Fellow the Foundation described his work as “objects of exceptional formal sophistication, exquisite craftsmanship, and conceptual rigor.”

TICKETS

$10 members / $15 general / $12 students and seniors at Brown Paper Tickets

Location: Kane Hall, Room 220

Date & Time: April 4, 7:30 PM

Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen is a exhibition on display at the Science Fiction Museum, adjacent to EMP. This exhibit illustrates Allen’s fantastical rendering of science fiction through glass and metal via sculpture rocket ships. The prisms of light that embed themselves within the work is truly the stuff of dreams and a must-see for artists and sci-fi buffs alike.

And plus, who doesn’t want to see the xenomorph prop from Aliens or R2D2! Get in your daily dose of art as well as your nerd-dom.

For more information, visit:http://www.empsfm.org/index.asp

Exhibit runs until April 17th, 2008.
EMP|SFM is located at:
325 5th Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
(on the Seattle Center Campus)

$12.00 student admission.

Free event alert!

Explore the new exhibits at the on-campus Burke Museum featuring the Native arts and culture of the Columbia River Plateau: Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915 and This Place Called Home. Additionally, two films will be shown from the UW Native Voices documentary film program: White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men and American Red and Black.

Stop by Wednesday, March 5th, from 7-9pm for snacks, films, and free admission to the museum with your Husky ID!

So you never had the chance to take Dinosaurs 101 at the UW? I didn’t either. (shucks). But if you’re looking for a Steven Spielberg-worthy Saturday afternoon, hop down to the Burke Museum and check out this special presentation by the museum. The more impressive dinosaur artifacts are being brought out and discussed for this afternoon. Likewise, there will be special activities discussing fossils that can be found throughout the Northwest.

New this year: See the incredible, 21-foot-long, 145 million year old ichthyosaur fossil recently installed in the museum. Get up close to the newest giant marine reptile, the nothosaur, which will be on view inside its crate for the first time in the Burke lobby.

Indulge your inner child and help break open actual shale rock with UW paleontologists. Find a fossil and you get to take it home (assuming it isn’t Holy-Grail stature).

Information provided by: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/dinoday2008/index.php