From a felted chair resembling mushrooms to a rocking chair made from 3-D printed recycled plastic, Conversation Pieces features 45 works of furniture that prioritize meaning and material choice over function and practicality.
In 2021, yəhaẃ received funding to purchase a site in Seattle for transformative land-based arts programming. The organization’s continuing search for land during the planning of this was a densely wooded hill forms the basis of the installation. The ongoing displacement of Native and Indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories and the institutional preservation of this displacement in museums are its broader context.
Situated at the heart of Barrio Logan, Chicano Park contains a sizeable collection of outdoor murals, a playground, community gardens, a raised plaza, multi-purpose courts, and picnic areas set within gently sloping lawns.
What do artworks want from us? And what do we want from them?
A key question at the heart of American Art: The Stories We Carry is, “who determines what American art is, and how?”
Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World explores how artists and practitioners across two millennia have understood and utilized one of the core tenets of Buddhism—dependent arising, which posits that cycles of existence (saṃsāra) arise from past actions and that everything in the world can impact everything else.