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Nearly one hundred ceramic plates hanging on a white wall, each with a unique illustration of Death Row Inmate's last meals in blue.

Julie Green: The Last Supper

Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue

800 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of US Death Row Inmates

A grid of rectangular, colorful posters, each with a monochromatic illustration of a different person. Behind each portrait are two repeated columns of text. On the right, the text reads #FREETHEMALL. On the left, the text reads #FREE and the person's name, for example, #FREEYOHANNE and #FREERUBEN. Below the portraits is more text and a QR code. The text introduces the person and says that they are detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA.

Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia

Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle

La Resistencia’s #FreeThemAll campaign shares visual and narrative portraits of people detained within the Tacoma ICE Processing Center

Free
A box of gum floats on a bright turquoise background. The gum label reads "Yellow No. 5" in pink and yellow, fluffy, cursive font with a black outline. The background of the box is pink and green. Svelte legs in sparkly fishnet stockings and pastel yellow stilettos rest upside down on the top of the box. The torso and rest of the person's body disappear behind the box.

Yellow No. 5

Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue

Yellow No. 5 examines the transactional relationship between culture and consumerism and how they often work in tandem to conceal their connection. Tariqa Waters’ project-based, multi-disciplinary exhibition sees her collaborate with regional artists to explore the grab-and-go nature of material goods and how these products serve as armor to shield us from our intrinsically codependent relationship with consumerism—using artificial additives.

Free
A painting of orange and red flowers on a light blue background. The flowers seem to be floating through a blue sky, with silver and purple swirls and white dots weaving around them.

Art on the Mind: Ten Years of Creative Aging

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle

Designed to alleviate some of the social, emotional, and financial challenges that a person living with dementia may face, the Frye’s Creative Aging programs serve as opportunities to deepen their life experiences, foster friendships, and build community through art.

Free
Photograph of a woman sitting on the ground, her knees held to her chest, gazing into the distance. Behind her on a black, wooden floor, objects such as books, candles, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a bowl are strewn. In the right-hand corner of the frame, more candles and various artifacts sit atop a table covered in white tablecloth. Just behind the woman, a patterned scarf is draped around the neck of an upright torso of a mannequin.

Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle

Anastacia-Reneé’s poetry and performances are an assertion of presence that counteract the erasure of those who have been marginalized by American society. With an unflinching focus on collective liberation, her work is rooted in the Black feminist and womanist traditions, and their intersectional approach to addressing racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, and class.

Free
This piece, using cut paper and hand-printed color, depicts two small children — one, a boy, slightly older than the other, a girl — standing back to back, arms crossed, with grins on their faces. The girl is wearing a short sleeved dress; the boy, a patterned shirt.

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence

Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle

Barbara Earl Thomas’ new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of her new work is a story of life and death, hope and resilience—a child’s survival.

Free
This sweeping painting elongates the limbs of its subjects' raised fists, so they appear mountainous, triangular, and dynamic. The bottom and middle of the frame is crowded with individuals of this form, creating the sensation that a group is on the verge of riot. In the top left, a man in black garb leans forward, stretching his body across the top of the piece, pointing his finger. Deep, dark colors, including shades of brown, black, red, green, and one sharp flash of blue, dominate this piece.

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle

Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle questions the stories we’ve been told by amplifying narratives that have been systematically overlooked from America’s history. This exhibition reunites Lawrence’s revolutionary 30-panel series Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56) for the first time since 1958.

Free
Black, white, and grey abstract weavings made using a computer algorithm. The piece is made up of two woven rectangles hung next to each other, and each has zig zagging lines of various tones creating a glitchy stripe pattern.

Jovencio de la Paz: The Ghost and the Maze

Specialist 300 South Washington Street, Seattle

Working between wall, table, and floor, these textiles operate as a spatial exploration as much as visualization of the algorithmic processes utilized to create them.

Free
A smartphone hangs upside down by its charging cable, which is draped over the edge of a large, flat, rock-like pink object with rounded edges. The image on the screen of the phone is similar to the sculpture but in blue.

What’s Different?

SOIL 112 3rd Ave S, Seattle

The image today has an elastic feature. Each new image appropriates its surroundings, directing the flow of emotion, resources, capital, and popular opinion in its wake.

Free
A sculpture piecing together layers of fabric and yarn in an oval shape, growing darker nearer the center where lies a resin cast flower, evoking the sensation of an ovular, tectonic inside.

Colleen RJC Bratton: Endometrial Atmosphere

SOIL 112 3rd Ave S, Seattle

There are so many factors that have to come together to support delicate life. I’ve changed countless ways in which I navigate this life and my body in order to bear a child.

Free
Collage of various posters, clippings, images—jumbled together and divided into three distinct side-by-side panels, each saturated a different color: red, green and blue, from left to right.

Gary Simmons: The Engine Room

Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle

His work is occupied by the unfixed nature of a past that remains open to the vagaries of memory, and its role in the construction of the character of contemporary America.

Free
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