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Imagine for a moment a Seattle where the skyscrapers are not buildings but old-growth trees, in forests too thick to walk.

WASHINGTON — Visitors can join acclaimed artist Preston Singletary at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on May 7 and 8 and hear him discuss his art, his

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Sandy Brown Jensen describes the Erik Sandgren show at Karin Clarke Gallery.   This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. There is so much art going on everywhere in the KLCC listening area.  Artists we think we know are surprising us with unprecedented explosions of creativity. Check out what Margaret Coe is doing with oil paints and light on Facebook or the exciting work being shown almost daily on Instagram by Margaret Prentice, Robert C...

Seattle Aquarium, Museum of Pop Culture and others to reopen in upcoming days Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail Heres when museums in Seattle will reopenSeattle Art Museum Whether youve missed strolling idly through a museum and looking at works of art and relics of history or will just take any excuse to get out of the house, weve got some good news for you: museums and other attractions in the Seattle area are beginning to reopen after the region advanced to Phase 2 of the states reopening plan th...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: February 2, 2021 Cascadia Art Museum is reopening on Thursday, Feb. 4 with a new exhibition The Sculpture of Charles W. Smith. Originally from Woodside, N.Y.,  Smith (1922-2009) was a well-known Seattle sculptor whose worked shifted from an early focus on biomorphic abstractions of the human form to more condensed set of geometric shapes later in his career.  After completing his college degree in industrial design at the American Art School and Pratt Institute in...

© Andrew Pogue Historically, the sea and its waterways were important trade routes, and these coastal estuaries dramatically influenced the built environment. Architecturally, the villages and settlements of the Salish Sea consisted of longhouses, fishing platforms, and pit-houses. Made by the Coast Salish, Northern Wakashan Kwakwakawakw and Southern Wakashan peoples, the buildings were commonly built using Western Red Cedar. These traditional structures were built along rivers and watercours...