Exhibits

Exhibits

MUSEUM CAMPUS:

2316 W. First Avenue,
Spokane, WA 99201
(509) 456-3931

GALLERY HOURS:

Wednesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.  (Effective Sept. 1 the Museum will close at 5:00 p.m.)
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday: Closed
Holidays: Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day

 Currently On View:

The Community Gallery

Gathering to Sing and Dance   Through October 2010

This exhibit will highlight photographer Rob Roberts’ still images of the local, regional and visiting tribal peoples who gather for traditional summer celebrations (commonly known as powwows). The Riverfront Park Northwest Encampment and Julyamsh Coeur d’Alene Tribal Encampment are two annual events in the Spokane region that reflect the ongoing traditions of tribal songs and dances from the Plateau Tribes. A video produced by Shonto Pete, The Real Powwow Trail documents various aspects to these celebrations.

Mestizo: Collections and Cultural Fusions

Through December 4, 2010

The Spanish conquest of Central America north to Mexico and into the present-day American Southwest and California began over 500 years ago leaving an indelible and complex historic narrative. This exhibit illustrates the unique Mestizo identity fused from the disparate cultures of the indigenous people and the colonizing Europeans with thematic references to the art of Ruben Trejo.   Sponsor:  Gonzaga University

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Harold Balazs

Through October 9, 2010

 Harold Balazs is one of our region’s best-known and most beloved artists. The largest overview of the artist’s over 50-year career, this exhibition is a rich and wildly varied survey of Balazs’ deep, unfettered, and wildly creative imagination: jewelry, major sculpture, a hand-made wooden boat, enamel works, folk furniture, children’s toys, sketchbooks and handmade artist books, and  photo documentation of significant public and liturgical commissions.

Lead Sponsors:  Sterling Savings Bank and The Spokesman-Review

Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries, Aztlán y más allá

Through November 13, 2010

 Ruben Trejo was one of our region’s most important and respected artists. His work is in many collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Aztlán y más allá is a survey of over 45 years of the artist's sculpture, mixed media constructions, paintings and drawings. The University of Washington will publish the exhibition catalogue. May 1 Opening Day Celebration: 3:00 PM Round Table Discussion on The Life and Art of Ruben Trejo Followed by a book signing for the new University of Washington Press publication Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries,  Aztlán y más allá with Tomas Ybarra-Frausto and John Keeble.   Opening Reception 4:30 - 6:00 PM. All events free with museum admission. Museum members free.

 Lead sponsors: Sterling Savings Bank, EWU Foundation, The Spokesman Review and the Johnston-Hanson Foundation

Living Legacy: The American Indian Collection

Through April 23, 2011

This exhibit displays all of the Manning American Indian Collection acquired in 1916, the founding collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. It explores the legacy of “Victorian” collecting and the period during which Native Americans saw their cultural objects institutionalized in glass cases.The exhibit also offers an alternative and culturally appropriate viewpoint that honors indigenous Plateau life-ways by contextualizing the Manning collection with objects drawn from the now vast and nationally important American Indian collection.

Spokane Timeline: Personal Voices

Long-term exhibit with periodic artifact changes

Over a century of Spokane history translates into a three-dimensional tapestry of personal stories. Museum Collection treasures tell of family, community, and business adventures from fur trade and fire, through aviation and ticker tape. Names like James Glover are familiar; others are little-known but important for their contribution to Spokane life.

ART @ WORK Sales & Rental Program

Helen South Alexander Gallery in the Cheney Cowles Center

Currently on view are selections from the ART @ WORK Sales & Rental Program's eighty plus regional artists. Artists currently showing include: Kay O'Rourke, Charlie Palmer, Ken Yuhasz, Kathleen Cavender, Megan Martens, and many more. Also know as Art @ Work, this program provides a link between many of the region’s finest artists, the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture and its membership, and the business community. Artworks are available for rental and sale.

Please click here for more information on the Sales & Rental Program.

ART @ WORK Sales & Rental Program Hours:
Tammy Gabbert, Assistant Manager
For more information or to make an appointment for viewing, please call (509) 363-5317 or e-Mail tammy.gabbert@northwestmuseum.org

 

 Coming Exhibits: 

100 Curious Things   September 1, 2010 - May 2011

Using personalized RFID badges and a lively, game-based format, MAC visitors rack up points while testing the Passport to Discovery kiosk system on loan from MOBIUS. Each kiosk enhances one MAC Collection object on exhibit by introducing additional objects, images, videos, and information.

100 Curious Things marks the start of a major effort to increase public digital access to MAC Collection materials. Over the upcoming year, watch for Web exhibits that represent visual art, American Indian culture, regional history, Campbell House, and MAC Archives collections. Plans are also underway for an expanded CampbellHouse Visitor Center within the carriage house, where visitors may enjoy activities, explore a wealth of additional collection objects and images, and access videos and materials that complement guided tours. The Campbell House Visitor Center will also serve visitors unable to manage a Campbell House tour.

These three projects (100 Curious Things, Web exhibits, and Campbell House Visitor Center) are part of a long-term project called MACapedia, a multi-platform museum experience linking visitors, scholars, and curators. Lead Sponsor: Spokane Teachers Credit Union

Wed.  Sept. 1, 2010 – 6:30 pm Gallery talk and exhibit opening. Charlie Simon, creator of the Passport to Discovery system, relates his adventures in the computer world, his fascination with science at places like San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and his Passport to Discovery projects with MOBIUS and MAC. Note: this program is the first in our new series of Wednesday Night at the Museum. 

Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes

October 30, 2010 – May 7, 2011

Washington State celebrates its centennial of permanent women’s suffrage with a look at not only the struggle to attain women’s right to vote, but also how women’s voting has influenced territorial and state history. Despite barriers, how did women from various ethnic and economic groups achieve a voice in public life?  How was suffrage a springboard to women’s achievements throughout Washington history and into the present.   Lead Sponsor - Joel E. Ferris Foundation

 Timothy C. Ely: Line of Sight

December 4, 2010 – April 16, 2011 

Mr. Ely’s exquisitely bound books integrate Western and Eastern religious and mystical traditions, astronomy, particle physics, cartography, alchemy and sacred geometry. His lavishly unique manuscript books are in museum and private collections throughout the world.

Dress Code

December 18, 2010 – April 30, 2011 

 From the luxury of feeling beautiful to strategies for getting ahead, women wear the varied armors of female fashion to get what they want. This whimsical exhibit decodes the social mores and messages telegraphed by what women wear. You’ll get to try it on, and check it out!