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Exhibits
MUSEUM CAMPUS:
2316 W. First Avenue,
Spokane, WA 99201
(509) 456-3931
GALLERY HOURS:
Wednesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 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
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Fall 2009 / Winter 2010 Program Theme
America at a Crossroads: From the Jazz Era through World War II
Profound national upheavals force social, artistic and policy responses that shape history. This exhibit and event series explores transitions in American culture through Plateau American Indian eyes and the impacts of big bands and visual art. The series draws an arc from America’s economic and artistic boom of the 1920s, through the Great Depression and war years, to challenges that we face today.
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Currently On View:
The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest
March 13, 2010 – June 26, 2010
Early 20th century Northwest architects, furniture manufacturers, craftspeople, artists, and photographers expressed the new Arts & Crafts style with a regional flair. Now, a century later, Craftsman architecture, hammered metal work, ceramics, embroidery, and graphic design have reached another peak in popularity. The 1904 copper fireplace from the Davenport family apartment in Spokane introduces a traveling exhibit by former MAC Director Glenn Mason and architectural historian Lawrence Kreisman. An adjacent exhibit highlights the museum's Campbell House and Davenport Decorative Arts Collection.
Lead Sponsors: The Joel E. Ferris Foundation and The Davenport Hotel
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Art and People: Spokane Art Center and the Great Depression
November 14, 2009 – April 10, 2010
During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration put Americans back to work on major projects like Grand Coulee Dam. Roosevelt’s programs also created cultural programs like the Spokane Art Center. The museum’s significant WPA collection traces the arc of this cultural legacy to resonate with contemporary American themes.
Lead sponsors: The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Spokane Art School at the MAC, Western Arts Federation, and Sterling Savings Bank.
The Community Gallery
November 14, 2009 through June 30, 2010
In the spirit of the federally funded Spokane Art Center of the 1930s, the minute you walk in the front door you can make, take, and display art in the Community Gallery. Participate in a time-based interactive drawing, or with an on-duty studio assistant, make an original print. More Information (More information is a link to a secondary page, see request immediately below.) More Information »
Lead sponsors: The Spokesman-Review and the Spokane Art School at the MAC
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Jumpin' with the Big Bands
December 5, 2009 – April 24, 2010
The joint is jumpin' with America's pop music called swing. These groovy tunes locked up the nation in the 1930s and '40s, inspiring performance showmanship and dances like the Lindy Hop. Swing united a mass audience and encouraged integration. New recording and radio technologies transformed swing into a national craze. The era comes alive in the gallery through film clips, jazz archive images, microphones and musical instruments. [Image courtesy of International Jazz Collection, University of Idaho]
Lead sponsors: Cochrane & Company, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and Johnston-Hanson Foundation
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Living Legacy: The American Indian Collection
July 19, 2008 – July 17, 2010
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.
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Spokane Timeline: Personal Voices
Longterm 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.
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Spokane Timeline: Big Timber
August 16, 2008 - July 2009
From lumber camps and “lady loggers” to “river pigs” and railroads, this new Spokane Timeline feature explores multiple facets of a key Inland Northwest industry. Log brands, caulk boots, mess tent dishes, crosscut saws, and plenty of stories make a lively introduction to an important topic.
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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:
Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tammy Gabbert, Assistant Manager
For more information please call (509) 363-5317 or e-Mail tammyg@northwestmuseum.org
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Coming Exhibits
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Inland Northwest Masters Art Exhibition Series
Celebrating the rich visual heritage of the Inland Northwest, the Museum’s contemporary art exhibition program currently focuses on retrospective views of two beloved artistic masters: Harold Balazs and Ruben Trejo.
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Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries, Aztlán y más allá
May 1, 2010 – 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.
Lead sponsors: Sterling Savings Bank, EWU Foundation, and the Johnston-Hansen Foundation
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Harold Balazs
July 17 – 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’s 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
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Tradition is My Life, Education is My Future: 2009 Native American Student Art Competition
May 8- July 3, 2010
In 2005, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Indian Education introduced a national Native American Student Artist Competition (SAC) to inspire students to consider the connection between their education and culture. Every year the competition focuses on themes that are inspirational, challenging, and offer a bridge to each student’s educational future. The MAC is the only West Coast venue for this traveling exhibit of winning 2009 entries.
Lead Sponsor: Numerica Credit Union
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Mestizo: Collections and Cultural Fusions
July 31, 2010 – January 15, 2011
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.
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Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes
October 30, 2010 – June 25, 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.
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Exhibits