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Gabriel Brown
Great Tasting Goodness!
In Focus Series of Contemporary Regional Art
July 3, 2009 – August 29, 2009
Opening Reception First Friday, July 3, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Gabriel Brown in one of our region's most engaged and wonderfully provocative young artists. Combining performance, sculpture, video, and installation, he asks important, even fundamental questions: What is a healthy relationship with the environment? What comprises a vital, sustainable and vital community? What is the nature of civic responsibility? He says, I spend a great deal of time exploring this city, walking, driving, collecting objects, taking photographs, and dumpster diving. Indeed he does, and with marvelous and compelling results.
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Plateau Celebrations: Cultural Transitions in the Indian Reservation Era
September 26, 2009 – February 13, 2010
Nespelem Art Colony portrait paintings, horse regalia, clothing, and archival photos illustrate American Indian cultural transitions from the 1930s reservation era. Tourists and spectators traveled to Indian reservations to glimpse a dying way of life. Instead, Plateau Indian celebrations introduced them to the resilience of American Indian identity. [Image courtesy of Nez Perce National Historical Park NEPE-HI-2279]
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Art and People: Spokane Art Center and the Great Depression
November 11, 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.
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Jumpin' with the Big Bands
December 19, 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]
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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 1906 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.
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Atzlán y más allá (Beyond Borders): The Art of Rubén Trejo
May 1, 2010 – September 4, 2010
Rubén Trejo is one of our regions most important and respected artists and his work is in many collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Atzlán y más allá is a survey of over 45 years of the artist's sculpture, mixed media constructions, paintings and drawings. The exhibition catalogue is being published by the University of Washington Press.
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Upcoming Exhibits