arts engagement
Free Family Day: BAM-O-WEEN
Attention crafty creatures, handy heroes, and fun-loving families. Bellevue Arts Museum is hosting a spooktacular spread of activities that your whole family can enjoy whilst exploring the art exhibits and showing off your crazy costumes. The activities are best suited for kids, monsters, and witches aged 4-10, but of course, all ages are welcome to…
Celebrate Pride with Print Making
Visitors of all ages are invited to decorate linocut prints with artist, Eileen Jimenez. Participants will make prints using blocks designed by Eileen, featuring images of LGBTQIA+ community pride and of the natural environment. Watercolors and brushes will be made available for visitors to make each print their own unique vision. Need further inspiration? Be…
Art Lecture: One Work, Many Voices: Wendy Red Star
One Work, Many Voices invites you to be part of an intimate discussion inspired by a single work of art. The program takes place in the Strange Weather exhibition after the museum is closed to the public. Registration for this small group discussion is limited to 15 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Our upcoming…
BAM ARTSfair 2023
Bellevue Arts Museum hosts the largest award-winning arts & crafts festival in the Northwest. We are committed to handmade excellence and supporting national designers, artists, and craftspeople. Shop from over 300 inspiring artists showcasing unique, handmade craft and art. This marketplace represents modern, traditional, and emerging work. In addition to this unique shopping experience, BAM…
Painting Workshop: The Change we Experience, the Change we can Become
Join this two-hour acrylic workshop in dialogue with the exhibition Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This adult studio workshop gives participants the opportunity to use contemporary painting techniques to address the roles, responsibilities, and emotions that we encounter within the strange atmosphere of our modern world. Instructor…
Seattle arts programs expand outreach, take on homelessness together
A look at the impact of experiential arts programs on people living in homelessness
Last November, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray declared a State of Emergency for King County’s homelessness crisis. While addressing the concern has proven to be a lofty task for councilmembers and citizens alike, Seattle’s arts programs continue to take initiative on the complicated social issue. On June 21, the Seattle Symphony announced “Simple Gifts,” a multi-year,…
A Glimpse at the Frye’s Creative Aging Programs
What a UW professor's study tells us about creative engagement for those living with dementia
Museum-goers, old and young, gathered in front of a gallery wall full of centuries-old paintings to share ideas in an open discussion. Many of the participants, who were present and engaged throughout the 90-minute session, live with dementia. For nearly six years, the Frye Art Museum has facilitated “here:now,” an experiential arts program for people…
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