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Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center
2024-06-15 - 2025-01-05 | Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, 98104
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters (born 1949, Beaumont, Texas) has attended to overlooked narratives for almost forty years, interpreting her research through mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation. Peters unearths hidden diasporic histories, often through travel, and contextualizes them within her experiences of the contemporary Middle East as a second-generation Lebanese American. the edge becomes the center brings together the artist’s series this trembling turf for the first time and presents it alongside a new installation—works that together surface the ways forgotten and repressed pasts shape present experience.
this trembling turf features ten abstract drawings, including one from the Frye’s collection, which the artist crafts by applying thin strokes of white ink to black clayboard. The series interprets natural habitats where activity occurs beneath the surface, with rhythmic patterns referencing sound waves used by archaeologists to uncover buried traces of civilization. These intricate drawings imagine the missing records of populations and cultures physically covered over, reminding us that forgotten histories could be buried below us, lost within our collective memory.
The exhibition’s new site-specific installation continues the artist’s ongoing impossible monuments series, works of disparate materials and forms that memorialize disregarded details of socio-political events. Peters writes, “I define an impossible monument as something that deserves reverence but by virtue of its incidental nature would never be elevated to the status of a monument.” Together, these bodies of work ask viewers to consider which narratives are written into history and which are erased.

SZ Gallery: Control Anatomy
2024-09-06 - 2024-12-31 | SZ Art Gallery, 2441 76th Avenue SE, Suite 160, Mercer Island, WA
SZ Gallery presents Control Anatomy, an exhibit curated in collaboration with the Zawyeh Gallery in Ramallah, Palestine. This solo exhibition by Palestinian artist Mahmoud Alhaj explores colonial violence and the architectural mechanisms of domination and control over Palestinian geography witnessed by Alhaj who was born in Gaza.

Wujood: A Timescale of Palestinian Culture, Society and Life
2024-11-07 - 2025-01-05 | Gallery Space at Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Cir SE, Bellevue, WA, 98007, United States
OPENING RECEPTION
11.09.2024
3:00 PM- 5:00 PM
EXHIBITION DATES: NOVEMBER 7- JANUARY 15TH
FOR GALLERY SCHEDULE VISIT:
HTTPS://WWW.BELLEVUECOLLEGE.EDU/GALLERYSPACE/ MORE
INFORMTION:
SALAM.AWAD@BELLEVUECOLLEGE.EDU
WWW.WUJOOD.ORG
Gallery Hours:
Monday 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Wednesday 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Location: Gallery Space is located on the second floor of the D Building, room D 271, above the Library. This new gallery has over 2000 square feet of floor space with three revolving steel walls that can be adjusted for different spatial configurations. Exhibits change approximately monthly throughout the academic year.

Kimchi for Gaza: Fundraiser
2024-11-24 - 2024-12-07 | WA
Community! We (several Koreans living on Coast Salish lands), are doing a kimchi fundraiser to raise money for Crips for eSims and Operation Olive Branch’s Direct Aid Initiative, two organizations working to help Gazans stay online and receive direct aid.
Kimchi is available for pre-order at https://tinyurl.com/kimchiforgaza (in bio) and is $15 – $30+ sliding scale per quart, with pick-up in Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia between Nov. 26 and Dec. 7. Two options are available: traditional (which contains fish sauce and fermented shrimp) and vegan. Both options are gluten free. Those who donate at the $30 level will receive a randomly selected perk, which may include ceramics, prints, or stickers.
The kimchi sold for this fundraiser will be hand made by us as we gather for a gimjang, the Korean autumnal tradition of making kimchi together in community. Gimjangs represent collective care and nourishment, and it is how families have shared the burden of preserving that year’s harvest into kimchi, to sustain each other through the wintertime. It is one of the ways we have learned to love each other.
We gather and work together holding the Palestinian people in our hearts. We gather and work knowing that our community spans the globe, and that the small intimate acts of care we can offer here can reach across seas. As we jar this kimchi together, we hold the memory of all those who have been martyred, and continue to fight for a free Palestine and a world free of colonial violence.
Further details for the fundraiser can be found at https://tinyurl.com/kimchiforgaza. Fundraiser will likely close on November 24.

Watermelon Pictures: Life Is Beautiful (streaming)
2024-11-26 - 2024-12-01 | Virtual
New Release from Watermelon Pictures:
Exiled above the arctic circle in Norway and refusing to accept the boundaries imposed by international politics & rigid bureaucracy, Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly insists on telling heartfelt stories from his hometown Gaza. Despite his statelessness and having only limited connection to his family abroad, he manages to channel support from friends and his own creativity, adhering to his motto LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. And throughout it all, he fights for his rights with integrity, community, and a smile for the world.
Check out the trailer here: https://youtu.be/nqTlHyjR1xA
Screening on major digital platforms on 11/26!
https://www.watermelonpictures.com/films/life-is-beautiful-a-letter-to-gaza

Visit Al Am'ari Refugee Camp virtually with Eyewitness Palestine
2024-11-27 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Located east of Ramallah, Al Am’ari Camp is one of the smallest refugee camps in the West Bank, with a registered population of 15,315, including 5,048 children. Despite its small size, the camp encapsulates the severe challenges faced by Palestinian refugees living under Israeli military occupation.
The residents of Al Am’ari frequently endure invasions by the Israeli Occupation Forces, further exacerbating their already precarious living conditions. These incursions disrupt daily life and instill fear and uncertainty, particularly among children, who bear the brunt of the trauma.

Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2024-11-27 11:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join Lindz Amer, the award-winning LGBTQ+ activist, author and co-host of the beloved indie web series, Queer Kid Stuff, for songs and stories that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all-year-round.
All ages welcome with adult.
Please register:
https://kcls.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOuqpzssGtC5XlvnFdvIAD2bwlBzP-RA
