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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.

Holiday Bazaar
2024-12-07 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Olympia, 6331 Elizan Drive NW, Olympia, WA, 98502
Are you looking for a unique gift that also supports Gaza humanitarian relief
and the Rachel Corrie Foundation? This a great chance to buy olive oil from the West Bank, Palestinian spices and crafts, and Middle East clothing and art.

Join us on Steamboat Island for this annual Palestinian Holiday Bazaar, hosted by a long-time volunteer. The Bazaar will be at 6331 Elizan Dr. NW, Olympia,
9:00 am-4:00 pm both days.

If you can’t make it to the Bazaar, please consider donating on Giving Tuesday, December 3rd, and during this holiday season. Your support helps sustain our work.
