For her Canadian premiere, Wong presents “After Preparing the Altar, The Ghosts Feast Feverishly”, an installation that features an oversized, round dining table that holds bowls containing the fragments of a poem written by the artist. The Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) presents “NOURISH” on display through Apby curator Nan Capogna. Western Washington University instructor and artist/poet Jane Wong makes her Canadian debut in an exhibition with artist duo Mizzonk in an exhibition entitled “NOURISH” which examines the themes of isolation, fear of food shortages, poverty and the importance of mental health. Sekiguchi is represented locally by ArtXchange Gallery of Seattle. The design excavates the 4 cultures inhabiting the land from the Indigenous Duwamish, Jewish, Japanese, and African Americans in cultural sedimentary layers. The location is an outdoor café at the site of the Curtain Manufacturing Building at 12 th & Yesler in Seattle. Sekiguchi is also working at a work –in- progress which is a collaboration with Jonathan Clarren at Tapestry through art consultant Bill Gaylord. An installation currently on exhibit at Foss Waterway Seaport Museum on the Tacoma waterfront will be re-installed at the Vashon Center for the Arts in the Atrium from March 4 – 26, 2022. Tahoma and the molecular structure of ice as well as a compilation of Coast Salish vocabulary of shapes in honor of the Puyallup and Muckleshoot Indian tribes native to the region. Commissioned through the Washington State Arts Commission, the sculptures reference the glaciers on Mt. Closer to the Northwest, she completed an installation entitled “Glacial Crystals” at Glacier Middle School in Buckley. Entitled “Tales of the Land: A Metaphorical Topography”, it follows the blue lit Arkansas River as it weaves its way across the land. She completed a public art commission at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in her home state of Arkansas in Little Rock. Local sculptor June Sekiguchi has closed 2021 with a flurry of activities including public art projects and future exhibitions. This Hong Kong-born artist and a beauty school dropout does work that is playful and colorful with equal parts whimsy and a concern for the physicality of materials separating them their stereotypes and cultural references by questioning their authenticity. 20 or go to Traver Gallery has the following – Ceramic artist Ling Chun has a show of new work on view March 3 – 26, 2022. The artist will be present on March 3 and Apfrom 6 – 8pm.The show will be on view through Maat the Bonfire Gallery on 603 South Main St. “Regeneration” is the title of Michelle Kumata’s mixed media exhibition commemorating the 80 th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast. For details, email 4261 Roosevelt Way NE in Seattle. There will be a Youth and Family Workshop with a date to be announced. An Artist Talk takes place on Friday, March 25 at 7pm streaming via Jack Straw on Facebook Live. Visits by appointment from M-F, 10am – 5:30pm. Using segmented pieces of image transferred onto found wood and cardboard, the artist has created a piece about nostalgia, access, and geographical displacement. Installation artist Satpreet Kahlon’s new piece “a boundary, a demarcation” is on view through Apat the Jack Straw Cultural Center. Other related exhibition events are a workshop on Mindfulness Meditation (online), “Artists Books Unshelved” (online), “MEMBERS ONLY: Inside the Exhibitions – Spring 2022” (online March 23 – 24, 2022) and a drop-in program on “Community Bookmaking” on April 1, 2022. This exhibition is part of the museum’s “Executive Order 9066 at Eighty” program at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. The exhibition coincides with the 80 th anniversary of the Japanese American Exclusion from Bainbridge Island on March 30, 2022. The visual narrative combines Jan’s figurative sculptures and mixed media vignettes with Chris’s two-dimensional paintings, block prints and charcoal drawings. “Americans Incarcerated: A Family Story of Social Justice” is an evolving collaboration between Jan and Chris Hopkins to memorialize the eviction of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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