1. Paula Stokes 1845 Memento Mori

    Paula Stokes’s 1845 Memento Mori at Method Gallery featured a stunning “cairn” of one thousand eight hundred and forty-five hand blown glass potatoes. Each potato was sandblasted making it opaque, and each one was different. Paula Stokes is a native of Ireland who came here in 1993, but she still feels the draw of her […]

  2. Donald Byrd Choreographer

    “Dance as Provocation” Part I “Donald Byrd: The America That Is To Be” at the Frye Art Museum, October 12 – January 26. Susan Noyes Platt www.artandpolitics.com Donald Byrd transforms movement into resonant art. The world-renowned choreographer Donald Bryd has been based here in Seattle since 2002. In March 2016, I wrote here about his […]