1. Ling Chun Apostrophe S

    Galleries are slowly reopening. Method Gallery has a wonderful new installation by Ling Chun. When I first saw it, I was confounded. Ling is a ceramic artist in her training, but what she does with ceramics is so innovative, that she must now be called a multimedia artist at the intersection of pop, modernism, and […]

  2. CHOP the Garden

    July 18 I went back for another look at the site of CHOP and found it was a large garden in Cal Anderson Park sponsored by Black Star Farmers. They have grown a lot of vegetables all with volunteer help. When I was there they were rinsing kale leaves to donate to a community kitchen […]

  3. A Sunday Trip to the Olympic Sculpture Park

    Taking a break from the heavy news and politics, we take an”expedition” every Sunday in Seattle. Last weekend we went to the Wooden Boat Center and went rowing. This Sunday we went to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Here is Beverly Pepper’s Persephone Unbound. 1999. “The abstract language of form that I have chosen has become […]

  4. Occupying the Northwest African American Museum

    The Colman School, site of the Northwest African American Museum, has been occupied since Juneteenth by Omari Tahir, Earl Debnam, and others to declare that they are the rightful owners of the property based on a purchase agreement and loan agreement from January 1998, a copy of which they provided to me. Tahir and Debnam […]