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Mask up! Due to the uptick in COVID infections, masks are required to enter the Chazen and all campus buildings.

The Chazen is open daily. Admission is always free.

Chazen News: Read the latest

Contemporary African Art Initiative Announced

Chazen Café is open!

New Accessions at the Chazen

on view in the back Rowland Gallery.

Take a virtual docent tour with Sandra Loman

Exhibitions

Lake Superior--Storm Coming

On View Now | Aug 31–Nov 28, 2021

Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors

On View Now | Sep 7, 2021–Sep 11, 2022

City of Nature

News

Lake Superior--Storm Coming

Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors

Visitors looking at painting

Chazen Will Return to Daily Hours, Open All Galleries

Johanna (l) and Leslie (r) Garfield are seen with Bucky Badger at the Fifth Birthday Party for the Chazen Building

Remembering Johanna Garfield

Artist Sanford Biggers (right), joined by Provost John Karl Scholz (left) and museum director Ay Gilman (center), visited the Chazen to plan for an upcoming exhibition that will respond to the 1873 Thomas Ball sculpture. Photo: Bryce Richter

High Tech, New Perspective Inform Scrutiny of Museum Works

Happening next

Happy hour

Our Kind of Happy Hour: Kota Ezawa

Sep 23, 2021 | 6:30 p.m.

Storytelling Workshop

Sep 30, 2021 | 5 p.m.

UW Cinematheque – Barking Dogs Never Bite | South Korea | 2000 | 35mm | 106 min. | Director: Bong Joon Ho

Oct 17, 2021 | 2–3 p.m.

UW Cinematheque – Summer of 85 | France | 2020 | 35mm | 101 min. | French with English subtitles Director: François Ozon

Nov 14, 2021 | 2–3 p.m.