New Accession Highlight: The Bees and the Ants #1
Artist Dean Byington creates intricate landscapes based on the graphic language of nineteenth-century illustrated books.
August 27, 2020
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August 20, 2020New Accession Highlight: Teapot
This work was fired in an anagama kiln—an ancient type of kiln that originated in China. The anagama kiln uses wood as a heat source, rather than the typical electric or gas kilns that contemporary ceramicists often use.
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August 13, 2020New Accession Highlight: Kenji Nakahashi Pieces
Today we’re taking a peek at three pieces by Japanese Conceptual artist Kenji Nakahashi. In both Difference in Time and Time (B), the artist arranged and photographed clocks to make a statement on the subjective experience of time.
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August 5, 2020New Accession Highlight: Cobalt Blues
Rudy Autio is considered a pillar of contemporary ceramics. The way that he constructs and shapes his vessels is distinctive and a hallmark of his production. After building up a hollow ceramic cylinder, he adds rounded projections that extend the vessel’s curvilinear surface.
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July 31, 2020New Accessions On View at the Chazen
These paintings show three different styles of depicting landscape during a period of great artistic transition from realism to abstraction in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. The earliest is a composition by Scottish painter John Williamson, who immigrated to the United States as a child.
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July 6, 2020Sign Up Now to Visit the Chazen!
The Chazen Museum of Art is now open. Hours are Tuesday–Friday, 12-5 p.m., The first, second and parts of the third floor of the Chazen building are open, with a limit of 25 visitors at a time.
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June 23, 2020Family Friday Online
We want to explore the collection with you online. On Family Friday, be an art explorer and download a project to do at home. Show us your artwork by posting it on Facebook or Instagram and tagging us @ChazenArtUW.
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May 29, 2020A Virtual Docent’s Tour with Joyce Bromley
For this virtual tour, we feature the selections of Joyce Bromley, who’s been a docent at the Chazen for about 20 years. She includes three of the museum’s most well-known portraits in her regular tours.
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May 26, 2020Sounds of the Chazen: This Beautiful World
Museum education assistant Serendipity Swanstrom-Stage has created playlists on Spotify inspired by the Chazen’s permanent collection. Listen to a beautiful score while you enjoy these […]
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May 21, 2020A Virtual Docent’s Tour with Ann Schaffer
While the museum is closed, our docents have been leading us on “virtual tours,” sharing some of their favorite works digitally. Ann Schaffer has been […]