Arts Division

The old Burke’s last hurrah will be a New Years Eve party.

After spending roughly 4.9 million years in Ellensburg, the jaw bone of deer is making its way to the collection at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Professor of Art History, explains that there's no history of towering monumental poles being made by the Salish and other Puget Sound region tribes.

The University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences and the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) announced that the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation has made a $200,000 gift to benefit underrepresented minority, low-income and first-generation students pursuing design degrees within the School of Art + Art History + Design.

Randolph Henning Hokanson carried his high musical standards from the concert stage to the University of Washington classroom.

Playwrights create written scripts; music composers write down scores. But how do you write down and save a dance?

UW Drama Mellon Creative Fellow Mrinalini Kamath discovered her passion for theatre when a professor suggested she take a playwriting class. 

With guitarist Bill Frisell in tow, Cuong Vu creates a dramatic set of all original tunes that reflects a cross-continental sensability on Change in the Air.

The UW's Henry Art Gallery is hosting "Muse," a show of Mickalene Thomas's photographs, bringing the well-known painter's photographic oeure to audiences in the PNW.

Students expose layers hidden beneath the city's staggering wealth, using "dark tourism" to find reasons for protest and celebration--sometimes both at once.

Dudley teaches music of Latin America and the Caribbean, American popular music, Music and Community, Comparative Musicianship and Analysis, and graduate seminars in Ethnomusicology.

Seattle isn’t cheap, and that’s not changing anytime soon. But your budget shouldn’t stand in the way of seeing great art. Here’s how.

A conversation with Mickalene Thomas about her must-see exhibition MUSE at Henry Art Gallery.

Students in the Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities dug into Seattle history and unearthed some surprises. 

How do you move a museum? Very carefully, and very slowly.