Arts Division

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.

An exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery offers a revealing look into Michalene Thomas' lesser-known photographic practice. And it feels personal.

Adrián Gómez (BFA, 3D4M, 2018) is the first featured artist in "NosotrUS" at the Mexican Cultural Institute Gallery.

Dr. Holly Barker and Burke Museum's Oceania collections assist with University Beyond Bars classroom learning.

Levi Higgs (BA, Art History, 2012) makes a case for his home state, Wyoming, to invest further in the arts and humanities.

George Rodriguez (MFA, Ceramics, 2009) unveils a mythical Mexican zodiac at the Seattle Art Fair.

Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, debunks spider myths. 

Mickalene Thomas' 'MUSE', at the Henry Art Gallery, uses photography to transform perceptions of Black femininity, sexuality and motherhood.

UW School of Drama's Director of Engagement Holly Arsenault, '01, is the playwright of the new drama "The Great Inconvenience", opening July 27 at Annex Theatre.

Art conservator Claire Kenny works with collections at the Henry Art Gallery and University Libraries.