Arts and Entertainment

Andrew Nestingen, chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies, weighs in on how Nordic culture has influenced Seattle culture.

Why the ‘U’ is missing on the new Burke Museum sign.

Recent notable books by UW faculty, several from Arts & Sciences. explore mindful international travel, men seeking work as day laborers, and activist teachers.

This week, stop by Graduation Exhibitions, attend IMPFest XI, featuring UW Jazz Studies faculty, students and seasoned professionals of international renown, and more!

A new course highlights how disenfranchised communities created a distinctly American art form.

James Turrell's Light Reign, at the Henry Art Gallery, inspires deep thoughts. It's also nice and shady.

Sometimes when science gets a little stuck, art can come to the rescue.

In 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a generous grant that seeded the new Creative Fellowships Initiative. 

MadArt's latest exhibition, Reflect and Gather, features work by Seattle-based ceramic sculptor George Rodriguez (MFA, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, 2009).

Selim Kuru's love of literature all started with his mother, "she was an avid reader and had a library under lock and key and would release books for me according to my age."

This week in the arts, partake in an audio augmented reality (AR) experience with hundreds of others on Red Square, explore the newly redesigned ARTSUW website, and more!

Lynn Shelton (BA, Drama, 1987) talks about how she landed Marc Maron for her new movie.

Cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs with orchestras and smaller ensembles all around the globe and teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The Black Embodiments Studio examines how definitions of blackness are produced and expressed through the arts.

Rainn Wilson (BA, Drama, 1989) gained fame as Dwight Kurt Schrute III on NBC sitcom The Office, but not many know that the actor is a born-and-bred Seattleite.