Arts and Entertainment

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.

Art and creative writing students collaborated on artist books through an interdisciplinary course. 

The day before her photography show's opening at the Henry, Michalene Thomas talks about her time as a model, the class that changed her life and how art is always personal. 

Robin McCabe and Craig Sheppard, professors of piano at the University of Washington, founded the innovative Seattle Piano Institute in 2010.

KEXP and the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives, connected to the School of Music's Ethnomusicology Division, host Pop Up Music Memory Digitization Labs on July 28.

Four Huskies, all who studied in the Collage of Arts & Sciences, presented the rawness of struggle and survival at the UWAA Short Talks on Art.

Columns Magazine's June cover is a painting of Orin Smith by Miha Sarani, a BFA alum, current MA student, and former Starbucks employee. What's his painting's secret? Coffee.

From a trip to New Orleans and visit Connecticut, Thomas shares snapshots of her friends and travels. Her work will go on display at the Henry Art Gallery on July 14.

Doug Jeck, College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of the Arts, teaches students to think on their feet--by asking them to painstakingly create life-size human forms. 

Kyki Li came to the UW from China for the freedom to explore. It was everything she'd hoped for.

The annual thesis exhibition for Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design at the Henry Art Gallery is the culmination of two years of these students' amazing work.

The Henry Art Gallery presents the Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design thesis exhibition, from May 26 to June 24.