Arts & Entertainment
October 16, 2026
Community builders
Three Seattle institutions—Common Area Maintenance, Northwest Folklife and The Royal Room—are centering community in their programming.
Art criticism for the masses
“Anybody can write about art,” says Kemi Adeyemi, founder of The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts organization rooted in bolstering the critical conversation around Black contemporary art.
Fighting conscious erasure
Former UW professor Scott Kurashige spotlights history and community organizing in "American Peril."
October 15, 2026
Beyond the frame
A UW Tacoma assistant professor shows her work at SUNY Binghamton this fall.
Fall media recommendations from Viewpoint
A podcast from a prison, a movie about a Chicano rock band, a memoir from a UW leader and a guide to health care inequity from a gynecologist comprise our media roundup.
Events calendar
A live piano performance, a lecture from a legend and a textile exhibition that confronts stereotypes are three events we're looking forward to this season.
October 5, 2026
Media roundup
From the science of regenerative farming, to a mystery novel set in the 1960s, to the middle-grade debut of "We Still Belong" author Christine Day, there might just be something for everyone on this list.
October 1, 2026
Myths, mortality and motherhood
Kristen Millares Young blends personal narrative with mythology and cultural inquiry in "Desire Lines."
September 14, 2026
Hacking history
An actor who can be “sweet as pie and lethal when necessary,” this UW School of Drama alum achieves the pinnacle of her long, lauded career.
September 9, 2026
Pioneering producer and documentarian
Jean Walkinshaw pushed boundaries throughout her 60-year career in television, letting people "tell their own stories in their own words."
The rest of the story
In her newest novel, Donna Miscolta, ’80, ’90, turns her creative gaze back to an earlier work of her own making.
September 8, 2026
Around the sound
Kara Patajo, ’19, is a travel blogger and author of “52 Weekends in the Pacific Northwest,” a collection of year-round travel destinations.
September 3, 2026
Leviathan rising
Photographer Eirik Johnson took to the Duwamish River on a small kayak to photograph the hulls of freight ships.
Poetry in public
Mateo Quispe, who was the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate from 2023–2024, is spreading their love of poetry with book nooks created by Muckleshoot Tribe carvers.
August 28, 2026
The magic of science
Christina Soontornvat provides background on her winding road to becoming a New York Times bestselling author.
August 13, 2026
Fire up the grill
Reginald Jacob Howell and Denzel Johnson represent Tacoma as they bring the heat in a new reality cooking show.
August 6, 2026
Two top poets
UW alumni and renowned poets Derek Sheffield and Erin Malone have been recognized for their work in poetry.
August 5, 2026
A beautiful group of letters
Karen Cheng, who authored one of the most important typography books of the last 50 years, teaches her students about the beauty of designing typefaces.
The Big Pig's big 4-0
Pike Place Market’s famous Rachel the Pig, a creation by Georgia Gerber, ’82, still enthralls visitors and raises money for the Market.
July 27, 2026
For the love of Kauaʻi
Burned out by her finance job, and inspired by the Kahelelani shells she saw in Hawaii, Stephanie Deng started a new career as a jewelry designer.