Viewpoint

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

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 1, 2026

Myths, mortality and motherhood

Kristen Millares Young blends personal narrative with mythology and cultural inquiry in "Desire Lines."

May 1, 2026

Returning to Tule Lake

Author Tamiko Nimura traveled into the past to recover her family’s history and her father’s childhood.

Going beyond

All three UW campuses have been recognized for getting their hands dirty and collaborating with their communities. UW student Callie Murakami gets into the thick of it at Padilla Bay.

April 24, 2026

Many stories, one land

‘This Is Native Land’ is a new permanent exhibition at The Washington State History Museum honoring Indigenous voices, knowledge and living traditions.

A poet in bloom

As Auburn’s poet laureate, Mateo Quispe is bringing his Canoe Poetry Nooks Project to libraries in the Auburn area and Muckleshoot Reservation.

March 25, 2026

A walk in the neighborhood

New art by Barbara Earl Thomas makes the Judkins Park light rail station a destination of its own.