Join us on the first Wednesday of the month for in-person sessions of Mindfulness Meditation at the museum. For additional information please visit our website. Prefer to not practice in person? Recorded sessions will be published once a month on our YouTube channel, which also has an archive of past sessions. Present-moment awareness is essential to experience and appreciate any work of art—and during this uncertain time, the practice of mindfulness meditation can offer a sense of calm amidst stress and ongoing change. Kristoffer Rhoads, PhD, is a psychologist at Harborview and a UW associa ..read more

This activity is developed for children ages 5 and older with adult assistance. Download and print this guide for easy reference. GET INSPIRED While exploring the work of Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles, you will find abstract versions of figures, everyday objects, such as vases with flowers, and natural forms, such as clouds. Abstract art involves changed or simplified versions of real people, places, or objects, often portraying what an artist feels or thinks rather than what they see. For reference, representational art is the realistic portrayal of people, places, or objects. Ex ..read more

On April 2, 2022, the Frye Art Museum participated in Slow Art Day, a global event focused on the art of seeing. Based on the event’s mission, our goal for the program was to slow down, look closely, and spend some time with an artwork from the exhibition Christina Quarles. Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Her evocative scenes feature ambiguous figures whose limbs, torsos, and faces merge with familiar domestic objects made strange thr ..read more

Join us on the first Wednesday of the month for in-person sessions of Mindfulness Meditation at the museum. For additional information please visit our website. Prefer to not practice in person? Recorded sessions will be published once a month on our YouTube channel, which also has an archive of past sessions. Present-moment awareness is essential to experience and appreciate any work of art—and during this uncertain time, the practice of mindfulness meditation can offer a sense of calm amidst stress and ongoing change. Kristoffer Rhoads, PhD, is a psychologist at Harborview and a UW associat ..read more

A new video series featuring teaching artist Janet Fagan, offering a variety of tips for care partners who are interested in art-making experiences for older adults and people living with dementia at home.  This post offers ideas on how to communicate and interact with your art partner, a family member or friend, during art-making. You can watch the video segments or download PDFs with written tips. Happy making! Hands-On Help Learn a technique for offering guided physical support for your family member or friend, especially if they are experiencing pain, tremors, or confusion. Download ..read more

Guest contributor Christa Bell is a a first-generation-off-the-plantation writer & artist from Seattle. In this post, she responds to In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive. In The Interim: Keep My Name Outcho MF’n Mouf For Chris & Arnaldo she/her/hers & the ancestral we/us; conceptual artist, writer & curator; African (American) Matrilineal Descendant with two Black parents; momty to a twospirit freeform starseed; sister to five living Black brothers; reparations enthusiast; past, present & futurist; womXnist; intersectional Blackass feminist; facilitator ..read more

Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles creates evocative scenes that feature ambiguous figures whose limbs, torsos, and faces merge with familiar domestic objects made strange through unexpected color choices and experimental painterly gestures. On April 18, 2022, Black Embodiments Studio founder and director Kemi Adeyemi and scholar Uri McMillan presented a virtual conversation exploring the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality found within the intimate and expressive art of Christina Quarles. Note: This video contains mature content and explicit language.   About the Presente ..read more

On the occasion of the closing of the first phase of the transatlantic project Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James. In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, artists and curator, their invited guests and members of the audience came together on May 7, 2022 for a discussion about the nuances of diasporic Blackness through their own individual and collective experiences as they relate to the making of a future Black archive. Central to this discussion, as it is to the exhibition, was The Interim, a sound-proofed chamber into which visions and prefigurations of Black futures ..read more

Arnaldo James. Messenger 2.2, 2022. Inkjet print. 36 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist For the exhibition Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James. In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, artist Arnaldo James created a photographic series in response to Christopher Paul Jordan’s work. James collaborated with craftspeople in Trinidad to design mas inspired by the African Yoruba tradition and the Caribbean mas tradition as part of the annual the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. Mas is short for masquerade, referring to the masquerading tradition celebrated in most of the English-s ..read more

This activity is developed for children ages 3 and older. Download and print this guide for easy reference. GET INSPIRED There are many forms of art ranging from painting and sculpture to literature and music. Sometimes, these different art forms come together. In Christina Quarles’s work, we see how her drawings and the titles of her paintings are inspired by song lyrics. Explore more of her drawings in the exhibition Christina Quarles, on view at the Frye Art Museum through June 5, 2022. When looking at Quarles’s work, you may notice abstract elements. Abstract art involves changed or simpli ..read more