Every photograph is a reminder that the act of framing is never neutral. In Camille Trautman’s first solo museum exhibition in their hometown, the Seattle-born Duwamish artist uses photography and video to challenge colonial narratives and counter Indigenous erasure. The exhibition presents selections from their ongoing series The North American LCD—spectral self-portraits staged in varied natural […]

Water Carries the Stories of our Stars is the expansive museum debut from artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul, who lives in Tacoma, Washington, and Yucatán, Mexico. The exhibition brings together an entirely new body of sculpture, textile, and video work to chart urgent stories of environmental harm and cultural justice. Drawing from her Maya and multicultural heritage […]

Insatiable Beings is the first US museum survey of the late Beau Dick (1955–2017), Kwakwaka’wakw Hereditary Chief, activist, and master carver. Internationally celebrated for his powerful formline masks and sculptures, Dick’s work brings to life ancestral stories while offering a profound critique of capitalist systems. Featuring richly adorned carvings—many made to be danced in ceremonies—the exhibition […]

Frye Salon is both a fixture and a living experiment—an ever-evolving installation that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s founding-era collection. The gallery features more than one hundred paintings in a floor-to-ceiling presentation mode known as “salon style,” recalling the striking displays once found in Charles and Emma Frye’s First Hill home. In Frye Salon + […]