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Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, watch a UW alum on NBC’s Making It, attend a discussion hosted by the Henry Art Gallery, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through UW live webcams of Red Square and the quad.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access toÌý.Ìý


Serious Tings: Wayne Chen in Conversation with Steve “Urchin� Wilson & Special Guest Maxine Walters

July 7, 5:00 – 6:30 PM |Ìý

On the occasion ofÌý, the Henry Art Gallery hostsÌýSerious Tings, a panel discussion presented byÌýÌýas part of their series,ÌýBlack Spatial Elegance: New Cinematic Language of Global Black Music.ÌýHeld in community with Wa Na Wari, LANGSTON, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Henry, the inaugural gathering ofÌýBlack Spatial EleganceÌýrecognizes and celebrates Black Music Month in Seattle, foregrounding the influence of Black music through the visual and cinematic legacies of videos, films, art direction + design produced by Black storytellers throughout the diaspora.Ìý

Free |


Making It

Thursdays, 5:00 PM PSTÌý|

Adam KingmanÌý(BDes 2014) isÌý, an NBC show. Check out hisÌýÌýto see more of his work.Ìý

On Making It, the best makers from around the country take on a series of handmade projects they must complete in their own unique way. As the competition goes on, the challenges become increasingly difficult, and the least successful maker is eliminated each week. The show culminates in a final craft-off betweenÌýthe last two makers. Taking place in a serene outdoor setting, the positivity, character and camaraderie of handmade culture shines through as the comedic hosts and judges provide encouragement, guidance and lots of laughs.

Free with NBC access |


Sonolocations: A Sound Works Series

June – August |Ìý

The Henry Art Gallery and Jack Straw Cultural Center are pleased to partner to commission a three-part series of audio artworks, to be released free and online throughout the summer of 2021. The participating artists were invited to consider the theme of place, and its unique resonance throughout the pandemic, to offer directed sonic experiences for listeners wherever they might find themselves. Participating artists are Byron Au Yong (b. 1971, Pittsburgh, PA), Chenoa Egawa (b. 1964, Ellensburg, WA), Bill Lowe (b. 1946, Pittsburgh, PA), and Naima Lowe (b. 1979, Middletown, CT).
Audio artworks will be available onÌý, and on the Jack StrawÌý. You can also subscribe toÌýSonolocationsÌýas a podcast to receive each piece when it launches.

Free |


Will Rawls: Everlasting Stranger

July 17 – August 15Ìý|Ìý

InÌýEverlasting Stranger, New York-based choreographer and writer Will Rawls (b. 1978, Boston, MA) activates relationships between language, dance, and image through the fragmentary medium of stop-motion animation. In his installation, time and movement slow as a live, automated camera photographs the frame-by-frame actions of four dancers. While the performers occupy the labor of becoming images, visual capture is staged as an obsessive process that is constant yet compromised by the movement it aims to fix. Here, as in previous works, Rawls develops strategies of evasion and engagement within systems that mediate, distort, and abstract the body.

Free forÌýUW Staff, Students, Faculty & Retirees |


On Your Own Time

Looking for more ways to connect with the UW? Check out this recorded and asynchronous content that can be accessed anytime.


ArtsUW: On DemandÌý

Engage with the arts at the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø from the comfort of your own home, in your own time. This archive of events offers you the opportunity to watch theÌýlatest virtual lectures and performances, and see recent digital exhibitions. In addition,ÌýÌýto see all that is coming up.

Free |


Indigenous Walking TourÌý

Owen Oliver, who graduated from the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø with a double major in American Indian Studies and Political Science in Spring 2021, has created a walking tour of the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Seattle campus, highlighting the Indigenous presence on campus. His senior year, with support from theÌýHusky Seed FundÌýandÌý, he researched and drafted the tour.

The 40-page, full color booklet tells the story of Indigenous places through an Indigenous community member’s eyes across seven stops on campus. Stops include the Burke Museum, wÇ�É«Ç�bÊ”altxÊ· Ìý[Intellectual House], Indigenous artworks, the Medicinal Herb Garden, the Ethnic Cultural Center, the Husky Union Building (HUB) — where one of his father’s works is on display — and Union Bay Natural Area. The booklet, with physical copies available at University libraries and other campus buildings beginning Autumn 2021.

Free |


Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page forÌýmore digital engagement opportunities.