265 results for: Visual Arts
Poster
Goodwill Games poster, Seattle, 1990
In the summer of 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. In return, the Soviet Union and eastern bloc nations boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In response, cable broadcasting magnate Ted Turner established the Goodwill Games to bring athletes together outside the Olympic structure. The first…
ID Number:2019.3.24.2
Date:1990
Poster
Festival Sundiata poster, Seattle, September 25-27, 1981
Started in 1981, Festival Sundiata is a festival of Northwest African American visual and performing arts held at the Seattle Center. Since 1997, Festival Sundiata has been part of the Seattle Center's Festal season, which celebrates various ethnic and international communities in the Seattle region.This poster advertises the first Festival Sundiata with a photo of a sculpture by James Washington,…
ID Number:2019.3.37
Date:1981
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Andi Rusu, July 10, 2002
Interview with Andi Rusu by Jessah Foulk on July 10, 2002 at MOHAI for the Speaking of Seattle: Information Technology Oral History Project. Rusu was the founder and creative director of both Cursivecode Inc and Redoctober Industrie at the time of the interview. As of 2019, he is a Senior EX/UI Design Manager at Sonos.Rusu begins this first part of…
ID Number:2019.35.6.12.1
Date:2002
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, April 10, 2013
Interview with Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of the comic Penny Arcade. Holkins is the writer and Krahulik is the cartoonist. The interview was conducted by Julia Swan at the MOHAI Resource Center in Seattle for the Places of Invention: Gaming in Greater Seattle Oral History Project in April 2013.
ID Number:2019.35.19.4
Date:2013
Poster
Chinatown - International District resiliency poster, 2020
Mulitmedia artist Moynee Chau grew up in the Chinatown - International District of Seattle. Early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, Chau became aware of xenophobic and racist stickers posted in the neighborhood by a white nationalist hate group. In response to this anti-Asian backlash, Chau created this poster to support the community and honor its history of resilience. In a…
ID Number:2020.33.1
Date:2020
Photograph
Skip Wright looking at stained glass in Meditation Room at Bailey-Boushay House, Seattle, December 26, 1991
The AIDS epidemic was spreading in Seattle and King County in the 1980s, and by 1991, the area was seeing an average of 1.5 new AIDS cases per day. Specialized skilled nursing was needed, particularly for patients near the end of life. AIDS Housing of Washington opened Bailey-Boushay House in Seattle’s Madison Valley neighborhood in January 1992. Bailey-Boushay was the…
ID Number:2020.42.3.17.02.05
Date:1991
Videorecording
Vecinos: Coast Salish Art Exhibit, Community Television Agency program, September 30, 1988
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.25
Date:1988
Photograph
Two Makah basketmakers at Neah Bay, 1900
The Makah people of the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula refer to themselves as Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx, which translates roughly to "the people who live by the rocks and seagulls." The early Makah were skilled mariners, using several types of canoes which they carved from western red cedar for various purposes - war, whaling, fishing, sealing, carrying cargo, and long voyages.…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.52
Date:1900
Photograph
Nellie Stimson's basket collection, Seattle, circa 1900
At the turn of 19th to 20th centuries, Indigenous artists in the Pacific Northwest were making baskets and carvings specifically for the tourist trade and were experimenting with form and design. In Nellie (Mrs. Fred) Stimson's Seattle home, baskets from the Pacific Northwest as well as from the Great Basin and Southwest were displayed in abundance. Caption information source: "Northwest…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.60
Date:Circa 1900
Photograph
Puget Sound Salish basketmaker, circa 1900
Coast Salish peoples are a diverse group of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest who speak related languages and have some common cultural traditions. The Coast Salish grouping includes many different tribal groups, all with their own names for themselves and most with their own languages. Coast Salish peoples have lived in the Pacific Northwest since time immemorial and their…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.115
Date:Circa 1900