Join MOHAI for a hands-on exploration of your rowing endurance! Drop in for rowing machine lessons led by coaches from the George Pocock Rowing Foundation, then put your skills to the test and row around Lake Union in rowboats provided by the Center for Wooden Boats.
As early as 1903, women students at the University of Washington were rowing in the "same boats" and "under the same conditions" as men, despite facing opposition to the idea of women competing in the strenuous sport. Join Olympian Anna Cummins and UW rower Melanie Barstow for a discussion on the history and tradition of the Women's Rowing program at the University of Washington.
Join Black Farmers Collective organizers for a discussion about their experiences creating spaces of community care and nourishment on their 1.5 acre farm at Yesler Terrace, Yes Farm. Learn how the co-op encourages people of all ages to care for the land, and each other, while building Black-led food systems that center on Black healing and joy.
On a sunny spring Thursday in April 2024, the Faye G. Allen Grand Atrium was filled with people engaged in lively conversations that explored the future of one of the most important and influential technologies […]
Shake it up, let loose, and have fun with primary source materials and other educators in our final workshop of the school year. Explore and practice creative strategies that help students think like historians, express themselves, and foster personal connections to historical content.
Explore and practice creative strategies that help students think like historians, express themselves, and foster personal connections to historical content. Learn tips and take home tools for building multi-disciplinary learning experiences that support object-based inquiry while stretching students' critical and creative thinking skills.
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Pink for girls? Pants for boys? From color to cut, what we wear is infused with our era's ideas about gender. Designers may emphasize "masculine" or "feminine" elements on a garment or create a "unisex" look, but the rules around what those words mean change over time. Join Curator of Collections, Clara Berg, for an intimate in-person, one-hour session to view historic fashions in MOHAI's collection which align with, deviate from, and expand our ideas about gendered clothing.
The MOHAI Mercantile Literary Series brings you a book signing for Street Trees of Seattle, and a conversation between author Taha Ebrahimi, Susanna Ryan (author of Seattle Walk Report), and Cynthia Brothers (Creator of Vanishing Seattle) about their different methods of documenting a changing city.
In the days of the early internet, emerging digital LGBTQ communities found revolutionary possibilities for not only building community, but also political organizing. Join professor Avery Dame-Griff for a discussion of how members of LGTBQ communities have utilized digital technology for everything from finding love to getting needed resources to people living with AIDS.
Learn the strategies for cross-cultural organizing that led to their success and how this can be applied to liberation struggles today. Join University of Washington Professor Marc Arsell Robinson, author of Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest, to understand how solidarity spread across camps and beyond.
MOHAI and Play-Well TEKnologies challenge you to a LEGO® build competition! Assemble your crew and recreate some of MOHAI's iconic artifacts, brick-by-brick, for a chance to have your artifact featured on MOHAI's social media channels. Even if you don't win, there's beer!