Vanguard Seattle

It’s in so that means it is time to ! Some selections from a gorgeous and haunting body of work by Justin Duffus at to start the evening. See ya out there,

It’s World AIDS Day: 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of the AIDS epidemic, and Gay City, The AMP, and community organizers are hosting a commemoration by Cal Anderson Park this afternoon. A vigil begins at 4:30 by the wonderful centerpiece sculpture by in the AIDS Memorial Pathway.

🌈☄️ Julie Himel at Foster/White giving us big, gorgeous, painterly canvases art 🖼 that each have a bit of a story to tell, sometimes in their vivid palettes, sometimes in a strange glow that permeates the scene, and—in this example—an impasto coup de grace that feels a little hopeful/apocalyptic 💥 Happy art walking!

Works by artists Diana Al-Hadid, Derrick Adams, and Barbara Earl Thomas at the Henry Art Gallery on display now.

Today is the last day of “Black Refractions: Highlights From The Studio Museum in Harlem.” We’re sorry to see this amazing exhibit go, and this elegiac piece by the late Seattle-born artist Noah Davis seems fitting to highlight on the last day. Like many artists featured in this show, Davis created a work here that looks at an historical events from outside of time—in this case, the Tulsa Race Massacre, an egregious example of racist, white supremacist violence that was long ignored in mainstream discourse. The scene here puts simultaneously on the precipice of carnage and its aftermath. Though no bombs were dropped during that event, Davis had included a metaphorical bomb hovering over a young woman. But then, actual bombs have been dropped on black communities, such as the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia.
This show is brimming with sorrow and joy, imagination, humor and reverence, giving a sweeping view of black American creativity in the last century and reminding us how history is still with us in ways that words cannot express.