Upcoming Exhibitions
Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around: MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025
January 25th -May 12, 2025
Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around: MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025 features 12 remarkable artists from the Pacific Northwest whose engagement with clay offers a seductive account of the expressive possibilities of the medium. The exhibition features work by Iván Carmona, Emily Counts, Daniel Duford, Claudia Fitch, Ariana Heinzman, Holly Hudson, Ryan Kelly, Dirk Staschke, Chris Theiss, Timea Tihanyi, Tip Toland, and Patty Warashina. Inaugurating the Museum’s new series of thematic Invitationals, Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around offers a window into the contemporary landscape of clay sculpture which, modeled by hand, becomes an extension of the body and the being which inhabits it.
Patti Warashina, Passage Through Venetian Light (detail), 2012, low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, mixed media, 122.25” x 60’ x 60’
Upcoming in the Outside In Gallery
Current exhibit continuing through May 12, 2025
At The Seam
January 12 - May 12, 2025
At the Seam: The Museum of Northwest Art’s Permanent Collection is an ongoing engagement with the collection as the place of contact of the many artistic identities of the region. The exhibition asks to look not only at the individual works but also at the ‘seams,’ where works representing different artistic trends and cultural identities come in touch with each other. When they come in contact with each other, these works tell stories of coexistence, contrast, and difference within the social fabric of the Northwest region, past and present.