With long days and warm temperatures, summer is a great time to visit cool art spaces in Seattle. Here are some suggestions for what to see in July — a handful of noteworthy exhibitions that emphasize a search for community and the creative potential of relationships. Check them out, possibly with a friend or two! This really is a last-chance scenario.
Our last chance to see MadArt Studio, the lovely South Lake Union space — which is closing — that has fostered so much original site-responsive art and our last chance to see MadArt’s final exhibition. Since Alison Wyckoff Milliman founded MadArt in 2009 (in Madison Valley, hence the name), the organization had several nomadic iterations before moving to a redesigned space in South Lake Union in 2014. It has been brilliantly stewarded by MadArt director and curator Emily Kelly since 2017.
For the farewell exhibition , all 84 past MadArt artists were invited to propose works that “referenced, extended, or resonated with their original MadArt creations.” The resulting 51 works from local, national and international artists — in a delectable array of medium and form — by 56 artists are an exuberant testament to the creative variety and vitality that MadArt has ignited over the years. Through July 13; MadArt Studio, 325 Westlake Ave.
N., #101, Seattle; free; 206-623-1180, madartseattle.com A lot of scholarship has centered on Paris as a creative mecca for Black Americans, but this is the first exhibition to comprehe.
