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2023

September 29: Barbara Earl Thomas’ Portrait of Jacob Lawrence installed
January 30: JLG Director + Curator Search

2022

October 19: Miha Sarani: Amends
September 8: The Traveling JLG
July 20: Announcing the 2022 Graduate Showcase
May 12: Press Preview: 2022 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition (sent by Henry Art Gallery)
April 13: Announcing the Dismantling the Body Symposium on May 18–19
March 29: Announcing the Kollar American Art Lecture presented by ShiPu Wang
March 22: 2022 Graduation Exhibitions
March 10: Jacob Lawrence Gallery director + curator Emily Zimmerman announces departure
January 26: Absence and Erasure Challenge the Imagination in Lauren Williams: Wake Work*
January 11: New Volume of MONDAY Deepens Exploration into the Impact of Technology
January 5: Announcing the 2022 Critical Issues Lecture Series

2021

December 7: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery Announces the 2022 Recipient of the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
November 17: Illustrated lecture "Asian futures, without Asians" by Astria Suparak examines appropriation and white-washing in American sci-fi cinema
November 9: Katherine Simóne Reynolds: A Warning Resting in the Distance subverts assumptions about Black women and danger
October 7: The Reordering of Things remaps our relationships to each other and the world; Group exhibition features recent work by nine University of Washington MFA students
September 14: Audrey Desjardins: Data Imaginaries showcases poetic interactions with domestic data
August 4: Amber Rose Johnson and Carolyn Lazard combine images of Black leisure with a performance score to heighten awareness of physical sensations
July 15: In Lux Aeterna, 16 artists explore how media and images transform over time
May 26: Henry Art Gallery to Present 2020 – 2021 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition (sent by Henry Art Gallery)
May 25: Queer Imagination showcases dreams of an ecstatic new world
May 18: Knowns, Unknowns & the Spaces in Between contemplates transition and becoming
May 4: James Allister Sprang to premiere Aquifer of the Hum, a sonic landscape that invites deep, radical listening
April 29: Announcing Murmurations, a Seattle-wide arts collaboration
April 22: Ron Chew receives Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award
April 12: adrienne maree brown joins Prem Krishnamurthy for a vital conversation about community and the role of the artist in social transformation
January 12: Jacob Lawrence Gallery premieres Ariel René Jackson’s Descendance, a video about lineage and generational change
January 6: 2021 Critical Issues Lecture Series

2020

2019

December 12: 2020 Critical Issues Lecture Series
November 12: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery Announces the 2020 Recipient of the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
October 30: ALTAR: Ritual, Prayer, Offering
October 3: Irreducible Forms
August 21: Composite Gestures
July 11: James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity
June 27: 2019 Graduate Thesis + Dissertation Showcase Website
May 16: Jacob Lawrence Gallery Awarded $25,000 NEA Art Works Grant
May 15: Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Camilo Godoy: Lugar del Trabajo
May 7: MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition (sent by Henry Art Gallery)
March 13: 2019 Graduation Exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery
March 11: Kollar American Art Lecture: Elizabeth West Hutchinson
March 2: Steve Kaneko is recipient of the 2019 Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award
January 23: Jacob Lawrence Gallery 25th Anniversary Celebration
January 2: Danny Giles: The Practice and Science of Drawing a Sharp White Background

2018

December 19: 2019 Critical Issues Lecture Series
Novemer 6: Clotilde Jiménez: Apple of My Eye
October 24: 2019 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident
October 15: Sonny Assu: Études for the Settler
August 23: 10 Etudes for Summer: Second Year MFA Exhibition
July 5: Kerry Tribe: Standardized Patient
June 19: 2018 Graduate Thesis + Dissertation Showcase Website
June 12: Megumi Shauna Arai: Midst
May 8: MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition (sent by Henry Art Gallery)
March 29: Kollar American Art Lecture: Michael Lobel
March 12: 2018 Graduation Exhibitions in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery
February 7: Monday – Volume 1
January 22: C. Davida Ingram: 2018 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency + Exhibition

2017

December 12: 2018 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice lecture series
October 20: Material Performance: Part II
September 19: Material Performance: Second Year MFA
June 23: 2017 Graduate Thesis + Dissertation Showcase
June 15: NEA Grant for Jacob Lawrence Gallery
June 1: Untold Passage
May 22: Strange Coupling 2017 Exhibition
May 9: MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition at Henry Art Gallery
March 30: 2017 Graduation Exhibitions
March 6: Strange Coupling 2017
January 27: Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown + Other Works
January 17: Beth Sellars is the 2017 recipient of the Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award
January 9: Utopia Neighborhood Club: A Student Response
January 4: Emily Zimmerman appointed new Director of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

2016

December 9: Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice 2017
November 10: Kollar American Art Lecture: Wendy Bellion
October 26: Utopia Neighborhood Club
September 26: Double Rainbow All the Way
September 21: Ivan Drpić on the Enkolpion: Object and Self in Medieval Byzantium
September 9: 2016-17 Alum in Residence: Anne Focke
August 29: The Underground Life Of Piero Heliczer
July 27: Multiplying Mediums
July 7: Seven faculty hires at the School of Art + Art History + Design
May 24: Strange Coupling 2016
May 13: MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition at Henry Art Gallery
May 4: Photomedia Open House
April 13: Jim Melchert + Anne Walsh: Directions for a cloud-crowd
April 12: 2016 Graduating Exhibitions at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery
March 21: Kollar American Art Lecture: Susan P. Casteras
March 3: Amelia Saul: Four Women
February 12: Buy Art and Strange Coupling
January 19: Steffani Jemison: Sol
January 5: Brooklyn-based Artist Steffani Jemison is the 2016 Jacob Lawrence Gallery Legacy Artist-In-Residence

2015

December 15: The New Foundation Seattle Supports Contemporary Art Lecture Series at the University of Washington
November 17: Dominic Muren: Toward a Democracy of Making
November 10: Kollar Lecture on American Art: Leo G. Mazow on Hopper's Hotels
January 20: Factory Showroom: HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Post-Speculation/thewayblackmachine opening at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

2014

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