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Kirkland Arts Center partners with The Bear Creek School in Redmond to provide an opportunity for graduating seniors to showcase their work. Samples of these talented, hard working students’ work can be found below. The public is welcome to view these works during our regular gallery hours. Exhibition Dates: February 23 – March 6, 2022.

How do we find order amidst crumbling governments, relationships, and identities? How can the turbulence, anxiety and unrest of todays world pave way for a new sense of clarity and vision? This exhibition seeks works that explores ways in which artists makes sense of time, space, and society when everything around them seems to be […]

How do you create Home? Since 2018, multidisciplinary artist Soo Hong has pondered this question. Rain Village is a community arts project that brings together communities in conversation and creation on the topics of belonging and mutual empathy. Soo invites patrons to participate in an example of social practice by completing a mural of a […]

Rocks ooze time and change. When I look at rocks, I imagine the eons of geologic movement that created them. It is a huge expanse of time that dwarfs our tiny existence. To lovingly study rocks connects me to the natural world in its immensity, but also in its particulars. It brings life into perspective. […]

“A Simple Device for Eavesdropping on the Elements of Nature” David Julian Alchemy is defined as “a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination of base materials into something new.” The artists featured in this fascinating exhibition are artistic alchemists – crafting, constructing, painting, photographing, assembling and “bricolaging” wondrously new works from materials found […]

Heather Ormsbee is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the outskirts of Seattle, WA. Her work is a glimpse into a physical and emotional journey which gestures you to come closer to her fire. A trained fire thrower, adrenaline junkie, and lover of the macabre, the painting series, phantom burned, illustrates various haunted figures playing with […]

Red Ratchet Strap Remnant Relationship (RRSRR) 2022 12,000 ft of donated and reclaimed red ratchet straps, constructed in 5 sections 92×339 inches (variable) This exhibition in conjunction with and located at the Kirkland Library has been extended! Interdisciplinary abstract artist, Megan Prince, wants to create with your waste. An advocate for the zero waste movement, Prince […]

Closing Reception Information: We are thrilled to have a closing reception for Great Mysterious Heart on Friday, February 11 from 6-8 PM.  There will be an artist talk as well as opportunities to mingle with KAC teaching artists and staff. Artist Statement: Relationships compel interdisciplinary abstract artist Megan Prince to create; relationships between people, to belongings, […]