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Interdependence

Interdependence is a continuation of KAC’s legacy of juried shows. This exhibition is juried by George Rodriguez. Meet the Juror: George Rodriguez addresses sensitive sociopolitical issues through his highly ornamented figurative ceramic sculptures. His work is disarming and made accessible through the use of humor, decoration, and an homage to historical traditions. Themes of culture and […]

Fracture

Kirkland Arts Center is proud to present our group, juried exhibition, Fracture. Fracture is the third exhibition in our 2019 cycle around the intersection of Art and Healing. Exhibition Statement: A crack, a break, a severance. A distance between, a misalignment. A sudden impact, or a slow widening; a quick trauma, or a gradual erosion. Fractures occur everywhere: […]

Prelude

Prelude is a celebration of Kirkland Arts Center’s newly minted gallery membership program. Enjoy a diverse selection of work that comes together to form a beautiful introduction to a meaningful program. KAC gallery membership is designed to highlight regional artists’ work and provide an opportunity for gallery visitors to experience exceptional work created locally. Exhibition […]

A Witness

A Witness is Adina Segal’s debut solo exhibition; Adina was the People’s Choice Award Winner of KAC’s first ever all-digital exhibition, Speak Up, which took place last Summer. Artist Statement: Imagine you could see through the time and space of this moment. What would it look like? Would you see light refracted and reflected off all objects […]

A Witness

A Witness is Adina Segal’s debut solo exhibition; Adina was the People’s Choice Award Winner of KAC’s first ever all-digital exhibition, Speak Up, which took place last Summer. Artist Statement: Imagine you could see through the time and space of this moment. What would it look like? Would you see light refracted and reflected off all objects […]

Kirkland Public Library with Suze Woolf

Kirkland Library 308 Kirkland Avenue, Kirkland, United States

You may recognize Suze as the People’s Choice Award Winner from our past exhibition, Threshold. Suze Woolf is a life-long outdoor person. Her art work is primarily about nature, and she creates much of it in the field. She has watched glaciers shrink and burned-over forests increase all over the North American West. At first, as a […]

Bear Creek Palettes 2022

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.

In Comfort of Chaos

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 […]

Rain Village

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 […]

Portraits of Deep Time by Tara Kraft with Kirkland Public Library

Kirkland Library 308 Kirkland Avenue, Kirkland, United States

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. […]