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Join the Kirkland Arts Center and KBCS 91.3 in welcoming Earshot Jazz director and KBCS host, John Gilbreath, biographer Elaine Hayes, vocalist Gail Pettis, and pianist Darin Clendenin. John and Elaine will discuss the lifetime and career of American Jazz singer and winner of 4 Grammy Awards Sarah Vaughan. Gail and Darin will  perform a […]

The KAC Artists’ Exhibition is an annual show in the Kirkland Arts Center Gallery featuring work from our talented community of artists in a variety of media. This year is the biggest year yet featuring almost 80 artworks produced by the students and instructors of the Kirkland Arts Center. Best of KAC 2019 showcases the […]

Join the Kirkland Arts Center and 91.3 KBCS in welcoming folk singer and songwriter, Tekla Waterfield. She will be performing a selection of songs from her own repertoire. “Over the last several years, Seattle has been bursting at the seams with massively talented singer/songwriter types and Tekla Waterfield ranks right up there with the best […]

Kirkland Arts Center is proud to present Telling Stories, featuring the ceramic works of long time student and artist, Barbara Hennig. “Storytelling is as ancient in origin as working with clay. Stories make up our dreams, memories and fantasies. The are the ubiquitous component of the human condition and an ever-present part of my art. I can’t […]

Works In Progress began with a commitment from the Kirkland Arts Center to form more partnerships with other community oriented arts nonprofits in the region. As an art center whose exhibition programming focuses on featuring art work that engages in meaningful cultural dialogue, the Kirkland Arts Center drew on their background working with at-risk youth in the arts to form the foundation […]

In The Flesh is a group exhibition curated by J. Gordon, Geneva Rose Baldauf, and Amanda Budke examining the intersectionality of mind and body. Artists of varying practices and mediums explore the oldest and most universal subject: the human form. In The Flesh seeks to understand and represent how our perceptions of ourselves and others inform our view of […]

The Kirkland Arts Center is happy to present, KAC teaching artist, Maja Sereda’s drawings of the natural world at the Kirkland Public Library. View open hours. More Information about Maja Sereda About the Artist Maja Sereda renders detailed mixed media drawings on paper. Her fascination with details germinated in childhood and continue to this day. Sereda’s current […]

The artworks chosen for Threshold  were not only a response to the concept of a threshold, a marked point of passing between spaces or states of being, but the works chosen also speak to pressing issues we face as a society at this moment in time.  The present is itself a threshold between past and future, […]

The Kirkland Arts Center is happy to present, KAC teaching artist, Karen Klee-Atlin’s exhibit at the Kirkland Public Library. View open hours. More Information about Karen Klee-Atlin About the Artist Karen is an active studio artist, working primarily as a painter and printmaker, and holds an MFA from the University of Calgary. She has helped students across […]

From 1962 to the Future An Exhibition for Kirkland Arts Center By Donna Lindeman Porter Within these brick walls, creative sparks have been nurtured and sent out into the world. We honor many who fanned those sparks into flames.  Artists, teachers, collectors, donors, staff, and all who have cared for this special place. A look […]