Art & Artists

Makah artist Alexander Swiftwater McCarty will discuss how the Ozette village artifacts influence his work as a contemporary Native artist and carver.

A panel discussion featuring Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Curator of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum, in conversation with Tlingit artist and co-curator of the Northwest Native Art Gallery Alison Bremner and Karen Duffek, Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest at the Museum

Join Tony A. (naschio) Johnson (Chinook) as he tells the stories represented in his art installation, Guests from the Great River.

Virtual all-ages program for families

Through May 12, 2024

Widen the Frame invites guests to reflect on their own experiences with museums and the complex position that museums occupy. 

Learn more about science illustrator Sami Chang's art, research, and mollusc masterpieces!

A new outdoor installation called Guests of the Great River greets guests as you arrive at the museum’s east entrance.

Ecology and illustration have a long, shared history. Come learn how UW postdoc Simone Des Roches uses illustration to visualize her research.

While fossils give us a peek into what long extinct species left behind, paleoartists show us what these species were like while they still roamed the earth.