Black Storytelling in Graphic Novels
February 1st – March 1st, 2023 – M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle Central College
The M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery in partnership with the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Community (EDIC) at Seattle Central College honors Black History Month with the art exhibition: Black Storytelling in Graphic Novels.
Join us in celebrating the work of noted Illustrators, graphic novelists and comic artists including Raeghan Buchanan, Ben Passmore, James Spooner & Tanna Tucker
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February 1-28 – Tues – Sun 11am-7pm
Rainier Avenue Radio is converting the historic Columbia City Theatre into a museum for the entire month of February entitled the “Call to Conscience Black History Month Museum”. The museum will celebrate the achievements and the achievers of the PNW while recognizing the Black excellence that shines today through a toured exhibit — featuring installations and exhibits.
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Black History Month Research and Writing Workshop for High School Students
Feb 15 or 22, registration required
The Northwest African American Museum is partnering with the University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections to offer two Research and Writing Workshops in February for Black History Month.
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Black History Month Keynote Program
Feb 16 – With Dr. Damion Thomas, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture Curator of Sports.
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“Fundi” The Story of Ella Baker: Black History Month Film Showing
Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Radical Women Seattle Branch sponsors this film about Ella Baker, a leader and pioneer of the civil rights movement, was also known as “Fundi” – Swahili for those who teach and inspire younger generations.
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Henry Art Gallery – East Gallery, UW
October 01, 2022 — March 05, 2023
Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Chicago, IL) makes paintings, prints, and large-scale murals with layered compositions and fragmented narratives that explore themes of politics, race, sexuality, and celebrity. Hard-edged, vibrant, and often dense with geometric symbols and shapes, her figural works are influenced by the dynamics of our contemporary media landscape. Self-describing her images as “colorfully seductive” and “deceptively simple,” Abney’s work is visually alluring while it engages pressing and significant social issues.
Abney’s exhibition at the Henry includes recent collages and new paintings that center the rich culture and commerce of fishing within the African American community. Her work celebrates a long legacy of identity and self-determination intimately entangled with coastal fisheries while also conjuring the structural inequities that threaten Black life and livelihoods within the industry.
Abney’s exhibition extends outdoors with an exterior mural on the Henry’s east façade that provocatively stages the seafood market, evoking relationships between racialized bodies, commodities, and consumption.
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Griot Party Experience Black History Month Celebration
Saturday, Feb 11 at 5:00 PM – Artspace Hiawatha Lofts
A Griot Party Experience celebrating our ancestors during Black History Month with spoken word, music, and dancing.
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Seattle Black Arts and Culture: Kassa Overall
February 13 at 5:00 pm – February 15 at 7:00 pm PST
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute 104 17th Ave South, Seattle
Kassa is working hard to shed new live material from his upcoming album for a world tour, starting with a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR in Washington, DC in late February. As he prepares this new material with his band, Kassa is opening his rehearsals (although recording will not be permitted), so you can glimpse his process, including the practical challenges that Kassa faces preparing a live show, including combining electronic and acoustic elements, leading a band, and designing the arc of a set.
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MUSEUM OF FLIGHT
The Tuskegee Airmen: A Reality Greater than Myth
Saturday, February 18, 2023 -2:00 PM to 3:00 PM – J. Elroy McCaw Personal Courage Wing
Lecture & Book Signing with Author Chris Bucholtz
This event is FREE with Museum admission. The story of the 332nd Fighter Group—America’s first African American combat aviators—is legendary. But in the 80 years since they entered World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen story has, like many legends, grown and changed, obscuring the reality of their service.
Author Chris Bucholtz peels away the layers of mythology to show that the facts of the Tuskegee Airmen and their accomplishments are even more impressive than the myths, and stretched beyond the end of the Second World War to impact our society today.
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MOHAI
From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers
February 4 through April 30, 2023,
From ancient temples to soaring, modern skyscrapers, Black architects have had a strong presence throughout history. Today, the tradition of greatness continues.
On view at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers explores the past, present, and future of architectural talent, while learning about Black pioneers in the field.
Originally created by the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, with a local addition by curatorial consultant Hasaan Kirkland and co-developed with the Black Heritage Society of Washington State, this exhibit celebrates the enduring innovation and impact of Black architects across the United States.