Past Exhibitions

AMERICAN QUILTS: THE DEMOCRATIC ART

August 4 - October 28, 2012

EXPLORING THE GREAT VISUAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY of American quilts, the show includes prime examples from a variety of regional quiltmaking traditions as well as outstanding works by Amish, Hawaiian, African-American, and Native American quiltmakers. More...

 WILD EAST MEETS WILD WEST: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NAKHODKA, RUSSIA BY GEORGY PAKIN

September 30, 2012 – January 6, 2013

DOCUMENTING A REMARKABLE CHAPTER in Russian-American relations, Wild East Meets Wild West provides a taste of life in a distant, little-known part of the Pacific Rim that has much in common with our own region. Bellingham Cold Storage founder Jim Talbot introduced Bellingham and the Pacific Northwest to Nakhodka in 1976 through the creation of joint-fishing operations— a venture that flourished even as official US and USSR relations remained hostile.

Nakhodka news photographer Georgy Pakin's photos vividly portray daily life in and around Nakhodka during Soviet and post-Soviet times, including the presence of Americans in Nakhodka, its large fishing operations and other activities associated with the Nakhodka-Bellingham relationship.

Fires and Flags by Tobey Sanford
Originally published in Life magazine

WINDOW SHOPPING

April 14, 2011 – September 30, 2012

With the help of these prints from the Whatcom Museum's popular photo archives, viewers take a stroll down the streets of Bellingham past for a peek at the store window displays selling everything from cosmetics to furniture.  Among the stores featured will be Montague & McHugh, Adams Style Shop, J. B. Wahl’s, S.H. Kress & Co., Morse Hardware, Owl Pharmacy and B. B. Furniture. Displays pictured range from apparel and housewares to hardware and even eggs!

Curated by Photo Historian Jeff Jewell.

March 3 - May 27, 2012

The Art of Recycling, a mini-exhibition in the Lightcatcher lobby and passageway, highlights the varied approaches that artists use to create work from a diverse range of cast-off objects and materials. It features artists Ross Palmer Beecher, Evan Blackwell, Marita Dingus, Meri Rose Ekberg, Julie Haack, Thor Myhre, Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack), Jasmine Valandani, and Kuros Zahedi.

Art of Recycling is part of the RARE expo, an Allied Arts and Thor Myhre project featuring entertainment, exhibits, seminars, and workshops.

The show also coincides with The Re-Store’s 11th Annual Recycled Arts Show, with lots of great events and art to see in the month of April.

 Jasmine Valandani
Story Machine, 2006