Share, Like, Create 2023 Student Juried Art Show: Moments of Learning and Growth
The Whatcom Museum’s first student-juried art show celebrates the artistic achievements of Whatcom County middle and high school artists, whose visual artworks respond to the theme of moments of learning and […]
Whatcom Artist Studio Tour Showcase
The Whatcom Artist Studio Tour juried showcase features selected works by artists participating in this year’s studio tour. Celebrating its 29th year, the Whatcom Artist Studio Tour (WAST) features more […]
let it shine: Photographs by Mina Afshari
The Museum is pleased to showcase California-based artist Mina Afshari’s photographs for her first museum exhibit. Afshari is a young Iranian woman who longed for freedom not only from the […]
REDress Project 2023 – Honoring Indigenous People
The Whatcom Museum is hosting an art installation in partnership with Whatcom Community College to honor and remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP). Red dresses will be […]
Bellingham National 2023 Juried Art Exhibition
The Whatcom Museum presents its fourth biennial juried art exhibition, Bellingham National. Grace Kook-Anderson, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, is the guest […]
Coastal Views: California and the Pacific Northwest
Featuring coastal landscape paintings from Northern California to Washington, spanning the 1880s to present, this stunning exhibition highlights the work of many well-known artists from both regions, as well as […]
Mountain Runners: America’s First Endurance Race and its Legacy Today
On Thursday, August 9, 1911, as the hour of 10:00 p.m. fast approached, twenty-thousand spectators swarmed the streets of Bellingham to witness fourteen contestants embark on the first recorded mountain […]
Susan Murrell: Sift / Shift
Susan Murrell’s works are meditations on passageways, life transitions, and the constancy of matter. In the summer of 2023, she will create a site-specific installation specific to the Museum’s Lightcatcher […]
Vintage Vaudevillians Returns
Vintage Vaudevillians returns to the Lightcatcher, in partnership with Whatcom Reads. This photographic exhibition highlights a dozen vaudeville acts that performed in Bellingham in the early 20th century. Originally used […]
Picturing Justice: Youth Photographs for Social Action
This fall the Whatcom Museum partnered with three Squalicum High School AP English Language Arts classes on a new student art program, called Picturing Justice. The goal was to feature […]