Treasures from the Trunk: The Story of J.J. Donovan
Through June 1, 2014 J. J. DONOVAN WAS A GUIDING CITIZEN in Bellingham’s formative years. His life and career as a civil engineer, lumberman, railroad superintendent, progressive business man and […]
Big Cameras, Big Trees: Darius Kinsey at Large in the Woods
Ended April 20, 2014; Old City Hall Throughout his fifty-year career in commercial photography, Darius Kinsey captured the monumental interaction between men, machinery and mammoth trees that defined early logging in […]
Pulp
Ongoing through 2013 For more than seventy years, Bellingham was a major producer of pulp, the raw material used in papermaking. Puget Sound Pulp & Timber, later Georgia-Pacific, exported pulp […]
Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012
November 3, 2013 – March 16, 2014; Lightcatcher building Curated by Barbara Matilsky Vanishing Ice introduces the rich artistic legacy of the planet’s frozen frontiers now threatened by climate change, […]
Nature in the Balance: Artists Interpreting Climate Change
An Open Hanging July 6 – September 22, 2013 IN ANTICIPATION of our upcoming fall exhibition, Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012, the Whatcom Museum invites any […]
Clearly Art: The Beauty of Glass
April 6 – September 22, 2013 extended CLEARLY ART SHARES ITS NAME WITH ANOTHER SHOW THAT ORIGINATED AT THE WHATCOM MUSEUM TWENTY YEARS AGO titled Clearly Art: Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy. Between […]
Jim Olson: Art in Architecture
March 10, 2013 – June 9, 2013 AS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION DEVOTED TO THE CAREER of Jim Olson, one of the Northwest’s most significant architects, founder of Olson Kundig Architects […]
Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection {size doesn’t matter}
January 12 – March 24, 2013 PRIMARILY KNOWN AS AN ACTOR, DIRECTOR AND PERFORMER, Cheech Marin has developed the finest private collection of Chicano art in the United States. Marin’s most […]
California Impressionism: Selections from the Irvine Museum
November 17 – February 17, 2013 DURING THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH centuries, California artists produced a unique style that combined several distinctive aspects of American and European art. […]
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 […]
