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"Drawing as a Second Language”: An Interview with Samantha Yun Wall

Samantha Yun Wall’s monochrome artworks—haunting, mysterious, and emotional—serve as a tool in her ongoing investigation of identity and history. Yun Wall navigates her multiracial background and lack of belonging as a Black Korean immigrant by exploring duality and binaries, creating striking black-and-white drawings that embrace uncertainty and the unknown. In 2024, the Por...


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Remounting masterpieces across three continents with Tanya Uyeda

Thanks to an international collaboration, talented conservators at SAM, the British Museum, and the Tohoku University of Arts and Sciences are breathing new life into (beautiful) old doors. Kinkishoga, Sennin-zu (The Four Accomplishments and Immortal) is an opulent set of 17th-century Japanese sliding door panels currently being remounted in the Tateuchi Conservatio...


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Exciting changes ahead! Hear what’s next at SAM

As we transition into 2026, SAM embarks on a year of change, discovery, and connection. Watch a personal message from Scott Stulen, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO, about what’s to come—from reimagined public spaces to our dynamic exhibitions and programming—across all three museum locations.

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Absorbed in art: Emerging Arts Leader Cecilia Carroll reflects

As a Seattle native, I visited SAM a few times when I was young. Mainly on school field trips, but also occasionally with my family when there was an exhibition my parents wanted to see. While my passion for museums came later, these experiences laid the groundwork for my initial interest in these spaces. Museums …

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Object Spotlight: Girl by Kiki Smith

Girl (1997) by Kiki Smith is a haunting portrayal of profound discomfort at a moment of transition. The piece is in line with Smith’s body of figurative work, often wrought with psychic complexities. Smith’s oeuvre is thematically diverse, drawing inspiration from humanism, feminism, mythology, and Catholicism, as well as lived experience, examining mortality, the life …

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