"Indie Folk: New Art and Songs from the Pacific Northwest"

Exhibition Date: Jan. 18 – May 21. The Pacific Northwest is home to a unique artistic ecosystem involving craft traditions, preindustrial cultures, and Indigenous and settler histories. Like folk art, the works featured here are handmade, straightforward, and often blur the line between functionality and aesthetics. Artisanal woven baskets and tooled-wood objects mix with works that are makeshift, improvisational, and often employ salvaged materials. For the artists — patchwork quilters and abstract painters alike — a rural and working-class ethos of making do with what you have is foundational to their work.