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Exhibition Tour: Poke in the Eye

Sat Aug 10 2024

1:15–2:15 pm

Seattle Art Museum

This exhibition celebrates an alternative and oft-overlooked story in art history: the aesthetic practices that emerged on the West Coast in the 1960s and ‘70s as a counter to the New York-centric avant-garde. Join one of SAM’s volunteer docents on a lively and thought-provoking tour. Engage with other visitors and discover diverse personal connections while exploring creatively installed galleries and outstanding works of art. Poke in the Eye incorporates works by renowned Northwest artists including Patti Warashina, Fay Jones, and Howard Kottler, whose innovative and playfully garish creations provided the foundations of this alternative movement, as well as more recent artworks by Jeffry Mitchell and Woody De Othello, whose contemporary sculptures have revived a global interest in craft and ceramic art.

This free-with-admission 60-minute tour will meet at the entrance to the exhibition on the fourth floor.

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View creatively installed galleries and discuss outstanding artwork from SAM’s collections across all three sites.

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