From SAM: Looking South: Highlights from SAM’s Collection of Pre-Columbian Art Barbara Brotherton / Curator of Native American Art Art of the Ancient Americas first entered SAM’s collection in 1940 and includes important examples of ceramics, stone and shell carvings, metalwork, and textiles in our gallery dedicated to Native Art of the Americas. Hear about the art traditions from Mexico, Central America, and the Andes—including works from the Maya, Aztec, Inca— in this look into cultural expressions south of the border. Lectures at SAM Lectures are held the third Wednesday of the month at the Seattle Art Museum. Doors open at 6:30 pm for Happy Hour in the South Hall where you can enjoy complimentary wine. Curator talks begin at 7 pm in Plestcheeff Auditorium. Photo: Scott Areman

From BAM: Has there truly been justice for all? Many would disagree, including the Japanese-Americans interned in camps and the African-Americans oppressed by Jim Crow laws—as well as the artists who have interrogated these and other acts of injustice in our nation’s history. The 2017-18 Series of Loggia Lectures explores the meanings of the Pledge of Allegiance through art history, incorporating periods from the Italian Renaissance to recent centuries of American art. The Loggia Lecture Series The Loggia Lecture Series is inspired by the Italian loggia, an outdoor space for engaging others in conversation or simply admiring the artfulness of the passing world. Each Loggia Lecture illuminates a significant art history topic that dovetails with an exhibition at BAM, creating opportunities for lively discussion throughout.

From The Frye: Join curator Amanda Donnan for a free, informal tour of the current exhibition Ko Kirk Yamahira. No registration is required. For Seattle-based artist Ko Kirk Yamahira, the finished painting is a beginning rather than an end. Painstakingly removing individual threads from the weave of the canvas, Yamahira deconstructs his paintings, turning surface into form. He often disrupts the geometry of the canvas’s hidden support structure as well, cutting out sections of the wooden stretcher bars to create detached segments bound by loose thread. Opening his practice to a form of shared authorship, Yamahira does not prescribe a fixed orientation for these pieces, preferring that they remain free to be reconfigured by others each time they are installed. Each of Yamahira’s individual (untitled) works functions as a facet of a single project that can never be finished, part of what he sees as a continuous, daily process of becoming through undoing. This exhibition, Yamahira’s first solo museum presentation, samples the artist’s recent output—including several pieces made for the occasion—to offer a meditation on duality and the relativity of perception. Several works in the exhibition are obverse pairs, such as two pieces with the same image repeatedly silk-screened in a…

An Abstract Self Portrait Artist Yael Zahavy-Mittlelman invites you to look at the art, and see if you can identify elements in the artwork which appeal to you. Come up with your own story to the images you see, or even be daring and see if it tells you something about your own process, your own life, about yourself. Opening Date: April 5, 2018 | Time: Noon - 8pm Exhibition Runs: April 5 - 28, 2018 Artists Talks: Saturday, April 21 | 3-5pm | RSVP: director@gallery110.com

From MOHAI: Celebrate the installation of youth photographs in Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith with this special edition of On the Spot Gallery Talks, featuring the work of NAAM Youth Curators and MOHAI Youth View. Hear from two NAAM Youth Curators, Dionne Tugade and Victoria Rosales, as they speak about their photography and their personal connections to the histories recorded by Al Smith’s camera. Join us for these 30-minute talks in the Walker Gallery at 11 am and 1 pm. Upcoming On the Spot Gallery Talks take place on the first Saturday of each month through June.

From The Nordic Museum A biographical narrative of the Norwegian explorer and humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen studies a purposeful life of scientific learning and exploration, political travails, and humanitarian devotion. Famous for many accomplishments, Nansen is principally known for his efforts in aiding scores of refugees during the 1920s, using what has come to be known as 'The Nansen Passport.