Third Thursday

Belltown Art Walk, 6pm until closing. Visit http://belltownartwalk.com/

Edmonds Art Walk, 5pm-8pm. Visit www.manyaveeselects.com/artwalk/artwalk.htm

Tacoma Art Walk. Tacoma’s galleries, Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum, and the Washington State History Museum are open fro, 5pm-8pm. All three museums are free. Call 253.272.4258 or www.artwalktacoma.com/

Upper Queen Anne Art Walk, 6pm-8pm. E-mail info@bouncingwall.com.

Third Friday

Port Orchard Art Walk from 4-7pm. May through October

Third Saturday

Everett Art Walk, 4pm-7pm. Visit www.everettartwalk.org.

LaConner Art Walk, 4pm-8pm. www.laconnerchamber.com/

May 17-19

Viking Fest Poulsbo, Downtown and on the waterfront. Visit www.vikingfest.org.

May 18

Blue Poppy Day with Ranier League of Arts. View both art and blue poppies throughout the Rhododendron Species Botanical Gardens next to Weyerhauser in Federal Way. www.rhodygarden.org

At 1 p.m. Museum of Glass in Tacoma hosts internationally acclaimed curator and author William Warmus for a lecture entitled “The True History of Glass?”  This lecture is part of the Museum’s ongoing educational programming in support of the mission to provide a dynamic learning environment to appreciate the medium of glass through creative experiences, collections and exhibitions. Admission to the lecture is included in Museum admission.

May 18-19

University District Street Fair: longest running street festival in the nation. Visit Udistrictchamber.org.

3548 Meridian Street, Bellingham. Visit www.alliedarts.org.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Members Art History Lecture Series: Curator’s Choice with Pam McClusky
- Katherine White: Her Epic Quest to Collect a Continent

Time: 7-8:30 pm; Location: SAM
 Plestcheeff Auditorium

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Tea Ceremony Demonstration
- Bonnie (Soshin) Mitchell

Time: 6:30-7 pm; Location: SAM
 Teahouse (3rd floor)

Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut: French New Wave Masters
- Masculine Feminine

Time: 7:30-9:30 pm; Location: SAM
 Plestcheeff Auditorium

Friday, May 17, 2013

My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Public Tours
- James Harris

Time: 6:30-7 pm; Location: SAM
 Simonyi Special Exhibition Galleries

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Gateway to Beautiful Flowers
- Ikebana International 54th Annual Ikebana Exhibition

Time: 10 am-5 pm; Location: SAAM
 Alvord Board Room

Arts of Asia

Time: 11:30 am-12:30 pm; Location: SAAM
 Fuller Garden Court

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Gateway to Beautiful Flowers
- Ikebana International 54th Annual Ikebana Exhibition

Time: 10 am-4 pm; Location: SAAM
 Alvord Board Room

Tea Ceremony Demonstration
- Naomi (Somi) Takemura

Time: 2:30-3 pm; Location: SAM
 Teahouse (3rd floor)

On May 10 from 6:30-8:30pm the City of Kenmore celebrates the grand opening of their new Arts of Kenmore Gallery and city hall. Features are works by  Liana Bennett, Seiko Konya and Joe MacKechnie. Entertainment provided by JIVE, a jazz choir from Bothell High School. Light refreshments will be served.

Cornish College of the Arts, 1000 Lenora in Seattle, presents EXPO 13, May 10 through 25, expanding the College’s annual art and design exhibition to include more student work in different disciplines. The opening reception is Friday, May 10, from 5 to 9 pm and a series of Student Spotlights will be featured on Saturday, May 11 from 1 to 5 pm.

VALA Art Center , 7303 164th Ave NE in Redmond,  presents its newest art installation by Redmond Clay Studio, “Works in clay by the teachers and their students”, which displays May 10 through June 28. The Redmond Clay Studio operates out of the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center and is run by the City of Redmond Parks & Recreation Department .

The Wing Luke Museum, 719 S. King Street I Seattle, just opened “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21^st Century.” The exhibit challenges conventional ways of talking about race, putting viewers face-to-face with the artwork of 26 artists who address this complex yet personal issue. The artists, diverse in ethnic and cultural backgrounds, present a range of  stories that have personally affected them in some way, including violence against communities of color, transnational adoption, and navigating long-standing racial stereotypes. In addition to the artwork on display, visitors are invited to explore their experiences in interactive parts of the exhibit, such as a reworking of their passport to better capture their identities.

Waterworks Gallery, 315 Argyle Avenue  in Friday Harbor,  is currently  featuring works by Kathe Fraga, David Ridgway and Elizabeth  Bruno.  Fraga inspires memories of old Parisian wall papers presented as contemporary frescoed paintings with resin surfaces while Ridgway’s world includes houses, shed, and barns  of the Skagit Valley and the San Juan Island. Bruno’s oil on panel paintings present a modern context for her old fashioned fairy tale imagery. Shown at the right by Kathe Fraga.