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It\u2019s not<\/em> just you: Everything is more expensive these days.<\/p>\n Across the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue\u00a0area, prices are up about 4% from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. In the recreation category \u2014 which includes physical TVs and bikes as well as sporting events and concerts \u2014 prices rose nearly 9%.\u00a0<\/p>\n But there are plenty of local art experiences don\u2019t have to cost you a thing.<\/p>\n Many Seattle museums and even some theaters offer pay-what-you-can options. And galleries are always free. For April, I\u2019ve lined up six excellent art exhibits that happen to be completely gratis.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since debuting in 2020, Frye Art Museum\u2019s Boren Banner Series \u2014 a public art project on the museum\u2019s exterior \u2014 has made a major impact. At 16 feet by 20 feet, artists get an opportunity to present what is most often their largest work to date, and a concurring exhibition inside the museum brings additional exposure.<\/p>\n I\u2019m excited for Portland\/Oakland, Calif., artist Chloe King, a Cornish College of the Arts graduate, to get more attention.<\/p>\n King works with different materials, including photography, video, painting and installation, to question how cultural memory is shaped. This new work deals with queer nightlife as \u201ca sanctuary and site of excess.\u201d<\/p>\n April 15-Oct. 11; Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., Seattle; free; fryemuseum.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Hands return again and again in June T Sanders\u2019 delicate black-and-white photos. Cupping the sky as if to hold the sun. Offering a photo slide between thumb and forefinger to a friend. Forming a gloved roof atop raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n \u201cHands contain energy \u2014 and at times \u2014 landscapes. Anything can be a psalm if it is hallowed like one,\u201d Sanders writes in her artist statement.<\/p>\n The artist and educator lives in the hills of rural Eastern Washington, close to the Palouse Prairie, an endangered ecosystem of gentle hills and grassland meadows where Sanders took many of the photos for this new show.\u00a0<\/p>\n April 2-May 2; Solas Gallery, 300 S. Washington St., Unit Z,\u00a0Seattle; free;\u00a0solas.gallery<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In the raven, a central figure in ancient Tlingit mythologies, Seattle artist Preston Singletary has found a luminous new direction for his blown glass designs, which blend his Tlingit heritage with contemporary art techniques.<\/p>\n Continuing his raven collaboration with the writer Garth Stein, known for the bestselling novel \u201cThe Art of Racing in the Rain,\u201d Singletary expands on the story of raven in a major new exhibit that is both mythically timeless and politically apropos.<\/p>\n Raven<\/span>, you see, is all of us: \u201cDriven by hunger, he is always on the look out for opportunities,\u201d Singletary wrote in 2024<\/a>. \u201cSometimes he is benevolent and sometimes he represents the worst aspects (of) human nature. He is capable and fallible at this same time, like all humans.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n April 4-25; Traver Gallery, 1100 W. Ewing St., Seattle; free;\u00a0travergallery.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The soft sculptures by rising contemporary artist Eric-Paul Riege, who is Din\u00e9, aren\u2019t quiet objects. Informed by Navajo weaving and jewelry-making traditions, the works sway and whisper and jingle, rustling and reacting to the touch.<\/p>\n For this exhibit, Riege studied the patterns and construction of Navajo weavings, weaving combs, textiles, jewelry and dolls created for the tourist market in collections held by Brown University\u2019s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and the University of Washington\u2019s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.<\/p>\n The result is a new body of work that will be activated during live performances within the exhibit, opening up questions \u201cabout the relationship between agency and objecthood,\u201d per a news release, \u201cand the display of Native cultures and peoples within museums.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Through Oct. 25; Henry Art Gallery, 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 41st Street, Seattle; free; 206-543-2280, henryart.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Heads up: If you go on a walk at Olympic Sculpture Park starting this April, you could find a 10-foot, 1,500-plus-pound rat head.<\/p>\n Twelve zodiac head sculptures by the acclaimed Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei<\/a> were installed recently in Ackerley Meadow just outside the PACCAR Pavilion.<\/p>\n Curated by Foong Ping<\/span>, the Seattle Art Museum\u2019s Foster Foundation curator of American art, as part of a wide-ranging Ai Weiwei retrospective, the bronzes \u2014 an ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, boar and rat \u2014 were inspired by 18th-century fountain sculptures looted from Beijing by Western troops.\u00a0<\/p>\n Through October 2027; Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western Ave., Seattle; free; 206-654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n You know flapper girls, or perhaps you\u2019ve heard of the French gar\u00e7onnes \u2014 but did you know that Japan had mogas?<\/p>\n A portmanteau for modan g\u0101ru, or modern girl, these women had bobs and clothes influenced by Western fashion. They listened to jazz and defied sexual and gender norms in 1920s Japan.<\/p>\n In this show, Seattle artists Patti Warashina, Catherine Cross Uehara, Hanako O\u2019Leary, Michelle Kumata, Sakura Davis, Erin Shigaki and Elizabeth Jameson (all of whom have Japanese or Japanese American ancestry) reclaim and expand upon the idea of what it means to be a modern woman.<\/p>\n O\u2019Leary is working on a monumental quilt made from thousands of origami vulvas \u2014 and inviting women and \u201cthose who identify as daughters\u201d to a free, intermediate-level origami workshop on April 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; registration required.<\/p>\n April 18-May 17, with an opening reception 5-8 p.m. April 18. Open to the public 2-4 p.m. on April 19 and 26; appointments required otherwise. To make an appointment or register for a workshop, email freshmochiart@gmail.com<\/a>. Fresh Mochi, 2900 21st Ave. S., Seattle; free; freshmochi.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Picks It\u2019s not just you: Everything is more expensive these days. Across the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue\u00a0area, prices are up about 4% from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 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\u2018June T Sanders: prairie psalm\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Preston Singletary: A Clockwork Raven\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|\u00f3l\u01eb\u0301\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals\/Zodiac Heads\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n
\u2018Moga\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n