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Exhibition / Seattle

An Indigenous Present

SeattleGrey concrete colonnade along the front of the Frye Art Museum, with grasses and a tree in autumn colour beside the sidewalk
Frye Art Museum, Terry Avenue colonnade, Seattle, 2006. Photograph: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coming up

An Indigenous Present runs at the Frye from November 7, 2026 through February 14, 2027. Curators Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter gather fifteen artists working in abstraction across textiles, painting and sculpture.

The work

The museum ties the work to cultural and aesthetic traditions, imagined places and lived experience.

Sources and provenance +

Research baseline: November 6, 2026. Physical access and exhibition schedules may change.