The collection

Two large net canopies of blue-grey and green cast-resin pieces hang high between tall cedar trunks over a curving gravel path in a forest.

John GradeOn view

Union

John Grade’s resin-and-wood sculpture, suspended between trees, shifts as rainwater gathers.

Washington Park Arboretum

Interior of the chapel with curved white plaster vaults, hanging glass pendant lamps, wooden pews and altar table on a polished floor; daylight enters through high openings and greenish reflected light washes one wall.

Steven Holl Architects, Olson Sundberg ArchitectsPermanent collection

Chapel of St. Ignatius

Steven Holl’s working chapel, lit through colored lenses and reflected color.

Seattle University

A reddish gravel path curves through a forest past tree trunks and a large stump covered in bright green moss, which carpets the ground.

Prentice and Virginia Bloedel, Thomas Church, Richard Haag, Fujitaro Kubota, Iain RobertsonPermanent collection

Bloedel Reserve: Moss Garden and Reflection Pool

The Moss Garden and Thomas Church’s hedged Reflection Pool in Bloedel’s designed landscape.

Bloedel Reserve

Tall green metal stems branch like flowers among firs and ferns, holding drum-like shapes in red, blue and yellow and round disc 'blossoms' with red and blue centres.

Jeff TangenOn view

Playa Flowers

Jeff Tangen’s Burning Man sculpture, relocated to Price Sculpture Forest in Coupeville.

Price Sculpture Forest

Tall, narrow standing stones of varying heights rise from a grassy clearing, with low seating stones between them and bare trees and evergreens behind.

Chuck Pettis, Earth SanctuaryPermanent collection

Cottonwood Stone Circle at Earth Sanctuary

Standing stones around basalt columns and seating stones at Earth Sanctuary, Whidbey Island.

Earth Sanctuary

Looking up through the steel-and-glass roof of the Glasshouse at a long suspended cluster of red, orange and yellow blown-glass forms, with the Space Needle visible faintly through the glazing.

Dale Chihuly, Chihuly StudioPermanent collection

Glasshouse at Chihuly Garden and Glass

A 100-foot suspended glass sculpture in the daylit Glasshouse at Chihuly Garden and Glass.

Chihuly Garden and Glass

A covered pedestrian bridge walkway lined on one side by a long wall of display cases holding colorful blown-glass vessels, with the bridge deck receding into the distance.

Dale Chihuly, Chihuly Studio, Arthur Andersson / Andersson-WisePermanent collection

Chihuly Bridge of Glass

Three glass installations on a pedestrian bridge between downtown Tacoma and the waterfront.

Chihuly Bridge of Glass

Long-exposure night photograph: a person stands inside concentric wavy rings of green, red, blue and orange light trails, with small LED lights scattered on the paving at their feet.

MiNHi England, John SharvinComing up

Light the Forest 2026

Light and neon installations on Pilchuck’s campus, November 14–15; general tickets are sold out.

Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood campus

An old faded photograph of weathered wooden buildings and a hide stretched on a pole frame, with a rounded shape cut out of the image and edged with gold beadwork and dark spikes.

Catherine Blackburn, Jeneen Frei NjootliOn view

Catherine Blackburn + Jeneen Frei Njootli: Traces

Catherine Blackburn and Jeneen Frei Njootli on beadwork and the body, at the Polygon Gallery.

The Polygon Gallery

A bright white gallery with a slate floor: a dark angular metal sculpture on a low plinth, a large red glass sculpture of clustered forms, a carved Northwest Coast canoe-shaped piece, a hanging mobile and wall works.

Group exhibition from the collection, including Marie WattOn view

Forming Nature, Nature Formed

Glass, clay, metal, wood and neon works on the natural world open the Rothko Pavilion.

Portland Art Museum

Looking up inside the skyspace: an oval opening shows deep blue sky above a glowing pale-yellow ceiling, and a person sits on a curved cedar bench below, looking up.

James TurrellTemporarily closed

Light Reign

James Turrell’s Skyspace at the Henry, closed for restoration; scheduled to reopen November 14, 2026.

Henry Art Gallery

Tall curving walls of rust-brown weathering steel stand in a row on a gravel ground, with gaps between them and apartment buildings and blue sky behind.

Richard SerraPermanent collection

Wake

Richard Serra’s ten curved steel plates, over fourteen feet high, paired into five units.

Olympic Sculpture Park

Inside a long greenhouse with green-tinted glazing, visitors walk beside a fallen nurse log covered in moss, ferns and seedlings.

Mark DionTemporarily closed

Neukom Vivarium

Mark Dion’s greenhouse for a decaying nurse log; the interior is closed until next season.

Olympic Sculpture Park

A pedestrian walkway roofed and walled with laminated glass printed with blue sky and cloud imagery and dot patterns, running beside a lawn with a red-orange conical form standing on the grass.

Teresita FernándezPermanent collection

Seattle Cloud Cover

Teresita Fernández’s photographic glass along a rail bridge, overlaying printed sky on the real one.

Olympic Sculpture Park

A broad grassy bowl cut into concentric terraced rings, the grass dry and golden, with evergreen trees at the rim under a cloudy sky.

Robert MorrisPermanent collection

Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30)

Robert Morris’s concentric terraces cut into an abandoned SeaTac gravel pit.

Johnson Pit #30

A circular pond with a grassy ring-shaped mound at its centre, surrounded by green lawn and bare winter trees.

Herbert BayerPermanent collection

Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks

Herbert Bayer’s sculpted circles, cones and berms in Kent also detain stormwater.

Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park

A view through a sequence of round-arched openings in thick walls of stacked, rust- and grey-toned stone, with sunlight falling on the gravel path beyond.

Nancy HoltPermanent collection

Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings

Nancy Holt’s concentric stone rings, ten feet high, with openings aligned to the compass.

Western Washington University Sculpture Collection

A white concrete structure of two stepped stair forms rising to peaks on a lawn, with open space underneath, a person seated near the top and campus buildings and forest behind.

Bruce NaumanPermanent collection

Stadium Piece

Bruce Nauman’s white-tinted concrete stair form, with an open void beneath.

Western Washington University Sculpture Collection

A dark steel cube tilted on one corner, pierced by a large circular opening, raised on three short legs above a brick plaza with trees and blue sky behind.

Isamu NoguchiPermanent collection

Skyviewing Sculpture

Isamu Noguchi’s tilted, open-sided cube on brick piers in Western Washington University’s Red Square.

Western Washington University Sculpture Collection

Steam drifts up from a low square bed of rock set into a lawn, with a curving path, lamp posts and dense evergreen forest beyond.

Robert MorrisPermanent collection

Untitled (Steam Work for Bellingham)

Robert Morris’s steam rises in scheduled daily windows from a square of rock.

Western Washington University Sculpture Collection

About a dozen tall steel lattice towers topped with vane-like fins stand on a grassy rise under dark storm clouds, with a gravel path winding toward them.

Douglas HollisClosed to the public

A Sound Garden

Douglas Hollis’s wind-sounded towers at NOAA Sand Point, closed to the public until further notice.

NOAA Western Regional Center

Red yarn lines run from ceiling to floor and across a pale wooden floor in a white gallery, forming a series of vertical planes.

Fred SandbackOn view

Fred Sandback: Lines in Space

Fred Sandback’s black yarn redraws two SAM galleries in eight successive configurations.

Seattle Art Museum

A standing figure fully wrapped in a blue fabric printed with tropical leaves and red flower spikes, with a strip of bare skin at the waist, set against a mottled blue-and-green background

Joiri MinayaOn view

Joiri Minaya: To Hell with Hibiscus

Joiri Minaya’s floral-fabric installation on tropical imagery and colonial monuments, at the Henry.

Henry Art Gallery

Grey concrete colonnade along the front of the Frye Art Museum, with grasses and a tree in autumn colour beside the sidewalk

Teresa Baker, Raven Chacon, Sky Hopinka, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, George Longfish, Dakota Mace, Kimowan Metchewais, Caroline Monnet, George Morrison, Audie Murray, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Mary Sully (Susan Mabel Deloria), Anna Tsouhlarakis, Kay WalkingStick, Jeffrey Gibson, Jenelle PorterComing up

An Indigenous Present

Fifteen artists working in abstraction, curated by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter.

Frye Art Museum

Poster with the red title 'Remember You Better', 'Flora Wilds, Nov 5 – Dec 19', over pink and white shorts printed with 'Wish you were here' and 'You are here' on a concrete background

Flora WildsOn view

Flora Wilds: Remember You Better

Flora Wilds’s textiles and garments on memory and emotional value, at METHOD.

METHOD Gallery

White gallery corner with six small landscape paintings hung in a row under track lights, above a polished concrete floor

Buddy BuntingOn view

Buddy Bunting: High Desert Landscapes 2024-26

Buddy Bunting’s paintings of desert detention sites and industrial edges, in Georgetown.

Studio e

Cam SmithComing up

Cam Smith: Surveillance State of Mind

Cam Smith’s interactive work on AI and surveillance opens at Passable November 12, 2026, 6–9 pm.

Passable

Forged black steel tree with curling branch tips rising from an octagonal wooden bench, with townhouses and people standing on the lawn behind

Iron Monkey Arts Collaborative / Iron MonkeysCheck before visiting

Rainier Vista Story Tree (Tree Spire)

An Iron Monkeys Burning Man tree, now a Rainier Vista story bench; check its current state.

Rainier Vista Central Park

Computer rendering of a ring-shaped steel crown of vines with glowing orange and blue gem lanterns, enclosing benches and a fire bowl on a dark desert floor, with a human figure for scale

Iron MonkeysCheck before visiting

Alaina Stocker, Esther Loopstra, Alana O. Rogers, and participating artistsOn view

SENSORIUM

Installation and live performance at Base Camp Studios 2.

Base Camp Studios 2

SeattleExhibitionInconvenience StoreLilia Deering and Mary Anne Carter with participating artists

Lilia Deering and Mary Anne Carter with participating artistsOn view

Inconvenience Store

Artists build a fictive shop inside a former downtown convenience-store site.

Parnassus

Suspended sculpture of a glossy black segmented body on long thin steel legs, hanging in front of a white wall, with small bronze insects on the wall nearby

Zoe PotterOn view

RIPE

Zoe Potter’s glass, bronze, latex and steel works on ripeness and decay.

Mini Mart City Park

Close-up of heavy black italic lowercase text, 'i contain it … side quiet deep … wake sound', printed on a streaky grey watercolour-like background

Mia MulveyOn view

I Contain My Outside

Mia Mulvey’s small sculptures play environmental recordings through paper speakers.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Digital illustration of a small child eating rice porridge from a bowl at a table while an older woman in glasses sits behind her with an arm around her

Curated by Kat Noel, Jenna Hanchard, Janell Jordan, and Eula Scott BynoeOn view

Visions of Worldbuilding

Art and social practice on mothering and care, at King Street Station.

ARTS at King Street Station

Visitors gather around a wooden table holding a ceramic crocodile and a cloth banner, under large hanging blue and silver fabric sculptures in an open gallery

Heidi Grace AcuñaOn view

Buwaya Baby

Heidi Grace Acuña’s textiles, video installations and ceramics around a protective crocodile.

ARTS at King Street Station

Huge funnel-shaped sculpture of hundreds of acoustic and electric guitars, plus a banjo and an accordion, rising through a dark museum atrium

TrimpinPermanent collection

IFVIWASIX: Roots and Branches

Trimpin’s permanent instrument of robotically played guitars at MoPOP.

Museum of Pop Culture

Five giant flower sculptures on tall striped stems, with red petal ribs and glowing pink and green centres, lit at dusk beside the white dome of the Pacific Science Center

Dan CorsonPermanent collection

Sonic Bloom

Dan Corson’s five solar-powered flowers, which glow after dark.

Pacific Science Center / Seattle Center

Glowing orange, shelf-fungus-like lanterns cut with concentric tree-ring patterns, mounted up a tree trunk against bare branches at dusk

Regional artistsComing up

Wintertide Light Art Experience

Temporary light installations in Webster’s Woods after dark.

Webster’s Woods / Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

Walk-through cave whose walls, pillars and arches are covered in thousands of white paper-like scales, lit violet, blue and pink by floor lights

Barbara Goszczynska, Seth Nehil, Parallel Studio, Tricktronix / Patrick O’Neill, and othersOn view

Hopscotch Portland: Selected installations

Artist-designed rooms of color, light and sound, including Rainbow Cave.

Hopscotch Portland

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