Hedreen Gallery

Exhibition Celebration and Quilting Bee!
This Wednesday May 21st, 4-7pm
Free and Welcome to ALL!
Free Snacks and Drinks

We will celebrate the often invisible labor of care takers - communally, as well as the artists currently exhibited in Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness with , , and Under the Same Moon:

Join us in collectively binding a quilt made of fabric cyanotypes printed with artifacts of care taking. These cyanotypes were made by our community as workshop attendees on May 3d, led by exhibiting artist Adair Freeman Rutledge. Circle around the quilt as we craft, sewers may come in and out as they wish.

ALL are welcome to join the celebration, no labor required.

Join Us! This Thursday, April 10th, 5-8pm

Opening Celebration of our Spring exhibition Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness.
Artists and will join curator .simmons in conversation at 5pm.

Free for ALL! Drinks and snacks provided!

With these exhibited works, Bright, Farmer and Musselman demonstrate resiprocity as the essential nature of care, in relationships with others and our one precious world. Kamari Bright viscerally reminds us of the deeply human need for another’s touch with video poem, Close Spaces. Le’Ecia Farmer explores ancestral technologies to create sustainable materials, which naturally echo our own organic forms. Annie Marie Musselman documents humans and animals in exchanges that foster mutual healing and existence, rather than a fight for scarce resources. These loving gestures are pathways to connection, offering abundance, perhaps even hope.

Join us for an Artist Talk this Friday, March 14th at 4 PM with Artist, Molly Jae Vaughan. For more information, visit our event page: https://events.seattleu.edu/event/molly-jae-vaughan-transition-as-performance-life-as-resistance-artist-talk

As trans Americans are under siege by an onslaught of anti-trans legislation, she also broadens our lens. Vaughan identifies the danger of this discourse with Project 42: Flags, seen from the window outside, and the screenprints of Misinformation is a Virus.

We invite you to visit the Hedreen Gallery to see the flags and posters in-person, Wednesday through Saturday 1 – 6 PM.

Alt Text: A short-sleeved shirt with a vibrant geometric pattern hangs against a matching wallpaper, featuring colorful overlapping circles and lines.

Join us this Thursday, February 13, 2025 at the Hedreen Gallery from 5 PM to 8 PM to witness The Boundaries of Denial.

The Boundaries of Denial is a performance work in which the dancer Lola Lewis hides, harbors, and sets boundaries around that which artist Molly Jae Vaughan desires and requires for protection, longevity, and survival as a tr*******al. Throughout the duration of the performance, Vaughan moves through the Hedreen Gallery seeking symbolic objects representing real life needs to exist in the USA as a visible tr*******al woman. Lewis, using her physical form, her expressions, and her voice, blocks, rejects, and emotionally neutralizes Vaughan. The objects representing family acceptance, social acceptance, employment, medical access, and government identification are gathered and placed within a protected space, a circle representing the artist trans essence and life force.

Alt Text: A decorative arrangement with dried leaves, beads, and a fabric patch featuring an eye and hand symbol.

You’re ALL Invited: To the Exhibition Opening Celebration of Molly Jae Vaughan: Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance

Join us Monday, January 20, 2025, 6-9pm, for our first exhibition program: Community Labor as Determent to Trans Eradication, a Printing Action Against Transphobic Fascism. On Inauguration Day, we will gather and screenprint a message of resistance alongside Vaughan and each other. Bring your own white or brightly colored t-shirt for printing. And posters will be provided with distribution guidance.

Join us Molly Jae Vaughan’s Exhibit — Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance opens next week on Wednesday, January 15th.

Molly Jae Vaughan fights for herself and her trans community to be seen as wholly human through art. Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance reflects Vaughan’s multi-disciplinary approach, with mediums including painting, performance, photography, textile, and screen printing. Each body of work thoughtfully, exquisitely crafted and yet secondary to the ultimate goal of communication. The uniting, principal question: what does it mean to be trans in America at this moment?

Vaughan shares her deeply personal experience of transitioning to gender alignment in figurative paintings that lay bare the most intimate moments of her own becoming. Vaughan is unflinching in her self-examination and revelation, in turn demanding the same from her audience.  

Alt Text: Person raising fist in front of colorful tapestry. Text details an art exhibition titled “Transition as Peformance, Life as Resistance”, taking place in Seattle from January 15th to March 29th, 2025.

Join us as Molly Jae Vaughan’s Exhibit — Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance opens next week on Wednesday, January 15th.

Molly Jae Vaughan fights for herself and her trans community to be seen as wholly human through art. Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance reflects Vaughan’s multi-disciplinary approach, with mediums including painting, performance, photography, textile, and screen printing. Each body of work thoughtfully, exquisitely crafted and yet secondary to the ultimate goal of communication. The uniting, principal question: what does it mean to be trans in America at this moment?

Vaughan shares her deeply personal experience of transitioning to gender alignment in figurative paintings that lay bare the most intimate moments of her own becoming.

Alt Text: Person raising fist in front of a colorful tapestry. Text details an art exhibition titled “Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance,” taking place in Seattle from January 15 to March 29, 2025.

Opening in TWO days, Roots | Uproot on October 10th at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery.

Opening Reception 5 PM to 8 PM
Artist Talk at 5:30 PM

Join us this Thursday for the opening of Roots | Uproot and hear the artists talk about their work at 5:30 PM.