During 2026, Maryhill Museum of Art’s Indigenous Peoples of North America Gallery will feature contemporary works by Cara Romero (Chemehuevi, b. 1977), Pat Courtney Gold (Wasco/Tlingit, 1939–2022), and other artists. Its overall display of 750+ items showcases baskets from throughout the United States and beadwork from the interior Pacific Northwest.

Newly installed cases featuring objects from the Great Basin, Woodlands/Great Lakes, and Plains are also on view.

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Carletta Carrington Wilson merges poetry, collage, and installation to explore memory, ancestry, and the power of objects.

Based in the Pacific Northwest, she uses fabric and found materials as portals to the past, linking personal and collective histories. Her work reclaims generational knowledge through image and text, navigating time, identity, and place. Each piece becomes a site of remembrance, where hand, memory, and material converge to create meaning.

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Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving showcases both historical and contemporary woven items, including blankets, tunics, hoods, and skirts.

Journey through the seasonal cycle of weaving, from gathering materials and spinning wool to dyeing with natural ingredients and weaving intricate designs. Along the way, learn firsthand from weavers and gain insight into the deep cultural and scientific knowledge embedded in every strand.

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Our Mission
The Burke Museum cares for and shares natural and cultural collections so all people can learn, be inspired, generate knowledge, feel joy, and heal.

About The Burke Museum
With working labs you can see into, one-of-a-kind objects all around you, and galleries filled with curiosity and conversation, at the Burke, you see—and feel—a world alive.

The Burke Museum is located on the University of Washington campus in Seattle with a focus on dinosaurs, fossils, Northwest Native art, plant and animal collections, and cultural pieces from across the globe.

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The House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center is part of the House of Welcome, the first longhouse built on a U.S. College Campus. Our work as a public service center is to support and promote Native arts and cultures and engage with Indigenous cultures throughout the world.

We support studio arts specifically in fiber art and carving on our Indigenous Arts Campus which includes a fiber arts studio and a carving studio complex. The work includes college classes, short and long term arts workshops and residencies, locally. We also support a artist workshop program in Native American communities in a four state region including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. We provide grant support to colleges and universities who are seeking to improve or begin work in a similar fashion with Tribal artists from Tribal communities within their own service regions.

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Curated by Colette Gaiter, this exhibition offers a broad view of artists’ books by Black artists, combining words, images, and materials in both traditional and experimental ways. Some works share personal stories, others explore history and identity. These books challenge narrow views, honor past creators, and invite reflection on Black experiences—expanding the boundaries of book art through powerful and creative expression.

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Pratt Fine Arts Center, founded in Seattle’s Central District and named for civil rights leader Edwin T. Pratt, has been a creative hub for 50 years. Offering year-round, affordable classes and studios, Pratt supports artists of all ages and skill levels. Disciplines include glass, sculpture, jewelry, paper, and 2D media. This exhibition features work by Pratt students, instructors, board members, and staff, reflecting the center’s vibrant and inclusive arts community.

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Guest curators Robin Little Wing Sigo (Suquamish) and Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) present a survey of Indigenous craft artists from the Salish Sea region, spanning Washington and British Columbia.

Featuring both traditional and contemporary works, media include regalia, textiles, carving, ceramics, glass, and jewelry.

This marks BIMA’s fourth major Indigenous exhibition—an inspiring celebration of cultural knowledge, innovation, and living tradition.

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BIMA is planning a retrospective of the late master metalsmith Heikki Seppa, originally from Finland, who passed away in 2010.

After decades teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, he retired and later married Bainbridge Island jewelry artist Laurie A. Lyall.

Through a major legacy gift from Lyall and other collectors, BIMA acquired over 45 signature works, including jewelry, hollowware, and decorative art, showcasing techniques Seppa taught and pioneered.

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The Puget Sound region offers rich resources for craft artists.

This group exhibition features nominees from over 20 craft-based programs and organizations, including Pilchuck Glass School, Pratt Fine Arts Center, NAAM, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle Metals Guild, House of Welcome, Schack Art Center, BARN, Port Townsend School of the Arts, Northwest Designer Craftartists, and Hilltop Glass Program.

The show highlights emerging talent and challenges traditional craft boundaries.

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The Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection includes many examples of textile-based artworks. The include works made from cloth or books embellished with forms of stitching, embroidery, and mixed-media.

This group exhibition will include borrowed works as well as some commissioned to further expand BIMA’s collection in this area.

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Aimee Lee (Ohio) is an artist, writer, and leading advocate for Korean papermaking.

Her Fulbright research led to founding North America’s first hanji studio and writing Hanji Unfurled. A second Fulbright deepened her work with Korean papermaking masters.

Lee trains the next generation in her studio near Cleveland and worldwide.

This solo exhibition features works from the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection and additional pieces by this internationally recognized artist.

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This retrospective, Deeply Rooted, celebrates the legacy of George and David Lewis—formerly Little and Lewis—whose garden designs and sculptures reflect decades of love and creativity.

After moving to Bainbridge Island in the 1980s, their shared passion for art, ruins, gardens, and water features grew into a thriving, well-documented career and community presence that left a lasting impact on Bainbridge Island and beyond.

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Experience intensive workshops with nationally renowned artists celebrating American craft traditions. Transform your practice as you explore techniques that define our creative past, present, and future.

Handwork Week brings accomplished artisans from our region and beyond to BARN for an unprecedented week of deep learning and exploration.

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The Columbia Gorge Museum was established in 1995 to house historically significant objects from the Columbia River Gorge area of Washington and Oregon. Its amazing collections contain quilts, lace pillows, lace, wedding dresses, and handmade household materials, as well as the “world’s” largest rosary collection, historical lumber industry objects, indigenous people’s cultural objects (all media); Japanese cultural objects, and a collection of art and rare objects once belonging to a Russian Baron, originator of the Lightbearers philosophical and spiritual organization. The collection is housed in an award-winning building on 18 acres on the banks of the Columbia River.  The Museum is recognized for its exhibitions and programs, especially those that support emerging artists; highlight historical contributions; and connect communities throughout the region.

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