3/20/25 Art History Lecture

After Hours: Art History Lecture

Thursday, March 20
6:00PM – 7:30PM
Gage Georgetown (6520 5th Ave S)

Use discount code HISTORY5 at checkout for $5 tickets– limited time only!

Painting Seattle’s Japantown 

In the decade before World War II, three first-generation Japanese artists were among Seattle’s leading modernist painters, lauded in the mainstream as well as the Japanese American community. The paintings of Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, and Takuichi Fujii were shown frequently in the Northwest and throughout the West Coast, and chosen to represent Seattle in New York and Washington, DC. Working in an American realist style, the artists pictured the neighborhood where they lived and worked with a keen eye for the details of place as well the formal elements of painting. 

Art historian Barbara Johns is the curator of the exhibition "Side by Side" of these artists’ paintings from the 1930s, currently on view at the Wing Luke Museum. She will present their work at the height of their recognition and describe the profound disruption and loss brought by the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Step by step in recent years, their life stories and artistic achievement are being brought back to light. 

Wine and beverages available for purchase.

If you are a Gage Member or Atelier Student, you can enter in your discount code at checkout in the payment section. If you lost your code, please email info@gageacademy.org.

About the After Hours Series

Art History Lecture
Special guest lecturers from the local art scene will discuss an art history topic they have a deep understanding of, and share their interesting perspectives. Q&A open at the end of the lecture. 
Wine and beverages available for purchase.
Public: $15, Members: $10, Atelier: Free 
Doors open @6:00pm, lecture begins @6:15pm

Drink & Draw
Grab a glass of wine or a bubbly water, a drawing pad, and some charcoal or pencils! Sketch from a live costumed model, and a Gage monitor will time poses and offer up some drawing tips throughout the session.
All supplies included. Wine and beverages available for purchase.
Public: $20, Members & Atelier: $15
Doors open and session begins @6:00pm
Drink & Draw is a 21+ event.

Art Lab
Explore and try out new mediums! Led by a Gage Teaching Artist, you are invited to play with a medium that you're not familiar with– charcoal, printmaking, clay, or oil. Get back to the basics!
All supplies included. Wine and beverages available for purchase.
Public: $35, Members & Atelier: $20
Doors open @6:00pm, lab begins @6:15pm