Gallery Guides
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View the Through the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the exhibition - Through the Light: The Sublime in Contemporary Northwest Art.
Image Credit: Ellen George, Axis, 1, 2021, gouache, silverpoint, gold metalpoint, birch panel, 2-3 in. Courtesy of the artist & PDX Contemporary Art
View the Aaron Loveitt:
Succession, Within a Landscape Unfolding Gallery Guide in English
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Learn more about the exhibition Aaron Loveitt: Succession, Within a Landscape Unfolding.
Image courtesy of Ken Etzel.
View the At the Seam: The Museum of Northwest Art’s Permanent Collection Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the exhibition At the Seam: The Museum of Northwest Art's Permanent Collection.
Image: Morris Graves, Spirit Bird, 1950, Tempura on paper, 18” x 25.25”
Past Gallery Guides
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View the 2025 MoNA Ceramic Invitational Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the exhibition: MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025: Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around?
Image Credit: Holly Hudson, The Giving Tree (Tree of Life)(detail), 2024, Ceramic, 312" x 82" x 4"
View the Peter Millett: Built Forms Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the exhibition Peter Millett: Built Forms.
Image: Peter Millett, Blue Mountains, 2010, Painted cedar, 13" x 54" x 7"
View the Summer 2024 Exhibitions Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the Summer 2024 exhibitions: Joseph Gregory Rossano: Portraits of the Divine and William Morris: Early Rituals.
Image: Joseph Gregory Rossano, Woolly Rhino (ATL) Coelodonta antiquitatis (Woolly Rhinoceros), 50”H x 50”W x 2.75”D
View the Silva Cascadia: Under the Spell of the Forest Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the exhibition Silva Cascadia: Under the Spell of the Forest
Image: Linda Davidson, Thornton Creek, 2022, oil on fabric panel, 12 x 12 inches
View the Surge: Mapping Transition, Displacement, and Agency in Times of Climate Change Gallery Guide in English.
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Learn more about the exhibition Surge: Mapping Transition, Displacement, and Agency in Times of Climate Change
Image: Melinda Hurst Frye, Regeneration I, 2023, Photograph (archival digital print), 40" x 50"
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ReBuilding: Celebrating the Role of the Permanent Collection in Building Up MoNA's Significance, Past and Present
Image: William Cumming, "Return to Odysseus: Tribute to Nikos Kazantzakis," 1984, tempera on board, MoNA Permanent Collection, gift of Marshall and Helen Hatch
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Margaret Davidson: Leading with Drawing
Image: Margaret Davidson, “Button Coat with Superstrings,” n.d, Colored pencil on paper
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Permanent Immigrant: Italo Scanga in the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Collection
Image: Italo Scanga, Pilchuck Glass School, 1986, Color photograph
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Geppetto’s Children:
Italo Scanga at Pilchuck Glass School
Image: Left to right: Italo Scanga, Flora C. Mace, and Joey Kirkpatrick Pilchuck Glass School, c. 1980