On the day after Thanksgiving, avoid the crowded shopping centers and spend a day with your family at the Frye.

Join the Frye on a unique journey of discovery in Turkey, where Eastern and Western culture meet.

The 2008-2009 Art History Lecture Series is now sold out, but tickets are still remaining for the Frye’s new Topics of Contemporary Art series.

In June, Deputy Director Jill Rullkoetter and I journeyed to Munich for the opening of Die Münchner Secession 1892–1914 at Museum Villa Stuck, related to the Frye’s upcoming exhibition The Munich Secession and America.

In May I traveled to Buenos Aires for ArteBA. This important showcase for Latin American art was the focal point for a gathering of artists, curators, collectors, and museum professionals from around the globe.

As a free museum dedicated to increasing access to art, the Frye is excited to launch its new website.

At the March 2008 Members Meeting, I presented the Frye Art Museum’s new mission statement.

As the Frye’s chief curator and director of its exhibitions and collections, I think a lot about what it means to honor and extend the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye. This means going beyond consideration of the question, “What would the Fryes do?” as early-twentieth-century private collectors with a public vision for their art.

Over the last year, Deborah Sepulveda, manager of student and teacher programs, has been working with Seattle University faculty and students to develop a five-credit internship program for Fine Art students as part of the Frye’s Gallery Guide program.

The Frye Art Museum is undertaking the important task of rewriting its Collections Management Plan (CMP). A CMP is a statement of the Museum’s professional standards and practices according to the American Association of Museums’ guidelines, regarding proper management of its Permanent Collections.

In this episode of Seattle Channel’s Gallery Hop, host Nancy Guppy visits the Frye Art Museum for a talk with Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections.

David Andersen, former Frye exhibition designer, faced the difficult task of turning curatorial vision into reality. Spectatorship and Desire, for which chief curator Robin Held envisioned a salon-style hang of the collection similar to the way Charles and Emma Frye lived with their art, presented an installation challenge unlike any Andersen had undertaken in his nine years at the Frye.

On December 27, 2005, Kay Greathouse, director of the Frye Art Museum from 1966 to 1994, celebrated her one-hundredth birthday. The Frye would not exist as the cultural center it is today without her commitment and leadership.

An interview with Robin Held, curator of the Frye, by Anna Fahey.