The Frye has now installed free Wi-Fi in the galleries, café, and throughout the building.

Ian Berry, exhibition curator and Malloy Curator, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, and Robin Held, Frye Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Collections, discuss organizing Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History in a podcast available on the Frye website and iTunes.

A group of students from The Center School, an arts-focused public high school, created a line of teen-oriented products that are now on sale in the Museum Store as part of The Seattle Project.

Eight Arts Corps students and their two teaching artists – the creative force behind the Frye’s exhibition I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me – have been invited to attend the White House historic concert and education event on February 10 entitled “A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement.”

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the Frye’s partnership with Arts Corps teaching artists and students for the current exhibition I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me.

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History, a major museum retrospective of work by Rollins—an artist, activist and teacher—and a group of his former South Bronx middle school students, K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), will be presented at the Frye Art Museum from Jan. 23 to May 31, 2010. 

The Seattle Project is a series of collaborative exhibitions and projects commissioned by the Frye to celebrate the Museum’s fifty-eight-year-old commitment to community outreach and art education.

Read the critics’ choices for the best films of the year and watch the program online.

Robin Held, Frye Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Collections, met with author, culture critic, and music writer Greil Marcus for an intimate conversation in the award-winning exhibition The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art.

Midge Bowman, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, and Robin Held sat down recently for a brief conversation about the past, present, and future of leadership at the Frye.

We are very excited to announce that the Frye Art Museum Board of Trustees has selected a successor for our retiring Executive Director Midge Bowman. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker will join the Frye on October 1.

Visit the Frye’s Flickr page throughout the summer to see photos from the Museum’s Summer Art Studio Classes.

This spring, the Frye lost a valued member of its family in the death of Peter Donnelly.

Two new podcasts related to The Puppet Show are now available via iTunes and the Frye website.

Celebrate summer with happy hour beer, wine, and finger foods every Thursday from 3 to 6 pm in the Frye Gallery Café and Courtyard.

The Frye has partnered with Path with Art, a local non-profit that provides art programming to previously homeless and economically disadvantaged adults, to facilitate a twelve-week workshop in the Frye’s art studio.

I am pleased to share with you news of my selection as a 2009 fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

The Frye has joined the social networking site Twitter, where you can receive brief updates on Frye events and exhibitions.

One of our goals as a museum has been to expand the Frye’s reputation in the national and international art world as well as locally, and this goal has been realized in many important ways.

The Frye Art Museum mourns the passing of Peter F. Donnelly. Mr. Donnelly joined the Frye Board of Trustees in February 2005 and served as President from October 2006 until his death on Saturday, March 28, 2009.

The new book Looking Together: Writers on Art is the culmination of a series of New Works Reading Performances at the Frye.

Seattle-based IF/THEN recently won a silver medal for their design and development of the Frye’s new website.

Frye Foundation Scholar Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker’s overview of The Munich Secession and America is now posted as a podcast on our website and iTunes.

Photos of the Members’ Preview Reception for The Munich Secession and America, held on Friday, January 23, are now posted on the Frye’s Flickr page.

An interview with Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Frye Foundation scholar and curator of the exhibition The Munich Secession and America, on the history and importance of this art movement.

In a continuing effort to offer art experiences beyond the Museum walls, the Frye is launching a new series of podcasts.

Take a rare behind-the-scenes look at the tremendous work it takes to install three new exhibitions.

Robin Held, Frye chief curator, on the ambitious upcoming exhibition, The Munich Secession and America, curated by Frye Foundation Scholar Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker.

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.

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 1993, 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.