The 2011 Frye Art Museum Annual Report is now available online.

Susie J. Lee: Of Breath and Rain and Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner will open Saturday, February 18. Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition is now on view. 

The exhibition catalogue for Isaac Layman—Paradise is now available

The Frye Art Museum’s Critics Wrap event is airing online and on the Seattle Channel.

The Frye Art Museum Annual Fund

In an exciting new partnership, the Frye Art Museum is expanding its Small Frye program to incorporate story-dramas presented by the Seattle Children’s Theatre. 

Developed for parent volunteers in school classrooms, this annual workshop provides hands-on training in facilitating interactive discussions about art, leading art lessons, and creating a student-centered learning environment. 

When your favorite paintings are not on view at the Frye Art Museum, museumgoers elsewhere may be enjoying them.

The Frye Art Museum announces a new program for people living with dementia and their care partners which will begin in April 2011. here:now offers a six-part series of tours and art-making activities in the Museum’s exhibitions and art studio as well as monthly gallery tours scheduled once a month in April, May, and June.

A three-year program designed to build an innovative and sustainable school–museum partnership and bring art into the lives of students, teachers, and families is celebrated in a new documentary short, A Learning Community, which is available on YouTube.

It is with great sadness that the Frye Art Museum announces the passing of Ida Kay Greathouse, Director Emerita of the Museum, on Thursday, January 6, 2011.

The Frye Art Museum is pleased to provide a link to the video A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz on its website.

The Frye was recently named one of the top ten free museums in the United States by the Travel Channel.

The Christian Martyr, one of the most important paintings of nineteenth century German art and a highlight of the Frye Founding Collection, will be on view at the renowned Lenbachhaus Museum.

The Frye Art Museum announces the acceptance of Senior Deputy Director Jill Rullkoetter to the Getty Leadership Institute’s 2010 Museum Leadership Institute.

Watch how a group of students from Arts Corps created I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me.

Nancy Guppy joined Frye Director Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker for “Art + Lunch” on the Seattle Channel’s Art Zone. Watch online now!

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.