The Frye Art Museum will be closed on Saturday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.

Exciting changes are occurring in the Gallery Café, with the introduction of carry-out service and Thursday happy hours.

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.

This summer, engage with art in exciting ways with the Frye’s popular art studio classes and art history courses.

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.

Midge Bowman, Frye director, on the Frye’s upcoming members’ trip to Turkey, the appointment of Frye Foundation Scholar Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, and the upcoming exhibitions The Munich Secession and America and Transatlantic: American Artists in Germany.

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 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.