Fall 2026 Exhibitions Weekend Celebration
Spend a weekend celebrating an exciting new season of exhibitions at the Frye with special events and programming, plus new highlights at the Museum Store and treats at MariPili at Café Frieda.
Weekend Celebration Events
Friday, November 6
Fall 2026 Member & VIP Exhibitions Reception
6–7:30 pm
We invite Frye members and special guests to join us to celebrate our latest exhibitions. Cozy up with fellow art lovers and enjoy early access to the exhibitions, tasty bites, curatorial remarks and insights, and a complimentary drink. RSVP by calling (206) 432-8289 or emailing rsvp@fryemuseum.org, or check your inbox for your registration link. Learn more.
Fall 2026 Public Exhibitions Reception
7:30–9 pm
Take a closer look at our new exhibitions and store collaborations, enjoy a drink in the Frye Parlor and Courtyard during a public reception with no-host bar, and check out a performance by Tacoma band Lozen in the auditorium at 8 pm. Registration required.
Saturday, November 7
My Body is a Basket: Artist Conversation
2–3:15 pm
Discover how My Body Is a Basket artists Brenda Mallory, Danielle Morsette, and Sara Siestreem push textile traditions into unexpected terrain through a conversation that explores weaving as a practice, metaphor, and source of artistic experimentation. Registration required.
Sunday, November 8
Woven Worlds: A Family Workshop: Artist Conversation
10 am–12 pm
Experiment together with weaving techniques using yarn, fabric, and paper, and discover how different materials come together through color, texture, and form. Leave with a unique artwork and new skills to explore together. Registration required.
About the Frye's fall 2026 exhibitions
Experience the breadth, ambition, and resonance of contemporary Indigenous art this fall at the Frye. An Indigenous Present makes its only West Coast stop at the Frye, with works from elders to emerging makers spanning one hundred years that highlight the endless variability of abstraction and its capacity to hold multiple histories. In companion show My Body Is a Basket, discover how three Pacific Northwest artists—Brenda Mallory, Danielle Morsette, and Sara Siestreem—push textile traditions into unexpected terrain through sculpture, weaving, and mixed-media painting.
The season also brings the latest iteration of the Boren Banner Series with a striking new work from Seattle artist Blake Blanco that explores what it means to be human in the digital age.
Image credit: Kimowan Metchewais. Chief’s Blanket, 2002. Ink and adhesive tape on paper. 46 7/8 x 70 in. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (269521.000). Photo: NMAI photo services; Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos). minion: (dozens) of ways to say i love you, 2010–23. Slip-cast ceramic dance caps, Czech glass beads, Dentalium, Salmon vertebras (2023), student-gifted bone, shell and plastic buttons (2010), Abalone buttons, Indigo-dyed cotton thread, industrial cotton with fresh Indigo dye (Linton) woven skull caps. Four parts, 72 x 8 x 11in. each. Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery; Blake Blanco. All that gleams against the tides, 2026. Oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist
An Indigenous Present is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, Guest Curators. The Frye Art Museum's presentation is organized by Georgia Erger, Curator, with Alexis L. Silva, Curatorial Assistant.
Lead support provided by Teiger Foundation.
Generous support provided by Mark and Asha Washington and by donors Broze, Childers, Meyer, and Mikesell. Additional support provided by ArtsFund, Raynier Institute & Foundation, and Frye members. Media sponsorship provided by The Seattle Times.
My Body Is a Basket is organized by Faith Brower, former Director and Curator of Collections, and Asia Tail (Cherokee Nation), Independent Curator.
Generous support provided by Raynier Institute & Foundation, the Ford Family Foundation, and Frye members. Media sponsorship provided by Encore Media Group.
Boren Banner Series: Blake Blanco is organized by Alexis L. Silva, Curatorial Assistant.
Generous support provided by Frye members.
Our work is supported, in part, by an award from 4Culture.
Fall 2026 Exhibitions Weekend Celebration
November 6–8, 2026
704 Terry Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104