Lectures
Join us for lectures from artists, experts, and other compelling voices on wide-ranging topics. Check back for upcoming events and purchase tickets online.
From Fuji to Rainier: Pacific Northwest Artists and the Legacy of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints
Thursday, April 23rd, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
This talk explores ukiyo-e woodblock prints from Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868) and considers their significance for avant-garde artists within the broader phenomenon of Japonisme in Europe and the United States from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Presented in conjunction with Cascadia Art Museum’s Influences: Japanese Prints and Northwest Art, this lecture provides historical perspective on the print artists featured in the exhibition.
About the Speaker
Carl Gellert is an art historian based in Seattle who specializes in Japanese art and archaeology. Since receiving his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018, Carl has taught courses in art history and museology at Western Washington University and Seattle Central College. Beyond the classroom, he has worked with museums and arts and culture nonprofits throughout the region, including as Director of Education at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
Image Credit:
- Hiroshige Andō (1797-1858), No. 14, Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (GojūSanTsugi-MeishoZu’e). Hara. Color woodblock print. Mt. Fuji and Mt. Ashitaka from Hara, 1855 (late 20th century printing)
Art: Good for the Mind, Body and Soul
Thursday, May 7th, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
An art therapist shares about the wellness benefits of art.
Join Tori Force, a Board-certified art therapist and artist, for an evening of learning about how art is intertwined into our wellness. This lecture will discuss the mental, physical, and social benefits to both viewing and making art. As an added bonus, Tori will also lead you in a short art experience that will hopefully help you experience the health benefits in real time. Art is a part of the human experience and the more we engage in it the better!
About the Speaker
Tori Force, Cascadia Art Museum board member, is a board certified art therapist, and licensed mental health counselor in the Seattle area. She currently works at Lakeside School as the Middle School Counselor. She serves as the Education and DEI Advisor on the board of directors for Art Therapy For All. She is also a speaker, trainer, facilitator, and guest lecturer. In her spare time, you can find her playing with her 15 month old, or gardening and cooking with her husband. She also loves knitting, crocheting, painting, or any other type of craft!
Cascadia’s Curator Presents at
Smithsonian American Art Museum
David Martin, curator at Cascadia, discussed his work recovering histories of Asian American Artists of the Pacific Northwest as part of a panel discussion at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) on March 14, 2025. The program, Rediscovering Asian American Art Panel Conversation, brought together three scholars who have worked to illuminate the contributions of twentieth-century Asian American artists.
More About David Martin
Martin is the leading authority on early Washington state art and artists. Many of the artists he has chosen to highlight are women, Japanese and Chinese Americans, gay, lesbian and other minorities who had established national and international reputations during the period 1890-1960.
Rediscovering Asian American Art Panel Conversation video courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum (March 14, 2025)