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.
The Puppetry of R.B. Inverarity
Wednesday, June 3rd, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear about Inverarity’s puppetry career. Internationally renowned expert on puppet history, Dmitri Carter, will discuss the various productions created by R.B. Inverarity, the colleagues that he collaborated with and the traditional techniques which inspired him.
About the Speaker
Dmitri Carter has been performing professionally as a puppeteer since childhood and currently serves a Development Director and Associate Artist for Seattle’s internationally acclaimed Northwest Puppet Center, established in 1986 by his parents, Chris and Stephen Carter.. During second and third grade, Dmitri lived in Romania and traveled throughout Europe picking up foreign languages and learning cultural traditions. Upon returning to Seattle, he attended Summit Alternative School where he and a few fellow students established the still successful potter program. At 16 Dmitri went on to attend college through the recently established Running Start program resulting in combined high school and college graduation, both with honors. In college, he served a term on student government and served on the tenure committee for professor of cultural anthropology and ethnic studies.
In 2003, Union Internationale de la Marionette awarded Dmitri one of only two International Scholarship Awards to conduct research in China on the ancient tradition of marionettes. In addition to fundraising, Dmitri also conducts research, curates exhibitions, teaches educational programs, writes articles, documents a variety of puppetry techniques with video and photography, designs publicity materials and still performs regularly. In 2002, Dmitri participated in the pilot session of “Technology Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders” after which NPower, one of the nation’s leading technology focused nonprofits, invited him to serve on the Advisory Committee.
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)