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Museums aren’t just places to look at art. They’re places to experience it. Together.This fall, we're transforming the fourth floor into an open studio where something new is always happening. Step inside and make yourself at home: watch artists at work, ask questions, and create alongside them in our print shop. Gather for music, artist talks, family activities, and hands-on artmaking, or just settle into the lounge and take it all in.
Every visit offers something new. As artists and visitors create throughout the season, the gallery transforms—inviting you to return, discover what’s changed, and become part of the story.
All activities are drop-in, first-come, first-served. No registration required.
4–6:30 pm | Woodblock printmaking with Fulgencio Lazo
Print shop
See printmaking in action and make a woodblock print using an original design created by this month’s featured artist, Fulgencio Lazo. Meet the artist, learn about his work and techniques, and see his tapete installation on view in the 4th floor galleries.
6:30 pm | Artist Talk with Fulgencio Lazo & Shinzaburo Takeda, moderated by Dr Lauro Flores
Lounge
It has been said that "Printmaking in Indigenous communities serves as a powerful medium for cultural expression, political resistance, and communal storytelling." Please join us for a conversation with artists Shinzaburo Takeda and Fulgencio Lazo, moderated by Dr. Lauro Flores, on the tradition, techniques, and social significance of printmaking in the Indigenous communities of Mexico and beyond.
Shinzaburo Takeda (b. Seto, Japan, 1935) is a renowned Japanese-Mexican painter and printmaker. One of Oaxaca's most important contemporary artists, Takeda has lived in Mexico for over sixty years. He has served as professor and director of the Fine Arts School at the Universidad Benito Juárez of Oaxaca, and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and Mixtecs. The National Biennale of Graphic Arts Shinzaburo Takeda, established in 2008, is held in his honor. In 2017, Mexican filmmaker Ya'asib Vázquez Colmenares created a feature-length documentary titled Takeda, exploring the life, philosophy, and profound cultural integration of the master painter and printmaker. In 2021, Takeda authored Manual de Xiligrafía Para Principiantes.
Fulgencio Lazo (b. El Paraiso, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1966) is a Zapotec artist best known for his joyful, whimsical prints and paintings. He has forged a successful international career over more than three decades from his studios in Seattle and in his hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico. He trained as a printmaker with Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda at the Fine Arts School in Oaxaca and at Cornish College. He has had more than 50 solo shows and is represented by Seattle’s ArtX Contemporary. In addition to his own artistic production, Lazo works tirelessly to create diverse cultural programs, including Seattle’s annual Oaxacan celebration known as Guelaguetza and the Day of the Dead celebrations at many venues, including the Seattle Art Museum.
Dr. Lauro Flores has been a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, for many years. He is the author of several books, including Alfredo Arreguín: Patterns of Dreams and Nature and Fulgencio Lazo: Reconstruction of Memory.
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