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Free First Thursday: 'Seeing | Seeds | Stories 2022' Exhibit Opening

Admission to the Garden is FREE all day for Free First Thursday.

The Seattle Japanese Garden opened to the public in June of 1960. Today, the garden is one of the most highly regarded Japanese-style gardens in North America and is visited by over 125,000 visitors from around the world annually.

In a rapidly growing city, the garden has become a place where one can take a moment to appreciate nature, reconnect with loved ones, heal, dream and celebrate ordinary elements in life. Every day hundreds of people walk the garden paths, each on their own unique journey.

Seeing | Seeds | Stories 2022 features 2 artists who portray the garden with their stories. They have each created their own narrative of the space, expressing through their individual mediums the unseen moments that make a visit to the garden special.

The exhibit, including Kathleen Ashby Atkins, virtually exhibited in 2020. Seeing | Seeds | Stories 2022 includes the works that were not previously shown in the virtual exhibit.

Admission to the Garden is FREE all day for Free First Thursday.

Artists in Exhibit: Elijah Pasco, Markel Uriu

The exhibit will be displayed in the Tateuchi Community Room from October 6th through November 30th, 2022.




Elijah Pasco

Elijah N. Pasco is an artist, bookworker, and occasional cartoonist. He mostly draws from observation, but there are times when his imagination manages to manifest itself on paper. From a young age, he has held a pencil in his hand (although now he prefers a fountain pen) and has carried a sketchbook with him everywhere since the age of three.

He has contributed to Real Change, The Daily, Off-Leash News, and The Fishwrapper.


Markel Uriu

Markel Uriu is an interdisciplinary artist (markeluriu.com). Her work explores imperma­nence, maintenance and the unseen. Drawing from her Japanese and Irish-American heritage, she is particularly interested in liminal (transi­tional) spaces and explores these concepts through research, ephemeral botanical narra­tives, installations and two-dimensional work.

Earlier Event: October 6
Maple Festival 2022