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Runway to Runway: Styles and Stories of Flight Attendant Fashions
The Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA - To Jan 18, 2027
Today’s traveler may imagine “the golden age of flying” (1960s–70s) as an almost mythological era of aviation (Beluga caviar in ice swans! Spiral staircase to the top-deck cocktail lounge! Fashion shows at 30,000 feet! More leg room!). While Pan Am and TWA topped the pantheon of great airlines, it was the stylish, picture-perfect stewardess (as they were then called) that carried the industry’s glamorous image. Runway to Runway, at the Museum of Flight, explores how airline fashion followed the narrative of social change during the postwar boom. The exhibition features 100 artifacts, including uniforms and accessories by international couturiers such as Valentino, Pucci, Edith Head and Luly Yang. Styles range from classic tailoring to Star Trek–worthy paper dresses and go-go boots. Destination themes include a...
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Desirée Patterson: Interglacial
The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC - June 27, 2026 – March 20, 2027
Desirée Patterson is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist born and raised in the Lower Mainland who now makes her home in Vancouver. The title of her current exhibition, Interglacial, refers to the 10,000- to 20,000-year warm spans that occur between ice ages—a scientific fact that has stood the test of time, but one that many in the scientific community now refer to as a potentially interminable condition, given the rise in global temperatures and our incessant burning of fossil fuels. Interglacial comprises five works, including its centrepiece, Still in Place (2025), a monumental textile and sound installation Patterson developed with earth science professor Brian Menounos in Pemberton last fall. Spanning 60 feet, Still in Place consists of 90 cyanotype panels exposed directly on the...
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How We Show Up
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, OR - June 28 – Nov 29
How We Show Up: An America 250 Exhibition explores the ways Jewish Oregonians have participated in public life, tracing a long tradition of civic engagement shaped by leadership, service and advocacy. The exhibition spans Jewish civic life in Oregon from roughly the 1840s through the early 21st century and deliberately reaches beyond Portland, although the city features prominently as the historic center of Oregon Jewish life. Rather than spotlighting lesser-known figures, the exhibition focuses on prominent individuals who shaped Oregon’s history, among them Bernard Goldsmith (Portland’s first Jewish mayor), US Senator Ron Wyden, politicians Julius Meier, Vera Katz, Suzanne Bonamici, Ellen Rosenblum, Richard Neuberger, and Judge Gus Solomon. The show is organized into three thematic sections: leadership, service and advocacy. It presents a mix of...
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Jess Lincoln: Peony Room
Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, AB - July 24 – Aug 29
Whether it be lavish interiors or mundane tasks, artists have long explored domesticity as a profoundly captivating subject. Home can be a refuge for some, a place to flee or a distant dream for others. During COVID, the world experienced a total disruption of normalcy: the lines between work and home became blurred, our daily lives fraught with uncertainty and vulnerability. It is within this context that Jess Lincoln’s exhibition, Peony Room, unfolds as an intimate yet exquisitely detailed meditation on home, memory and belonging. Begun during the pandemic, she transformed her dining room into a fully immersive, single artwork that covers the space floor to ceiling, surrounding viewers in a continuous visual narrative. In doing so, Lincoln positions the domestic as a site of...
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