Inside The Museum
Brian Carter, Education Director; Barbara Earl Thomas, Deputy Director/Curator
The Northwest African American Museum will open its doors with exhibitions in The Journey Gallery and The Northwest Gallery. As the Museum's anchor galleries, these spaces provide the proper stage for NAAM to realize its curatorial vision, which is to tell the story of African Americans in the Northwest.

Students may visit for free during the inaugural week March 8-12.

The Journey Gallery will host a permanent exhibit that provides visitors a visually rich narrative starting in the present and working back through time to the 1790s, where we discover the first arrival of African Americans by ship with the Spanish and American maritime exploration.

Starting on a high step, The Northwest Gallery will house an exhibition entitled: Jacob Lawrence and James Washington, Jr.: Creating a Life, Creating a World.
This inaugural exhibition will feature the work and lives of two artists who profoundly reshaped our regions cultural landscape, Jacob Lawrence and James Washington, Jr. Although neither man was born in the Pacific Northwest, each settled and lived significant portions of their lives in the Northwest. The community embraced them because of their cultural commitment and the evocative power of their artistic creations. Bringing the works of Lawrence and Washington together, in this yearlong exhibition staged in two parts, will illuminate the many ways in which this region's people, history, and geography affected their creative processes and conversely, how the Northwest was affected by their presence.

The museum is located at:
711 Third Avenue West
Seattle 98122

For more information, email info@naamnw.org or call 206.267.1823.