[K-ART] Samantha Yun Wall @Seattle Art Museum

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**Samantha Yun Wall @Seattle Art Museum** * DATE: Thursday, October 1, 2026 * TIME: 5:00 PM * PLACE: Seattle Art Museum * Tickets: Free First Thursday [Free First Thursday: Seattle Art Museum | Seattle Art Museum](https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/events/free-first-thursday-seattle-art-museum-oct-1-26) **5\-8 pm \| Drop\-in art activity: Community altar with [A Resting Place](https://sites.google.com/view/arestingplace/home)** Brotman Forum *[Samantha Yun Wall: What We Leave Behind](https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/samantha-yun-wall-2024-betty-bowen-award-winner)* invites us to reflect on loss in all its forms. Respond to writing prompts that encourage connection and healing, and contribute to our community altar. A Resting Place (ARP) is a grief & loss cultural resource center located in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. **6\-7:30 pm \| Performance by [Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra](https://swojo.org/)** 4th Floor Galleries The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) performs jazz standards, Latin and Brazilian jazz, and has been showcasing many of the finest female jazz artists in the region since 2000. [Samantha Yun Wall | Seattle Art Museum](https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/samantha-yun-wall-2024-betty-bowen-award-winner) Samantha Yun Wall’s new paintings use overlapping silhouettes of female figures as portals to unknown spaces and different temporal realms. Impetus for the new body of work is a Korean folk tale in which the Pasque flower is symbolic of a grandmother who passed away without the loving care of her grandchildren. It is a story of melancholy, loss, and remembrance. The delicate hair on the flower’s stem differentiates it, and the artist gives the plant a surreal aspect in some of her paintings, replacing the flower’s center with a watchful eye. Yun Wall has long been interested in the personal narratives of people born to Asian women and US service members during times of military…