Visitors touched the art during October’s First Thursday

On October 3, almost 600 community members celebrated the opening of Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers and the closing of FRESSSSSH! at ARTS at King Street Station! Please Touch challenges the traditional boundaries of art appreciation by inviting visitors to engage with artwork through touch.

[Link]Photo by Bruce Tom.

Please Touch has called various Seattle venues home for the past 10 years. Now, this exhibition comes to ARTS King Street Station to raise awareness about accessibility for blind and low-vision individuals in the arts, while bridging the gap between visual and tactile art experiences.

Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers curators are Barbara Oswald, Jessica Ong Carbaugh, Cole Devoy, Laura Ferri, and Susan Springer. ReVision Arts is the brainchild of founder and current director, Barbara Oswald, a multidisciplinary artist and disability rights advocate.

[Link]Station Space Block Party performance. Photo by Bruce Tom.

In addition to the exhibit, we partnered with Totem Star, The Rhapsody Project, Red Eagle Soaring, and the Jackson Street Music Program for the Station Space Block Party, bringing a full lineup of live music to the King Street Station Plaza and music by multi Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto in the gallery.

Check out the highlights below and see the show in person until January 4, 2025! ARTS at King Street Station is free and open Wednesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays. The gallery is located at 303 S. Jackson St., Top Floor, Seattle, WA 98104.

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Photos by Bruce Tom.

Participating organizations: A/NT Gallery, 5th Avenue Theater, Seattle Opera, Gray Sky Gallery, Taproot Theater, METHOD Gallery, The Vestibule.

Presenting artists: Emily Counts, Elizabeth Arzani, Debra Broz, Megan Prince, Patti Curtis, Terry Richardson, Shelli Markee, Leah Gerrard, Karen Abel, Mary Coss, Jim Alaya, Stoned Patti O, Megan Leah Gottfried, Rod Guevara, Tristan Heberlein, Juan Gimelli, Sue Springer, Sean Hennesey, Jacob Luckey, Pieter VanZanden, Edwin Fountain, Carolyn Autenreith, Sandra Over Pressley, Tom Haddy.

What To Expect

Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers is a tactile exhibition inviting visitors to engage with artwork through touch. The show includes 2D and 3D work including theatrical costumes; depictions of animals, animal skeletons, architecture, and mythic creatures; depictions of the human head and face and form, and other abstract imagery and sculpture.

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