![Sculpture by Io Palmer on wall in Portland Airport](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/07/2021fall-last-words-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Fine Arts
![Sculpture by Io Palmer on wall in Portland Airport](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/07/2021fall-last-words-thumb-198x198.jpg)
![For Evers Hope, 2013, acrylic on canvas, by Hasaan Kirkland](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/04/2021summer-for-evers-hope-thumb-198x198.jpg)
For Evers Hope
![Griffin sketches](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/03/griffin-2-10-198x198.jpg)
Gallery: Artworks by Worth D. Griffin
Sketches and watercolors, including a portrait of student and colleague Clyfford Still, courtesy the Fitzsimmons family
Gallery: Paintings of Washington pioneers by Worth D. Griffin (Courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU)
Read more at “An art history.” (Washington State Magazine Spring 2011)
![Robert Earle Peabody painting by Worth D. Griffin](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/03/griffin-1-84-198x198.jpg)
Gallery: Paintings of Washington pioneers by Worth D. Griffin
Gallery: Artworks by Worth Griffin (Sketches and watercolors, including a portrait of student and colleague Clyfford Still, courtesy the Fitzsimmons family)
Read more at “An art history.” (Washington State Magazine Spring 2011)
![Blue and green glass orbs in art exhibit Broken Poems of Fireflies by Etsuko Ichikawa](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/02/2021spring-last-words-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Orbital notations
![Artist Etsuko Ichikawa with a blue glass orb she made for exhibit](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/02/2021spring-ichikawa-video-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Video: Etsuko Ichikawa discusses Broken Poems of Fireflies
In this artist’s talk from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, Tokyo-born, Seattle-based artist Etsuko Ichikawa discusses the creative motivations and processes that brought about Etsuko Ichikawa: Broken Poems of Fireflies, an immersive installation commissioned by the museum.
A moderated Q&A follows the talk.
![Ambiente432 installation at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at WSU](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/07/2020fall-last-words-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Setting the tone
![Painting by Linda Okazaki of finches falling after eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/04/2020summer-last-words-thumb-198x198.jpg)
“Living with the Volcano”
![Unite, 1971 | Courtesy National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/01/2020spring-BAM-gallery-thumb-198x198.gif)
Gallery: Works from the Black Arts Movement in Chicago
A group of artists, musicians, dancers, poets, and writers in Chicago gave birth to the rich aesthetic based on Black American experience known as the Black Arts Movement (BAM). Below are just a few examples of their work.
Read about a new documentary on BAM in Chicago from WSU Vancouver associate professors of English Thabiti Lewis and Pavithra Narayanan.
![Dean Karr](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/01/2020spring-rockin-stars-thumb-198x198.jpg)