August Artwalk at ARTS at King Street Station

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Partition Is Imaginary

On View Aug. 7 – Oct. 4, 2025

Fabric artwork with imagery of a train and a map on India and Pakistan with the partition line outlined in red

"Jacquard weavings from Batwara Series," Savneet Talwar, 2024.

Join us on First Thursday, August 7, to celebrate the opening of Partition Is Imaginary at ARTS at King Street Station!

Partition is Imaginary emerges from artist and curator Rohena Alam Khan’s journey retracing her grandparents’ footsteps from Delhi to Rawalpindi on August 15, 1947. The group exhibition is a collective reckoning with the enduring legacies of Partition and the porous boundaries between memory, identity, and nationhood.

ARTS at King Street Station is open Wed. – Sat. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays. Admission is free. The gallery is located at 303 S. Jackson St., Top Floor, Seattle, WA 98104.

First Thursday Happenings

Art to the People

Vivid Matter Collective’s custom-designed mobile art studio van will pop up at the King Street Station Plaza, offering free, artist-led workshops. This event is funded by the Office of Arts & Culture's Hope Corps grant.

Learn more about Art to the People.

Jazz in The City at King Street Station

Join the Jackson Street Music Program for a bi-monthly concert series on the intimate 2nd floor mezzanine of King Street Station. This event is funded by the Office of Arts & Culture's Hope Corps grant.

Learn more about Jazz in the City.

On View | Kho Tàng Nhạc Vàng / South Vietnam’s Golden Music Archive

By introducing audiences to the songwriters who shaped South Vietnam’s cultural identity, Kho Tàng Nhạc Vàng bridges generations, inviting listeners to experience the lasting power of this music—songs that transcend borders, politics, and time.

Learn more about Kho Tàng Nhạc Vàng.

Pink album art illustration of a woman sitting on a bed

On View | Eight Years of Inscape AiR: Resistance and Belonging out of the Historic Immigration Building

This show brings together alumni of the Inscape Artist-in-Residence program that took place from 2016 to 2024 at Inscape Arts, the art studio building that was Seattle’s immigration and detention building for 80 years.

Learn more about Eight Years of Inscape AiR.

performance of four people leaning on each other against a brick wall

On View | There Were Those by The Seattle Project

A video that follows an individual who finds themselves trapped in a permanent wasteland, knowing their soon-to-be fate. Were there people who once were there? Where are they now?

Learn more about There Were Those.

Still from There Were Those video of a person wrapped in a billowing white cloth

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