Tempus (Latin): Time, season, moment

STG Presents The Gallery at Kerry Hall curated by Gayle Clemans of Cornish College of the Arts Opening Reception

STG is creating a space to spotlight artists and galleries making positive change in thecommunity. We have partnered with local arts educator, curator, and critic, Gayle Clemans, to curate a new collection exploring the history of music, movement, and the Cornish College of the Arts connection at Kerry Hall. Join us to celebrate the opening of the inaugural gallery collection at Kerry Hall as we honor the space and celebrate its longstanding legacy as an incubator for art and creativity in Seattle.

The exhibtion will be on view for one year at The Gallery at Kerry Hall.

Free to attend. Please RSVP at: https://stgpresents.tfaforms.net/19

"To celebrate the decades of music and dance that animated these spaces and in honor of Nellie Cornish, who lived here one hundred years ago, “Tempo/Tempus” showcases womxn artists — all Cornish faculty or alumni — whose works of art express ideas about rhythm, movement, vitality, and the passages of time.

To echo Martha Graham, who once taught in this building, these artists — Nikita Ares, Gala Bent, Monyee Chau, Chloe King, Alissa Dymally Williams, and Ilana Zweschi — uniquely translate energies and quickenings into action and expression. Through drumbeats and markings with pencil on paper (Bent), projected image and refracted light (Dymally Williams), rhythmic and/or automatic painting (Ares and Zweschi), and vibrant sociobiographic narratives (Chau and King), these works of art capture fleeting moments or connective histories. Collected together, here and now, they help us reflect on this season of change and continuing creative force."

Gayle Clemans, Curator
August 2025
Gayle Clemans is an art historian, writer (The Seattle Times, Urban Glass Quarterly, The Map as Art, etc.), and professor at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University