The Gladish Community and Cultural Center August Events

To give you a quick recap of July, Gladish began demo work on the auditorium! We removed 900+ seats from our auditorium, rehousing about 100 of them to members of the community!

The work we have started is just demo prep as we get the project work itself out for quote to help keep the costs lower.

Our abatement crews completed their work, so we are almost done with demo prep for the real construction to begin! Keep up with our journey here in the Pullman Community Update, or on our social media channels!

If you feel up to it, we ask kindly for your support. You can donate to the project at gladishcommunity.org/ donate

If you are looking to support Gladish in a different way, consider coming to our production of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ on August 26th and 27th!

Tickets are available at gladishcommunity.org/tickets

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is a light-hearted comedy filled with magic and romance. When the old laws of Athens drive four young lovers into the woods in search of freedom, they end up caught in the crossfire of a domestic dispute between fairy royalty. This leads to love triangles, betrayals, transformations, and mistaken identities, making for a fun and entertaining show for the audience and actors alike!

Get your tickets now before they’re gone!

Art museum reopens Aug. 22

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU reopens for the 2023-2023 academic year at the end of August with two new exhibits and a special event.

The exhibits — “Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections” and “Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love” — open Aug. 22 with Native and Nativeinspired works.

A special glassblowing event, organized to celebrate the United Nations International Year of Glass, takes place Aug. 30.

Mark your calendar for the free “Glass Comes Alive in Pullman.” The program features interdisciplinary talks about ancient and contemporary material and glassmaking as well as demonstrations by glassblowers from Tacoma’s Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop. Talks run from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery. Demonstrations take place from 2 to 4 p.m. and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Terrell Mall in front of the museum.

The event is designed to help visitors and students alike broaden their perspective concerning modern technology by looking to the past. Blown glass was invented around 50 BCE or 50 CE in the ancient Mediterranean. Yet, for two millennia, the way that hot glass is made has remained relatively unchanged. “Glass Comes Alive in Pullman” examines what modern glassmakers can learn by reconsidering ancient ways of glassmaking techniques.

The “Here in a Homemade Forest” exhibit highlights themes from Washington State University’s 2023- 2024 Common Reading book, “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The exhibit draws on a diverse selection of artworks and cultural objects created by both Native and non-Native artists and aims to encourage dialogue and honor perspectives on traditional wisdom, cultural practice, scientific knowledge, teaching and parenting, environmentalism, and the importance of art, beauty and storytelling. It runs through March 24, 2024.

The “Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love” exhibit features works from Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. Gibson, of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage, combines aspects of Indigenous art and culture with modernist traditions, navigating and disrupting the expectations placed upon Native artists working within the contemporary art world. His works include sculpture and painting, beadwork and video, words and images, as well as rawhide, tipi poles, sterling silver, wool blankets, jingles, fringe, and sinew —materials that refer to Native cultures. The exhibit runs through March 9, 2024.

For more information, call (509) 335-1910. On the web: museum.wsu.edu.