Meet Me at the Henry

As part of UW Family Weekend, join the Henry Art Gallery for Meet Me at the Henry—a twice-a-year celebration of contemporary art and ideas. Explore new exhibitions, catch captivating performances, get hands-on with an all-ages art-making workshop and museum bingo, and discover rarely seen works from the Henry’s collection. Start or finish your visit with tasty refreshments for purchase in the café!

All-Day Activities: Art Bingo | Collection Study Center Open | Food + Drink in the Café

Drop-In Knot Tying Workshop with Ahmoy Lau
Sessions: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00-4:00 PM
Location: Education Studio

Dance Performance by Akoiya Harris
Session: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Location: Lower Level Galleries

Sound Activation by Susie Kozawa
Session: 2:00 – 2:30 PM
Location: Upper Level Galleries

This event is free and open to all. Bring your friends and family!

Ahmoy William Lau is an artist and educator based in Dᶻidᶻəlaĺič / Seattle. His work is inspired by his ancestors, who sewed garments as laundromat workers and tied maritime knots on ferries in the Pacific Northwest. He ties Chinese knots to make jewelry, protective charms, and large-scale art installations. His project Tacoma Method Memorial Knot debuted in May 2025 at ARTS at King Street Station, where he tied 500 knots as performance art. Ahmoy has taught classes at the Wing Luke Museum, Reclaim Clay Collective, and the Chinese Adoptee Collective Conference. His work 跨性别结 / 100% Authentic Transgender Knot is currently on display in the ACES Artists of Color gallery in Pioneer Square. His work can be seen at xiaoquilt.com or his instagram @xiaoquilt.

Akoiya Harris is a movement artist based in Seattle. Her work uses a queer Black gaze to explore ways communal and personal stories can be interwoven into dance works. She has collected oral histories on behalf of Wa Na Wari’s Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute and Black Collectivity. Akoiya has also participated in the Black Embodiments Studio Arts Writing Incubator. As a choreographer, she has shown work at the Seattle Art Museum, Wa Na Wari, On The Boards, Friends of the Waterfront, Velocity Dance Center, The Moore Theater, and more. Akoiya is a founding member of Black Collectivity, a group that explores memory and culture through embodied responses. Following a matriarchal lineage of teachers, Akoiya is a dance educator working with youth at Ailey Camp and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She has also taught at Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Washington. Akoiya’s additional performance experience includes Spectrum Dance Theater, Will Rawls, Zoe|Juniper, Third Rail Projects, The Congregation, and SoloMagic.

Susie Kozawa is a sound artist, composer and performer, who mostly works with sound collages and site-specific installations, in which the gathering of sounds is a primary activity. She explores different acoustic spaces using musical instruments she makes out of found objects, kelp, modified toys and human voice. Her most recent project Tokio Florist Project was an immersive three-dimensional audio/visual installation at Jack Straw Cultural Center’s New Media Gallery in 2024. See more on instagram at @tokiofloristproject.