Charles Peterson’s Nirvana: On Photography and Performance Lecture and Book Signing
January 18 @ 1:00 pm
Join us for an exclusive lecture and book signing featuring local photographer Charles Peterson. His iconic photographs capture the raw energy and spirit of the Seattle music scene in the late 80s and 90s. Charles will take you behind the lens and into the dark room as he shares the stories behind his images.
After the lecture, Charles will sign copies of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana [Minor Matters, 2024] and exhibition posters. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet the artist and take home a signed copy of the book.
Reserve your spot today! The Charles Peterson Nirvana book will be available for purchase in the TAM store.
Tickets are $15 for members, $35 for non-members if registering online, and $38 if purchased the day of (includes the price of admission).
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The Image and The Object: An Introduction with Michelle Dunn Marsh
February 1 @ 1:00 pm
Join Michelle Dunn Marsh, curator of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana and co-founder of Minor Matters, for the first of a two-part series on photography as an artform. Drawing from her three-decade career working with American photographers nationally on publications, exhibitions, and public programs, Michelle will highlight key practitioners of the twentieth and twenty-first century, the “why” behind choosing regional photographers published through Minor Matters, and discuss her abiding love for prints.
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Reading Photographs with Michelle Dunn Marsh
February 8 @ 1:00 pm
Join Michelle Dunn Marsh, curator of Charles Peterson’s Nirvana and co-founder of Minor Matters, for the second lecture in this two-part series. This talk will focus on visual literacy and specifically learning to read photographs. Part photo history, part personal history, part brain science, this interactive discussion may change how you perceive the world around you.
Tickets are free for members, $15 for non-members.
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Still/Life: Photography in the Cinematic Imagination (TAM Cinema)
February 13 @ 6:00 pm
TAM Cinema is a moving image series exploring the interrelation of photography and cinema, each in turn operating as an apparatus of memory and index of experience. Works in this series, Still/Life, form a conceptual reflection on the space opened up between photography and performance iterated in Charles Peterson’s Nirvana. Still / Life explores a certain tension across the related mediums’ claims to real and imaginary realms, to empirical and subjective states, from historic to ecstatic truths. Image-making is presented in varying, and often seemingly opposing, forms: as both inference and reference, instance and eternity.
Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner
TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.