Seattle is about to open a gallery season built around a beautiful question: who makes our worlds possible? “Visions of Worldbuilding” arrives at ARTS at King Street Station on November 5, 2026, and runs through January 9, 2027, with a free opening reception on November 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. during Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk.
The exhibition centers the ways of knowing of Black and Brown women and femmes, exploring mothering as both a metaphor and a method: a liberatory practice of care, protection, resistance, remembrance and imagining otherwise. It honors the mothers, aunties, elders, chosen family, teachers, healers, friends, ancestors and communities whose care often goes unnamed, and asks what becomes possible when mothering is understood not simply as a role, but as a way of building worlds.
Through multimedia art and participatory experiences, visitors are invited to sit, listen and reflect on those who kept us, those we keep, the worlds we have inherited and the worlds we are building. November programming adds a curator tour and a grief workshop hosted by A Resting Place on November 21, deepening the show’s spirit of gathering and healing.
ARTS at King Street Station, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s gallery at 303 S. Jackson Street, is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is always free. It is an easy, joyful stop in the heart of the city this fall.
Photo: “Sharing Juk” by Monyee Chau, courtesy of ARTS at King Street Station, City of Seattle
