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Mia Mulvey | I Contain My Outside

heavy black lower case text on a variegated, gray background. Partial words as well as "blue / i contain it quiet wake in the sun"September 11 – November 6, 2026

Appointments recommended: call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org.

Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center

Artist Talk: Friday, November 6, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw and streaming live on YouTube and Facebook

Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, November 7, 2-4pm
In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center
Email education@jackstraw.org to sign up.

I Contain My Outside is an exhibition of intimate, interactive sculptures that explore landscape as a repository of memory – places where time is not measured but embedded in matter. The exhibition incorporates nontraditional sound devices, including paper speakers and conductive/resonant sculptural forms, allowing sound to emerge through the material itself. Rather than treating landscape as a static place, the work approaches it as an active process in which non-human memory becomes perception. The works explore the idea of landscape memory as it slips from object to body, persisting in another state and carried within.

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Portrait of Mia Mulvey

Mia Mulvey

Mia Mulvey’s studio process investigates the environment, wonder, and material and digital technologies. Conceptually, her work addresses the recording of time, climate change, and our relationship to remote landscapes…

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