ART + MUSIC AT 9TH & THOMAS

9th & Thomas is home to original works by over 25 artists including 15 muralists and 4 site specific installations. Together we’ve curated artwork throughout the building to include a diverse collection of internationally known artists from Seattle and around the globe. From the lobby-level photography display to a bright mix of murals in the garage, the artwork represents the eclectic nature that allows the building to stand out among the changing South Lake Union neighborhood. Keep tabs on our current happenings for featured art exhibitions and residencies, local DJs and live music in our lobby by following @9thandthomas.

The printing and installation of Meadow, a new banner mural designed by Justin Kane Elder, now on view on the exterior of 9th & Thomas | Video created by Mather McKallor

Lobby & Exterior

Garage Art

Past Art Shows

GARDEN OF OUR TIME: VANISHING SPECIES, IMMINENT COMMUNITIES - Sunday Kitchen

09.07.2024 - 10.08.2024

Garden of Our Time is a timely exhibition that asks what it means to coexist with our rapidly disappearing non-human kin. This exhibit features works by WA, NY-based, and the artists overseas who explore the ecological connections and invite visitors to attune to the hidden connections and exchanges that shape our world. This exhibit welcomes anyone interested in the arts and our current climate. It offers a space to experience art ecologically and also explore the show to process climate grief individually or together.

COLOR FIELDS – Stella Bronson

01.15.2024 – 02.29.2024

Color Fields explores rural farmlands as visual abstraction, while at the same time being influenced by archaic cathedrals. This exhibition references the feeling of euphoria when in the presence of these two very different places. Color field paintings are characterized by large fields of flat, solid color that is spread or stained across the canvas. With this style of painting, color is freed from context and becomes the subject itself. This installation pays homage to historical practices that are less illuminated as the culture becomes ever more technological and old traditions become obsolete. 

LAB TEST 002 – Experience Research Lab

11.11.2023 – 12.08.2023          

LAB TEST 002 is an "art first" exhibition curated by Experience Research Lab focused on providing artists an environment to showcase contemporary, emerging, and modern media in a novel space. Installations can be fully completed works, or bring people behind the curtain to view the process. This exhibition meshes mediums and industry bringing together fine art, architecture, and new media. The exhibit features work by 20 artists and is free/open to the public.

THE LONGEST DECADE – Benj Franz, Lesley Broadgate, Debi Boyette, & GrottoBombr

10.27.2022 – 11.21.2022

 “The Longest Decade represents each of the artist’s creative re-emergence after years of leading careers in other fields and raising their kids. The artists first met as parents of young children and in the last year, encouraged each other to create new work. The Longest Decade is the result of their shared inspiration, encouragement, and friendship. Work included in this exhibition explores themes related to parenting, identity, creative exploration and gender roles. It also touches on topics such as the contrast between the physical and digital world, the embrace of new technology and the urgency of the new and now in social media contrasted with the simplicity of a printed page.”

AUGMENT SEATTLE – Future Arts

08.12.2022 – 08.28.2022

Future Arts Presents: AUGMENT Seattle, a Mixed Reality Urban Showcase. Immersive, augmented reality (AR) powered outdoor installations and mixed reality food + drinks. Urban spaces were transformed and welcomed the community to experience meaningful interactions through digital storytelling. Immigrant and refugee plants will appear on augmented popsicles, large scale holographic currents of fish will populate spaces of future office buildings, and indigenous plants will re-wild the tech-centric cement of South Lake Union. Ultimately, AUGMENT’s interactive programming asked this multi-dimensional question: what kind of futures are we choosing to create, and how does nature - past and present - bring us back to our humanity?

THE ZODIAC SHOW – Aramis O. Hamer

06.04.2022 – 06.30.2022

THE ZODIAC SHOW is twelve original paintings by Aramis O. Hamer (@aohamer) inspired by astrological archetypes. 

RELISH SEATTLE – RELISH Magazine

06.07.2019 – 06.29.2019

Exhibit featuring 35 local/native artists and 87 artworks. The opening reception had 500 attendees and celebrated the launch of RELISH Magazine Seattle.

Lobby photos: 9th & Thomas, Seattle Met; Art photos by: Erik Sven, @lancemphoto, @trockdesign, @mis_liberation, @wiseknave