SAM Talks: An Evening with Saya Woolfalk

Name: SAM Talks: An Evening with Saya Woolfalk
Start: 2026-08-28T01:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-08-28T02:45:00.000Z
Location: Seattle Art Museum

Thursday, August 27, 2026 · 6:30 PM PDT · Seattle Art Museum

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SAM Talks: An Evening with Saya Woolfalk

Artist Saya Woolfalk talks about her work building elaborate fictional worlds—most notably the Empathics, a imagined race of women who can genetically reshape themselves and merge with plants. She uses science fiction and fantasy to rethink how the world could be organized, across sprawling multi-year projects. Thursday, August 27 at Seattle Art Museum downtown.

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Saya Woolfalk
Represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. With the multi year projects No Place, The Empathics, and ChimaTEK, Woolfalk has created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants.
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Seattle Art Museum

1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA · Downtown, Seattle

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