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Artscape: Making Art After Trauma

The photos stand in a homey, makeshift gallery. On the floor of a garage in Clyde Hill. Owner Cass Walker has moved the cars out of the way to make room for her series of large mostly black- and-white...

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Why it took more than 80 years to identify the world's oldest dinosaur

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"Plastics Unwrapped" puts eyes on everyday objects at Burke Museum

The  University of Washington’s 113 year-old Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is debuting a new look and feel. Curators there say they want people to think more about everyday objects and...

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Exhibit inspires woman to try to avoid buying plastics for a month

Plastics have only been in wide use since the 1940s, yet they are everywhere, from sandwich bags to phones, to keyboards, to rain gear. Even the cans of soup in the grocery aisle are lined with it.It's...

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Found Mammoth Tusk To Head to UW's Burke Museum

Paleontologists with the Burke Museum will excavate the giant mammoth tusk unearthed at a Seattle construction site earlier this week, and move it to the museum. The owners of the lot in South Lake...

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Burke Museum: Here's The Mask That Likely Inspired The Seattle Seahawks' Logo

Just where did the Seattle Seahawks’ logo come from?Amid the fever pitch of last year’s Super Bowl run, one of the art history classes at the University of Washington got curious.

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