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Title:	At the Seam: The Museum of Northwest Arts Permanen Collection
Date:	10/11/2025 - 1/11/2026
Address:	Museum of Northwest Art, 121 South First Street, La Conner, WA 98257
Location:	La Conner, WA
Hours:	Sundays & Mondays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 10:00am - 5:00pm, Second Saturdays: 10:00am - 8:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://www.monamuseum.org/at-the-seam
Contact Info:	(360) 466-4446

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Museums in the United States are grounded in the tradition of public service. They are organized as public trusts, holding their collections as a benefit for the community they represent and serve. As a result, a museum collection is more than an amassment of works: it is a living document constantly rewriting itself as new sensibilities and values emerge to shape collective consciousness. Like a quilt created by sewing together fabric shapes according to a pattern, a museum collection is created by following collecting ‘patterns,’ the guiding principles for the acquisition of works of art deemed significant. Like a quilt, a collection is only as ‘good’ as it is used or displayed. Unlike a quilt, which once sewn together is completed, a museum permanent collection is a ‘work in progress’, whose collecting and interpretative patterns are subject to reassessment. In other words, a collection is only as significant as the pattern can be reworked’, taken apart at the seams, to add new elements—new works—that expand representation and grow appreciation of the cultural geographies and artistic narratives of the region.