NOBODY LIVES HERE
April 7, 2023 through March 17, 2024 in the New Dialogues Initiative Gallery
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Nobody Lives Here: The People in the Path of Progress
April 7, 2023 - March 17, 2024
New Dialogues Initiative Gallery
Artist and historian Tessa Hulls illuminates the businesses, homes, and people who were displaced when the I-5 freeway was built through the CID in the 1960s. Using historic photos, oral histories, and archival research, the exhibit connects these specific histories to broader themes of racist land use policy and the erasure of marginalized communities -- nationally and locally, past and present.
Johnny Closs, Seattle Times
SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR OF HISTORIC DISPLACEMENT
This self-guided walking tour accompanies Nobody Lives Here. We invite you to explore 25 locations that were affected by the construction of I-5, as well as other displacements before and after the freeway came through. Along the way, we will honor what was lost, celebrate the resilience of the CID and its people, and ask the question: Who pays the price of progress?
1948 Japanese Presby Church, Photo Courtesy of Larry Matsuda
I-5 also tells a story about Seattle’s broader history, where over 150 years of infrastructure projects have repeatedly destroyed and displaced Indigenous and immigrant communities.
For more information on collections materials, please visit our Wing Luke Museum Database
Lane Street kids on bikes - Photo Courtesy of Larry Matsuda
Bailey Gatzert Color Guard, 1939 SPS 226-01
JSCC Jackson Street Which Block Must Go 1954 WLM Collection
BEYOND THE EXHIBIT
WALKING TOURS
Explore a self-guided walking tour or book a guided tour such as our Redlining Heritage Trail Tour that highlights communities that are currently and were historically marginalized in Seattle
OUR READING LIST
Check out this curated list of additional readings about and the people and businesses who were displaced by the building of the I-5 through the CID in the 1960's
WLM RESPONSE TO WSBLE PROJECT
Public comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the West Seattle and Ballard Link Extensions (WSBLE) Project
IN THE NEWS
Routes of Racism: Civic decision-making and highways at Wing Luke Museum, Feliks Banel, 97.3FM Kiro News Radio, April 5, 2023
Wing Luke exhibit strikes a chord in C-ID development debate, Patricia Murphy, KUOW Seattle Now Podcast, April 10, 2023
‘Nobody Lives Here’ exhibit sheds light on Chinatown International District before Interstate 5, Tat Bellamy-Walker, The Seattle Times, April 11, 2023
Wing Luke’s ‘Nobody Lives Here’ and ‘Resistance at Home’ Take a Look at Sound Transit and the Future of the CID, Amanda Ong, South Seattle Emerald, April 25, 2023
SPONSORS
PRIME PROGRAM SPONSOR
PARTNER PROGRAM SPONSORS
MARRELLA FUND
4CULTURE OF KING COUNTY