Exterior window image of the Discovery Center featuring the artwork from the Reflections exhibit with two people looking on from the sidewalk.
Exterior window art display at the Gates Foundation Discovery Center in Seattle, Washington on September 28, 2020.

Reflections

20 Years of the Gates Foundation

This special exhibition highlighted the work of six Seattle-area artists with over 20 artistic interpretations of the foundation’s work with its partners over the last 20+ years. The artists were informed by four themes underlying all of the foundation’s work:

  • Ensuring that more children and young people survive and thrive
  • Empowering the poorest, especially women and girls
  • Combating infectious diseases that particularly affect the poorest people
  • Inspiring people to take action to change the world

Artists began creating their artworks for this exhibition in January 2020, just as COVID-19 was spreading throughout the world. This had a strong influence on their work.