Heads up that the Museum of Contemporary Craft has an upcoming exhibit that belongs on your radar: Alien She "is the first exhibition to examine the lasting impact of Riot Grrrl on artists and cultural producers working today" and draws on the work of artists like Miranda July, Faythe Levine, and Stephanie Syjuco to see how their work over the past 20-odd years has been informed by the early-'90s movement. There are also a slew of music curators charged with telling the story by region—Donna Dresch of Chainsaw Records and Team Dresch is representing the Pacific Northwest, so I think we're in good hands.

This is a traveling exhibit originally put together at Carnegie Mellon University, but this is the only stop in the Northwest. As MoCC's Lisa Radon mentioned to me, "It's like this exhibition is coming home—[this is the] closest it will get to Olympia and ground zero, basically." Indeed so, and this part of the world certainly feels ownership of the Riot Grrrl legacy, which one hopes will make for some lively engagement with the show's programming. Alien She opens Sept 3 (and runs through Jan 9).