In June of this year, our office put out a call for a sound artist to create an integrated, sound-based artwork on the Elliott Bay waterfront. The call was in collaboration with the Seattle Department of Transportation as part of the redevelopment of Seattle’s Central Waterfront and is one of… [ Keep reading ]
Walking up to the High Point Community Center, you are greeted by colorful set of table and chairs. Looking more closely, you notice that one chair has been displaced and is perched high above the community center atop a yellow spire that soars from the furniture grouping through the roof…. [ Keep reading ]
We’re bringing Storefronts Seattle, the popular streetscape activation program that features an eclectic mix of artist-run pop-up galleries, boutiques, and museums to the Seattle waterfront beginning this winter. Temporary artists’ installations, shops, and other pop-ups will inhabit vacant storefront spaces along the Waterfront corridor. The Office of Arts and Culture… [ Keep reading ]
We’re so pleased to welcome our new public relations specialist, Annie Holden, to the office! Before Annie joined the Communications team, she was involved with The Vera Project, an all ages music and arts venue in Seattle, for three years. While there she held a number of different roles, including… [ Keep reading ]
Remember, when you were a kid, flipping the corner of a small book really quickly and watching a cartoon come to life in your hands? The grown up (sort of) version can be seen along the Interurban Trail in north Seattle, only this time you need to move through space,… [ Keep reading ]
Somewhat hidden in the Delridge neighborhood – if you can hide a 16’ tall anisoptera (that’s dragonfly to you and me) – is a public artwork that is part sculpture, part shelter, part garden and all drama – West Seattle’s Dragonfly Garden and Pavilion. Tucked behind the behemoth steel factory… [ Keep reading ]
Ryan Boudinot is on a mission to get Seattle recognized as an official UNESCO “City of Literature.” There are just a handful of cities world-wide who have earned this distinction, and Boudinot thinks we could (and should) be next. He’s holding a series of conversations on how the process might work,… [ Keep reading ]
Springboard is a cohort-based program for small and mid-sized arts and cultural organizations developed and led by Claudia Bach of AdvisArts and fueled by a corps of skilled 501 Commons volunteer consultants. Springboard participants complete an organizational assessment, attend cohort meetings and an afternoon forum with local arts experts, while working… [ Keep reading ]
As the new arts education specialist for the Office of Arts and Culture, I’m excited to add capacity to the implementation of our citywide K-12 arts education initiative – the Creative Advantage! This is truly exciting work that seeks to build equity and access to comprehensive, high quality arts education… [ Keep reading ]
It’s that time again – PARK(ing) Day in Seattle! On Friday, September 20, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., PARK(ing) Day temporarily turns parking spaces into parks. The event is intended to raise awareness about creating a walkable, livable, healthy city. The original PARK(ing) Day concept was developed by Rebar in… [ Keep reading ]
