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2025 Grants and Funding Opportunities

02/04/25 by artbeat The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture invests in Seattle’s arts and cultural sector, including cultural organizations, arts g...

2025 Grants and Funding Opportunities

02/04/25 by artbeat

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“We Still Dream a Future” is a Clarion Call for Hope

04/22/25 by artbeat Artists called to help us defy despair Seattle, WA – The Office of Arts & Culture is combining two of its calls for art unde...

“We Still Dream a Future” is a Clarion...

04/22/25 by artbeat

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Call for Downtown Activations & Exhibitions

04/22/25 by artbeat We Still Dream a Future: Call for Downtown Activations & Exhibitions in 2026 The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture invites ...

Call for Downtown Activations & Exhibitions

04/22/25 by artbeat

José Luis Montero, Dujie Tahat, Mayor Bruce Harrell, Gülgün Kayim, and Tom Fay stand together

The first Seattle Civic Poet inauguration ceremony!

04/18/25 by artbeat To mark the tenth year of the Seattle Civic Poet program, the Office of Arts & Culture hosted our first-ever Seattle Civi...

The first Seattle Civic Poet inauguration ceremony...

04/18/25 by artbeat

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Caring for the Caregivers: Lifting Up Seattle’s Creative Youth Development Workers

04/15/25 by artbeat Written by Monique Courcy Seattle has long been a hub for innovative and transformative youth arts programming. But behind every i...

Caring for the Caregivers: Lifting Up Seattle’s ...

04/15/25 by artbeat

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“Understated Beauty of the Pacific Northwest and Beyond” by Katsuyuki Shibata

04/15/25 by artbeat Although it was still too early for the wildflower meadow view I had hoped for, I was greeted by early-blooming Avalanche Lilies b...

“Understated Beauty of the Pacific Northwest...

04/15/25 by artbeat

Photos of performances at Seattle center, including a Black woman with her hands out in a dance, A white man strumming the guitar and singing, and an Indigenous man singing and holding a drum. Text reads

Artists at the Center | Spring 2025 Lineup

04/15/25 by artbeat Artists at the Center introduces emerging and established artists to Seattle Center while broadening the arts and cultural experie...

Artists at the Center | Spring 2025 Lineup

04/15/25 by artbeat