This week, 33 artists around Seattle that work in literary, media/film and visual arts received over $160,000 collectively in awards through the CityArtist Projects annual funding program. The awards support new works, works-in-progress, or works taken to the next stage, and is anticipated to stage project presentations within a year…. [ Keep reading ]
Watch artist Jen Dixon create and install “Playland” in this new video! “Playland” was titled and inspired by an amusement park of the 1930’s. Dixon took old street signs and created collages that were installed last July in the Bitter Lake neighborhood. Seattle Department of Transportation‘s own Therese Casper created… [ Keep reading ]
Our weekly round-up of arts and culture news in the greater Seattle area. Arts in the News Art Space and Race: How did affordable artist housing in Seattle’s least-white neighborhoods end up more than 80 percent white? “Demand for artist housing in Seattle is incredible.There are a thousand artists on… [ 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 ]
How will your new School Board members support the arts? Find out before you cast your vote! Providing equitable access to arts learning is one of the strategies included in the five-year Seattle Public Schools Strategic Plan. We know the arts are not provided equally to all students now, and… [ 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 ]
