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Miller Community Center artwork feedback wanted

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In late 2021, Capitol Hill’s Miller Community Center will become home to a new solar micro-grid and a new public artwork by artist Julia Harrison.     

The artwork concept embraces themes around solar energy including sustainability and emergency preparedness, the ideals of the community center, and input from the community.  A partnership between Seattle City Light, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and Office of Arts & Culture, this new public art project weaves together a wide range of themes and inspirations through the creativity artists’ lens.  

The overarching goal of the artwork is to reflect and celebrate the varied activities and individuals that use the Miller Community Center while referencing the inventive and invisible Solar collection on the roof of the building.  Your are invited to learn more about the proposed artwork available through this video as well as additional information on the artists’ website:   

www.juliaharrison.net/miller-community-center.html 

 
The design has not yet been finalized and your feedback is very welcome! Please feel free to contact the artist at MillerCenterArt@gmail.com with any comments, or to suggest additions or revisions.  

This project is commissioned through Seattle City Light % for Art Funds and Administered through the Office of Arts & Culture. 

Participate in Public Art for Miller Community Center

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The design process is underway for a new interior artwork at the Miller Community Center. Seattle City Light, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the Office of Arts & Culture have commissioned the artwork as part of a larger project to install a power-generating solar microgrid at the Center.    

This art project aims to involve and reflect as many of Miller Community Center’s patrons as possible. Lead artist Julia Harrison invites the public to participate in the design process in these ways:

SURVEY

Visit the project webpage to respond to a short survey: http://www.juliaharrison.net/miller-community-center.html 

MEETINGS

Learn more about plans for the project at either of these online public meetings:

  • Tuesday, August 11, 4:30-5 pm
  • Monday, August 17, 12-12:30 pm

Please RSVP to MillerCenterArt@gmail.com for the Zoom meeting link. 

SHARE

Send your Miller Community Center stories and photos to MillerCenterArt@gmail.com. 

DESIGN

What does the Miller Community Center mean to you? What’s your favorite thing about visiting? Can you capture these feelings in a doodle? This video demonstrates a kid-friendly technique that can be used to create new doodles:


The project webpage (http://www.juliaharrison.net/miller-community-center.html) will continue to offer updates as the project progresses.

Julia Harrison selected for Miller Community Center/Solar Microgrid Art Project

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Reflecting ideas of solar energy, sustainability, and emergency preparedness while embracing and reflecting community is the new challenge facing artist Julia Harrison.  The Miller Community Center in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood will be outfitted later this year with solar panels and an innovative Microgrid System in a joint effort between Seattle City Light and Seattle Parks and Recreation.  The new public art project in tandem with this effort will feature an interior artwork that both reflects the communities in and around Miller Community Center. It also speaks deeply to the project goals of the Solar Microgrid Project and the overall mission of Seattle City Light. 

Spring, recycled steel, aluminum. 45″ x 25″ x .75″

A selection panel, including members of the community and professional and emerging artists spent two full days reviewing 27 applications and interviewing four finalists.  Harrison was ultimately selected based upon her vast repertoire of media that illustrates her concept driven practice that informs form and media.  Additionally, her past work and experience as an ethnographic anthropologist provides a unique opportunity for outreach and engagement through interviews with the Miller Community Center patrons during this unique time of isolation. 

Samara (installation), bronze. 4′ x 6′ x .5″

The Miller Community Center is currently serving members of the community as an emergency homeless shelter as part of Seattle’s COVID-19 emergency response.  The Solar Microgrid project provides emergency power supply to this neighborhood community center.  The artwork will provide a space for reflection on resiliency as Harrison develops her concept, which is scheduled to install in 2021.

Path, concrete, steel. 24″ x 16″ x 3″.

Julia Harrison is a Seattle-based artist, anthropologist, and educator. As an anthropologist, she specializes in conducting research and interviews on food; She gives regular presentations through Humanities Washington.  As an artist, she specializes in carving, working in a variety of materials and at a range of scales. Her work has appeared in magazines, books, and in exhibitions around the country, most recently the “Face First” exhibition at the Bainbridge Island.

Temporary Outdoor Art Exhibition FLOW 2020: temporary and site-specific artworks

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The Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has commissioned local emerging artists to develop new temporary art installations for four locations in north Seattle. The project features four site locations in Wallingford, Fremont and Ballard that make use of temporary construction walls and fences as part of the Ship Canal Water Quality Project.

Beginning this summer, artwork by a variety of artists will begin to appear.  Grab your bike or walking shoes and visit all four locations to see some artwork that inspires. The artworks can be viewed from sidewalks and streets near the Ship Canal, and especially from the Burke-Gilman trail.

 Chaac by Angie Hinojos Yusuf and Carlos Jimenez

Ballard – 24th Ave NW & Shilshole Ave NW Angie Hinojos Yusuf and Carlos Jimenez (on view)
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Angie Hinojos Yusuf & Carlos Jimenez
Chaac

Chaac is the Maya god of rain. This piece emulates the great carved stone masks that can be found on the pyramids in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The masks were made of stone carved into intricate shapes which were assembled together to form the powerful visage of the god. Chaac had both human and animal characteristics, showing the interdependence of all living things and their relationship to life-giving water. It illustrates the natural cycle of the flow of water, as it originates in the clouds, where Chaac strikes his jade axe and causes thunder and rain, to where it falls on the land, is crucial. Water infrastructure will safeguard our environment for future generations.

Five white panels on a wooden wall show traditional Killer Whales. In the center, the artists pose with a panel that reads "Protect the Sacred, justice for Missing Murdered Indigenous Women".
A composite of the MMIW mural, photos by Crystal Christopherson

Wallingford – N 35th St & Interlake Ave N (July 2020)
Kalee Nelson and Crystal Christopherson
MMIW

Elevating awareness of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is the key goal of this temporary installation that includes a large scale mural featuring traditional formline design of Killer Whales.  Kalee Nelson is an Alaskan Native from the Tsimshian Tribe and Crystal Christopherson is Alaskan native from the Tlingit tribe. 

East Ballard – NW 45th St. & 11th Ave NW Katie Miller (August 2020)
Katie Miller
Crossing

Crossing is inspired by Seattle’s maritime industry, the nearby ship canal, and our relationship to water. Crossing alludes to a journey moving through or along water and serves as a metaphor for our individual experiences, personal connections to, and reflections on water.

Fremont – NW 36th St. & Leary Way NW Minh Carrico (August 2020)
Minh Carrico
TATTARRATTAT

Honoring the waterway connecting Lake Union and the Puget Sound, the phrase “TATTARRATTAT” is spelled out using the International Code of Signals for water vessels moving in either direction of the canal. The repetition of the palindrome serves as a visual interpretation of the “knock, knock” emanating from a construction site for months to come. 

These temporary works will be on view for six-months and then be changed to feature new artwork by artists including Barry Johnson, Hugo Moro, Shawn Parks , Whitney Lynn and Janelle Abbott

FLOW: Art Along the Ship Canal is an annual program that will use the construction fences along the project as a backdrop to allow artists to showcase their unique voice and provide a changing gallery of experiences for those who walk, bike, drive along the Burke-Gilman Trail and throughout the area.

Artists were selected by a panel of artists, community members, and city staff. The project is commissioned with SPU 1% for Art funds.

Artists selected to create new temporary artworks in Ballard, Fremont, and Wallingford for SPU Ship Canal Water Quality Project

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FLOW 2020: temporary and site-specific artworks

The Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has commissioned nine emerging artists to develop new temporary art installation for four locations in north Seattle. FLOW 2020, is a project designed to enliven temporary walls and fences surrounding construction sites that are part of the Ship Canal Water Quality Project. FLOW 2020 will feature temporary and site-specific artwork in four different locations (Ballard, East Ballard, Fremont, and Wallingford) and change every six months. New artists will be commissioned over the next few years.

artists touring exhibition site

FLOW 2020 artists include:

Ballard site: Angie Hinojos Yusuf and Carlos Jimenez; and Barry Johnson
East Ballard site: Katie Miller, Hugo Moro, Shawn Parks
Fremont site: Minh Carrico , Whitney Lynn
Wallingford site: Crystal Christopherson and Kalee Nelson; and Janelle Abbott

In early September city staff and the selected artists kicked off the project with a site visit to each site location. Artists had the opportunity to ask questions and share their approach at their respective sites. The selected artists represent a broad diversity of style, use of material, and ideas that will invigorate the construction walls and fences beginning in early 2020. 

Artists were selected by a panel of artists, community members, and city staff. The project is commissioned with SPU 1% for Art funds.

Indigenous Art Installation Debuts on King Street Station Plaza

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Free celebration includes blessing, and storytelling.
Friday, June 21, 2019, Noon – 3 pm
King Street Station Plaza, 303 S. Jackson Street at the corner of 4th Avenue S., Seattle

Brings the Medicine Sundial, a temporary public sculpture intended to bring healing, recognition, and awareness of this land’s First People by activating the King Street Station Plaza, debuts on Friday, June 21. The installation, which features six, 28’ tall fir tree poles that form a semicircle and public gathering place, is created by artist and architectural designer Kimberly Corinne Deriana (Mandan/Hidatsa) in collaboration with Coast Salish carvers. Brings the Medicine Sundial is Deriana’s first major public art commission.

On the day of the installation’s debut, the summer solstice, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in collaboration with yəhaw̓, will host an afternoon of celebration and arts engagement, aligning with its goal of creating an outdoor gathering area honoring the Earth. Planned activities – all free and open to the public – include a land acknowledgement and blessing by Denise Emerson (Skokomish/ Navajo) and storytelling by Jill and Sasha LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack).

The sculpture Brings the Medicine Sundial features free-standing tripod structures forming a sundial/dais and gathering circle that honor the Earth. Six fir lodgepoles will stand on what is now King Street Station Plaza for the first time since 1855, when the Treaty of Point Elliott outlawed the construction of Indigenous structures within Seattle city limits. The logs, sustainably harvested by Skokomish foresters, illustrate a shared cultural reference central to the theme of “lifting the sky” from the inaugural exhibition at ARTS at King Street Station, yəhaw̓ (on view through Aug. 4). yəhaw̓ is inspired by the Coast Salish story of Indigenous people from many tribes coming together and using poles to hoist the sky above the Earth. The word yəhaw̓ is used across languages to communicate and to form unity in this process.

yәhaw̓ is a year-long Indigenous community-based project culminating in the inaugural exhibition at Seattle Office Of Arts & Culture’s ARTS at King Street Station from March 23 – August 4, 2019. The exhibition is accompanied by a mentorship training cohort, satellite shows, residencies, vendor opportunities and partner programs. yәhaw̓ features the work of 200+ Indigenous creatives at over 20 sites across Seattle and beyond. Curated by Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole), Asia Tail (Cherokee), and Satpreet Kahlon, yәhaw̓ celebrates the depth and diversity of Indigenous art made in the Pacific Northwest. Learn more at yehawshow.com.

About the artist: Kimberly Corinne Deriana is a Mandan and Hidatsa architectural designer and artist who specializes in sustainable, environmental, Indigenous architecture, housing, and planning. Her design methodologies focus on incorporating Indigenous lifestyle practices in relationship to past and present: design for seven generations. Deriana strives to achieve exceptional design by weaving together respect for individuality, honor for cultural identity, and appreciation for contemporary quality, manifested in the shape and structure of sustainable buildings and communities.

Facebook: @kimberlyderiana, @seattlearts, @yehawshow
Instagram: @kimberlycorinne, @seaofficeofarts, @yehawshow

Project Credits: Kimberly Corinne Deriana (Mandan/Hidatsa) – Artist & Designer; Rob Purser (Suquamish), Delbert Miller (Skokomish), Tina Kuckkahn-Miller (Ojibwe), Sayalts Miller (Skokomish) – Carvers; Absalom Shantz – Lead Fabricator; Christopher C. Shaw – Professional Engineer; Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole), Asia Tail (Cherokee), Satpreet Kahlon – Curators; S Surface – King Street Station Program Lead, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.


Free celebration includes blessing, and storytelling.

Friday, June 21, 2019, Noon – 3 pm

YӘHAW̓: INDIGENOUS ART EXHIBIT AND ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

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This fall, The Seattle Public Library is partnering with yəhaw̓, an Indigenous-led arts project, to celebrate Indigenous creativity and environmental equity. From October through December, we’ll have events, an exhibit, and artists in residence who honor indigenous knowledge and address the theme of environmental equity.

ABOUT YӘHAW̓

From Thursday, Oct. 4 to Sunday, Dec. 9, the Central Library is excited to celebrate the kick off of yәhaw̓, a year-long, Indigenous-led arts project that will culminate in a major exhibition at Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s ARTS at King Street Station in January 2019. As Seattle gears up for the exhibition, the public is invited to take part in community exhibits, artist residencies, and public events across the region. Over 200 Indigenous creatives will take part in yәhaw̓ and the project is designed to Indigenize the city. For more information, visit https://yehawshow.com/

EVENTS

            What Is At Stake For Washington’s Native Nations Today – 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. University of Washington professors Jean Dennison (Osage) and Josh Reid (Snohomish) will lead a discussion with local Native leaders Lisa Wilson (Lummi) and Melvinjohn Ashue (Hoh) on Indigenous sovereignty, treaty rights, and urban planning.

Film Screening: “500 Years: Life in Resistance” – 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5 at Centilia Cultural Center at El Centro de La Raza, 1660 S. Roberto Maestas Festival St. From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, “500 Years” tells a sweeping story of recent mounting resistance played out in Guatemala, through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.          Join us for this film screening, followed by a Q&A with protagonist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, Director Pamela Yates and Producer Paco de Onís. The film will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.

            Resistance Saga Workshop – Noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. Interested in Indigenous sovereignty and human rights? Don’t miss a dynamic interactive media workshop with global human rights leader and journalist Dr. Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj (Maya K’iche) and Paco de Onís and Pamela Yates of Skylight. The workshop will be conducted in Spanish with limited translation. Registration is required.

            Opening Reception For ‘This Is Our Home, Where We Belong’ – 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. The reception starts with light refreshments in the Auditorium on Level 1, and then moves to the Level 8 Gallery to enjoy the artwork.

Listening to the Wisdom of Our Elders – 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. Listen to the wisdom of our elders who will share their experiences, knowledge, and stories. We are honored to recognize those have worked to keep Indigenous legacies alive.

Indigenous Art Making – 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 4, Washington Mutual Foundation Meeting Room 1, 206-386-4636.

  • Family Art – 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Meet local Indigenous artists and makers. Create treasures to bring home.
  • Artist in Residence Panel – 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Join our Artists in Residence—Native Kut, Roldy Aguero Ablao and Fox Spears—for a panel discussion moderated by curator Denise Emerson.
  • Film Screening: “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World” – 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The contributions of Native Americans in modern American music get a much-deserved showcase in this celebratory expose of the Indigenous influence on the soundtrack of popular culture.

EXHIBIT

            This Is Our Home, Where We Belong – Coast Salish Female Artists on Identity, Spirituality, and Environment. The exhibit features the original artwork of five Coast Salish women exploring environmental justice, identity, and place. Featured artists include:

  • Caroline Edwards (Swinomish)
  • Denise Emerson (Diné/Twana)
  • Karen Engel (Shoalwater Bay)
  • Kimberly Miller (Skokomish)
  • Abbey Pierson (Cowlitz)

The project’s curator Denise Emerson is also Coast Salish, of the Twana people, and this her first curatorial project. The exhibit is free, no tickets required. Check out the art from Thursday, Oct. 4 to Sunday, Dec. 9 in the Level 8 Gallery at the Central Library.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Celebrate Indigenous artists at the Library! From October to December, visit the Central Library for unique experiences with amazing artists.

            Native Kut: Pah-tu Pitt and Sean Gallagher – Does water move you? Native Kut, a dynamic duo made up of artists Pah-tu and Sean, will be exploring water in conservation. Throughout October, they will be in the 8th floor gallery doing printmaking and wood carving demos inspired by Indigenous water rights from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Oct. 2, 9 and 16.

            Roldy Aguero Ablao – Did you know “eco” means home? Join mixed-media artist and storyteller Roldy Ablao as they create artworks inspired by stories of home and connections to Indigeneity and environmental justice. Drop by the studio to help Roldy and their guest collaborators make space to build deeper connections through creativity from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, Oct. 20, 27 and Nov. 3.

            Fox Spears – Ready to follow the river? Spend time with printmaker Fox Spears whose arts will center around the theme of water – relationships that plants, animals, and humans have formed with rivers over time. Fox’s inspiration comes from the Klamath River, where his Karuk ancestors lived since time immemorial, as well as the river systems in Washington and the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about pattern making with Fox from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, Nov. 10, 17 and 24.

PARTNERS & SPONSORS

We are grateful for the expertise from executive project producers Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole), Asia Tail (Cherokee), and Satpreet Kahlon, along with the guidance from our Native Advisory Council. This exhibit is made possible with support from The Seattle Public Library Foundation.

The Library’s dynamic approach to building community that enriches lives includes programming that brings people, information and ideas together to respect and embrace the well-being of the people we serve. We celebrate Seattle’s many cultures by forming strong partnerships with community organizations.

For more information, go to www.spl.org/yehaw, call 206-386-4636 or Ask Us. For ADA accommodations, please contact: leap@spl.org.

 

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(Media: Contact Andra Addison, Communications Director, 206-386-4103 or andra.addison@spl.org.)

City Hall hosts Super Cooper 10

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Super Cooper 10
November 1 – December 21, 2016

Super Cooper 10 will feature the work of more than 20 artists past and current tenants of Cooper Artist Housing and the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center since its inception in 2006. The exhibition includes more than 40 artworks including paintings, sketches, sculpture, photographs and even a kayak.

richard-kent1-page-0A decade ago, three floors of the old Frank B. Cooper School on Delridge Way SW became one of only four affordable housing programs in Seattle dedicated to low income creative people. Since then, the converted-classroom live/work studios, numbered lockers, and wide shiny hallways have incubated the generative works of over 100 individuals: poets, aesthetes, designers, painters, writers, dancers, sculptors, musicians, performers, photographers, film makers, multimedia artists and builders, to name just a few. Cooper Artist Housing has also forged a strong community, in which children have been born, friendships have been made, collaborations have launched, and creative careers have taken flight.

The Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, housed on the first floor of the Cooper School, also celebrates 10 years this year. Youngstown is a jewel of the diverse Delridge neighborhood and a national model for engaged community collaboration, hosting and producing youth programming, performance arts and a multitude of other activities. Youngstown houses eight nonprofit organizations and a branch of Interagency, an alternative public high school, and rents space to community groups for a variety of uses.  Upwards of 30,000 people visit Youngstown each year for work, school, workshops, classes and programs.

coopercavanaArtists featured in Super Cooper 10 include Iole Alessandrini, Flynn Bickley, Susanna Bluhm, Smitty Buckler, Gina Coffman, Reneé DeMartin, Yvette Diltz, Gretchen Van Dyke, Crystal Fosnaugh, Barbara Fugate, Sean Gallagher, Maureen Brogan Glidden, Paul Goldstein, Nate Herth, Richard Kent, Koji Kubota, Joey McChan, Erin Miller, Androu Morgan, Mike Mullins, Tenaya Sims, Sharon Swanson, BK Tran, Teresa White, and Benjamin Yarges.

Cooper Artist Housing and the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center were created and are operated by the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA), which serves Southwest Seattle through access to affordable housing, arts & culture, preservation of greenspace, food justice, and education. www.dnda.org

Images from top to bottom:

Das Wald/Sommer/The Woods. Summer. Richard Kent, 2015. Image 9” x 6”; Matted Image 11” x 14”, Lino Print, Pastels, Ink Spray

The Coopercabana. Koji Kubota, 2006. 22” x 30”, Oil on Canvas

Americans for the Arts recognizes our very own, Lara Davis with the American Express Emerging Leaders Award

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Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America, announced that Lara Davis, ARTS very own, Arts Education Manager will be honored by Americans for the Arts with the American Express Emerging Leaders Award. Davis is one of six recipients of the 2015 Americans for the Arts Annual Leadership Awards. Presented each year, these awards recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations committed to enriching their communities through the arts.

LaraHeadShot“We are thrilled and honored that Americans for the Arts is recognizing the amazing work that Lara is doing for the Creative Advantage initiative,” says Randy Engstrom, director, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. “Lara’s drive and tireless energy inspires everyone she meets and is a large part of the Creative Advantage’s success.”

The Creative Advantage is a partnership between City of Seattle, Seattle Public Schools, The Seattle Foundation, and local community arts organizations. The goal of the Creative Advantage is to address the systemic barriers to student access to arts and ensure that every student has arts integrated into their education, starting in kindergarten. The long term goal is that by 2020, all Seattle students will have access to a continuum of arts learning opportunities.

“Our Leadership Awards honorees have distinguished themselves as tremendous leaders and passionate advocates for the arts and arts education,” said Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “These leaders have implemented innovative and transformative programs to strengthen the communities they serve, and their unwavering commitment to local, state, and national support for the arts is deserving of this recognition.”

Given annually since 2006 and sponsored by American Express since 2011, the American Express Emerging Leaders Award recognizes an exceptional new and/or young arts professional for their exemplary leadership, deep engagement with community, and strong commitment to advancing the arts. Lara Davis has been active in youth development and community arts education for more than a decade. She has served as a Seattle arts commissioner and as program director for Arts Corps, an award-winning, Seattle-based youth arts organization. In her current role as Arts Education Manager for the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Davis manages Creative Advantage, a public/private partnership that pairs teaching artists and cultural organizations with underserved public schools to ensure that all Seattle youth in every neighborhood have equal access to arts learning. Davis serves on the National Advisory Committee for the Teaching Artists Guild, and facilitates equity and racial justice trainings for teaching artists, educators, and organizations, presenting locally and at national conferences.

Honorees will be presented their awards at the Americans for the Arts 2015 Annual Convention in Chicago during the Opening Plenary session, Friday, June 12, 2015 from 12 to 2:15 p.m.

The five other recipients are:

  • Association for Public Art, Pennsylvania: Public Art Network Award
  • Eric Booth, New York: Arts Education Award
  • Jeff Hawthorne, Oregon: Michael Newton Award
  • Richard E. Huff, Texas: Selina Roberts Ottum Award
  • Ann Marie Miller, New Jersey: Alene Valkanas State Arts Advocacy Award

Americans for the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, it has a record of more than 50 years of service. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Additional information is available at www.AmericansForTheArts.org.

 Photo credit: Fedora El Morrow

Upcoming Funded Events

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Washington State Brain Injury Art Show

September 7-29 |  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

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An annual art show featuring work of artists across the state that reflects the journey through healing, recovery, acceptance, expression and development of identity (smART Ventures).

 

 

 

 

Gifts of War

September 24-28 | Velocity Dance Center

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A live, cross-disciplinary, two-act performance exploring the result of what happens to women when they encounter endless cycles of violence (smART Ventures).

 

 

The Italian Festival

September 26-28 | Seattle Center

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The 27th annual presentation  of a community festival to celebrate the joy of “All Things Italian” featuring Italian and Italian-American art, music, dance, food and fun-filled activities for the entire family (NCA).

 

 

CroatiaFest

October 4-5 | Seattle Center

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The festival features music, dance and food from the Croatian culture. This year’s festival will feature Dario Barisic, a traditional Croatian musician and singer and his band (NCA).

 

 

Modus Operandi

October 9-12 | Velocity Dance Center

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Michelle Miller and Alana O Rogers will present an evening of new and repertory choreographic works that cover a range of themes including family dynamics, memory and dementia,  identity and diversity, freedom and restrain, and bullying (smART Ventures).

 

Social Justice Film Festival 

October 13-24 |  Various Locations

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The festival strives to forge new connections and inspire new conversations about justice through the innovative platform of art featuring short and feature-length documentaries and narrative films (NCA).

 

 

 

These events are funded through the Office of Arts & Culture’s Neighborhood and Community Arts and smART ventures grants. The Neighborhood & Community Arts (NCA) program supports Seattle’s neighborhood arts councils and community groups that produce events to promote arts and cultural participation and build community. SmART Ventures is a Seattle-based, flexible awards program that encourages innovative ideas, creates community impact, and provides new access for individuals and groups not served by our other programs.