The mobile artwork There’s No Place Like Home, known as the Blue House, will travel to the Green Lake Festival of Lights for its final performance at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8 on the northwest side of Green Lake near Duck Island. Created by Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders, the nearly… [ Keep reading ]
Heading downtown to do some holiday shopping? Don’t forget to stop and look at the artwork you’ll probably walk by or through at Westlake Park across from Westlake Center. Robert Maki, working with landscape architect Robert Hanna, created Westlake Star Axis/Seven Hills (1988) as a design program to unite the… [ Keep reading ]
Does deep community engagement require compromising artistic or organizational goals, or can it make organizations more adventuresome and sustainable? In November, arts and cultural leaders from the Seattle area attended Dynamic Adaptability 2.0: Cultural Organizations As Civic Leaders, a free seminar on audience engagement at Town Hall. Missed it? Check out… [ Keep reading ]
If you’re heading down to Seattle Center for Winterfest or for holiday shows like Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker, we thought you might like to know a bit about the artwork hanging overhead at McCaw Hall. New York artist Sarah Sze created An Equal and Opposite Reaction for the grand lobby… [ Keep reading ]
We’ve just announced 20 recipients of the Arts Mean Business program created this year to fund jobs crucial to the implementation of sustainable revenue strategies for Seattle arts, cultural and heritage organizations. The program will provide more than $260,000 in one-time funds for positions that can generate extra revenue to… [ Keep reading ]
Kate Sweeney recently created the multi-layered wall installation Current/Potential for Seattle City Light’s (SCL) North Service Center auditorium. The artwork depicts electricity generation, transmission and distribution and honors the potential and energy of the men and women who construct and maintain the SCL electrical grid. We recently spoke with Sweeney… [ Keep reading ]
After enjoying the company of friends and family and stuffing ourselves with food, what do we do next? Shop for gifts! And maybe avoid the malls. If you’re looking for unique, high-quality, locally handmade gifts and art, you might want to check out the annual Handmade Holiday show at Seattle… [ Keep reading ]
The mobile artwork There’s No Place Like Home, also known as the Blue House, will travel to Seattle Center for Winterfest at 4 p.m, Saturday, Nov. 24 and to the Green Lake Festival of Lights on Saturday, Dec. 8. Created by Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders, the nearly 14-foot-tall Victorian house is accompanied… [ Keep reading ]
Thanksgiving is upon us, and in the spirit of New England Americana, here’s Ross Palmer Beecher’s mixed-media Ex-Patriot (1986). When Beecher moved here from New England, she missed it a great deal, especially some of the more evident imagery from “Yankee” heritage. She began to use folk art imagery in her… [ Keep reading ]
For more than 40 years, the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs has worked to make Seattle a more artful place. We have done so through infusing public art into our landscape (more than 3,000 works!), granting millions of dollars in funds to arts and cultural organizations and individual artists,… [ Keep reading ]
