Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s Cultural Facilities Fund awards $1.1M to support capital projects throughout the city SEATTLE —The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s (ARTS) expanded Cultural Facilities Fund announced awards to 28 organizations throughout the City. The Fund was expanded from $250,000 to $1.1M in 2018… [ Keep reading ]
What is the artistic and cultural potential of 400 square feet? Imagine a small but permanent outdoor stage. Or a puppet theater. Or a space for a tea ceremony, or a coffee ceremony. Perhaps you have been secretly wanting to launch Seattle’s tiniest art gallery. Or perhaps its smallest writers’… [ Keep reading ]
On Saturday, August 18, before Cinema Under the Stars in Columbia Park, Deputy Mayor Ranganathan, Randy Engstrom and representatives from Capitol Hill, the Central District, and Uptown welcomed Seattle’s newest arts and cultural district, the Columbia Hillman Arts & Cultural District. Kathy Fowells, director at SEEDArts spoke eloquently about becoming… [ Keep reading ]
The Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) is continuing to solicit feedback on the initial proposal to update Incentive Zoning. One of the options that they are hoping to solicit feedback on is adding a new option for developers to earn extra floor area by providing Cultural Space. This… [ Keep reading ]
Last year the Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI), the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD), and others collaborated with the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) on the creation of The CAP Report: 30 Ideas for the Creation, Activation, and Preservation of Cultural Space. One of those “30… [ Keep reading ]
The more we know about your needs, the better we can create opportunities to serve you. We’ve asked you a lot about your cultural space needs, and we’ve spent five years designing policies, programs, and projects to address what we’ve heard. Your guidance to date has lead us to look… [ Keep reading ]
Call for Indigenous Creatives, open March 5 – April 20, 2018 SEATTLE – In recognition of the Coast Salish peoples on whose land the City of Seattle is built, the Office of Arts & Culture is honored to open a new arts and cultural hub on the third floor… [ Keep reading ]
One of the CAP Report: 30 Ideas for the Creation, Activation, and Preservation of Cultural Space recommendations from earlier this year was the creation of a liaison role, embedded in the Department of Construction and Inspections, that would work with arts and cultural projects as a point of connection between… [ Keep reading ]
Community feedback is being used to inform the programming at King Street Station SEATTLE – The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) announced the release of the King Street Station Community Feedback Report. The report represents over 500 individuals and encompasses their thoughts, dreams and ideas on how to… [ Keep reading ]
Tim Lennon to lead Seattle non-profit for African American arts Central Area, Seattle, WA– LANGSTON, the new non-profit arts organization recently established after an extensive community process to guide programming intended to strengthen and advance community through Black arts and culture, announces the selection of Tim Lennon as Executive Director…. [ Keep reading ]
