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Our 2025 Highlights

From gallery exhibitions to grant workshops, thank you for being in community with us this year. As we look back at 2025, join us in celebrating a year of artist support! Keep reading to learn about some of our highlights and stay tuned for more in our upcoming Report to… [ Keep reading ]

Surround Yourself with Community on the Longest Night of the Year

A communally-minded, season-inspired Solstice party Seattle, WA – Enter a waking dream as King Street Station is transformed in celebration of the winter solstice, Dec. 21, the LONGEST NIGHT of 2025. Curated by Vee Hua 華婷婷 and presented by ARTS at King Street Station, expect guided movement, wellness activities, participatory rituals, ambient soundscapes, and countless inventions… [ Keep reading ]

Public Art Quarterly: Winter Edition

Most of us take time in December to reflect and look back at the last year and seek some form of closure. The Public Art Division may look back and reflect on how our year went, but our projects don’t follow a fiscal year or Gregorian calendar. They move in… [ Keep reading ]

Art on the Waterfront

Publicly-sited artwork projects anchor the new Waterfront Park along Seattle’s central waterfront. As 2025 draws to a close, a visitor to Seattle’s transformed waterfront can view 9 site-specific artwork projects and two fountain re-installations that illustrate the City’s commitment to including art throughout the new park, and the connections leading… [ Keep reading ]

ARTS at King Street Station Exhibition on the Impacts of Mass Incarceration

Conversation encouraged to overcome stigma Seattle, WA – Living and Loving Under the Carceral State opens at ARTS at King Street Station on Dec. 4. It explores the impact of mass incarceration not only on those imprisoned, but on their loved ones as well. Curator Chelsea Moore is part of… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle Invests Nearly $1.3M to Activate Public Spaces and Bring Communities Together Ahead of World Cup

Funding will support World Cup celebrations in every district and downtown experiences led by local artists and cultural leaders Seattle, WA – Today, the City of Seattle announced nearly $1.3 million in investments to activate public spaces, celebrate local culture, and bring people together across the city through grants for… [ Keep reading ]

December First Thursday: Two exhibitions and the last Woven Stories workshop!

Join us at ARTS at King Street Station on December 4 for Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Artwalk! We’ll be celebrating the opening of Living & Loving Under the Carceral State, and getting another look at Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!. EL SUEÑO will also be hosting the last… [ Keep reading ]

November First Thursday: New Exhibition, Performance, and Workshop!

Join us at ARTS at King Street Station on November 6 for Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Artwalk! Celebrate the opening of Jo Cosme’s Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!, featuring a feature a live Bomba performance by Otoqui Reyes at 7 p.m. EL SUEÑO will also be hosting Woven Stories… [ Keep reading ]

commUNITY | Fall Lineup

The commUNITY series is a selection of free public programs that center connection, career development, and the co-creation of art. Curated by ARTS at King Street Station Advisors, this series brings together their visions and talents to build community, engage attendees in powerful arts practices, and offer free career development… [ Keep reading ]

ARTS at King Street Station Exhibition Invites You to Unlearn the Fantasy of Paradise

Borikén/Puerto Rican artists’ work on view Seattle, WA – Welcome to Paradise: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! by Seattle-based Boricua artist, Jo Cosme, opens at ARTS at King Street Station on Nov. 6. This project began in 2018 after Hurricane María, when Cosme was displaced from Borikén/Puerto Rico and realized how… [ Keep reading ]