In this issue: Message from our new acting director, Vincent Kitch. Kick off the anniversary celebration of our 40th anniversary at the opening reception of the retrospective exhibition Seattle as Collector: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40. The community is invited to celebrate the life and achievements… [ Keep reading ]
In this Issue: Know an individual or an organization making a difference in Seattle through arts and culture? Nominate them for a 2011 Mayor’s Arts Award. On Monday, April 4, we’ll open applications for the city’s Civic Partners funding program. The city is seeking artists to bring temporary site-specific art… [ Keep reading ]
Know an individual or organization making a difference in Seattle through the arts? Nominate them for a 2011 Mayor’s Arts Award. The nomination deadline is 5 p.m., Thursday, May 5. The online nomination form is available here . “Forty years ago during another difficult economy, city leaders founded the Seattle Arts Commission… [ Keep reading ]
Naomi Nelson, an emerging filmmaker who trained at Seattle’s Reel Grrls (and who joined Executive Director Malory Graham this summer to accept Reel Grrls’ 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award) has just been awarded the People’s Choice Award from POV’s “This is My Family” competition for her documentary short Why Not.
Hear a Seattle legend talk about his life as a self-taught artist. Learn about how one unique theatre company brings books to life on stage. See how one organization is opening minds and winning hearts through music. Find out how girls can make a difference through film, how a 96-year-old art school is bring and keeping major talent in Seattle, and how an innovative dance center is putting Seattle on the map for contemporary dance.
Yesterday, Mayor Mike McGinn transmitted his proposed 2011-2012 budget to Seattle City Council. With the city facing an estimated $67 million budget shortfall in the coming biennium, all city departments have been asked to take a proportionate share of cuts to balance the budget and to prepare for the fiscal… [ Keep reading ]
Join Mayor Mike McGinn and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs this Friday, September 3 to honor the 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award recipients and preview the Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibits.
Seattle’s thriving and dynamic jazz scene, galvanized by award-winning high school jazz ensembles and increasingly developing its own signature sound, caught the attention of the New York Times yesterday.
The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs’ September eNewsletter is now online and is chock-full of great information on the upcoming Mayor’s Arts Awards; new signal box artwork in the Central District; Storefronts Seattle; art dedications, closings, and celebrations; and more.
Visual artist and 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award winner Juan Alonso’s new show received a glowing review this week in the Seattle Times. Michael Upchurch writes of Alonso’s “Underground No. 1,” “Subterranean #1” and “Subterranean #2,” “The more you look at them, the more there is to see.”
