Storefronts Seattle, in partnership with the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, seeks artists and arts organizations to enliven vacant storefronts with temporary installations, artist residencies and creative enterprise projects in Pioneer Square, the Chinatown-International District and other to-be-announced locations from March 2011 to January 2012. Storefronts Seattle is… [ Keep reading ]
Celebrate eight artists’ works installed on the fence surrounding the Civic Square construction site in downtown Seattle. The Office will host a a dedication with remarks at 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 3, in the Seattle City Hall lobby, located at 600 Fourth Ave. A tour around the fence to view… [ Keep reading ]
In this issue: This week, the Office announced $200,000 in awards to 44 individual artists working in the performing arts. Join in a discussion with about arts education at the sixth annual Arts in Education Forum, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8. The city of Seattle is seeking a director… [ Keep reading ]
Take a free artist-guided walking tour of the audio artwork Field Notes: Observing Lake Union by the Studio for Urban Projects, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23. The tour will start on the west side of the pedestrian bridge near the main entrance of Lake Union Park at… [ Keep reading ]
Join us on Sept. 25 as we celebrate two public art projects at the grand opening celebration for Lake Union Park. Field Notes: Observing Lake Union is a year-long temporary public artwork that honors the ecology and history of Lake Union. Beginning Sept. 25, the cell phone audio tour will… [ Keep reading ]
A new temporary artwork, Field Notes: Observing Lake Union by the Studio for Urban Projects, will launch at the grand opening of Lake Union Park on Sept. 25. Meet the artists, get an audio tour map, and contribute to the project hotline (see below) between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Studio for Urban Projects… [ Keep reading ]
Stop by Seattle Center’s Theater Commons this weekend to see the temporary sound artwork Windfall before it closes Wednesday, Sept. 15. Since mid-June, the delicate sound of more than 1,000 small, cast-iron wind chimes have filled this new, sustainably landscaped campus entry at Seattle Center. On Sept. 16 and Sept…. [ Keep reading ]
Our office, in partnership with Shunpike, seeks up to 12 artists to develop temporary installations for 12 vacant storefronts in Seattle’s Pioneer Square and Chinatown/International District neighborhoods.
The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Department of Finance and Administrative Services and Triad Development, Inc., seeks up to eight emerging artists to develop temporary large-scale, colorful panels for the fence surrounding the Civic Square construction site in downtown Seattle. The application deadline has… [ Keep reading ]
The delicate sound of more than 1,000 small, cast-iron wind chimes will fill the new Theater Commons at Seattle Center, June 15 through Sept. 15.
