the CAP report

30 ideas to create, activate and preserve space for arts and culture

Framework has been involved with the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and culture in a multi-year effort to support space for arts and culture in a city where displacement has been exponential and communities of color are being disproportionately hurt. The project began in 2013, with a call for proposals to create a certification program for cultural spaces, drawing on the model of certifying sustainability buildings through LEED.

The initial cultural space certification project expanded from a singular idea to a suite of thirty ideas, a dozen of which have been enacted. It grew to include scores of participants focusing not only on nurturing cultural space, but insisting that resources for cultural space be socially just and racially equitable.

The CAP Report has been a model for cities nationwide, including Atlanta, Tampa, Portland, and St. Petersburg.