Arts & Culture
Framework helps communities create plans for arts, culture, and heritage, looking to the community’s shared vision and goals for the role arts and culture can play. Our arts and culture process are grounded in the belief that public art is powerful and contributes to a collective community identity. Cultural expression can build connections between communities, function as conduits of interaction, and support communities in placemaking for social and mental health.
The CAP Report | Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
2009 - 2018 with City of Seattle
Cultural spaces add value to neighborhoods. It’s a neighborhood’s theaters, galleries, music halls, artists’ studios, community centers, museums, and cinemas that showcase vitality and reflect character—attracting residents, businesses, and visitors. The value of cultural spaces and activities can also be quantifiable, driving economic growth and urban development. Despite cultural space’s role in strengthening neighborhoods, creating and maintaining these spaces in strong real estate markets can be extremely difficult. The older, smaller, more eccentric spaces that often house cultural uses and small businesses are particularly vulnerable to development-driven displacement. Throughout Seattle’s history, certain populations and neighborhoods prospered at the expense of others. As recent displacement has occurred, some populations and types of organizations have been pushed harder and further than others. The story of Seattle’s growth is the story of the under-investment in, and ultimately the displacement of, the diverse communities that have added cultural richness to the city. Communities of color, LGBTQ communities, people experiencing poverty, immigrant and refugee communities, and the artists and cultural organizations that reflect and represent those communities, have been left unprotected. However, developers are eager to build in attractive, culturally rich neighborhoods.
There is room in these strong markets to find mutual benefits for both developers and the community by creating new space for the cultural uses that bring value to all. Often, we have found, what stands in the way of creating more cultural space is an exhausting series of relatively low hurdles. Minor changes to code, or the removal of antiquated barriers, or the creation of simple new programs and projects, could have enormous benefit and clear the path to cultural space creation, activation, and preservation. No single action that the City can take will make cultural space invulnerable in an overheated real estate market. At the heart of this report is a list, a menu of options, an extended potential action plan. Our intent is to encourage exploration of, and action on, the items on this list over time.
Structure for Stability | Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Arts and Culture Master Plan | Vancouver, WA
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Arts and Culture Master Plan, Tukwila, WA
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Art Crossings | Olympia, WA
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Pier 86 Art Feasibility Study | Seattle, WA
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Structure for Stability | Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
BASE | Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. *performed at a prior firm.
Cultural Health Report | 4Culture
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Arts and Culture Master Plan | Seatac, WA
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Sell it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Style it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Share it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
