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Seattle Office of Arts & Culture--The Creative Advantage: ArtsEd Enews - Don't miss our March review window

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  Digital illustration by Otts Bolisay On Feb. 9, 2024, we partnered with the  Office of Economic Development  and  Seattle Center  on Creative Economy Career Day. Youth ages 14-24 had direct access to creative industry professionals and learned about a wide range of career opportunities. Creative Economy Career Day Recap Features and Events West Seattle High School students use our funding for Lunar New Year Celebration.   Literary Salons for Teaching Artists: Unveiling the Art of Publication - video series from Teaching Artists Guild APPLY now to our Roster in time for the March review. The Role of Community Arts in Trauma Recovery Deadline to apply for Youth Arts grant is 2/27   WATCH -  Crosscut Now  video highlight on Roster partner, Speak with Purpose Everyday Solidarity: Interracial Organizing Stories from  The Sum of Us Check ARTS' grant calendar for 2024 and plan to apply Opportunities For Educators/Teaching Artists 2/27 -  Supporting Accessibility Needs of Disabled &

Pioneer Square : March at Studio 103: Meredith Ojala: "Fatigues"

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  Like    Tweet    Pin    +1    in     Modified Hunting Rifle 15x39" Broken/tumbled Glass 2024 "FATIGUES" MARCH 7 - 30 MEREDITH OJALA Studio 103 welcomes multi-media artist and activist,  Meredith Ojala ,  with her show,  FATIGUES . Meredith combines sculpture, painting, and performance art to place gun violence and school shootings amidst an unrelenting American appetite for war, colonization and environmental extraction. Tangible yet abstract negative space animates cultural voids bordering layers of political text and faceless figuration. These fractured borders carry an emotional texture and density between language, silence, and erasure. IMPORTANT DATES: 3/7 Opening Reception & Performance Art/First Thursday Art Walk - 4:00 - 8:00 3/30 Closing Reception : 11:00 - 4:00 STUDIO 103 HOURS:  Saturdays 11:00 - 4:00, or by appointment. STUDIO 103  is a collaboration of 4 artists-in-residence in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in Seattle's Pioneer Square. New and emergi

Seattle Office of Arts & Culture: ARTS Enews - Norie and Buster + 2024 Grants

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  ARTS staff after Director Kayim's Oath of Office Just before Valentine's Day, we surprised Director Kayim for her Oath of Office ceremony by showing up in her favorite color. ❤️ Photos and a brief recap of the day are on our ArtBeat blog. Read the Recap Events and Opportunities Our 2024 grant calendar is live. Double-check those dates and be ready to apply.   March 7 - Save the Date for  DREAM TEMPLE (for Octavia) , ARTS at King Street Station ONE WEEK LEFT to apply to our Public Art Artist Roster. Catch up on stories from three artists of color who talk about their experience being on it. Photo by Nadia Ahmed Photos from the SDOT Bridge Artists in Residence opening.   Ground broken on Fire Station 31 in North Seattle. Learn more about Damon Brown whose public art will be installed on the façade. A little late, but here's our 2023 Year in Review. News in Arts and Culture The Visceral World of Artist Camille Patha Seattle Channel has a great profile on Seattle artist, Cami