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4Culture eNews + May 2007
I'm pleased this month to be able to report news on both the Heritage and Preservation fronts.
In Heritage, after a national search, we have selected Eric Taylor to fill the Heritage Lead Staff position vacated by Charles Payton, who retired in December after 23 years of service. Eric is well-known in the local heritage community, a veteran of 30 years of service in the heritage field. Most recently, he was the Executive Director of the Museum of Snohomish County History (MOSCH) for thirteen years. Simultaneous with his service with the MOSCH, he was the sole proprietor of Taylor'd Exhibits, a consulting firm serving a clientele of primarily community-based heritage museums. His expertise ranges from exhibit development, planning and design, research, and photo and artifact selection to project budgeting, fabrication and installation.
Eric will be working with the Heritage Advisory Committee to evaluate and strengthen the heritage program. We know how important technical assistance is to the heritage community and have re-organized heritage program staffing to ensure that Eric has adequate time to provide this valuable and valued service. We've retained heritage specialist Pat Filer through the end of the year to manage the Heritage Education and Special Projects Programs. Writer and heritage advocate Joe Follansbee will continue to publish the monthly Heritage Advisor. How these programs will be managed long-term will be determined over the next several months.
Eric joined us on Monday, May 14th and can be reached at 206 296.8688 or by email.
And in Preservation, May is national Preservation Month. On Tuesday, May 15th, in conjunction with the King County Landmarks Commission's annual King County Executive's Awards for Achievement in Historic Preservation, King County Executive Ron Sims presented 4Culture's first Heritage Tourism Award to the Center for Wooden Boats.
The award will be given every year to an individual, organization or agency that has most effectively shared the distinctive cultural heritage of King County through successful promotion beyond the local level.
The award winner must adhere to the five established principles of sustainable heritage tourism (as defined by the National Trust for Historic Preservation):
- Collaborating with partners
- Finding balance between community and tourism
- Making sites and programs come alive
- Focusing on quality and authenticity
- Preserving and protecting heritage resources
In all five areas, the Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) excels. But as you know, it's not just for tourists. CWB has been delighting local boats enthusiasts and people just learning about maritime history with its programs and activities for more than 15 years. Go to CWB and build a kayak or carve a canoe. Or just take a boat out onto Lake Union. It's fun that draws participants from around the country.
Tourism is indirectly our primary benefactor through the generation of lodging taxes that fund King County's cultural programs, and we are pleased to offer this annual award that acknowledges the contribution of cultural organizations to our region's tourism industry.
Jim Kelly
Executive Director
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King County's cultural community continues to grow at record rates, and awards made to 289 arts and heritage organizations and landmark properties will provide funding for operating support, capital projects and the purchase of fixed assets.
The Cultural Facilities program received an unprecedented number of applications for this round, with the highest number of requests submitted in the program's 17-year history. The program funds the purchase, design, construction, and remodeling of arts and cultural facilities and the purchase of fixed assets.
Sixty-eight awards totaling $1,362,000 have been recommended, selected from requests totaling $2,742,217, with applications received for 84 construction projects and equipment purchases. An additional emergency award of $25,000 for Intiman Theatre was approved to support major repairs to their administrative offices resulting from water damage during a January 2007 storm.
In Sustained Support as well, there has been a steady increase in the need for operating support, due to the tremendous proliferation in the number and quality of King County cultural organizations, which are providing more arts programs, concerts, and art and heritage exhibitions than ever before. 4Culture's Sustained Support program, which provides operating support to arts organizations, local arts agencies, and heritage organizations, began in 1990 with awards for just 49 organizations. In 2007, the second year of the program's 2006-2007 biennial cycle, $1,573,680 will support 214 arts organizations, suburban arts commissions and heritage organizations in every corner of King County.
Seven King County landmarks will also receive funds supporting projects to rehabilitate and maintain the historic character of each landmark through the Landmark Rehabilitation program. Awards totaling $74,500 were recommended for historic properties in Carnation, Snoqualmie, Kirkland, North Bend, Vashon and Auburn. Requests totaled $161,895, representing a 30% increase over the amount requested in 2006.
Additional awards through 4Culture's Arts & Heritage Special Projects, Community Arts Initiative, and Heritage Cultural Education programs will be announced later this year.
image: © Henry Art Gallery, Doug Aitken, Interiors (detail), installation, 2005, photo by Richard Nicol
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deadline - July 23, 2007
www.4culture.org/preservation/barn_preservation
Historic barns are highly visible icons of King County's rural heritage. Throughout the Snoqualmie and Green River Valleys, on the Enumclaw Plateau and Vashon Island, and even in the midst of suburban cities or nestled in small pockets of farmland, barns embody distinctive elements of our history. They convey both a sense of place and a record of fine craftsmanship. But how many of these barns will still be standing in another 20 years? Preservation 4Culture and the King County Historic Preservation Program have established a new grant program for the rehabilitation of heritage barns, to try to save these rural icons. Guidelines and application forms are now posted on Preservation 4Culture's website. Applications are due on July 23, 2007.
image: © Quaale Farm, photo Holly Taylor
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Part II: Advocacy in a Changing Market
May 23, 2007, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, 104 17th Avenue S, Seattle
Emerging Arts Leaders Blog
As arts programming evolves in the Puget Sound region, arts advocacy takes on new meanings. "Advocacy in a Changing Market," Part II of the Emerging Arts Leaders Creative Conversations series, will explore the issues of arts advocacy on a legislative, community building, and personal/professional level. The event will kick off with the insights of panelists Gretchen Johnston (Washington State Arts Alliance), Denee McCloud (Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas), Richard Andrews (Henry Art Gallery) and James Keblas (Office of Film and Music), and will open up to a moderated forum for response and group discussion.
The Creative Conversations are a collaborative initiative organized by emerging arts leaders for emerging arts leaders and are connected to the national Emerging Leaders Network coordinated by Americans for the Arts. The Puget Sound Creative Conversations provide opportunities for emerging arts leaders to test ideas collaboratively while engaging with the professionals that have helped build the foundation for arts in the region. Conversations are co-sponsored by 4Culture, the City of Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the City of Bellevue, Shunpike, the Capitol Hill Arts Center, and the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.
Visit the Creative Conversations Blog to see a teaser trailer produced by Nonfiction Media, and for highlights from Part 1: New Administration and Fund Development Models featuring panelists Michael Seiwerath (NW Film Forum), Josh LaBelle (Seattle Theatre Group), and Hallie Kuperman (Century Ballroom).
image: © Emerging Arts Leaders: Creative Conversations
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reception June 7, 2007, 6 to 8 p.m. Gallery4Culture
Gallery4Culture is pleased to present new paintings by Elise Richman. Constructed out of beads, dollops and pools of oil and/or acrylic paint, Richman creates dimensional paintings, geographies that simultaneously express hope and anxiety. The material aspect of the paintings is an important part of Richman's work. Over the course of weeks or months, the individual bits of paint accumulate and evolve into a palpable, chromatic environment. Each layer of paint, however, maintains its integrity as it is subsumed into a larger whole.
Richman's work is about more than process; the environments created in her paintings reflect not only a reverence for nature and natural processes, but also anxiety about one's effect on - and place in - the world.
A reception will be held on June 7, 2007, the first Thursday of the month, during the Downtown Artwalk, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend. The exhibition will run from June 7 - June 28, 2007.
Gallery4Culture is located within 4Culture offices at 101 Prefontaine PL S, at the corner of Third and Prefontaine, in the Tashiro/Kaplan Building. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed government holidays; the gallery is open and free to the public.
image: © Elise Richman, Marine, 2006, acrylic on paper, detail, photo by Richard Nicol
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deadline June 25, 2007
www.4culture.org/arts/facilities
For more than a decade, 4Culture's Cultural Facilities program has invested in King County's cultural infrastructure, funding the purchase, design, construction, and remodeling of buildings used for cultural facilities, as well as the purchase of equipment. The funding cycle for arts capital projects includes an application deadline approximately every 15 months, with a 6-month cycle for arts equipment purchases. The June 25th deadline will support the acquisition of equipment for production and administration for use by arts organizations throughout King County. Applicants should intend to use equipment for a time frame of at least 10 years. King County not-for-profit arts organizations and public agencies with an operating history of at least two years are eligible to apply (excluding those funded during the most recent equipment cycle). Application workshops will be held weekly through June 21.
image: © 4Culture Arts Cultural Facilities
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deadline June 25, 2007
www.4culture.org/heritage/projects
4Culture's Heritage Special Projects Program funds heritage museums, organizations, agencies and specialists to produce a broad spectrum of archaeological, archival, ethnohistorical, historical, and museological projects in heritage disciplines relating to King County. Projects may include innovative museum exhibits, heritage events, publications, videos, collection management programs, documentation projects, resource inventories, media and web site projects, technical assistance programs, oral histories and other activities. Application workshops will be held weekly through June 21.
image: © Century 21 World's Fair, 1962, courtesy of Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
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www.4culture.org/arts/4ctv
Billed as a different kind of television, 4CTV is produced in partnership with KCTV, King County's government access cable channel. Programs include a mixture of film screenings with introductions by filmmakers or producers as well as a 30-minute interview/talk show format featuring discussions with arts and heritage community leaders. 4CTV was recently honored with the highest level Silver Award for the DBR and the Mission episode in the 28th International Telly Awards Competition. The half-hour feature showcased acclaimed violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and was hosted by on-air personality Vivian Phillips.
King County received four other awards as well, for Justice Files, profiling the county's general jurisdiction trial court; Yard Talk, a popular natural gardening show; Keep Rats Out, a tongue-in-cheek feature produced in collaboration with Public Health-Seattle & King County; and Shorelines: Life on the Edge, depicting the fragile ecosystem of local beaches and tributaries. The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. The international competition receives more than 13,000 entries from TV stations, production companies and ad agencies from around the world, and is a sought-after award in the industry.
image: © Daniel Bernard Roumain, photo by Leslie Lyons
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www.townscape.org/publications.htm
Merrell Publishers has released Ronald Lee Fleming's new book, The Art of Placemaking, a groundbreaking work that makes a compelling argument for public art and urban design responding to community character and place identity. According to Nathan Glazer, author and Harvard Professor Emeritus of Sociology, "Ronald Lee Fleming has devoted decades to fighting the placelessness that modern technology and commercialism impose everywhere today. He has shown us how to define a place through public art so as to induce pride in residents and interest in visitors. This book is an encyclopedic summing up of the best work on making places out of the anonymous anywhere." Illustrated case studies depicting recent projects throughout the United States are featured in the book, including many 4Culture managed King County projects. Also discussed are assessments of successes and failures, providing pragmatic guidance for implementing public art, interpretation, and street furniture that both reinforce and re-imagine community identity.
image: © The Art of Placemaking, Ronald Lee
Fleming, cover courtesy of Townscape Institute and Merrell Publishers
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www.4culture.org/preservation/projects/2007/corridors
King County's explosive growth creates a continual demand for highway improvements. But the county wants to protect its cultural resources, including historic roads going back to the nineteenth century and even Native American footpaths used for thousands of years. That dilemma has led to a collaboration among 4Culture, the King County Dept. of Transportation Road Services Division (KCDOT), and the county's Historic Preservation Program to survey and document historic roadways, as well as identify the best scenic routes through rural areas. The resulting database will help KCDOT protect historic sites and travel corridors.
Funded by a $195,000 federal grant, the historic and scenic research will be managed by Preservation 4Culture. KCDOT will provide access to detailed information about the road system, and it will develop maps and a website that allows public access to the results. That research, expected to finish in 2008, could lead to new designations of road stretches as historic or scenic corridors and/or listing of roads or roadside properties on the King County Landmarks Register, Washington Heritage Register, and the National Register of Historic Places. Any historic properties in private ownership would only be listed with the permission of the owner.
image: © SE Highpoint Way near Issaquah, photo by Flo Lentz
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www.nea.gov
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced 620 awards totaling $12,510,250 through its Access to Artistic Excellence funding program. Awards support the creation and presentation of work in the disciplines of dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, media arts, museums, music, musical theater, presenting theater, and visual arts, as well as grants to Local
Arts Agencies.
4Culture will receive support for two of its regional collaborative initiatives through the Local Arts Agencies category. The first award of $25,000 will support e4c, a new gallery space for electronic media artists housed in 4Culture's offices in the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts Building. Rather than a typical indoor gallery space, this gallery will face the street, with four 50" plasma monitors projecting images and sound towards the high-traffic and high visibility transit corridor block of Prefontaine Place South. The gallery will display work to a pedestrian and bus traffic audience, allowing both intentional and unintentional access to electronic arts.
A $30,000 award will support SITE-SPECIFIC/2007 King County Performance Network, a partnership between 4Culture and a dozen regional arts commissions. SITE-SPECIFIC takes contemporary art out of the theaters, museums and galleries, and integrates it into daily life. Site-specific art happenings--art performances, installations or events created in direct response to their locale-will be presented in communities throughout King County.
Additionally, twenty King County arts organizations were awarded funding in other disciplines.
image: © Amy-Ellen F Trefsger, Urban Beach Scenes, photo by Adam L Weintraub, 2006
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kick-off party June 2, 2007, 6 to 9 p.m.
Occidental Park in Pioneer Square, Seattle
www.pugetsoundscape.citymax.com/page/page/4432309.htm
Seattle's leading cultural, educational, governmental and non-profit environmental groups have joined forces to offer a comprehensive experience celebrating and raising awareness about one of the nation's most spectacular natural settings - our very own Puget Sound. Diverse programming and experiences will be held throughout June and July, including music and lectures at Town Hall Seattle, art and history exhibits at leading Seattle art galleries and museums, visiting the Seattle Aquarium and Woodland Park Zoo, and 4Culture's Maritime Heritage Network.
image: © Swiftsure, Photo by Flo Lentz
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4Culture Public Art Calls List
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Public Art 4Culture compiles a list of current public art opportunities available through Public Art 4Culture and other agencies across the country. The Public Art Calls List provides brief project descriptions, deadlines, and how to receive more information about each opportunity -- bimonthly, free of charge.
Richard Hugo House
Theater Residencies, Hugo Huts Residencies,
and Hugo Gallery
Theater Residencies deadline May 21, 2007
Hugo Huts Residencies and Hugo Gallery deadlines June 1, 2007
www.hugohouse.org
Hugo House, a 10-year-old literary arts center based on Seattle's Capitol Hill, has added a Theater Residency to its residency program. Theater companies are invited to apply for two-year residencies at Hugo House that will include fixed rental rates, office space and cross-marketing with Hugo House programs. Two companies will be selected.
Hugo House is also accepting applications for its "Hugo Huts" residency program that will provide two writers with subsidized housing in Seattle's historic Belltown Cottages, plus the opportunity to teach in the Hugo Writing Classes. Year-long residencies begin in September 2007. The Belltown Cottage Park Project is a collaboration between "Friends of Belltown P-Patch," Seattle Parks & Recreation and Richard Hugo House.
Additionally, the Hugo Gallery allows emerging artists to share their new work in a nonprofit literary arts center, fostering a synthesis between visual art and the written word. The gallery encourages the new work of emerging artists by providing a commission-free space and publicity resources. The Hugo Gallery accepts submissions three times a year. The June 1 deadline is for exhibits in October 2007-January 2008.
Normandy Park Arts Festival
Call for Artists
deadline May 22, 2007
www.ci.normandy-park.wa.us
The annual Normandy Park Arts Festival will be held June 2-3, 2007, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each day at 801 SW 174th St in Normandy Park. Activities will include a juried art show, arts and crafts sale, children's hands-on art activities, pottery demonstrations, a concert in the park, and guided walking tours. Artists are invited to apply for inclusion in a juried art show and to sell their work at the festival. Juried show entry fee is $15 for 3 pieces of art, with submissions invited in the categories of painting, photography, computer generated art, sculpture, crafts, and drawing. The vendor fee is $50 for a 8' x 4' space. For more information call 206.248.8258.
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and MetLife Foundation
Arts Education Partnerships
deadline May 25, 2007
www.nationalguild.org
The National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and the MetLife Foundation have announced the renewal of the MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Project. The project's goal is to improve teaching and learning in the arts by advancing high-quality, sustainable partnerships between community-based arts education organizations and public schools. In 2007, the project will award grants of up to $20,000 to support exemplary CSA-public school partnerships in cities across the nation, including Seattle and Bellevue, during the 2007/2008 school year. For more information, contact Kelly McHugh at 212.268.3337, ext. 12.
City of Federal Way
Request for Proposals/Cultural Plan
deadline May 31, 2007
www.cityoffederalway.com
The City of Federal Way is requesting proposals for assistance in preparation of a Cultural Plan. The City of Federal Way adopted its most recent Cultural Plan in 1993. The purpose of the current project is to update the plan and provide guidance to the City in its management and development of cultural services, public art program and management and business planning for the Knutzen Family Theatre for the next five years. The total budget available for all planning efforts is $50,000. This includes any public opinion survey work, public meetings and deliverables. A copy of the complete Request for Proposals is available from Mary Faber at 253.835.6920.
Maryhill Arts Festival
Call for Artists
deadline June 4, 2007
www.maryhillmuseum.org
Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington is seeking artists to sell their work at the 2007 Maryhill Arts Festival. Booth space is $50 plus 10% commission on sales. Participating artists are allowed to camp at site. Contact Lee Musgrave for more information.
Issaquah Alps Trails Club
Call for Artists
deadline June 15, 2007
www.ci.issaquah.wa.us
The Issaquah Alps Trails Club, in partnership with the Issaquah Arts Commission, is seeking proposals from artists who are willing and able to create a life size sculpture of Harvey Manning. Mr. Manning, a legend in conservation activism and protection of the state's wildlands passed away on November 12th, 2006. He left a legacy of natural open space lands not only for the City of Issaquah but through out the state of Washington. The call is currently open to all media. Substantial financial commitments have been received for this project.
Poets & Writers
Grant Program for Writer's Fees
deadline ongoing
www.pw.org
Organizations may apply for funding to pay fees to writers giving readings or conducting workshops in Seattle, as well as New York, California, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Washington, D.C. Grants of $50-$350 for readings or spoken word performances are available, with up to $500 provided for workshops. Requests are reviewed on an ongoing basis, applications must be submitted at least eight weeks before a proposed event.
Lynnwood Arts Commission
Call for Artists
various deadlines
www.ci.lynnwood.wa.us
The Lynnwood Arts Commission has several exhibition opportunities for local and regional visual artists, including exhibits at the Lynnwood Library Gallery and Lynnwood Convention Center. Call Marianne Johnson for more information at 425.744.6459.
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City of Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Event and Marketing Intern
deadline May 25, 2007
www.seattle.gov
The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs is seeking a part-time event and marketing summer intern to assist with Seattle Presents, a noontime concert series at City Hall; the Mayors Arts Awards; and other office events and projects, including the production and distribution of marketing collateral, web site content and other duties as assigned. Applicants must be undergraduate-level students. Employment during the summer is permitted without enrollment in courses if the intern is pre-registered for fall quarter/semester. The internship begins mid-June with the possibility of extending through the end of the year.
Bellevue Arts Museum
Volunteer Docent Program
open until filled
www.bellevuearts.org
Share your passion for art and become a docent! Bellevue Arts Museum is now accepting applications for the 2007-08 docent training program. The museum's docent training program features in-depth courses in the fine art of craft and design. Volunteer participants will explore a variety of ways to lead visitors including the general public, teens groups, and school groups through the museum's exhibitions.
Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority
Director of Fund Development/Historic Seattle Foundation Executive Director
open until filled
www.historicseattle.org
Founded in 1974, Historic Seattle is the only city-wide non-profit organization devoted exclusively to the preservation of Seattle's historic and architectural legacy. Historic Seattle invites applications for the position of Director of Fund Development which, if matched in skills or experience shall also serve as the Executive Director of the Historic Seattle Foundation. Responsibilities include leading and managing capital, endowment, annual, sponsorship and membership efforts resulting in a comprehensive fundraising strategy focused on identifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding of individuals, corporations and foundations.
Seattle Architecture Foundation
Tours Director
open until filled
www.seattlearchitecture.org
Seattle Architecture Foundation (SAF) believes that design shapes people and that people should take an active part in shaping the design of where they live, work and play. With guided walking tours, youth programs, exhibits and public events, SAF seeks a Tours Director to manage and grow the tours program, as well as to staff the Tours Program committee, and provide volunteer management, communications, and fundraising. The position is full time, $30,000/year plus benefits.
Seattle Children's Theatre
Managing Director, Director of Marketing, and More
open until filled
www.sct.org
Seattle Children's Theatre is the second largest resident theatre for young audiences in North America, with programs empowering young people to make new discoveries about themselves and the world around them while building a lifelong interest in the arts. The mission of Seattle Children's Theatre is to provide children of all ages access to professional theatre, with a focus on new works, and theatre education. The theater currently has a variety of job openings.
Wing Luke Asian Museum
Major Gifts Officer and Executive & Trustee Associate
open until filled
www.wingluke.org
Wing Luke Asian Museum, an Asian Pacific American community-based museum, has two job openings. The museum is seeking an experienced development professional to manage donor campaigns and individual giving initiatives, and meet annual fundraising goals. The Major Gifts Officer is responsible for completing the community campaign, participating in designing and implementing donor development strategies, organizing board, volunteer and campaign leadership meetings, donor research, campaign reporting, prospect visits, and donor cultivation events. Requirements include three or more years of experience raising major gifts ($5000+) and a bachelor's degree. Experience with membership and annual giving campaigns is preferred.
Wing Luke Asian Museum is also seeking an experienced executive associate to provide administrative support to the Executive Office and the Board of Trustees. The Executive & Trustee Associate handles details of a confidential and critical nature, analyzes problems, determines possible solutions, compiles and analyzes data, and prepares recommendations. The position staffs the Executive Office and manages all Board of Trustee communications. Both jobs are new full-time permanent positions.
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Henry Art Gallery
The Big Bang Bash
May 18, 8:00 p.m. to midnight
Bash Artist & Patron Preview: 6 to 8 p.m.
University of Washington, 15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, Seattle
www.henryart.org
The Big Bang Theory debuted in 1927. In the same year the Henry Art Gallery was launched by a generous gift from Horace C. Henry... Coincidence? The Henry celebrates 80 years of fantastic art and artists with a remarkable evening centered around a lively art sale, featuring a galaxy of art at outrageously attractive ($300, $200, $100!) prices. Astral Art Sale hosted by interplanetarily-famous auctioneer Laura Michalek. Sarah Rudinoff, Nick Garrison, and special guests Sissyfist perform space ballads, robot songs, and interplanetary odes. Tickets now on sale. Go to Brown Paper Tickets to purchase online or call our 24-Hour Ticket Hotline at 1.800.838.3006.
Museum of History & Industry
Puget Sound Gardens- From Wilderness to Landscape
Lecture: Gardening Grows Up: 150 Years in Seattle Gardens
May 23, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
www.seattlehistory.org
Seattle gardens have come a long way since the first tribal potato patches and Louisa Boren Denny's sweetbrier rose. By the 1890s, Seattle had parks with lavish gardens. In the early twentieth century, the city had Olmsted parks, the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition and its gardens, a fledgling rose festival, and a conservatory filled with orchids and tropicals. Later generations built the arboretum and the Japanese garden. Join an exploration of 150 years of Seattle garden history in both public and private gardens. Presented by horticulturalist Kathy Mendelson. Tickets are $5 MOHAI members and $7 general public. Advance tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets or call 1.800.838.3006.
Downtown Issaquah Association
Issaquah Art Walk
June 1, 2007, 6 to 9 p.m.
Downtown Issaquah
http://arteast.org
ArtWalk Issaquah is held 5 times a year starting in May and going through September on the first Friday of each month. Local and regional artists display their art in a myriad of downtown Issaquah businesses including the library, hair salons, real estate offices, banks, retail shops, coffee houses and more. Issaquah ArtWalk is presented by Downtown Issaquah Association in partnership with Issaquah Arts Commission and artEAST.
SouthEast Effective Development
Concerts in the Park
June 3, 2007, 1 to 5 p.m.
Seward Park Amphitheatre
www.seedseattle.org
SouthEast Effective Development's 30th annual Concerts in the Park series begins in June, with a concert event featuring the Michael Powers Group, area school jazz bands and student-led nature tours. The event is produced by SouthEast Effective Development in collaboration with the Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center and Seattle Parks and Recreation.
Seattle Repertory Theatre
An Intimate Evening with Phylicia Rashad
June 11, 2007 8:00pm
www.intiman.org
An "Inside the Actor's Studio"-style interview and career retrospective with Phylicia Rashad, and informal Q&A led by renowned Broadway director Kenny Leon. Phylicia Rashad, star of stage and TV, is best known for her role as Dr. Claire Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" and was the first African-American woman to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She recently enjoyed her directorial debut with Seattle Rep's production of Gem of the Ocean. Kenny Leon is a leading director of August Wilson's plays and is best known for his lauded Broadway productions of Gem of the Ocean and A Raisin in the Sun, both starring Phylicia Rashad. He is the founder and artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta. This one-night-only benefit will raise funds for Seattle Repertory Theatre's education programs. Tickets range from $75 (includes post-show champagne celebration) to $250 and up (including opportunities to meet Phylicia Rashad and Kenny Leon). To make reservations or for further information, please contact the Seattle Rep Box Office at 206.443.2222.
Washington Lawyers for the Arts
Fair Use of Names & Faces: Exceptions to the
Right of Publicity
June 14, 2007, 11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (program begins at noon, lunches welcome)
911 Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N, Seattle
www.wa-artlaw.org
Attorney Bob Cumbow will take artists and attorneys who advise artists through the maze of state laws governing the rights of both "celebrities" and "nobodies" in the use of their names and faces, looking at when it's okay to use an identifiable person (living or dead) in a work of written or visual art, and, on the other side, when it's best to get permission. Bob will look at how Washington's Personality Rights Act addresses these issues, recent important developments in this area of law, and how these issues have been dealt with in other jurisdictions. Cases have involved The Three Stooges, Dustin Hoffman, Tiger Woods, Rosa Parks, Yogi Berra, Bettie Page, and other pop culture personae, even those appearing in robotic form. Tickets are $10-25 in advance, $15-30 at the door. To register, visit Brown Paper Tickets or phone 1.800.838.3006.
Northwest Film Forum
Youth Filmmaking Workshops
July - August 2007
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle
www.nwfilmforum.org
Northwest Film Forum announces its Summer Filmmaking Workshops for youth 10 -17 years old. The workshops explore various subjects related to basic and intermediate film production. The schedule of workshops includes Film School: Photography and Super-8 Filmmaking (July 23-27); Moviemaking in Action: Using Video to Tell Your Stories (Aug. 27-31); Loop Girls: Songwriting and Video-Making Camp for Girls (August 6-17); and Experiments in Animation (August 20-24).
Arts Reach Unlimited: National Arts Marketing Conference
Cultural Entrepreneurship Best Practices: Building Bridges to New Audiences and Donors
October 27-30, 2007
Miyako Hotel, San Francisco
www.artsreach.com
Arts Reach has extended an offer to 4Culture and recipients of 4Culture funding awards for a $50 discount on registration fees to attend the conference. Simply identify yourself as a grantee of Arts Reach member 4Culture.
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Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
(featured in Los Angeles Times)
Barbed Wire and Free Press
www.latimes.com
A front-page article, "Barbed Wire and Free Press" by Steve Chawkins, in the May 3 edition of the Los Angeles Times is based on resources available in the free Densho Digital Archive. Densho's website offers 4,000 editions of the newspapers published by the incarcerees at the ten War Relocation Authority camps. The article notes, "Until Densho's project, the camp newspapers - which vary from crude, mimeographed handouts to professionally printed 12-page sections available at 2 cents a copy - were scattered through museums and university libraries." Register for Densho's free digital archive at www.densho.org.
The Members Project from American Express
www.preview.membersproject.com
Americans for the Arts (AFTA) is partnering with American Express on an exciting new initiative called The Members Project. It's an opportunity for American Express cardmembers to come together as a community to dream up, and ultimately unite behind, one inspiring idea-an idea that could have a positive impact on the world around us. American Express will fund the winning project idea with up to $5 million. This could be a chance to get a critical project within your organization funding and some much-needed attention. Starting May 15, 2007, American Express cardmembers will have the chance to register and submit project ideas supporting causes they believe deserve the spotlight. American Express will announce the winning idea on August 7, 2007. For every Cardmember that registers, American Express will contribute $1 to The Members Project, up to $5 million total.
4Culture Heritage Advisor
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Heritage Advisor is the voice of the Heritage 4Culture Program of 4Culture and is produced as a technical assistance service to the heritage community of King County. Priority of coverage includes the program's own activities and other information that may be of interest to the program's funding partners and community. Deadline for inclusion is 10 days before the end of the calendar month. Heritage Advisor is produced monthly, except July and December. Listing or coverage in Heritage Advisor does not imply endorsement by the Program. For more information, e-mail heritageadvisor@4culture.org.
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