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Vets Restore

Vets Restore

Connecting Veterans with Places back Home

4Culture is delighted to announce the launch of Vets Restore, an initiative that offers training, mentoring, and job placement guidance for returning vets in preservation carpentry.

About 1000 military ... Continue

When It Comes To Arts Education, Every Voice Counts

When It Comes To Arts Education, Every Voice Counts

Washington State celebrates Arts Education Month this May.  In our guest blog post, ArtsEd Washington’s Executive Director, Una McAlinden, challenges us all to be involved and speak out on behalf of the arts in schools:... Continue

Preservation through Innovation

Preservation through Innovation

Announcing the 2013 Preservation Special Projects Awards

May is Preservation Month, and 4Culture is pleased to announce the first roster of awardees under our new Preservation Special Projects program. A total of $100,000 has been ... Continue

4Culture is now OPEN

4Culture is now OPEN

Welcome to Open 4Culture! Open 4Culture is a new program designed to serve the underserved. Open 4Culture is an entry point into 4Culture’s many funding opportunities.

Open 4Culture offers competitive awards of up to $1,500 ... Continue

4Culture Funding Supports Care of Collections

4Culture Funding Supports Care of Collections

4Culture’s 2013 Heritage Collections Care application window is now OPEN, with a deadline of Wednesday, June 26 at 5pm. Since its inception in 2008, this modest funding program has made a big impact on cultural ... Continue

Tunnel Vision: Burke-Gilman Trail

Tunnel Vision: Burke-Gilman Trail

4Culture, working in partnership with King County Parks, is seeking an artist or artist team that can make the experience of navigating the 250 ft. long Wayne Tunnel on the Burke-Gilman Trail (BGT) in Bothell, ... Continue

WANTED: Historic Sites for Historic Site(s) Specific 2014

WANTED: Historic Sites for Historic Site(s) Specific 2014

Historic sites are coming alive again in 2014 with Historic Site(s) Specific.

4Culture’s Arts, Heritage, and Preservation programs are accepting applications through 5PM PDT of May 15th, 2013, for historic sites and designated landmarks in ... Continue

News from 4Culture
The Way Film Is Meant to be Seen

The Way Film Is Meant to be Seen

Through the On-Site Review program, 4Culture evaluates arts and heritage organizations who receive Sustained Support funding. On-Site Reviewers attend events produced or presented by recipients and write up short reviews, which give the adjudicating Sustained ... Continue

Heritage Collections Care Funding - workshop added

Heritage Collections Care Funding – workshop added

 

If you’re interested in applying for 4Culture’s Heritage Collections Care funding, we’ve just added a workshop to our regular workshop schedule – Thursday, May 23, 4 PM at the Valley View Library, 17850 ... Continue

Video production workshop for nonprofits at 4Culture in June

Video production workshop for nonprofits at 4Culture in June

UPSTREAM 2013

June 6, June 13, June 27 & July 11

All workshops take place 2:00-6:00 pm at 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S., Seattle 98107

ChangeStream Media is offering a series of four hands-on video ... Continue

Reminder: Monday Deadline for Wayne Tunnel Public Art Opportunity

Reminder: Monday Deadline for Wayne Tunnel Public Art Opportunity

Bothell, WA + Burke-Gilman Trail: Wayne Tunnel Surface Treatment

Washington and Oregon Artists, you have just a few more days to apply for the Wayne Tunnel project – read on:

4Culture, working in partnership with ... Continue

Destination South Lake Union: Ships, Planes & Houseboats at City’s Core

Destination South Lake Union: Ships, Planes & Houseboats at City’s Core

Recently, I used the excuse of attending a meeting to get out in the May sunshine and get close to the shoreline at Lake Union Park. The meeting took place at the Museum of History ... Continue

4Culture Gets Its Fingerprints All Over SIFF!

4Culture Gets Its Fingerprints All Over SIFF!

As the dazzling cavalcade of cinema that is the Seattle International Film Festival zooms upon us, 4Culture happily trumpets our support of not one…not two…not three…but FOUR films screening in the festival! That’s three wildly ... Continue

A place called Shirakawa

A place called Shirakawa

News about a 4Culture supported project

A guest blog post by Barbara McMichael gives us an intimate look at a new art exhibit in Auburn:

Art exhibit as apology? That’s a gross oversimplification of “Nihon/WA,” ... Continue

Folklife turns 42 over Memorial Day Weekend

Folklife turns 42 over Memorial Day Weekend

The 42nd Northwest Folklife Festival: Music from Accordion to Zither

Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-27 Seattle Center

Folklife is back and better than ever. Guest Ryan Davis shares this celebration of the venerable festival.

Think ... Continue

Happy National Nurses Week!

Happy National Nurses Week!

The dedicated nurses that we all depend on at various stages of our lives offer care and medical expertise that is most deserving of celebration. National Nurses Week does just that, dedicating the week of ... Continue

Honoring King County's Heritage & Preservation

Honoring King County’s Heritage & Preservation

In acknowledging how far King County’s heritage and preservation efforts have advanced in the last thirty-five years, Phyllis Keller, founding president of the Association of King County Historical Organizations, said it best at this year’s ... Continue

Calling all King County Historic Sites

Calling all King County Historic Sites

Deadline Reminder: May 15th

4Culture’s Arts, Heritage, and Preservation programs are accepting applications through May 15th, 2013, for historic sites and designated landmarks in King County to be included in the 2014 Historic Site(s) Specific... Continue

Engaging Youth and New Immigrants

Engaging Youth and New Immigrants

Announcing the 2013 Heritage Projects Awards

4Culture is proud to announce recipients of 2013 Heritage Projects funding, which provided $208,884 for thirty-two projects countywide. We are pleased that many funded projects addressed underrepresented aspects of ... Continue