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Published by 4Culture on July 23, 2025

Muckleshoot carvers uplift sustainability and connection with new Algona artworks

Two people sit side by side on a large wooden beam in a woodshop, surrounded by tools and wooden planks. Both appear thoughtful, looking towards the right, with soft lighting highlighting the workshop environment.

On a beautiful, sunny afternoon on the Muckleshoot Reservation in late May, a small group of tribal members has gathered in their carving workshop—a big open space that used to be a horse barn. Tools line the perimeter and hang from the walls. Wooly, a black Lab mix, wanders freely through the open doors. And a pair of massive red cedar logs lays at the center of the room: one a nearly finished story pole and the other a blank canvas, a pencil grid sketched on its surface in preparation for carving.

Published by 4Culture on July 22, 2025

Information Immortality: Althea Rao experiments with living data centers in Commit to Memory, Know it Will Perish

A display case with translucent sheets of bacterial cellulose and a magnifier on top. A label describes the items as Bacterial Cellulose (Pedia) with details about their creators and location.

A few years ago, Althea Rao was talking with a researcher friend about a concert Beyoncé had recently played at Lumen Field when he started to describe the collective memory shared by the people who’d seen the show—specifically the physical heft of it.

Published by 4Culture on July 01, 2025

SODO Track: Seattle’s Transit Mural Corridor Enters a New Chapter

A mural on a building shows a person in a striped shirt sitting at a table, looking out a window with plants inside and a desert scene outside. A train is passing on tracks in the foreground. — Franco Fasoli. Lo privado en lo público, 2018. SODO Track, Seattle, WA. Photo: @wiseknave

Beginning in 2016, the mural corridor known as the SODO Track has featured the work of more than 50 artists along the E3 Busway, a two-mile stretch in Seattle’s SODO district. Since its completion in 2018, it has become one of the Pacific Northwest’s most celebrated concentrations of public art, transforming a key piece of transportation infrastructure into a vibrant, large-scale cultural experience.

Published by 4Culture on June 26, 2025

Join Us for a Native Art Market!

Event flyer with yellow bold text reading Summer Native Art Market. A beaded-style monarch butterfly and strawberry are illustrated. Date and time: July 26, 11AM–3PM. Hosted by 4Culture and yəhaw̓. Blue background.

Join us on July 26, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at Yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective at 9674 51st Ave S, Seattle for a Summer Native Art Market! Enjoy a vibrant day filled with beadwork, prints, jewelry, and other goods from local Native artists. There will be crafts, snacks, and live music, as well as opportunities to learn about upcoming grant opportunities.

Published by 4Culture on June 23, 2025

Alchemy & Spells: How Mel Carter transformed earthly elements for bitter, the mourning

Art installation with an indigo blue cloth featuring a white circle, a wooden cage centerpiece, a yellow glass on top, various ceramic vessels, a red glass bottle, small bowl, and scattered white objects, all on a concrete floor.

Four years ago, Mel Carter showed up to an emerging artist residency at Centrum with their sewing machine, expecting to make some textile work. “But I was more interested in actually connecting to the place within the space,” they realized, so they set about exploring the Fort Warden grounds—an abandoned army base, a state park, the beach.

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