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Art on the Move: How portable works rotate through King County spaces

If you found yourself in Pioneer Square on a hot and sunny weekday last June, you may have seen something a little unusual on the street: a cart loaded with art, all of it carefully wrapped in plastic and bubble wrap, rolling up the hill from 4Culture’s office to the King County Chinook Building on 4th Avenue.
Continue Reading ›Hey Kent, 4Culture is coming to you!

Join us on Thursday, September 25, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Green River College, Kent Campus, in the Emerald City Room, for an evening of connection, conversation, and community. We’ll also have our friends from the City of Kent to discuss their arts grant opportunities!
Continue Reading ›Muckleshoot carvers uplift sustainability and connection with new Algona artworks

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

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.
Continue Reading ›SODO Track: Seattle’s Transit Mural Corridor Enters a New Chapter

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.
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