4Culture News
Announcing the 2025–2026 season at Gallery 4Culture!
For 45+ years, Gallery 4Culture has been exhibiting innovative artists and art forms in solo and small-group shows. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the artists who will have exhibitions in the coming season. Check them out below!
Continue Reading ›Water, Water Everywhere: Public art projects support human and ecological health
A giant transparent column will rise from the ground outside the Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station (GWWTS) in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, turning rain into a theater. Sans façon’s Monument to Rain—created with El Dorado—will glow like a beacon and change with the weather: When it’s raining, it will stand empty, illuminating the rain around it. When it’s not, drops will begin to fall inside the column, with the same quality and intensity as the most recent rainfall.
Continue Reading ›Bold Challenge: Ric’kisha Taylor confronts culture and identity in Gleaming
When Ric’kisha Taylor was growing up in Miami, vibrant clothes, glitzy jewelry, exotic reptiles, and bright-colored cars with flashy rims were all defining features of the city’s visual culture. Her own family had a pet iguana for a time. Her dad wore bright green crocodile-skin shoes to church on Sundays.
Continue Reading ›Hello4Culture Returns!
Hello! I’m Sol Dressa, Community Outreach and Engagement Support Specialist here at 4Culture. I’m so excited to help relaunch Hello 4Culture and help expand access to arts, science and cultural funding across King County! I will be traveling throughout the region to hear directly from communities—their ideas, questions, and concerns. As an artist, organizer, and staff member at 4Culture, I’m thrilled to connect with those who build spaces for communities of color—spaces that celebrate joy and play, honor ancestors through arts and culture, and foster healing and intergenerational learning.
Continue Reading ›Laura C. Wright’s dye gardens connect people to our water system
Last year, artist Laura C. Wright embarked on a months-long endeavor to plant a pair of dye gardens in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley and then harvest plants to make pigments for creating watercolor paints.
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