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Hey, We Funded That: Auburn’s Sutherland Store

Left: the Sutherland Store, near Auburn, during restoration in 2017. Right: Dolly Sutherland waves from the Sutherland Store, covered in snow, no date. Both photos courtesy of Marty Dickinson.

“We have lived a few blocks from the store for the last 15 years and have always wanted to see someone give this obvious piece of history the attention it deserves. ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone fixed that up!’ we would say every time we drove by. We eventually thought that maybe that ‘someone’ could be us.”

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Youth-Centered Art Commissioned for the CFJC

Mural design for the King County Children and Family Justice Center by Jesse Brown, 2019.

Throughout the process of managing public art funds for the new Children and Family Justice Center, we’ve focused on supporting youth impacted by the facility and the juvenile justice system. Now, as we get closer to the building’s opening later this year, we’re sharing the ways in which the artists commissioned for work at the CFJC are doing the same.

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