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STQRY: Mobile Stories throughout King County

STQRY: Mobile Stories throughout King County

Moving to Mobile: The STQRY app

As more people move to mobile phones and tablets for their primary access to the internet, those of us who create online content have to adjust our practices to ... Continue

Seattle International Dance Festival

Seattle International Dance Festival

Seattle International Dance Festival

June 14th-23rd

South Lake Union and Cornish College of the Arts, various venues

Engaging performance, music, food and drink, crafts, dozens of FREE kid-friendly events and classes, and a dusk dance ... Continue

2013 Art Projects Award Recipients Announced

2013 Art Projects Award Recipients Announced

Art Projects awards provide financial support to groups and individual artists residing in King County, for the creation and presentation of creative projects in all arts disciplines. Art Projects supports projects that deliver accessible, valuable ... Continue

Flo Lentz Receives Maritime Hero Award

Flo Lentz Receives Maritime Hero Award

In the opinion of Northwest Seaport, AND 4Culture thank you very much, Flo Lentz is indeed a model preservationist. At a May 30th reception, Northwest Seaport presented Flo with the Maritime Heritage Hero Award for ... Continue

Call for Comics Artists and Filmmakers

Call for Comics Artists and Filmmakers

4Culture seeks visual storytellers to create a comic book and short film

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, June 24, 2013

1,478 tons of hazardous waste gathered from 46,298 residents and 583 businesses and schools last year: that’s ... Continue

Get Your Acid Free Folders Here!

Get Your Acid Free Folders Here!

Reminder: Heritage Collections Care Deadline June 26th, 2013

Looking for funding to assist your museum or archive in a cataloging, conservation or collections assessment project? If you are a King County based nonprofit heritage organization, ... Continue

News from 4Culture
Choral Music Channel on KING FM

Choral Music Channel on KING FM

Chorus America held its national conference in Seattle  June 12-15, hosted by Seattle Pro Musica, and the Seattle Symphony & Symphony Chorale. Chorus America is the national organization devoted to the advocacy, research, and leadership ... Continue

Apply for the 2013 Conductive Garboil Grant

Apply for the 2013 Conductive Garboil Grant

 

This annual, non-restricted award of $3,000 was developed by artist Su Job just before her passing in December 2008. The grant acknowledges artists who have “demonstrated a profound ability to challenge the limits of ... Continue

Reminder for Filmmakers and Comics Artists

Reminder for Filmmakers and Comics Artists

 WA-based artists with a knack for visual storytelling – apply for the HazMat comic book and short film projects. There’s just a week left!

Do you produce artwork that combines meaningful narrative with compelling aesthetic ... Continue

Farewell to Craig Sinclair

Farewell to Craig Sinclair

Craig Sinclair began working for 4Culture in 2011, assisting Charlie Rathbun in the Arts Program. During his time with 4Culture Craig cheerfully contributed to Blog 4Culture, worked with Site Specific artists and on other program ... Continue

Character Interpretation Workshop

Character Interpretation Workshop

Learn about Historic Character Interpretation

We are reposting this notice from the Washington State Historical Society, as workshops that cover this subject are rare, this one is local and very reasonable in cost. Our Historic ... Continue

Artists Christian Moeller and Susan Robb Receive Public Art Network Awards

Artists Christian Moeller and Susan Robb Receive Public Art Network Awards

Christian Moeller’s Verdi and Susan Robb’s The Long Walk Receive Year In Review Awards

Every year, Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network (PAN) selects public artworks of merit for recognition in Year in Review. ... Continue

Quinton Morris to Speak at TEDxSeattle

Quinton Morris to Speak at TEDxSeattle

Professor Quinton Morris, director of the chamber and instrumental music program in the Fine Arts Department of Seattle University and member of 4Culture’s Touring Arts Roster, will present a talk on Entrepreneurship for ... Continue

ANAR DANA & Helene Eriksen present Dances Under the Crescent Moon

ANAR DANA & Helene Eriksen present Dances Under the Crescent Moon

June 14 & 15, 2013 at Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle

ANAR DANA, Helene Eriksen’s Traditional Dance Theatre, presents women’s dance and culture from the regions of North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. ... Continue

ArtTable + 4Culture + Loriann Hernandez

ArtTable + 4Culture + Loriann Hernandez

ArtTable’s Summer Internship for Diversity in the Visual Arts supports emerging women professionals from backgrounds generally underrepresented in the field. Through one-on-one mentoring relationships, interns have the opportunity to work with established leaders and gain ... Continue

You Are Invited: Robots and Killer Jazz Poets

You Are Invited: Robots and Killer Jazz Poets

4Culture Art Projects recipients offer opportunities to see, hear, read and experience art in many ways throughout the year, all around King County. See what our artists have for you this week!

 

South Shore ... Continue

Meet Our Staff: Sean Stearns

Meet Our Staff: Sean Stearns

Sean was born in sunny Coronado, California where he and his family lived until he was about 10. Then, in a move that was drastic both geographically and culturally, he moved with his family to ... Continue

Still Afloat Exhibit @ MOHAI

Still Afloat Exhibit @ MOHAI

News from a 2013 Heritage Projects recipient

The Museum of History & Industry’s new exhibit, Still Afloat: A Contemporary History of Seattle’s Floating Homes, supported in part by 4Cuture, offers a unique perspective of ... Continue