4Culture News
Announcing three art opportunities for Metro’s newest bus base
As King County Metro transitions to a 100% zero-emissions fleet, they are expanding capacity at their South Campus in Tukwila to make room for approximately 250 battery electric buses. The South Annex Base (SAB) will be Metro’s first new permanent base in generations. Like the electric buses, the facility itself will prioritize sustainability in its design and building principles, including a large solar installation and net zero energy consumption.
Continue Reading ›$2.7 Million Awarded Through Cultural Producers Recovery Fund
In 2021, the King County Council allocated $9.4 million in federal COVID relief funding to 4Culture to distribute to the cultural sector. At the end of last year the final round of this funding was put in motion, with roughly $2.7 million available for King County cultural producers who have experienced COVID-related economic impacts since March 2020.
Continue Reading ›Showing Courage: Hanako O’Leary on the freedoms in Kamon
A long and winding drape is hanging from the ceiling at Gallery 4Culture right now, made from hundreds of origami pieces in whites and peaches, taupes and creams, each of them intricately folded into the same form: a vulva.
Continue Reading ›Juneteenth: Honoring the Journey
Like many holidays, Juneteenth has been known by various names, such as Freedom Day, Liberation Day, and Black Independence Day. While each of these names highlights different aspects of the significance of this day, today it is most widely known by a portmanteau that blends “June” and “nineteenth” into a single, recognizable term.
Continue Reading ›Residual Effects: John Feodorov on the impetus behind Assimilations
John Feodorov was sitting in the Boise airport after giving a lecture at the University of Idaho when a phrase suddenly came to him: I cannot speak my mother’s language.
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