As a child unfortunately  I did not have the opportunity to go to art school. This was not just that. I grew up in an art hating environment and was teached that ‘all art in the world should be destroyed” – can you imagine that?  So, I was prohibited to […]

Come celebrate our FLAG (Free Little Art Galleries) project that brought our participants’ artwork into public spaces around Seattle, allowing everyone to experience the power of creativity and self-expression. The FLAG micro-galleries were displayed in three outdoor locations and featured abstract paintings from the REST center, self-portraits from Entre Hermanos, and pinhole photography from Plymouth […]

FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES“IT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T come as a surprise that Ella Shepard Bush got lost in the fogs of art history. The same has happened to many other women artists, before and since. But in her day, Miss Bush — as she was always known — was at the […]

I invite you to take a look at some of the artwork created by the talented staff of one of our amazing Social Service Partners, Harborview Medical Center. Click here for more inspiration for our upcoming Spring quarter photography and portraiture classes, as well as wood, fiber, jewelry, and much […]

Pauline Palmer was an American artist based in Chicago. In 1919, Palmer became the first woman elected president of the Chicago Society of Artists. The New York Times, in 1938, upon her death, noted that many art critics celebrated her as one of the most important painters in America. She […]

AN EXHIBITION IN DUBLIN, IRELAND From building hospitals to caring for the homeless, these are the untold stories of the wives of the men who governed Ireland before independence from Britain. Portraits of the women are on exhibit at Dublin Castle.

“WE NEED ART AND ART NEEDS US” How much art exposure do you need everyday to reduce stress and anxiety? How can we use art as a form of meditation? Is the pandemic fostering a new generation of artists? This month on the ArtsFund blog, the president and CEO of Sound, […]