Celebrate our FLAG (Free Little Art Galleries)

February 20, 2023 at 6:32 am

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 […]

‘The enigmatic influence of pioneering Seattle artist Ella Shepard Bush’

June 17, 2022 at 5:16 pm

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 […]

The Art of Harborview Medical Center

April 20, 2022 at 5:11 pm

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 […]

An acclaimed painter from America’s past

August 26, 2021 at 5:12 pm

“They are women who have fallen out of our history books.”

June 4, 2021 at 8:52 am

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.

Art during Isolation

February 19, 2021 at 9:57 pm

“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, […]