Current Calls and Funding
Call for ARTS at King Street Station Advisors
The ARTS at King Sreet Station Advisors are a group of 12 individuals who build, guide, and sustain robust arts and cultural programing at KSS through a race and social justice lens. Serving a two-year term (with the opportunity to reapply for an additional term), the KSS Advisors assist ARTS in selecting exhibitions and events, foster a robust residency program, create dynamic technical and social programming, and provide outreach to the broader community.
Please read the guidelines for full details.
Eligibility
Artists, arts and cultural workers, activists, and culture keepers who reflect the diverse communities they are seeking to support and uplift should apply.
We seek to build a diverse group of Advisors, representing a broad range of experiences, identities, backgrounds, ages, and cultures with demonstrated experience in community outreach and/or the arts.
- Advisors must be at least 15 years old by selection on May 30, 2024. Signed parental/guardian permission needed for applicants under 18 years of age.
- Advisors must work in or be a resident of King County.
- Advisors must be able to commit to an onboarding orientation and once-per-month Advisor meetings (hybrid in-person and virtual) for the duration of the 2-year term.
- Advisors must be able to work well in a collaborative, supportive, and positive cohort.
Budget
Advisors will receive a $1,000 yearly stipend.
Due Date
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 5 p.m. (Pacific).
Please allow ample time to complete your application; applications submitted after the 5 p.m. (Pacific) deadline will not be accepted.
Applicants will be notified of selection in early July 2024.
Information Workshop
Learn more about this opportunity and how to turn in your strongest application:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific
RSVP to James.Coley@seattle.gov or by calling (206) 684-4186.
Application
Apply online through Submittable.
If you have trouble, check their FAQ for step-by-step guides. You can also contact Submittable tech support at support@submittable.com.
Contact
For information and assistance with the application, eligibility or online technical support, please contact KSS Program Lead, James Coley at (206) 684-4186 or James.Coley@seattle.gov.
James Coley
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james.coley@seattle.gov
206-684-4186
Originally from Seattle, James is a professional writer, composer, and arts educator with a background in film, digital media, and music composition. He holds an M.Ed in Arts Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his work centered on the use of art to combat and overcome systems of oppression. His passion is for building cross-discipline partnerships to leverage collective action for social change. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, composing, studying history, and getting up before sunrise to work on his novel.
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Our CityArtist grant supports Seattle-based individual artists/curators in the research, development, and presentation of creative work. By sustaining individuals who are at the core of the cultural sector, we ensure that creative careers and work can develop and adapt over time, which is critical to artists’ professional growth and business insight. Providing financial support for creative entrepreneurs contributes to the broader economy and quality of life in neighborhoods across the city.
The 2025 application is open to artists/curators working in Dance, Music, and Theater (including Playwriting). Awarded artists will need to offer a public presentation within Seattle city limits. We encourage a broad range of artistic and cultural expression that reflects the Seattle’s diversity.
This program is open to specific discipline clusters in alternating years:
- Even Years (2024, 2026): Literary, Media/Digital/Film (including Screenwriting), and Visual
- Odd Years (2023, 2025): Dance, Music, and Theater (including Playwriting)
Eligibility
You are qualified for this grant if you meet this criteria:
- You are a generative artist/curator who produces/presents art.
- You are a Seattle resident OR have a permanent studio/workspace in your name within Seattle city limits where you receive mail. It cannot be a P.O. Box.
- You are at least 18 years of age by the application due date.
- You are an individual artist/curator or the lead artist/curator of a team of artists/curators.
If you are the lead artist/curator of an arts or cultural group/organization, you must clearly distinguish work for this award from the ongoing/seasonal work of your group/organization.
You are not qualified for this grant if:
- You are enrolled in school at any level (high school, undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral) in any degree program related to one’s own artistic work or career;
- You are a current award recipient from any Office of Arts & Culture program with an active contract.
Please read the guidelines for full details.
Funding
Awards are set at a single amount of $8,000 for all recipients.
Scope of work and final event details will be determined after awards are official and during the contracting phase.
Due Date
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 5 p.m. Pacific
Please allow ample time to complete your application. Submissions after the deadline will not be accepted.
Virtual Information and Draft Review Sessions
Learn more about this opportunity and how to turn in your strongest application. We highly encourage first-time applicants to attend:
Monday, April 8, 2024
3 - 5 p.m. Pacific
RSVP to Session 1
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
1 - 3 p.m. Pacific
RSVP to Session 2
Draft Phone Review 1
Monday, April 22, 2024
1 - 5 p.m. Pacific
Visit our calendar and select your preferred timeslot to RSVP
Draft Phone Review 2
Monday, April 29, 2024
1 - 5 p.m. Pacific
Visit our calendar and select your preferred timeslot to RSVP
Open Phone Office Hours
Wednesdays, April 2 - 24, 2024
3 - 5 p.m. Pacific
Call Project Manager, Irene Gómez at (206) 684-7310.
Application
Apply online through the City of Seattle's grant portal. If this is your first time using FLUXX, you will have to create a user profile before you start your application. If you don’t have computer or internet access, contact staff as soon as possible.
Info
For information and assistance with the application, eligibility or online technical support, please contact Project Manager, Irene Gómez at (206) 684-7310 or Irene.Gomez@seattle.gov.
We can speak to you in your language, including American Sign Language via video. Just call us and tell us what language you speak. There will be a short pause while we find an interpreter to join the call.
Irene Gómez
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Project Manager
irene.gomez@seattle.gov
(206) 684-7310
Irene administers ARTISTS UP and CityArtists Projects funding programs in addition to related technical support. She's an active member of the city's Race & Social Justice Initiative Change Team and volunteers on several boards and committees of a community foundation, artist collectives, and heritage organizations. Film, travel, friends, and being the parent of an emerging media artist balance interests outside of work.
Irene also speaks Spanish.
The Creative Advantage Community Arts Partner Roster (Rolling Deadline)
The Creative Advantage is a city-wide initiative to establish equitable access to arts learning for every student in Seattle Public Schools. The Creative Advantage is made possible through a public-private partnership with Seattle Public Schools, the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, the Seattle Foundation, and over 100 community arts partners.
The Community Arts Partner Roster consists of individual teaching artists and community arts and culture organizations approved to work in Seattle Public Schools through The Creative Advantage. Community Arts Partners collaborate with schools to provide:
- Student Art Residencies
- Teacher Professional Development
Please Note: An applicant can apply to lead student arts residencies and/or teacher professional development.
Visit the Creative Advantage website for more information.
Eligibility
Open to teaching artists, community arts organizations, and cultural institutions serving students, teachers, and schools in Seattle with three (3) or more years of teaching experience. Applicants must be over the age of 18.
The Roster application is open, and will stay open year-round for new artists, teaching artists, community arts organizations, and cultural institutions to apply. Applications will be vetted and approved by Creative Advantage Advisors, through a panel process three times annually (March, June, October). Roster Advisors are Seattle Public School teacher leaders and current Roster partners.
Review Deadlines:
- Applications submitted between 10/11/23 and by 5 PM (PST) 3/1/24 will be reviewed during the March review cycle
- Applications submitted between 3/1/24 and by 5 PM (PST) 6/7/24 will be reviewed during the June review cycle
- Applications submitted between 6/7/24 and by 5 PM (PST) 10/11/24 will be reviewed during the October review cycle
An applicant can apply to provide both student art residencies and/or professional development opportunities for teachers and will have the option to indicate that on the application.
Application
If you have trouble with Submittable, check their FAQ which offers step-by-step guides. For further assistance with the Submittable online application, please contact Submittable tech support at support@submittable.com.
Info
For questions about the program or for help with the online application, please contact Project Manager, Tina LaPadula.
We can speak to you in your language, including American Sign Language. Just call us and tell us what language you speak. Expect a short pause while we find an interpreter to join the call.
Tina LaPadula
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Arts Education Project Manager
tina.lapadula@seattle.gov
(206) 518-4205
Tina LaPadula is an East coast transplant and warrior for equitable art-making and learning opportunities. For more than 15 years she poured most of her creative energy into Arts Corps, the award-winning arts and social justice nonprofit she helped found. She has collaborated with The Frye Museum, The Museum of History and Industry, and Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival to curate exhibitions and events that elevate the art and perspectives of young people. As a teaching artist, Tina has taught for Centrum Arts, Seattle Children's Theatre, The University of Washington, and in a multitude of schools and afterschool programs. She has served as a consultant to many cultural organizations facilitating workshops on racial justice and the arts. Tina supports the growth and development of teaching artists locally and nationally, most notably as the founder of the Seattle Teaching Artist Network, as a faculty member for the WA State Teaching Artist Training Lab, as the former chair of the Association of Teaching Artists, and on the national advisory team for the Teaching Artist Guild. Her writing and opinions have been featured by Americans for the Arts and The National Guild for Community Arts Education.
smART Ventures Grant (Rolling Due Date)
Black Arts Love by Jenny Crooks
smART Ventures is flexible, inclusive, simple, and encourages innovation by individuals, organizations, and communities that may not qualify for other funding programs. smART Ventures provides support ranging from $500 to $1,000, proving that small investments can have big impacts.
Eligibility
- Individuals or groups of people – including youth and older adults – seeking support for a unique project, opportunity, or event involving arts and culture and not currently funded by our office
- Organizations – arts and culture and others – organizations do NOT have to have 501(c)(3) non-profit status
- emerging (less than 3 years old), OR
- not currently funded by our office, OR
- grassroots or business organizations
- Practicing artists not currently funded by our office and who have never received a CityArtist grant before
Due Date
The application is open and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Application
Info
For questions about the program or for help with the online application, please contact Project Manager, Kristi Woo.
We can speak to you in your language, including American Sign Language. Just call us and tell us what language you speak. Expect a short pause while we find an interpreter to join the call.
Kristi Woo
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Creative Youth Development Project Manager
kristi.woo@seattle.gov
(206) 727-8671
Kristi serves as ARTS' Creative Youth Development Project Manager and has a passion for cultural preservation, youth empowerment, and community advocacy. Kristi is a former Arts Education Manager of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute and Education Manager for the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Her innovation in bridge-building amongst schools, families, and artists along with advocacy in underserved communities around arts education is well respected. She has worked and volunteered with pluralistic communities in Seattle's Rainier Valley, Chinatown International District, and Central Area neighborhoods for more than 20 years.
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (LHPAI) Facility Grant
The LHPAI Facility Grant aims to create community impact by broadening arts and culture participation at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, a historic landmark cultural facility in the heart of the Central Area neighborhood of Seattle. The LHPAI Facility Grant seeks to celebrate, nurture, present and preserve African American and Diaspora performing arts and cultural legacies.
The LHPAI Facility Grant provides in-kind support for public projects, opportunities, or events presented by individuals, groups, organizations, or communities. The grant takes the form of up to 40 hours of staffed building use for a public arts or cultural event at LHPAI. The LHPAI Facility Grant consists solely of facility use and staff time.
There is no monetary investment associated with this grant.
Eligibility
- Individuals, organizations, communities, or groups of people - including youth and older adults - seeking support for a unique public project, opportunity, or event involving African American and Diaspora arts and culture may apply.
- Only events open to the public may receive the LHPAI Facility Grant. Private events are ineligible. Public events may still charge an entrance fee for their events.
- Organizations — arts and culture and others — are NOT required to have 501(c)(3) non-profit status
Due Date
The application is open and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Application
Info
For questions about the program or for help with the online application, please contact Sandra Boas-DuPree.
We can speak to you in your language, including American Sign Language. Just call us and tell us what language you speak. Expect a short pause while we find an interpreter to join the call.
Jahi Bouvier McGhee
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jahi.mcghee@seattle.gov
206-684-4758
Jahi Bouvier, born and raised in Seattle with family ties to the Central District, is a visual artist and activist. While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications at Eastern Washington University, Jahi ran D1 track & field and joined the first African American fraternity, the highly esteemed Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Inc.
With a background in digital photography Jahi combines their technical skills with their passion for activism to create thought-provoking pieces that are both aesthetically pleasing and socially relevant and has exhibited their work in various locations including Caffe Zingaro, Boston Consulting Group, Belltown Artwalk, and Seattle Credit Union to name a few.
When Jahi isn't creating art, they can often be found volunteering in their community, working behind the scenes of various esports productions as an assistant broadcast engineer, advocating for social/economic/environmental change, and performing as a legacy member of the kickball organization BaseGods.
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