King County’s world-class arts community needs help to continue thriving. Local artists, who mostly work for themselves or nonprofits, need affordable housing and benefits. They also need customers for their books, music and other artwork. Arts organizations of all sizes need administrative support to retain staff, advance missions, broaden participation and raise funds —especially as traditional funding sources dry up. The region’s growing community of small or informal organizations needs long-term financial support to establish a foothold. New technology, information and collaborations can help artists and arts organizations create new works, or improve access to resources.
- Give long-term operating support to arts organizations.
- Identify and teach best management practices at arts and culture organizations so they can build participation, improve leadership or solidify operations.
- Provide professional development opportunities for artists and arts managers through internships, classes, technical assistance, and coaching and mentoring.
- Expand affordable live-work housing for artists, and integrate the needs of the arts community into the development of housing and commercial office space.
- Use technology to create new art forms and generate interest in and access to art.
- Encourage arts and culture organizations to work together and with community partners from other sectors.
- Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, allowing others to explore important themes such as democracy, intolerance, wartime hysteria, civil rights and citizenship.
- Artist Trust supports art at its source—the creative individual—by providing artists with financial support and comprehensive information about opportunities for exhibitions, employment, studio space and professional development.
- Cornish College of the Arts, a four-year college offering bachelor's degrees in music and fine arts, graduates students who keep local arts organizations supplied with theater directors, dancers, musicians and other working artists.
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