ART GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS

There are dozens of galleries and museums in Seattle, covering a wide range of topics from maritime themes to history, to art.

• Check out the Northwest African American Museum, which showcases regualr exhibitions that create an immersive experience of the history, heritage and art of Americans of African descent.

• The Frye Art Museum is a non-profit, free museum that showcases the Frye family's collection of 19th and 20th century artworks, and plays host to other exhibitions and educational programs.

• Take a look at the unapologetically modern exhibits at the Center on Contemporary Art. Installation, digital and conceptual art, and more!

• The Seattle Museum of History and Industry celebrates historical exploration and innovation in the hope that it will inspire the future.

• Established in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum features exhibits from a vast array of cultures. It is home to the Asian Art Museum and Olympic Sculpture Park - a full day of cultural exposure in one place.

Other Art Galleries and Museums in Seattle:

• Foster/White Gallery
• Patricia Rovzar Gallery
• Greg Kucera Gallery
• Henry Art Gallery
• Davidson Galleries
• Linda Hodges Gallery
• SOIL Art Gallery
• M.I.A. Gallery
• Seattle Museum of Flight
• EMP Museum
• James Harris Gallery
• Platform Gallery
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• Bellevue Arts Museum
• The Center for Wooden Boats
• Seattle Children's Museum

ARTISTIC INSTITIUTIONS

Seattle has ranked as a highly literate and educated city for many years. It is home to the state schoool, The University of Washington, as well as various private post-secondary institutions. These include a number of art colleges and schools that train passionate students in the study of a wide range of artistic mediums and professions.

• Cornish College of Arts provides academics with Bachelor of Arts degrees in music, and visual and fine arts.

• The Art Institute of Seattle offers programs in graphic design, fashion, photography and more in a hands-on environment.

• Located within the University of Washington, the School of Art, Art History and Design has a range of undergraduate and graduate programs in these areas of study.

• Sanford-Brown's IADT School of Design has academic degrees in film, game design and interior design, to name a few. Mixed media programs are available for the multifaceted.

In addition to these post-secondary schools, Seattle also boasts a number of art schools that offer classes to children and adults just interested in expanding their artistic abilitiy.

• Pratt Fine Arts Center
• The Miller School of Art
• Thrive Art School
• Gage Art School
• Seattle Mosaic Arts
• Seattle Glassblowing Studio and Gallery

WELL KNOWN LOCAL ARTISTS

Not surprisingly, Seattle is home to quite a few successful artists.

• Greg Colson is a Seattle-born sculptor who creates works of art from salvaged materials.

• Tuulikki Pietilä, one of the foremost graphic artists in Finland, was born in Seattle. Among her better known works, she collaborated on the comic strip The Moomins.

• Ed Brubaker, a well known comic book illustrator and writer, currently lives in the city. He has written editions of the Batman, Catwoman and Daredevil superhero comic books, to name a few.

• Dale Chihuly is a glass blower whose pieces merge sculpture and craft. He currently works and resides in Seattle.

• Gary Larson, widely known for the comic strip The Far Side, lives in this artsy city.

ART AND CURLTURAL EVENTS

Annual Events

• Bumbershoot is perhaps the best-known and most celebrated festival in Seattle. Held over Labor Day weekend each year since 1971, the festival features a mass of indoor and outdoor stages regularly showing musical talents from all genres and parts of the world. It is also home to comedy acts, lectures, variety and theatre shows and art exhibits.

• The Bellvue Festival of the Arts takes place each July in Bellevue, WA, just across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is one of the foremost juried art and craft fairs and has been around for over 30 years. The Bellevue Arts Fair Weekend incorporates the talents of hundreds of artists, musicians and craftsmen, and includes the main Festival, the Bellevue 6th Street Fair and the Bellevue Art Museum's ARTSfair.

• Each Memorial Day weekend, the Northwest Folklife Festival entertains more than 200,000 visitors with thousands of performers from numerous cultures sharing their ethnic traditions. Cultural heritage and diversity abound at this long-running festival that features music, dance, art and more.

• The Seattle International Film Festival is a well known annual event running since 1976. It shows hundreds of submitted short and feature-length films over the course of multiple weeks and presents awards to the festival's most popular film, short and documentary.

Other Seattle Sights to See

• See the Seattle Symphony Orchestra - founded in 1903 - play at Benaroya Hall.
• Visit the jaguars at the Woodland Park Zoo
• Get in touch with nature at the Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens
• Take a ride up and around on the Seattle Great Wheel
• See the octopi at the Seattle Aquarium
• Catch a concert at The Showbox
• Take in a play at the Seattle Repertory Theatre

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