Densho In recognition of the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, Densho is launching a new community art initiative: the Memory Net Remembrance Project. Together with Densho resident artist Lauren Iida, we invite submissions of “memory objects” that symbolize... Read more...
Friends of Saltwater Park First Saturday of every month, 10 AM-Noon The Friends of Saltwater Park group hosts this monthly work party for the betterment of Saltwater State Park. Ivy is a major problem in the park – smothering the trees and taking over the ground... Read more...
Kent Creates Online Gallery Now through 3/31/2022 Open to all mediums and projects, the Inspired By Greatness exhibit will award five winners with $200 honorariums. For this Kent Creates exhibit, the Kent Arts Commission encourages artists and creative minds to be... Read more...
Centennial Center Gallery Now through 2/25/2022 Artist James Borchers creates sound design, installation art, and visual art in general. Mycah Higley’s work is created using many different processes – including painting, multiple forms of printmaking,... Read more...
4Culture Deadline: 1/10/2022, 5 PM The Business and Finance Specialist is responsible for performing technical or specialized financial, accounting, and/or fiscal services in the processing of contracts, budgets, and/or legal and financial documents. This is a limited... Read more...
4Culture Rolling Deadline until 10/31/2022 The Heritage Professional Development Stipend program provides stipends ranging from $100 to $1,000 for heritage practitioners in King County to participate in a professional development or career maintenance opportunity.... Read more...
National Endowment for the Arts Deadline: 2/10/2022 and 7/7/2022 (see below for more details) Grants for Arts Projects is the NEA’s principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public... Read more...
Bellevue Arts Museum Deadline: 2/1/2022 As the premier fine arts and crafts festival in the Pacific Northwest since 1947, Bellevue Arts Museum Arts Fair is producing an in-person and online marketplace on July 29 – 31, 2022! Join over 300 independent makers featuring... Read more...
Bellevue Art Museum Deadline: 2/6/2022 Bellevue Arts Museum and the Teen Arts Council are pleased to present an exhibition showcasing young artists in the Puget Sound area. Local artists under the age of 20 may apply to have their artwork featured in the 20 Under... Read more...
Helen S. Smith Gallery 1/4 – 2/11/2022 virtually, and the exhibition will physically open to visitors beginning on 1/18/2022 Heimta is an Old Norse term meaning To fetch, gather, or glean. And it is the principle underlying this grouping of works by Cindy Small... Read more...
Burien Arts Association Sundays, 3-4 PM Burien Arts Association began its weekly, FREE on-line Zoom art classes last year, and will continue through 2022 with our two teaching artists, JR Salter and Naomi Benson. Free Art Classes are hosted by Devrim Ozkan of... Read more...
Pacific Ballroom Dance Dates: Saturdays in January (beginning January 8), 10:30-11:30 AM This is part of a four-week rotating workshop series created to give students a way to experience multiple dance styles. Adam Lee teaches this salsa dance class for four Saturdays... Read more...
Pacific Ballroom Dance Dates: Saturdays in January (beginning January 8), 9:30-10:30 AM This is part of a four-week rotating workshop series created to give students a way to experience multiple dance styles. Landon and Hannah Anderson teach this contemporary dance... Read more...
Renton Civic Theatre Date: 1/15/2022, 11 AM – 3 PM This is your chance to take part in a cultural phenomenon! Hair is the American Tribal Love-Rock musical that follows a young group of hippies fighting the establishment, dodging the drafts, getting high, and... Read more...
ArtsWA Application deadline: 1/17/2022, 11:59 PM The mission of the Washington State Arts Commission, also known as ArtsWA, is to be a catalyst for the arts, advancing the role of the arts in the lives of individuals and communities throughout the state. We have a... Read more...
Inspire Washington Dates: 1/11-13/2022 Application deadline: 1/3/2022 The Cultural Congress is a gathering for a diverse array of people in Washington’s cultural sector which will elevate science, heritage, and the arts for all and provide rich cross-cultural... Read more...
Museum of History & Industry Application deadline: 1/14/2022, 5 PM The primary role of the Public Programs Specialist is to create, coordinate, and deliver high-quality history programs to broad and diverse audiences of all ages, primarily adults. The Public... Read more...
4Culture Deadline: 1/10/2022, 5 PM The Preservation Program Support Specialist provides administrative support for 4Culture’s Preservation Program, with an emphasis on coordinating grantmaking processes. The Preservation Program Support Specialist should have a... Read more...
4Culture Deadline: 2/2/2022, 5 PM For purpose of this application, “cultural producer” is defined as an individual whose current or primary occupation, paid or unpaid, is within 4Culture’s program areas: heritage, historic preservation, art, and public art. This may... Read more...
National Park Service Application deadlines: Consultation/Documentation Grants: 3/11/2022 Repatriation Grants: 5/13/2022 The National NAGPRA Program is currently accepting applications for FY2022 Consultation/Documentation and Repatriation grants.... Read more...
Behnke Foundation and Cornish College of the Arts Application deadline: 2/28/2022 The Neddy Artist Awards offers one of the largest artist awards in the Pacific Northwest, this year providing two gifts of $25,000, and six of $2,000, to visual artists based in the... Read more...
Inspire Washington Dates: 1/11-13/2022 Cultural Congress is a gathering for a diverse array of people in Washington’s cultural sector which will elevate science, heritage, and the arts for all and provide rich cross-cultural conversations. From STEM-focused... Read more...
National League of Cities Application deadline: 2/4/2022 The National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, in partnership with the One Nation/One Project (ONOP) initiative and with the engagement of Community Health Centers, invites cities,... Read more...
National Endowment for the Arts Application deadline: 1/26/2022 The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read will feature 15 titles for 2022–2023 programming, with books that represent a diverse range of contemporary themes, voices, and perspectives. A... Read more...
National Endowment for the Arts Application deadline: 1/12/2022 (but please see final paragraph below) Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment) supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose,... Read more...
National Endowment for the Arts Deadline: 1/12/2022 The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside... Read more...
National Endowment for the Arts Initial deadline: 4/21/2022, 8:59 PM Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved. Challenge America... Read more...
National Endowment for the Arts First application deadline: 2/10/2022 Grants for Arts Projects is our principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to,... Read more...
Renton History Museum Now through 2/11/2022 Where was the Black River?! Life on the Rivers uses historic photos and maps to bring Renton’s former landscape to life. The exhibit explores the day-to-day lives of Rentonites for whom the Black and Cedar Rivers were a... Read more...
Renton History Museum Now through 2/11/2022 In 2014 Seattleite Erline Alston suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. A year later she reluctantly accepted a friend’s invitation to an arts and crafts party, because, she said, “I don’t like to create art!” Accepting the... Read more...
SeaTac City Hall Now through 2/2022 Robert Morris’ Untitled Earthwork in SeaTac is a Land Art First for the National Register of Historic Places. This exhibit was produced by the Highline Heritage Museum and funded by the City of SeaTac and with support from... Read more...
Seattle Perugia Sister City Association Submission deadline: 1/15/2022 The Seattle Perugia Sister City Association is looking for 3 artists from the greater Seattle area to join two project-founding artists in a themed exhibition titled MIGRATION to be exhibited in... Read more...
Washington State Teacher Artist Training Lab Date: 1/20/2022, 4-6:30 PM Interested in better understanding the nuances of anti-racist practices in our field? Join us to explore both the historical context of white supremacy within arts/education/arts education and... Read more...
The following Mission and Vision Statements have been approved by SoCoCulture’s 2021 Leadership Team: Mission Statement South King County Cultural Coalition’s mission is to provide artists, cultural producers, community leaders and organizations the tools and... Read more...
Pacific Bonsai Museum Dates: 11/2/2021 – 1/9/2022 Stones are shaped by water, wind, sand, and ice but what we see in them is shaped by our minds. A bit like cloud watching, viewing stones is an art of the imagination, in which we can see mountains, figures,... Read more...
7 Stories Highline Heritage Museum Local storytellers are invited to share real experiences based on a particular theme, 7 stories told under 7 minutes. Upcoming themes: 1/28/2022 – “How Did I Get Here” 2/25/2022 – “My First Crush”... Read more...
Highline Heritage Museum Now through 1/30/2022 Noted throughout the region for his art in public places, longtime Burien resident and sculptor Phillip Levine passed away this past September. But before he died, he had participated in selecting the 21 sculptures and 35... Read more...
National Endowment for the Humanities Application deadline: 1/13/2022 Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions — such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records... Read more...
World Affairs Council Deadline: 3/20/2022, 11:59 PM The World Affairs Council hosts the WCEC for third through twelfth graders from across Washington State. The goal of the contest is to promote discussion among students, teachers, families, and community members... Read more...
Lake Wilderness Arboretum Volunteer days are held at Lake Wilderness Arboretum every Wednesday and Thursday, 9am to noon. Show up on the day that works for you. A volunteer waiver form will need to be completed. Youth under 18 will need their waiver form signed by a... Read more...
City of Auburn Now through Summer of 2022 The City of Auburn’s 2020-2022 Downtown Sculpture Gallery showcases ten outdoor sculptures of various sizes, types and mediums. Primarily located along Main Street, the sculpture gallery changes annually providing... Read more...
Kent Centennial Gallery Artist, professor, and curator J. Gordon works primarily with graphite, drawing expressive and ghostly portraits of other species. ” I find it fascinating to think about the consciousness of other fauna. How their environment shapes them,... Read more...
Humanities Washington These grants of up to $1,000 support statewide access to public humanities presentations and events. Organizations with projects led by and serving underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Application must be received at least... Read more...
Soos Creek Botanical Garden Schedule your event or ceremony at the Soos Creek Botanical Garden. This is a perfect covered venue for weddings, meetings, classes, fundraisers, memorials and family reunions. Reservations are being taken now for your 2021 celebrations,... Read more...
Soos Creek Botanical Garden If you have 1/2 day per week or more to share your skills and learn some new ones, please consider applying to be a Garden volunteer. E-mail info@sooscreekbotanicalgarden.org with your questions. A 90 minute Orientation is held a few times... Read more...
Renton History Museum In honor of the centennial of national women’s suffrage in 2020, “What Difference Do Renton Women Make?” is an online exhibit that explores the contributions that Renton women have made to the city’s history. Made possible by a grant... Read more...
White River Valley Museum This virtual exhibit covers the early history of black people in the White River Valley, from 1830 to 1970. Visit www.wrvmuseum.org/exhibits-entry/2021/2/9/black-in-the-valley to learn more. Read more...
SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve has numerous volunteer opportunities. You can help remove noxious weeds and plant native species with SHADOW’s Land Management Specialist as a Volunteer Restoration Assistant or you can help take care of... Read more...
Members of the public are warmly welcomed to join in the following three urgent efforts to preserve these treasured historic sites in South King County: Seattle Pet Cemetery Patrons, family and friends of patrons, and residents neighboring the historic Seattle Pet... Read more...
4Culture This new webinar series from 4Culture is open to anyone working in the King County cultural sector. Acquiring or developing a cultural facility often includes working with consultants to achieve your goals. A consultant provides a needed expertise and a... Read more...
This list is provided in conjunction with SoCoCulture’s September 16, 2020 membership meeting on Racial Equity Matters. Browse through and follow up on the programs, activities and readings that are of most interest to you. SoCo members can use these materials... Read more...
Evergreen City Ballet Ongoing Evergreen City Ballet (ECB) is currently recruiting talented and hard-working individuals to join its team! If you are someone who is looking for experience in the non-profit world and would like to gain valuable insight, please reach out... Read more...
Kent Arts Commission Rolling deadline The City of Kent Arts Commission’s “Give Me Culture” program offers small, flexible grants to individuals, organizations and community groups for arts and culture projects and events that serve the public in Kent. Awards are... Read more...
SoCoCulture SoCoCulture is developing a new mailing list expressly for artists, actors, musicians and others who are interested in receiving a listing of South King County-based creative opportunities on a regular basis. We hope to expand our reach to artists... Read more...
Friends of Saltwater State Park First Saturday of each month (exception for July – when the work party will be July 11) Friends of Saltwater State Park sponsors a monthly work party to remove invasive plants – 10 to noon on the first Saturday of each... Read more...
At its Kent-based Space Center, The Boeing Company designed, tested and built the four-wheeler vehicles used by NASA during Apollo Missions 15, 16, and 17 in 1971 and 1972. The Rovers made possible the most ambitious scientific missions of the Apollo Program, enabling... Read more...
Greater Kent Historical Society Anyone interested in offering a few hours a month would be welcomed! There are a number of opportunities depending on your interest. Docents will be trained to help at the Museum during open hours Building maintenance Cleaning Garden... Read more...
Humanities Washington Rolling deadline Opportunity Grants are available to small or rural organizations for public humanities presentations, and do not require a funding match. Organizations may request up to $1,000. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis... Read more...
Renton History Museum Looking for a great volunteer opportunity in 2020? The Renton History Museum has positions for Saturday greeters, tour leaders, and Board of Trustees members, all in a fun learning environment with people passionate about history and community!... Read more...
Pacific Bonsai Museum Year-round Want to help share the art of bonsai with tens of thousands of visitors from around the world? Become a docent at Pacific Bonsai Museum! We’re looking for docents who love working with the public and enjoy learning about the art of... Read more...
4Culture Ongoing 4Culture’s Touring Arts Roster (TAR) is a juried directory of some of King County’s most talented performing artists. It’s ideal for your performing artists search, for any event, size, or budget. The roster is here to support equity... Read more...
Lake Wilderness Lodge Art Gallery Introducing Lake Wilderness Lodge Art Gallery, a place for local artists to show case their artwork! Artists working in 2 dimensional art or Custodians of such artwork are invited to apply for the Lake Wilderness Lodge Art Gallery... Read more...
Carco Theatre The Carco Theatre invites professional or amateur artists working in a variety of media to apply for consideration for the Carco Theatre Lobby art display. The rotational gallery will feature local artists and provide an opportunity for artists to share... Read more...
University of Washington Museology Graduate Program Ongoing The University of Washington’s Museology Graduate Program seeks community partners for its Paid Internship Pilot. The UW Museology Paid Internship Pilot aims to create critical learning opportunities for... Read more...
by Dianna Marshall Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. Street View was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States and has since expanded... Read more...
by Barbara McMichael, SoCoCulture Thanks to a grant from the Port of Seattle’s Airport Community Ecology (ACE) Fund, SoCoCulture arranged a three-part Engaging Trees speaker series in Fall of 2018 that drew attention to the environmental impact and cultural... Read more...
Washington State Arts Commission Ongoing The Creative Districts program is now accepting applications from communities in Washington State who are interested in achieving Certified Creative District designation. Applicants must meet all requirements for certification;... Read more...
Spaceworks Deadline: Ongoing Spaceworks Tacoma is an initiative to activate empty storefronts and vacant space. The initiative makes no- and low-cost temporary space available to artists, fledgling creative entrepreneurs, organizations, and community groups who... Read more...
Washington State University Deadline: Ongoing In collaboration with Washington State University, artist and educator Peter Christenson has initiated a cultural capital scholar residency in Richland, WA and is currently seeking proposals from creatives with diverse... Read more...
4Culture Ongoing If you have an idea for a workshop, lecture, skill-building session, or program that will bring needed information, skills, inspiration, practices, or approaches into the King County heritage field, T.I.P.S. Mini-Grants can help you develop, promote,... Read more...
Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation Auburn’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery Program, now in its eighth year, exhibits sculptures on loan from talented regional artists and displays them for all to experience. The sculptures become an integral part of the downtown... Read more...
Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden Permanent exhibit Five new interpretive panels have been installed at the RSBG, giving a quick illustrated introduction to the mission of the Garden. They tell the exciting story of the purpose and adventure of the plant... Read more...
Renton History Museum The Renton History Museum seeks committed volunteers who are enthusiastic about Renton’s history, to help with Saturday greeting, leading tours, assisting with programs, and working on our oral history team. Please contact kowens@rentonwa.gov to... Read more...
by Stephen Lamphear Des Moines Memorial Way was established after World War I as a living memorial to those who gave their lives in it. A privately funded effort transformed a 10-mile section into an American Elm-tree-lined road, from the Seattle City limits to the... Read more...
by Chris Green From August 29 to September 17, 1974, teachers in Federal Way were on strike. It was the first public school teacher’s strike in the history of King County. Public school teachers in Washington state had only been granted the right to organize unions... Read more...
by Amanda Leon Amanda Leon is the City of Normandy Park’s Community Development and Parks Director, and a certified arborist. This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the May 2015 edition of Normandy Park City Scene. In 2006, the U.S.... Read more...
Home to one of the largest collections of species rhododendrons in the world, the Garden displays over 700 of the more than 1,000 known species. The RSBG is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the conservation, public display, and distribution of... Read more...
by Zachary E. Van Tassel, Greater Kent Historical Society On Saturday, August 8, at 1 PM, the Mill Creek Neighborhood will host a unique ribbon-cutting event on the corner of Temperance Street and Jason Avenue North in Kent. Late last year, the neighborhood was... Read more...
After a year and a half of operating as an independent non-profit organization, the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way has announced its first acquisition. A Sierra Juniper, crafted by by bonsai artist Ryan Neil of St. Helens, Oregon, boasts some of the most unique... Read more...
by Barbara McMichael, SoCoCulture As an umbrella organization for South King County cultural groups, SoCoCulture is pleased to have as members a number of institutions that are rooted in botany (pardon the pun). Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden, Soos Creek Botanical... Read more...
Pacific Bonsai Museum The Pacific Bonsai Museum offers an outdoor heated tent space that can accommodate 49 seated guests and the museum courtyard can accommodate up to 100 guests for meetings, small weddings and special events. Email rental@pacificbonsaimuseum.org or... Read more...
by James Daly and Greg Bartol If you are one who recognizes great organizations when you see them, then you know that two of them are near each other on Lea Hill in Auburn. Naturally, when Soos Creek Botanical Garden (SCBG) needed a gate to span their large entry,... Read more...
Soos Creek Botanical Garden Soos Creek Botanical Garden welcomes volunteers and considers them an essential resource that we could not do without. Volunteering is a great way to get involved with the gardens and to meet new and interesting people. Whether you are... Read more...
In October of 1864, a group of workers was working its way steadily north along Military Road, installing the poles and telegraph wires that would connect Seattle at last to the rest of the world. Back then, they called it “tied by lightning!” — and... Read more...
by Pat Brodin, Tukwila Historical Society Although the Civil War was under way on the eastern side of the nation which seemed far away from the Pacific Northwest, the conflict had coursed its way through the Washington Territory. Vast numbers of military personnel... Read more...
Neely Mansion Association Flexible hours The Neely Mansion Association welcomes and relies on volunteer help in restoring and maintaining this valuable landmarked property as a heritage to our community. Specifically needed are volunteers to lead, coordinate, and... Read more...
4Culture Deadline: six weeks before public event 4Culture recognizes a need for an entry point into 4Culture’s funding opportunities. Open 4Culture provides awards of up to $1,500 for projects that are created by or for underserved communities of King County, and are... Read more...
Maple Valley Historical Society First Saturday of every month The Maple Valley Historical Society operates three museums: the top floor of the Old Grade School at 23015 SE 216th Way; and the Fire Engine Museum and Gibbon/Mezzavilla Store Museum at 22012 SE 248th... Read more...
Wayfind Wayfind is a nonprofit with a mission to improve the quality of life in Washington by providing free business legal services for nonprofits and microenterprises.Here are some examples of the legal work they can help you with: · Contracts – Review, draft, and... Read more...
by Karen Meador For most people, the phrase Jefferson Davis and the Pacific Northwest sounds like the ultimate historical paradox. But before he became President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, Davis had had a long career of public service... Read more...
We’re very excited to announce the first program coming out of the Military Road/Civil War Sesquicentennial Project, a joint undertaking of four local historical societies. On Saturday, October 27, at 11:30 AM, the Historical Society of Federal Way is proud to... Read more...
Four local historical societies are collaborating on a project to draw attention to the remarkable history of a road that is often traveled by many of us who live in South King County. Did you know that Military Road is one of the very oldest roads in the State of... Read more...
by Barbara McMichael, SoCoCulture administrator Historical photographs provided courtesy of Des Moines Historical Society The Des Moines Beach Park Heritage Trail is a stroll back through time. The Des Moines Historical Society, with support from 4Culture, has... Read more...
by Dick Caster The Historical Society of Federal Way recently completed its restoration of the historic David T. Denny Cabin. Historical Society secretary Dick Caster has written a detailed monograph about the Denny Cabin. Below is an excerpt. As early as 1870 David... Read more...
Plateau Area Writers Association Speakers’ series, workshops, critique groups, and Enumclaw Plateau History Project. Find more information at https://www.plateauareawriterassociation.org/ Read more...
Moshier Community Art Center The Moshier Community Art Center, 430 S 156th Street, is one of Puget Sound’s hidden gems. Located in Burien, the art center provides a fully equipped ceramics studio for students from beginner to advanced skill levels. Each session... Read more...
