ARTISTS' PROFESSIONAL TOOLBOX ::
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911 Media Arts
The media center supports the expressive use of innovative media tools by providing the access, training and environment to create and exhibit works of enduring merit and artistic excellence.
Artist Trust
Artist Trust supports art at its source-the creative individual. Artist Trust provides artists the time and resources necessary to prosper, supporting Washington's most promising musicians, writers, visual and craft artists, playwrights, choreographers, composers, performers and filmmakers.
Arts Ballard
Arts Ballard's mission is to encourage local artists' participation and promote community involvement in the visual, performing and literary arts in Ballard.
ArtsEd Washington
A non-profit organization that networks statewide agencies, arts organizations, schools, businesses and individuals committed to providing quality arts education to all students in Washington.
DanceNet
Created by and for dance artists, advocates and audiences, living and working in the Seattle area.
Dorkbot Seattle
For artists who use technology in their work.
Ethnic Heritage Council
The Ethnic Heritage Council is dedicated to preserving the unique mix of cultural traditions that enrich our Northwest communities by advancing communication and understanding among ethnic communities, artists and organizations.
The Field, Seattle
Sessions for artists to present new work and get feedback. (Both discipline specific and multidiscipline sessions are available.)
Fremont Arts Council
A community-driven organization created to make Fremont a fun, interesting and beautiful place to live, visit, and make art.
Haller Lake Arts Council
The Haller Lake Arts Council seeks to bring local artists and the community together with the goal of encouraging artistic endeavors in applied arts, fiber and needle arts, fine and visual arts, literary arts, and performing arts for the pleasure they bring the creator as well as the beholder.
Jack Straw Productions
A community-based resource for the audio arts, providing residencies in sound, writing, and a new media gallery; arts and technology training for youth and adults; partnerships for a wide range of special projects; and state of the art studio production facilities for members and the general public.
Kick
Kick creates opportunity, visibility, and communication by presenting dance events that connect dance artists, organizations, and the public. Through this mission Kick aims to advance the appreciation of dance as an art form, and raise the profile of dance as a cultural resource in the Northwest.
Northgate Arts Council
Representing the arts and cultural diversity of Northgate to enhance community identity through arts and culture.
Northwest Film Forum
A Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to becoming the nation's leading center for film artists.
Puget Sound Group Northwest Painters
A chance to share experience and skills with other artists seeking to perfect their craft and to learn from them in return. PSGNWP is a living organization where everyone contributes to sustain traditional visual art and do good work within the community.
Puget Sound Writers Guild
The Puget Sound Writers Guild is committed to the profession of writing. The Guild provides practical support and encouragement to writers related to planning, writing and marketing their novels.
Richard Hugo House
The mission of Richard Hugo House is to build a vital learning community that develops and sustains practicing writers doing essential work. It is a place that nurtures writers, readers and audiences of books, plays, and films, and brings innovative and effective writing education to people of all ages and backgrounds.
Screenwriters Salon
A public forum on the craft of screenwriting, featuring panel discussions, staged script readings and other events where participants and attendees are encouraged to interact and discuss all manner of screenwriting and film topics. The program is designed to foster dialogue between screenwriters, filmmakers, scholars, critics and film enthusiasts.
Seattle Composers Alliance (SCA)
A non-profit professional organization made up of working composers, students, and others interested in professional music composition. The SCA was created so composers could gather with their peers in a relaxed, non-competitive atmosphere and share knowledge, experience and information.
Seattle Writers Association (SWA)
SWA serves as a resource and information bank, providing opportunities for writers to meet and the environment for authors to achieve their goals.
SouthEast Seattle Arts Council (SESAC)
SESAC is a network of local artists and community members, as well as organizations, who have come together to support community arts in Southeast Seattle.
South Park Arts
South Park Arts is an organization dedicated to supporting, representing, and promoting art and artists in Seattle's South Park neighborhood.
Theatre Puget Sound (TPS)
TPS is a member-driven organization whose main goals are the nurturing of a healthy and vibrant theatre community, developing strong ties among the region's theatre professionals, raising the visibility of the region's theatre scene on national and international levels, and finding ways to develop new and diverse audiences.
The Vera Project
A music arts center run by and for youth. Vera engages participants at all levels of music production.
VSA arts
VSA arts strives to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. VSA arts showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities and promotes increased access to the arts for people with disabilities.
Washington Composers Forum (WCF)
A non-profit arts organization that nurtures the creation, performance, and dissemination of new music by composers living in Washington.
Washington Potters' Association
Created to promote better communication among potters throughout the state;
membership is open to all who work with clay.
