Arts & Life How an invisible Seattle neighborhood is making itself known, one mural at a time. Lake City is a neighborhood at a tipping point. Kamna Shastri
Arts & Life How the arts can be Seattle schools’ stealth weapons in the fight for racial equity Seattle's Creative Advantage program is about arts education, but it's also about racial equity Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Bravissima! Seattle Opera opens curtains on its shiny new home After more than 20 years of plans and fundraising, Seattle Opera's new home is complete. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Seattle Symphony musicians take their instruments to Monroe Correctional Complex Most classical music lovers listen to live performances in a plush concert hall; armed guards and barbed wire barricades surround the inmates who make up the audience at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Tacomans just voted to tax themselves for arts funding Tacomans have done what King County residents could not: They've passed new tax to raise money for the arts. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Seattle Art Museum director Kimerly Rorshach announces her impending retirement Kimerly Rorshach says she'll step down from SAM next fall, the day after the grand re-opening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life How does choreography survive? Check out these diagrams Playwrights create written scripts; music composers write down scores. But how do you write down and save a dance? Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Can Seattle theaters beat the scalper bots? Washington state outlawed automated ticket bots in 2015, but resales are still legal. And Seattle arts organizations worry that consumers are being duped by deceptive websites that mimic their own. Marcie Sillman
Arts & Life Oh phooey! SAM won't be getting 'Chop Suey' In 2007 patron Barney Ebsworth promised an Edward Hopper painting to Seattle Art Museum. After Ebsworth's death, his heirs decided to put the painting and more than 80 valuable artworks up for auction. Marcie Sillman
PNB launches program to foster female choreographers Many ballet dancers are women, but far fewer women actually create the dances we see onstage. Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet school wants to help... Marcie Sillman
