Join us on Thursday, September 25, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Green River College, Kent Campus, in the Emerald City Room, for an evening of connection, conversation, and community. We’ll also have our friends from the City of Kent to discuss their arts grant opportunities! 4Culture staff will be on hand to talk […]| 4Culture
Althea Rao integrates new media, speculative bio-data practices, and traditional craft to question the logic of permanence embedded in today’s data storage and synthetic biology. Does documentation truly guarantee remembrance?| 4Culture
On a beautiful, sunny afternoon on the Muckleshoot Reservation in late May, a small group of tribal members has gathered in their carving workshop—a big open space that used to be a horse barn. Tools line the perimeter and hang from the walls. Wooly, a black Lab mix, wanders freely through the open doors. And […] The post Muckleshoot carvers uplift sustainability and connection with new Algona artworks appeared first on 4Culture.| 4Culture
A few years ago, Althea Rao was talking with a researcher friend about a concert Beyoncé had recently played at Lumen Field when he started to describe the collective memory shared by the people who’d seen the show—specifically the physical heft of it. “Memory has mass,” he told her, explaining the material foundations of it […]| 4Culture
Murals painted by artists from around the world line a major Seattle transit corridor, turning it into an urban gallery.| 4Culture
The SODO Track redefined what’s possible at the intersection of art, transit, and community. Now the mural corridor enters a new chapter.| 4Culture
Four years ago, Mel Carter showed up to an emerging artist residency at Centrum with their sewing machine, expecting to make some textile work. “But I was more interested in actually connecting to the place within the space,” they realized, so they set about exploring the Fort Warden grounds—an abandoned army base, a state park, […]| 4Culture
Nak Bou’s multimedia paintings tell a story that is inherently American by juxtaposing cultural material he observed while growing up in the Cambodian enclaves of Dallas, TX, and Fresno, CA.| 4Culture
For Nak Bou, every painting or drawing is an adventure, an improvisation, a discovery that begins without a plan or intention. “I’ll start with maybe some color and then that sparks the flow of everything,” he explains. He knows he’s going to draw on his memories, “but how I’m going to get there, I’m not […]| 4Culture
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