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A free season of art across downtown Seattle, June 16 to August 15.
The Conru Art Foundation · Seattle
A working foundation across Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle: galleries, studios, workshops, and walking tours, open to everyone, free. The lights are on. Come in.
Happening now
Opens June 16 · Tue–Sat 11–4 · Free
A hundred antiques from Seattle’s first century, restored and brought back to life at the Occidental. Walk in off the street.
Step inside
Pike & 5th · Programming rolls out all season
The 1916 Coliseum Theatre, open again. Gallery walls and new work inside one of downtown’s great rooms.
Walk in
Starting late June
Sixty minutes on foot, starting at the Coliseum: down the hill to the 1890 Seven Seas Building (the old Lusty Lady), then back up for the hidden balcony.
Take the tourPeople
Eight fellows are painting in Seattle right now, each with a full year of studio, materials, and stipend. Up to 15 join next season. Here they are in their own words.
Seattle artists on why they paint. Three minutes.
“This is the biggest thing that I’ve ever done in my life.”
“You can’t fake realism.”
Meet the fellows“Make a painting that is going to outlast me for a long time. Something that people will look at in a hundred years and still get an emotional impact from it.”
Commission Artists
We commission local realist painters to paint someone who matters to them. A mother. A mentor. A son in a desert river. The painter picks the subject, the foundation pays for the work, and the finished portrait should tell you the story even if you never learn the name.
About Commission ArtistsGiving
Invested in Seattle art every year
Local organizations funded
Commission when an artist sells
Sq ft of gallery, free admission
Every grant is public. Here is everyone we fund.
Buildings
All within a short walk of each other, all being put back to work for art.
