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Virginia Wright’s transformative influence on Seattle

caption: KUOW's Marcie Sillman interviews Virginia Wright at the Seattle Art Museum in 2016.
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KUOW's Marcie Sillman interviews Virginia Wright at the Seattle Art Museum in 2016.
KUOW Photo/Lisa Wang

Seattle’s reputation as a vibrant, progressive, culturally relevant city is the product of decades of vision and growth. Many Seattleites participated in building that progress, but no one has done more to develop the arts culture of this city than Virginia Wright. Over the last 60 years of her adult life, Wright has helped transform what was once a cultural outlier into a world-class art destination.

Virginia Wright spoke about her life and legacy with KUOW’s Marcie Sillman at the Seattle Art Museum on December 1.

SAM’s "Big Picture: Art After 1945" exhibit celebrates Virginia and her husband Bagley Wright’s contributions to its collection.

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