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
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
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
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
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
Seattle Art Institute lays off 10 faculty members The Art Institute of Seattle has laid off most of its full-time faculty, but things could be worse. Eighteen of the Institute's sister schools will shutter in December Marcie Sillman
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
'Seattle son' Chris Cornell immortalized outside MoPOP Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell will forever live outside of Seattle's music museum, MoPOP, as a life-size statue. Casey Martin
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
