City Arts Events

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  • Matt Browning: Best of Art Walk in 2010

    Congratulations, Matt Browning.  He got the vote last night at the Best of Art Walk Awards Grand Finale, and took home the $1,000 cash prize. (Read about all six of the nominated artists in our previous post here.)  Here's a bit...
  • Joey Veltkamp’s Guide to First Thursday Art Walk: December 2, 2010

    The openings you don't want to miss at the most popular Art Walk around the Sound. Cut bank, 2010, Ryan Molenkamp, oil on panel. Courtesy of the artist. Flood by Ryan Molenkamp / Gallery4Culture: As we enter Seattle's wettest month, City...
  • Art Walk Awards Grand Finale!

    It has been one heckuva year for art here in Seattle. We've said goodbye to some beloved spaces, such as Howard House, Grey Gallery & Lounge (only temporarily, we're promised) and Lawrimore Project's beloved original location. And we...
  • Give Us Your Feedback: Tomorrow Night at Comet Tavern

    Tomorrow night at Comet Tavern, spend Happy Hour at our almost-quarterly event, Feedback. Free and open to everyone, our staffers will be there to hear you pitch stories, tell us about your band, art project, play and whatever else you're up...
  • Bumbershoot Recap: The Portrait Challenge

    Molo reflects on a wild weekend at his interactive visual art exhibit DJ Supa Coup was the overall favorite for best drawings of an original model The event couldn’t have gone off any better. Although, I’m still a little glassy-eyed from...
  • Portrait Challenge Favorites: Monday

    More highlights from the Portrait Challenge drawing event at Bumbershoot, selected by coordinator Ryan Molenkamp. To see more, visit the Portrait Challenge Flickr page. Noah - the Portrait Challenge winner!!! Robert Plant Mayor McGinn...
  • More Portrait Challenge Favorites

    Here are Saturday and Sunday's "winners" from the Portrait Challenge. (Sorry for the delay. But it is a holiday after all...) Lady Gaga Portrait Challenge participant Leah & "Chewie" Lillian W. Way to go Portrait Challengers. Can't wait...
  • Portrait Challenge Drawing of the Day: Part 1

    The Bumbershoot Visual Art exhibits are off and running. Here is Molo's favorite drawing from today's Portrait Challenge. Read our previous post on the Portrait Challenge if you have no idea what I'm talking about... See oodles more of...
  • Catch This: Bumbershoot Kickoff

    While you'll probably be plenty sated in your desires for music and handmade hemp accessories this weekend at Bumbershoot, there are two great kickoff parties happening tonight to start the weekend off right. Tonight at 7:00pm, Spin...
  • Sneak Preview of Visual Art at Bumbershoot

    Don't forget to stop by the Northwest Rooms for the Visual Art segment of Bumbershoot this weekend. There are several lively installations, including Portrait Challenge, thirty years of Counter Culture Comix, a marimba-playing robot that...
  • Do You Accept the Portrait Challenge?

    A sneak peek at the Portrait Challenge and other art at Bumbershoot Make sure to stop by the Northwest Rooms during Bumbershoot this weekend to take part in one of the best user-generated-art art shows this side of the Mississippi. Founded...
  • City Arts Fest Wristbands On Sale Now!

    For four glorious days in October the Heineken City Arts Fest is filling the streets and venues of Seattle with an unforgettable mix of music, art, dance, film, photography, literarture and everything in between. But the only way to be part...
  • Joey Veltkamp's Guide to First Thursday Art Walk

    Morris Graves Centenary Invitational Art Exhibition & Séance / Tashiro Kaplan Building Taking over three galleries in the Tashiro Kaplan Building (Rock DeMent, the Corridor, Angle Galleries), this tribute to Morris Graves will feature...
  • City Arts presents The Off Hours

    If you haven't attended an installment of the Seattle reading series, The Off Hours, yet, this is one to try. Series founder Lacey Henson will join the lineup of readers for the first time tonight. And she surely won't disappoint. Lacey's...
  • Song Show Tonight: David Bazan, THEESatisfaction and Loch Lomond

    Special Bumbershoot Edition Tonight at the Triple Door, City Arts editor Mark Baumgarten continues the unique series of onstage interviews and stripped-down performances, where musicians take the audience inside their process of songwriting...
  • The Song Show: David Bazan and the Awkward Moment

    David Bazan is coming. The Song Show. July 28. Triple Door. Doors open at 6pm. $20. When I started the Song Show way back in 2008, I did so with the modest goal of getting the most talented and thoughtful artists on stage to deliver powerful...
  • Best Of Art Walk Awards Tonight at Caffe Vita

    The guest judges for the fourth installment of the Best of Art Walk Awards are Ken Kelly and Alfred Harris. How it works: artist host Joey Veltkamp and his guest judges see as many First Thursday openings as they can to decide who is...
  • Catch This: Best of Art Walk Awards in Capitol Hill

    Blitz, Capitol Hill's second Thursday Art Walk, is celebrating its one year anniversary. To help celebrate, City Arts presents the third installment of the Best of Art Walk Awards at the Grey Gallery and Lounge.  Host Joey Veltkamp and...
  • Catch This: City Arts presents Clem Snide

    Tonight at the Tractor Tavern, alt-country band Clem Snide headlines a show with indie groups the Heliogoats and Cady Wire (presented in part by  City Arts!). With seven records under their belt, their latest released in February, the...
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