Seattle filmmakers are transforming the city from indie outpost to industry town.
Local independent film is blooming on all sides. Led by Lynn Shelton, a concentrated nucleus of committed feature-makers are finding a way to tell stories that evolve the American indie flick and export a glimpse of local culture.
In the face of daunting financial challenges, artists are interfacing directly with the people who matter most: you. But how does that affect their art?
Americans have rarely come close to agreement about the role of art in society, let alone how to fund it. But a growing consensus contends that crowd funding is a democratizing force, a peer-to-peer system of market-driven benevolence.
Co-curators David C. Ward and Dr. Jonathan D. Katz talk about HIDE/SEEK, their daring exhibition about portraiture and sexuality, currently hanging at Tacoma Art Museum.
