Northwest Passages

Promoted On October 12, Seattle’s former Arts and Cultural Affairs czar Michael Killoren starts handing out far bigger grants as director of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Local Arts Agencies and Challenge America Fast Track. In 2002, he quit Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau to turn the artist-dominated Seattle Arts Commission into the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, which was more closely tied to political, educational and economic-development goals. NEA chief Rocco Landesman says Killoren will “integrate the arts into community life,” including “cultural tourism.”

Hadley Caliman at Cornish

Lost Seattle sax legend Hadley Caliman died of liver cancer on September 8 
at the age of seventy-eight. A Los 
Angeles bebop protégé of Dexter 
Gordon, “Little Dex” Caliman recorded and toured with Freddie Hubbard, 
Carlos Santana and the Grateful Dead, kicked a drug habit, moved to tiny Cathlamet, then got recruited to teach 
at Cornish College, retiring in 2003. 
One of his two 2010 albums hit the Top Ten. At the artist’s last gig in August, sideman Terry Marsh gave him a soft hug so as not to hurt him. “He smiled and said, ‘Now give me a good Christian hug,’” recalled Marsh. “So I hugged 
him harder and said goodbye.”

In Transit Between installing art shows at Ballard’s Ambach & Rice Gallery, Carrie E. A. Scott installed Lady Gaga’s July homage to Duchamp’s urinal sculpture at her other employer, London’s SHOWStudio. So when is she where? “London, 65 percent, Seattle, 15 percent, NYC, 15 percent, on a plane 5 percent,” reports Scott. “Does that equal 100 percent? They said there would be no math!” •