4Culture is pleased to announce 37 cultural facility projects across King County have been approved to receive funding awards. A total of over $970,000 will be invested in the creation and maintaining of public, cultural facilities serving residents and visitors to King County.
Through 4Culture’s first combined Arts & Heritage Cultural Facilities program, nine organizations each requesting over $30,000 of support were awarded funding, providing a total of $535,000 for larger-scale projects:
Funding for Heritage projects included the City of Tukwila Parks & Recreation Department for land acquisition to expand the Duwamish Hill Preserve; and Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association for renovation of collections storage and classroom space following a year of monitoring environmental conditions in the existing facility. Four arts projects were supported, including Historic Seattle’s restoration of Washington Hall as a performance venue and community arts facility; and Pratt Fine Art’s renovation to create a dedicated Youth Arts space and improved Woodshop.
The Sammamish Heritage Society was awarded funds to relocate and build a new foundation for the historic Reard House.Andres Caldera © All Rights Reserved www.andrescaldera.com
Funding will assist Northwest Film Forum to replace seating in their Capitol Hill Cinemas. Northwest Film Forum © 2011 Matt Daniels
Pratt Fine Arts Center will use 4Culture support to renovate their Blue building, creating a new woodshop and dedicated Youth Arts studio. Pratt Fine Arts Center © 2011
The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation will use 4Culture support to rehabilitate interior spaces in the Stimson-Green mansion.Stimson-Green mansion © 2009 courtesy of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
The Northwest African American Museum will use 4Culture support to reconfigure their Museum Store, incorporating the Genealogy Resource Library to create an improved Learning Center.Gallery © 2011 courtesy of the Northwest African American Museum
Evergreen City Ballet will use 4Culture’s support to create a retractable wall that will allow them to better utilize the Black Box theater at their Kent facilityEvergreen City Ballet © 2010
Additionally, two separate panels, one for Arts, one for Heritage, convened to review applications not recommended for funding by the combined cultural facilities panel, and requests $30,000 and under. The Arts Cultural Facilities panel meeting on November 8th recommended funding totaling $270,650 in support for 18 projects countywide: Grand Illusion Cinema will add air conditioning; Photographic Center Northwest will continue renovations to create digital color studios; the new Crown Hill Community Arts Center will be able to replace part of its roof; and Evergreen City Ballet will finish their Black Box theater.
On November 15, the Heritage Cultural Facilities panel recommended funding totaling $166,613 for 10 proposals. Projects recommended for funding included the Sammamish Heritage Society’s proposal to move the historic Reard House onto a new foundation; and the Northwest African American Museum’s reconfiguration of the Museum Store, incorporating the Genealogy Resource Library to create a mission-aligned Learning Center.
Panel recommendations were reviewed by 4Culture’s Arts and Heritage Advisory Committees and submitted to the 4Culture Board for final approval. For a full list of funded arts cultural facilities projects visit www.4culture.org/apply/artsfacilities. For a full list of heritage cultural facilities projects visit www.4culture.org/apply/heritagefacilities.
For more information on 4Culture’s Arts Cultural Facilities program, contact Deb Twersky at (206) 205-8558 or deb....@4culture.org. To learn more about 4Culture’s Heritage 4Culture’s Cultural Facilities program, contact Eric Taylor at (206) 296-8688 or eric...@4culture.org.
