Join us for Seattle Center Festál: A Glimpse of China-Chinese Culture and Arts Festival, 10am-6pm, Saturday, May 20, in Seattle Center Armory. Over the years, this annual celebration has grown into an important platform for local community artists. In 2017, it offers tasty Chinese foods, artwork, crafts and tea tastings,… [ Keep reading ]
HILARY LEE, Exhibition Manager at Chihuly Garden and Glass. Hilary started working at the Chihuly Exhibition in May 2012, when it opened. Before that, she worked for the Pratt Fine Arts Center. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and Economics from UW, and an MA in Visual Arts Administration… [ Keep reading ]
GRETCHEN LENIHAN, Event Sales and Servicing Rep. Gretchen works with outside clients who come to campus to help produce their events. She’s taken on events both big and small, and is masterful at making a producer’s dreams a reality. “I feel that Seattle Center, in a very real way, is… [ Keep reading ]
JACK MATSUI was born and raised in California. When he was 18, he was interned with his family in Arkansas. To leave the camp, he got a job making ammunition boxes. After the war, he got a job in Chicago operating a punch press. He was then drafted and passed… [ Keep reading ]
Cast your vote for International Fountain & Help Us WIN! Seattle Center has been nominated in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award contest in the category of Best Splash Pad. But we need your help to make the 10Best. You have 4 weeks to vote at: www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-splash-pad A person can… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Center Festál: Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration, 11:45am – 5pm, Sunday, May 7, in Seattle Center Armory, features live performances, martial arts, lei making, crafts and children’s activities in celebration of the diversity of Asian-Pacific Islander communities in the region. Festival highlights include a performance by The Filharmonic, an… [ Keep reading ]
AMY SIMONS has been a Resident at Pottery Northwest since May 2015. Pottery Northwest is one of the largest and most nationally celebrated educational clay institutions on the West Coast and is a hub for the ceramics community across the Northwest. “It’s the tactile quality of it, and actually mark-making… [ Keep reading ]
MANA LEE and MANA CRAWFORDS are members of the Technical Facility Maintenance crew. They have cleaned together at Seattle Center, where they met, for the past nine years. MANA L: “We have fun. We do the job, and we have fun. It’s diversity. It doesn’t matter who you are, we… [ Keep reading ]
DEXTER ROTHCHILD, caricaturist and owner of Over The Line Art. You can find Dex in Seattle Center Armory most weekends and during major events, including Whirligig!, drawing passers-by with humor and flair. “I’ve been doing caricatures for 15 years. I started in the summer of 2001, and I drew at a theme… [ Keep reading ]
April is play month at Seattle Center with a fun and lively line-up of child-friendly activities to take families through the traditional spring break period and beyond. While the campus is abuzz with youthful goings-on at destinations like Artists at Play, KeyArena (WE Day, April 21), Museum of Pop Culture… [ Keep reading ]
