Wallace Foundation Awards $7.7 Million to Support Seattle Arts Community
Wallace Foundation Awards $7.7 Million to Support Seattle Arts Community
The Wallace Foundation has announced grants totaling $7.7 million to foster growth in Seattle arts attendance and identify, develop, and share useful lessons on how arts organizations can reach more individuals.
Nine arts organizations will receive Wallace Excellence Awards totaling $6.1 million to pioneer effective practices to engage more individuals in high-value arts activities. Grants ranging from $500,000 to $750,000 were awarded to the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, One Reel, On the Boards, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Association, the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Opera, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Youth Symphony, and SIFF (Cinema Seattle). Grantees also will receive technical assistance to help gather reliable evidence on program effectiveness.
In addition, $1.6 million was awarded as part of a four-year partnership with the Washington State Arts Commission and the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to create a learning network for all Puget Sound arts organizations and support audience building throughout the region. Leading local arts funders, including the Seattle and Paul G. Allen Family foundations, will help inform and advise the project.
"The Excellence Awards honor organizations that have made a commitment to engage more people deeply in the arts part of their DNA," said Wallace Foundation president M. Christine DeVita. "We created these awards to shine national attention on the importance of drawing more people into the arts, to encourage organizations to sustain and expand the impact of their work with constituencies, and to generate an assortment of useful, broadly applicable lessons and practices that will be helpful to the field."
“The Wallace Foundation Awards $7.7 Million to Support Seattle's Arts Community.”
Wallace Foundation Press Release
11/19/08.
Primary Subject: Arts and Culture
Location(s): Seattle, Washington
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