Marcie Sillman
Stories
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Arts & Life
Seattle artist Noelle Price says 'it's not why art matters, it's what art matters'
Artist Noelle Price calls her art her megaphone. “The song, the illustration, the poetry, the dance, it amplifies, it magnifies,” Price says. “It provokes.”
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Arts & Life
Seattle artist says ending systemic racism takes more than a hashtag
A couple of weeks ago, Seattle artist David Rue started calling out local arts organizations by name on his social media feeds. Rue wanted them to take a hard look at the systemic racism inside their own organizations, then do something about it.
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Arts & Life
Marcie Sillman's weekend culture picks for June 5-7
We’ve witnessed more than a week of anguished demonstrations calling for racial justice, here and across the country. Seattle’s cultural community has been the target of calls to eliminate institutional racism. But it’s also a source of reflection and response. If you need to step back and see the world from a different perspective this weekend, KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman offers these suggestions.
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Arts & Life
After 30 years, it's time for last call at Seattle's venerable Re-bar
Over the past three months, we’ve become accustomed to loss: the loss of lives, of livelihoods, and the loss of the way we used to go about everything from grocery shopping to educating our kids. Now we’re looking at the loss of Seattle cultural institutions.
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Arts & Life
Long weekend ahead with no plans? Check out some of these digital events.
Memorial Day weekend usually brings a spate of pre-summer festivals and other cultural offerings. Although public gatherings are out, you can still enjoy some of your holiday weekend traditions.
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Arts & Life
Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Amanda Morgan says the pandemic is devastating...and an opportunity to make dance more accessible.
Voices of the pandemic features people in the Seattle area coping with the coronavirus outbreak.
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Arts & Life
Lynn Shelton, filmmaker icon and devoted Seattleite, dies at 54
Lynn Shelton, a beloved member of Seattle’s film community, died May 15 in a Los Angeles hospital. Shelton’s representatives said the cause of death was a previously undiagnosed blood disorder unrelaed to Covid-19. Shelton was 54 years old.
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Arts & Life
Seattle's hip hop scene can trace its roots back 40 years, to a group called Emerald Street Boys.
Hip hop culture is ubiquitous—in Seattle and around the world. But 40 years ago, a local group called Emerald Street Boys were hip hop pioneers.
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Arts & Life
Looking for some online arts and entertainment? Check out NASH, a new Northwest website.
The pandemic has forced all of us to change the way we go about our daily lives--everything from work to school to grocery shopping. Even our social lives have migrated to various digital platforms; we have Zoom happy hours, Google Hangout coffee dates, and we stream entertainment like never before.
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Arts & Life
Can a 21st century WPA rescue the struggling economy under the pandemic?
85 years ago, May 6, 1935, with America mired in the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an order that created the Works Progress Administration. The WPA was created to provide jobs for millions of unskilled laborers who were put to work on giant infrastructure projects. But at the behest of Eleanor Roosevelt, the WPA targeted another sector that was experiencing bad times: the nation’s artists.