Cascadia Arts Collective

 The Seattle Cascadia Arts Collective is a 501(c)3 program of the Cascadia Department of Bioregion to empower artists within the Salish Sea and Cascadia bioregion. We provide community art space, classes, workshops, meeting space, events, and art builds for large mobilizations in King County, using art as a tool for positive social change.

Learn more at https://cascadiaarts.org

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For Cascadians in the Seattle area, we are very excited to share the creation of a Seattle Cascadia Arts Collective. The SCAC grew out of the idea to represent Cascadia & the Department of Bioregion at events, and to use art as a force for positive social change throughout the Pacific Northwest. Active as an informal group of artists, poets, and Cascadians for the last two years, they continue to grow in size and scope.

Aside from being active in the Fremont Solstice parades and at festivals and events throughout the summer, members of the Cascadia Arts Collective were co-chairs for the Seattle Womxn’s March, Seattle Science March, keeping open sign and banner making areas and building nine amazing giant puppets, have started hosting ‘Guerrilla Art Schools’ that bring together many hundreds of people for nights of art creation and workshops, and are currently co-chairs for the Seattle science march in April. They are also working to help create a renegade art space in Ballard, that can be used as a community space for workshops, classes, presentations, art builds and storage. Artists were also highly active during CHOP, providing screenprinting equipment and creating large banners, murals and pieces of art that hung around the space, and on the police station itself.

As a group, they provide core artistic infrastructure for large scale events such as props, puppets, consultation, tools and transportation; materials, storage and space for large scale artbuilds; weekly meetings, workshops and hands on art creation at it’s community art space in Ballard and office space in Wallingford; regular educational programming such as workshops, seminars and presentations, as well as hosting events that help build community engagement, ownership, partnerships and art. They were also 2016 McKay Grant recipient, which seeks to support artists in their efforts to bring engaging art to the streets of Fremont, and to enhance community creativity and collaboration from the Fremont Arts Council.