2024: A Year in Arts & Culture
Thank you for being part of our community in 2024! Read some of the highlights from our year below.
Creative Youth
- 15,539 Seattle Public Schools (SPS) students received arts education through The Creative Advantage in the 23/24 school year, and we provided $380,635 to arts partners to make this possible.
- 95 SPS schools hosted arts educators in school day residencies, representing 61% of all eligible schools.
- Over 210 educators received professional development training in music, visual arts, and theater from 17 Seattle arts and cultural institutions.
Downtown Activation
- We directly supported over 50 events and activations all across the Downtown Activation Plan map, including producing 8 events at ARTS at King Street Station.
- We granted $382,500 to 51 community partners for Cultural Facilities projects, $127,500 of which went to spaces in the Downtown area.
Facilities
ARTS at King Street Station
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (LHPAI)
- LHPAI welcomed over 18,146 visitors into the space.
- LHPAI held 430 events and programs.
- We invested over $300,000 on technical upgrades to LHPAI.
- Musical production and stage show capabilities increased 100%.
- Streaming and hybrid capabilities increased 100%.
Grants
- We put thousands of artists to work by awarding $5,095,909 in grant funding to 638 artists and organizations.
- We received a combined 1,019 applications for our 9 open grant opportunities in 2024.
- We’re seeing a significant year-over-year increase in the number of applicants to our grant programs; for example, Arts in Parks had a 50% increase in the number of applicants in 2024 compared to 2023.
- We relied on over 115 panelists to make community-led grant and public art selections.
- Our staff and panelists put in over 200 hours of training and deliberation in 19 separate panel processes.