76. Danaca Design Metal Crafting Center & Gallery
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 524-0916
Address: 5619 University Way NE (North)
Description: This is the gallery and studio of Dana Cassara, who began practicing the art of silversmithing at North Seattle Community College in 1992. The center is a jewelry and small-scale metalworking studio located in the University District of Seattle, offering classes for individuals in the art of decorative metalworking and jewelry design. The studio is a comfortable, well-lit, and cheerful work space fully equipped for small-scale classes (limited to 10 participants). There is also a small storefront gallery featuring local artists, both professional and amateur, as well as a limited selection of tools.
77. Edge Of Glass Gallery And Hotshop
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 632-7807
Address: 513 N. 36th St., Suite H (North)
Description: Resident artist James M. Curtis III is showcased at this gallery and studio for blown-glass art in Fremont, along with several other local glass artists. The gallery shop offers one-of-a-kind functional glass art in platters, vessels, lighting, and mixed media for purchase. Hot glass sculpting demonstrations and private classes are offered continually, pushing the bounds of creativity to always find something new and exciting in glass art. Open Fri through Mon.
78. Pottery Northwest
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 285-4421
Address: 226 1st Ave. North (Central)
Description: The Pottery Northwest studio is located in the Seattle Center and is a professional clay workshop for community use. Beginners and advanced classes are offered to the public, along with major workshops by nationally recognized artists. An exhibition and sales gallery shows finished pieces for sale by studio potters.
79. Seattle Glassblowing Studio
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 448-2181
Address: 2227 5th Ave. (Central)
Description: Located in Belltown under the monorail, this working studio provides professional glassblowing demonstrations seven days a week. There are also classes in glassblowing and bead making, and artists can rent a hot shop as well. Be sure to check out the hand-blown art glass gallery, where some of the most exquisite pieces of work can be admired and purchased.
80. Pacific Northwest Ballet
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 441-2424
Address: 301 Mercer St. (Central)
Description: The Pacific Northwest Ballet is one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States. Founded in 1972, the company of nearly 50 dancers presents more than 100 performances each year of full-length and mixed repertory ballets at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, as well as on tour. The annual Nutcracker performance has become a winter holiday tradition in Seattle.
81. Pyrosutra
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 356-4859
Description: Pyrosutra calls itself “incendiary dance,” and it certainly is. This is a fire dance collective that combines choreographed belly dance, breakdance, and stilt walking with a wide range of professional fire performance techniques and innovative tools. The result is an incredible, exciting performance unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Pyrosutra performs weekly at the Chapel Bar, located at 1600 Melrose Ave. in Capitol Hill. The troupe also performs at other venues and events around the city; check the Web site for performance information.
82. Spectrum Dance Theater
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 325-4161
Address: 800 Lake Washington Blvd. (Central)
Description: Since its inception in 1982, Spectrum has attracted world-class dancers and produced some of the most avant-garde works in contemporary dance. Spectrum wants to move the dance arts from the marginal, ancillary, and periphery of the community and into the center. In addition to a great performance season each year, Spectrum also operates a dance school that is highly acclaimed.
83. Velocity Dance Center
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 325-8773
Address: 1621 12th Ave. (Central)
Description: This nonprofit contemporary performing arts center is located in Capitol Hill, providing opportunities and space for education, dance creation, performance, and national/international exchange. Velocity has grown along with the active Seattle dance community, serving about 3,000 dance students and 2,000 dance enthusiasts each year. After years in the Odd Fellows building, Velocity has just moved to this new location and looks forward to an exciting future of fresh performances.
84. 911 Seattle Media Arts Center
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 682-6552
Address: 909 NE 43rd St., Suite 206 (North)
Description: This University District media arts center focuses primarily on film, video, and multimedia, supporting independent voices in an environment that fosters diversity, innovation, and artistic excellence. 911 offers a wide range of classes and resources, a gallery of multimedia exhibits open to the public, and an ongoing calendar of events and programs from across the spectrum of media arts. The center also produces On Screen Magazine, created for a community of independent filmmakers and digital media artists.
85. Northwest Film Forum
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 829-7863
Address: 1515 12th Ave. (Central)
Description: Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) is Seattle’s premier film arts organization, screening more than 200 independently made and classic films annually, offering a year-round schedule of filmmaking classes for all ages, and supporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers. Founded in 1995 by filmmakers Jamie Hook and Deborah Girdwood, NWFF operates the region’s first and only nonprofit center for the film arts. NWFF programs a true cinematheque, embracing film production as well as film exhibition in its two cinemas, showcasing the best in American and international cinema, as well as unique live multimedia performances.
86. Artxchange Gallery
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 839-0377
Address: 512 First Ave. South (Central)
Description: Gallery director Cora Edmonds’s international background, combined with her love of art, travel, and photography, influenced her to establish ArtXchange in 1995 as a way to raise cultural awareness and promote global understanding through art. ArtXchange participates in First Thursdays at Pioneer Square and also hosts unique events such as art auctions, book signings, and tea tastings. Edmonds has a very interesting story; it was a chance encounter with a little boy in a remote village in Nepal that led her to open ArtXchange, wanting to really cross cultures through art.
87. Greg Kucera Gallery
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 624-0770
Address: 212 3rd Ave. South (Central)
Description: In visiting this gallery today, you would hardly know the modest beginnings Kucera started this gallery with, given that he’s a high roller in the Seattle art world now. Opening in a dilapidated storefront in 1983, the new gallery received a three-line paragraph at the end of a Seattle Times arts column as its only press. It was when Kucera began working with Roger Shimomura, an established and widely acclaimed artist, that the gallery began making a name for itself. Since that time the Greg Kucera Gallery has shown exhibitions rotating between emerging artists and internationally known artists of all genres, including filmmaker John Waters. Don’t miss the outdoor sculpture loft.
88. Henry Art Gallery
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 543-2280
Description: Part of the University of Washington, the Henry serves as a catalyst for the creation of new work that challenges and inspires, and aims to deliver a direct experience of the art of our time. The exhibits reflect a record of modern artistic inquiry from the advent of photography in the mid-19th century to the multidisciplinary art of today. But the heart of the Henry is its innovative programming, lecture series, and educational opportunities, as well as community groups and collaborations. The gallery is closed Mon, Tues, and Wed. Admission is always free for any students from kindergarten through university.
89. Howard House
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 256-6399
Address: 604 2nd Ave. (Central)
Description: Howard House is a contemporary fine art gallery with an emphasis on cultivating emerging artists, and a unique reputation for identifying and showing artists at the tipping point of their career. This pioneering spirit is evident by awards won and important exhibitions in which Howard House artists have been included.
90. Platform Gallery
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (206) 323-2808
Address: 114 3rd Ave. South (Central)
Description: The Seattle Post–Intelligencer noted that Platform Gallery “is giving Seattle a much-needed infusion of rigor.” Since 2004 Platform Gallery has exhibited challenging contemporary art including sculpture, painting, works on paper, photography, and installations by artists from around the world. The exhibition space is located on the East Edge of historic Pioneer Square in the Tashiro-Kaplan arts complex.