United States
Organizer Information Short Run is a Seattle-based nonprofit arts organization founded in 2011 by Eroyn Franklin, Kelly Froh, Martine Workman, and Jenny Gialenes, and it became a registered 501(c)(3) in 2014. The organization focuses on comics as a medium that sits at the intersection of art and literature, and it centers its mission on the […]
Organizer Information 4Culture is King County’s cultural services agency, established as the Cultural Development Authority of King County in 2003 after evolving out of the county’s former Office of Cultural Resources, and it later adopted the name 4Culture to reflect its four original focus areas of heritage, public art, historic preservation, and the arts. It […]
Organizer Information Graphite Arts Center is a nonprofit arts organization in downtown Edmonds, Washington, operated under the nonprofit foundation Art Start Northwest, a 501(c)(3) founded to make art accessible to the communityand known for building school partnerships that place art supplies and sketchbooks in local classrooms. The center opened its current building at 202 Main […]
Organizer Information New York Art Competitions (NYAC) is a division of the Agora Group, dedicated to providing artists and photographers with opportunities for recognition and advancement through annual juried international competitions. The Agora Group traces its roots to Agora Gallery, founded in 1984 by artist-turned-gallerist Miki Stiles as Ariel Gallery in SoHo, later rebranded as […]
Organizer Information Communication Arts (CA) is the largest international trade journal of visual communication, founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, initially as the Journal of Commercial Art. The magazine’s coverage spans graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration, typography, and interactive media, and it continues to be edited and published under the guidance of […]
Organizer Information Town Hall Seattle is a nonprofit cultural venue and civic space, formed collaboratively in 1998 in a former Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist building in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, and operated by the nonprofit Town Hall Association. Town Hall connects an engaged public through curiosity and conversation, working to ensure equitable access to […]
Organizer Information Hiding in Plain Site (HPS) is directed by Jack Becker, who has worked in the field of contemporary public art for fifty years as an artist, educator, producer, consultant, curator, writer, publisher, and administrator. Becker is best known as the founder of Forecast Public Art, a Minnesota-based nonprofit, and of Public Art Review, […]
Organizer Information Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1867 by the Cook County Board of Commissioners as the first teacher training school in Cook County. NEIU is both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution, and is the Midwest’s longest-standing four-year public […]
Organizer Information The Grand Center for Arts and Culture is a non-profit arts and culture center in New Ulm, Minnesota, housed in the historic former Grand Hotel, providing the community with an art gallery (4 Pillars Gallery), gift shop, arts education area, a letterpress and printmaking studio (Cellar Press), and a live performance space (The […]