ARTS@King Street Station
Creating Municipal Cultural Space
In 2019, Chief Seattle’s great-great-great-great-grandson and I held the ends of the ceremonial ribbon that the Mayor of Seattle cut, officially opening ARTS@King Street Station, an 8,000-square-foot cultural space at the top of a 100-year-old train station.
It was a project I conceived and executed for the City of Seattle. I coordinated the architectural, historic, permitting, programmatic design of the space, and collaborated with the City team to develop the programming model.
The project is the winner of more than a dozen architectural design awards, including an American Institute of Architects Civic Design Award (2020).
Delivering Spaces
I programmed two years of pop-up community-based arts programming in the space prior to the large capital project, which I also launched.
I worked to coordinate the work of various design teams and community stakeholders to codify a vision for the space that both learned from an international scan of similar spaces, and created something ultimately unique, something that reflected Seattle from one of its most treasured historic city-owned spaces.