SEATTLE TIMES
With sky-high real estate prices and expanding attention to the need for equitable opportunities for diverse artists, more artist residencies have cropped up in recent years, varying from live-in spaces where artists can stay, to work-only and exhibit spaces.
By Gayle Clemans
Some artists dream of faraway artist residencies, living and creating work in unusual buildings or exotic locales: a tiny treehouse in Scotland; a container on a commercial cargo ship; the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park (yes, all of these are artist residencies).
Undoubtedly, those fantastic places would inspire creativity. But what about visual-art residencies here in Seattle? What about finding a room or studio or exhibition space of one’s own in the increasingly expensive Emerald City?