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So artists can celebrate themselves: Artspace's remarkable work with cultural communities

Aug 9, 2016
For decades, Vicky Holt Takamine—a Kumu Hula (teacher of hula), social activist, community leader and executive director of the PA’I Foundation in Honolulu—has sought creative solutions that would rectify the many wrongs her people, and Native artists in particular, have labored under. “We have a lot of challenges in the Native Hawaiian community,” she explains, citing hotels built in sacred locations and her people’s overall invisibility in their homeland.
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Retrofitted bus provides studio for Native American artists

Aug 8, 2016
The artists live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which is dozens of miles and many tax brackets away from the nearest urban area, meaning arts supplies are not easily accessible and training on business, marketing and e-commerce is even harder to find. But help is now literally on its way to some of those artists — some of whom sell their wares just to afford dinner — in the form of a small passenger bus.
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Artspace Leaders Update Council

Aug 5, 2016
Three Artspace officials presented information about the progress of the Trinidad demonstration project at Tuesday’s Trinidad City Council meeting, providing answers to questions posed earlier by council members.
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What You Should See At (And Around) Seattle Art Fair This Weekend

Aug 3, 2016
The biggest art event Seattle has ever known, Seattle Art Fair, will be even bigger in its second year. The fair includes several Artspace properties. 
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Billings City Council

Aug 1, 2016
Tim Goodridge, coordinator of the East Billings Urban Renewal District, said property owners are working with the Billings Artspace Project to locate its proposed 40-unit live/work housing project for artists in the EBURD.
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Incubator kitchens serve up space for entrepreneurs who cook

Jul 21, 2016
Have a business-related food idea? You need a commercial kitchen to prepare it in. City Food Studio is one such creative space. Founder Journey Gosselin plans to join forces with Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, a metalworking studio across the street. Bakers could go there to cast their own cookware, such as rosette cookie irons, for example.
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No Plan Yet for Former Silver Spring Library, but Other Local Projects Moving Forward

Jul 19, 2016
Karen Roper, a Silver Spring activist who has helped shepherd the project, said Artspace is already meeting with artists in the community to discuss how they can obtain housing and studio space at the building.
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Pieces for a thriving Downtown coming together

Jul 18, 2016
“I think we are just at the beginning of seeing what’s possible and what’s really going to be possible in this Downtown area,” Westin said.
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A Former New York City Public School Building Is Transformed into Housing and Community Space for Local Artists

Jul 17, 2016
Following nearly a decade of coordinated planning and development, El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 now is a successful 114,000-square-foot, mixed-use historic redevelopment. The $52 million project, which was completed in late 2014, created 90 low- to moderate-income residential apartment units for local artists with approximately 14,000 square feet of community space on the lower levels.
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The 15 Best Places for Dancing in Minneapolis

Jul 12, 2016
The Cowles Center for Dance & The Performing Arts was voted top 15 dance venues in the cities. "This venue can do no wrong. James Sewell Ballet was brilliant debuting new dances at the TEK BOX tonight!" 
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