BelRed Arts District & Densho: Artist-in-residency call
The BelRed Arts District Community Alliance announces their second Artist-In-Residence Program of the year, in partnership with Densho. For 30 years, Densho has been the leading digital archive for Japanese American incarceration history; whose mission is to preserve and share history of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.
This round’s theme aims to help educate general audiences about Bellevue's Japanese American Community that was incarcerated during World War II and connect this history to current instances of racial injustice, inequity and erosion of civil liberties.
First Artist Residency Announced at BelRed Arts Studio
Inspired by the Recology King County Artists in Residence Program, the BelRed Arts District Community Alliance is pleased to announce announce the first Artist Residency at the BelRed Arts Studio. Republic Servicesis proud to be the inaugural partner for this first residency. This round’s theme supports the creation of art from recycled, repurposed and discarded materials recovered from the Republic Services’ Bellevue mini recycling center and the Republic Services’ Seattle Recycle Center.