Community spaces for creative practice.
Hey Seattle Artists is a community-driven directory connecting artists with the resources and relationships that sustain their practice. We curate spaces where makers can return regularly to innovate, collaborate, and root their creative spirit in the heart of Seattle.
Community
Hey Seattle Artists is a community-driven directory of artistic community spaces — places where artist, designers, and makers can return regularly to make work, share resources, and build relationships around creative practice in Seattle.
Belonging
This project exists to help artists find a place to belong, not just a place to visit.
We focus on spaces that support ongoing artistic practice through shared studios, open access to tools or facilities, recurring programs, or collective models of working together.
Practice
These are environments where making art is not a one-off experience, but something sustained over time through presence, participation, and practice.
What our directory
includes
Ongoing Access
Listings in this directory generally meet most if not all of the following criteria:
A Sense of Return
Artists can come back regularly rather than attend a single, isolated event.
Community or Collective Context
Artists encounter other artists — through shared space, responsibility, learning, or collaboration.
Included spaces may take many forms, such as:
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Artist-run collectives
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Shared studio spaces
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Makerspaces
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Community arts centers with open studio access
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Residency or program-based spaces with recurring participation
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Workshop-based spaces only when workshops are part of an ongoing, returnable practice community
Ongoing access to space, tools, or facilities (such as shared studios, open labs, membership access, and recurring programs.)
The space matters: it’s physical, local, and rooted in Seattle.
Place-Based Practice
Governance models, funding structures, and degrees of formality vary widely. Some spaces are informal and DIY; others are nonprofit, cooperative, or hybrid. What unites them is a commitment to shared creative practice over time.
To keep this resource focused and useful, we generally do not include:
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Places that only offer one-off classes or workshops with no ongoing access
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Traditional schools or degree-granting programs where access is limited to enrolled students
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Commercial studios or facilities that function solely as space rental, without community or shared practice
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Retail shops that host occasional classes but do not provide continuity beyond individual sessions
If you’re unsure whether a space fits this directory, we encourage you to submit it anyway. We review listings with care and generosity, guided by the core question:
Does this space offer artists a way to return, make work, and connect with others over time?
If the answer is yes, it likely belongs here.
Our boundaries
A NOTE ON INCLUSION
These spaces are valuable and important to Seattle’s arts ecosystem — they simply serve a different purpose than this directory is designed to support.
Seattle has no shortage of places to learn art or rent space. What’s harder to find — especially for emerging, independent, or mid-career artists — are places to stay, return, and build creative community.
Hey Seattle Artists exists to make those places more visible.
By keeping the scope intentional, we hope this directory remains:
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Welcoming rather than overwhelming
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Community-oriented rather than transactional
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Useful for artists at many stages of practice