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Seattle’s African American museum debuts gospel choir for Juneteenth

The Northwest African American Museum's new choir wants to uplift the Black community, the region and the country with “hope, help and healing for our time.”

Margo Vansynghel

/ June 15, 2021

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Inside Cascade PBS

Behind the photoshoot with Seattle's Black Lives Matter muralists

Here’s how Crosscut pulled off photographing the 16 artists behind the iconic artwork.

Margo Vansynghel

/ June 8, 2021

Culture

16 artists, 1 message: Seattle’s Black Lives Matter mural a year later

We check in with the creators of the most visible artistic symbol of last summer’s protests.

Margo Vansynghel

/ June 2, 2021

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Culture

MoPOP’s battle of the bands continues — without an audience

Like most of Seattle’s live music scene, this year’s 20th edition of ‘Sound Off!’ looks radically different.

Margo Vansynghel

/ May 14, 2021

Culture

Mask up: In-person events are returning to Seattle’s arts scene

Here are eight concerts, dance performances and theater shows you can see in person this spring.

Margo Vansynghel

/ May 13, 2021

Culture

Seattle’s Asian Art Museum gets a second chance at opening

After a yearslong renovation, the Volunteer Park museum had been open for just 35 days before closing for COVID. Now, it’s back.

Margo Vansynghel

/ April 28, 2021

Book cover in black and white featuring Brandi Carlile and the title "Broken Horses." On the right, a close-up shot of Brandi Carlile, a white woman with mid-length brown hair, looking into the camera.

Culture

Five PNW memoirs to read for Independent Bookstore Day 2021

From Brandi Carlile’s ascent to stardom to an aching memoir of love in times of war, add these books to your spring reading list.

Margo Vansynghel

/ April 23, 2021

Two artworks, left: telephone assemblage with an old rotary phone with cable and receiver suspended in the air. Right: painting of a white woman with circled tattoo on her chest and text "turn" "life" on her knuckles. Around her head is a green cloud of smoke.

Culture

How a Seattle game of ‘telephone’ became a worldwide art event

What started early in the pandemic with a secret message grew into a global project with nearly 900 pieces of art — and debuts this Saturday.

Margo Vansynghel

/ April 9, 2021

Culture

Washington state names its first Native American poet laureate

A member of the Lummi Nation, Bellingham writer Rena Priest will bring attention to local poetry, climate change and the loss of vital natural resources.

Margo Vansynghel

/ April 1, 2021

Culture

Seattle artists are making a mint with NFTs and crypto art

New funding model for the arts or environmental hazard? Local artists, collectors and entrepreneurs are jumping into the fray.

Margo Vansynghel

/ March 29, 2021