4Culture

Specialties

Advancing Community Through Culture

4Culture, the cultural services agency for King County, Washington is committed to making our region stronger by supporting citizens and groups who preserve our shared heritage, and create arts and cultural opportunities for residents and visitors.

Gallery4Culture

Gallery4Culture continues a thirty year tradition of featuring innovative work and art forms under-​represented in galleries. Gallery4Culture offers King County artists not currently represented by a commercial gallery (including early career artists) the opportunity to apply for solo or small group exhibitions in a professional gallery setting.

e4c: Electronic Gallery

e4c is 4Culture’s storefront gallery for electronic art. Four monitors, adjacent to Gallery4Culture, display selected works on rotation.

Works are displayed in rotation during presentation hours (generally, 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM, but currently dark for an expected upgrade this spring) each day. In conjunction with Gallery4Culture, e4c launches selected works for display during First Thursday Art Walk, Seattle’s largest art walk.

History

Established in 2003.

4Culture evolved from the Office of Cultural Resources, a department of King County government, which housed King County’s arts, heritage, preservation and public art office. In 2001, in reaction to the post-​9/​11 economic recession and subsequent elimination of its Current Expense (CX) funding, the Office of Cultural Resources staff proposed to the King County Executive and Council that they transition the office to a Public Development Authority (PDA). This structure would allow dedicated public funds to be stretched further through business innovations and allow access to other revenues, including grants and earned income through consulting services, that are traditionally beyond the reach of a government agency. The County Executive agreed and the County Council adopted an Ordinance approving the establishment of the Cultural Development Authority of King County in September of 2002, effective January 1, 2003.