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Challenging Assumptions
The Central District Art Forum has been supporting new ideas since 1999
By Kate Guenther
In 1999 Stephanie Ellis-Smith performed a cultural experiment. For a long time she had been noticing that Seattle was lacking an African-American arts scene. She saw interest, and talent, but no action.
Published January 16, 2009 - News
Starbucks: The Gentle Giant
Swapping greed for good
By Kate Guenther
The Starbucks at 23rd and Jackson, on any given weekday between 11:40 and 12:20 is a swarm of hungry Garfield students. But if you can get enough personal space to take a look around, peering over shoulders and around overloaded backpacks, you’ll see a series of familiar faces on each visit.
Published January 16, 2009 - News
Night Writers
A peek into the world of outlaw art
By Kate Guenther
An exploration into the inside world of the secretive and deeply divided world of graffiti.
Published January 16, 2009 - Focus
Link Me Up
This art program is hooking kids up with their futures
By Kate Guenther
The sunny room on the sixth floor of Cornish College smelled like paint. The crisp November air seeped in to the room, packed with high school students, painting shoulder to shoulder, their brows furrowed, as their arms whipped and darted, working paint into canvas.
Published December 5, 2008 - News
“I Got Mugged”
An all-too-common phrase
By Kate Guenther
Junior Raymond* said he was waiting outside Ezell’s when someone walked up and demanded that he give them a dollar. He said no, but the boy kept pushing, asking him again and again; following him into Ezell’s, down the street and to the bus stop, gathering friends as he went. After a few blocks Raymond tried to give up, bringing out his his wallet to hand over the dough.
Published November 14, 2008 - News
Obama Won (and Some Other Stuff Too)
My election wrap-up
By Kate Guenther
I was expecting this presidential race to be a close one. I was prepared for a late night of nail-biting and couch-squirming supplemented by a good amount of comfort food before being delivered the tantalizing results. But I didn’t even get to stay up past my bed time.
Published November 14, 2008 - Opinion
Under Pressure
Sacrificing nights to blank computer screens
By Kate Guenther
It’s four o’clock in the morning and I am slumped against the wall in bed, my computer propped against my knees. I have three hours. Three hours before my ride pulls up and I have to be in that car.
Published October 3, 2008 - Opinion
Snip Snip
The Bulldogs bust back into the Doghouse
By Kate Guenther
You could see the purple pride from a block away. Lines of bulldogs snaked through the neighborhood last Tuesday to break the ribbon on the new Garfield and get back to the doghouse for the first time in two years.
Published September 12, 2008 - News
Seeds in the Sand
The Dalai Lama’s message falls flat
By Kate Guenther
Crowds filled Key Arena and Quest Field from April 12th through the 18th, drawn by celebrities like Dave Matthews and icons like the Dalai Lama, who spoke about how kindness could fit into everyday life.
Published May 30, 2008 - News
Getting Folked Up
Bulldogs get involved with the festival
By Kate Guenther
Every year, over Memorial Day weekend the Seattle Center is transformed from a dewy, sleepy park, just kissed by spring, into a honking hollering hullabaloo, that grabs summer by it’s collar and yanks it in to fingers that play blues beneath the open sky, throats that laugh and sing, and hundreds of feet that pound trampled grass to the same beat.