Seattle residents encouraged to display homemade works of art

The quarantine and Covid-19 cannot squash the creative community in Seattle. 

Seattle’s cultural community in association with the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture encourages residents to participate in a city-wide art project to spread some joy and creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic response. Put some art up in a window, your front yard, or wherever you are to share some joy and creativity with your neighbors.

After the success of Make a Joyful Noise (applauding front line and health care workers), community arts organizer Mark Siano and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture have teamed up again to start a new initiative to enrich the lives of people in Seattle during the quarantine, through the distribution of arts in neighborhoods and the encouragement of homemade art displays. 

Some ways to participate in #artdisplays4homestays

  • Make art to display in your yard
  • Display art in your window
  • Art where you are
  • Make art to put on your door
  • Dress up your stuffed animals in the window
  • Chalk art on sidewalks
  • Art in your home and share on social media

Use hashtags #seattletogether and #artdisplays4homestays

While there is no formal deadline for this initiative, people are encouraged to complete and display their art in Seattle by Thursday, May 7 in tandem with First Thursday Art Walk. With Mother’s Day approaching, Art Displays 4 Homestays is also a great way for homebound families to come together around an art project, or a way to pay tribute to mothers who can’t be reached during the quarantine.

Photo courtesy of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture

Art Displays 4 Home Stays is inspired by Public Art Comes to Your Front Yard, a project that commissioned 12 artists to create designs for 1,000, 18” x 24” yard signs with messages of hopeful engagement for the community. Signs have been installed in the public right-of-way, parks, roundabouts, local fire stations, and beyond. Public Art Comes to Your Front Yard is a program of Seattle Together, a City initiative that fosters relationships, shares resources, provides emotional support, strengthens social networks, and nurtures our community during this unprecedented moment in history.  

Seattle Together is a partnership with Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Office of Arts & Culture, Office of Economic Development, Seattle Public Library, and the Mayor’s Innovation and Performance Team, building a Citywide community response aimed at supporting, uplifting, and celebrating the enormous goodwill, generosity, and empathy that has come from our Seattle community and neighborhoods in the wake of this COVID-19 pandemic.

Sarah Toce

Screenwriter & Journalist | Sarah Brusig (Toce) is an appointed member of the King County Women's Advisory Board and an elected precinct committee officer (PCO) in Burien, WA. As a healthcare worker, Sarah is represented by SEIU 1199NW. In 2010, Sarah created the online news source The Seattle Lesbian, LLC, which still receives upward of 100,000 readers per month. A recipient of McCormick's New Media Women Entrepreneur Award in 2012, Sarah was invited to the White House by President Barack Obama in 2015. That same year, GO Mag recognized Sarah as one of their Red-Hot Entrepreneurs in media.​ In 2016, the National Diversity Council honored Sarah with their LGBT Leadership Award. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) recognized Sarah's advocacy work with the Community Builder Award in 2017, the same year Curve Magazine named Sarah one of their Top Women in Media & Publishing. Sarah served a two-year term as president of the Society of Professional Journalists - Western Washington Chapter beginning in 2018 and was elected Communications Vice Chair of the King County Democrats in 2021.

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