Seattle’s New Arts and Culture Development Entity Is About Power, Not Just Money

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Written By Cynthia Hirschhorn
The Wing Luke Museum was a tenant at a Public Development Authority property in Seattle's Chinatown for 20 years, giving the city’s Asian and Pacific Islander community the time and space to build up the institution until it could raise the funds to…

The Wing Luke Museum was a tenant at a Public Development Authority property in Seattle's Chinatown for 20 years, giving the city’s Asian and Pacific Islander community the time and space to build up the institution until it could raise the funds to acquire and build out its current property in the International District, which it opened in 2008. The new Cultural Space Agency hopes to do the same for cultural spaces owned and managed by people of color. (Photo by Tracy Hunter / CC BY 2.0)

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Cynthia Hirschhorn
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