Two performers in bright green outfits pose on the gallery floor while visitors and artwork fill the multi-level space behind them.

The Conru Art Foundation · Seattle

A foundation you can walk into.

Three public places across Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle, filled with art, music, history, and beautiful things. Open to everyone. Free. The lights are on. Come in.

Summer of Awe Visit us

Happening now

Three amazing places to see beautiful things.

The whole season

Beautiful Things

Occidental Fine Arts Center

Wed–Sun 12–6 · Free

More than 500 beautiful things from 1850 to 1950, many made to be touched, played, and heard. Walk in off the street.

Step inside

A wide-angle view of a bright gallery floor with many paintings on both walls, open stairs in the center, and overhead lighting.

Art Love Salon

110 Union St, fifth floor

Wednesdays 4–7, plus events · Free

A 16,000 square foot room hung wall to wall with art. Live music every Wednesday afternoon, plus workshops, readings, and art walk nights. Check what’s on before you come.

Visit the Salon

Coliseum of Art

Pike & 5th

Wed–Sun 12–6 · Free

The most beautiful room in any downtown, and you can walk right in. A whole floor of the 1916 Coliseum Theatre, filled with work by Seattle artists. Free, with nothing for sale. Come downtown and enjoy it.

Walk in

Here in their own words · 3:01

Seattle artists, and why they make the work.

Meet the Fellows

Commission Artists. The Foundation commissions and supports painters to make portraits and other works that carry a real human story.

Meet the Commission Artists

The programs behind the doors.

See the Fellows’ work, find an occasional class, or watch Seattle’s history come back to life.

Visitors looking at paintings by Seattle Prize Fellows during First Thursday at the Occidental Fine Arts Center.

On view now

The Fellows exhibition

New work by the first Seattle Prize Fellows, hung together at Occidental and free to see all summer.

A painter working on a large figure painting during a workshop in the Occidental studios.

See upcoming dates

Workshops & masterclasses

Occasional hands-on classes with working painters in the Occidental studios, subsidized and free for qualified artists.

Watch the trailer

The Seattle Story

Real photographs and film bring Seattle’s first century back into motion.

Watch the full story

From the founder · 9:52

Beautiful Things, an introduction with Andrew Conru.

Andrew walks the gallery floor and tells where the objects came from, how they were restored, and why they belong back in public view.

Visit the exhibition

Impact

Where the money goes.

~$5M

Invested in Seattle art every year

100+

Local organizations funded

Commission when an artist sells

16,000

Sq ft of gallery, free admission

Every grant is public. See everyone we fund.

Buildings

Four doors downtown.

All within a short walk of each other, all being put back to work for art.

Art Love Salon

110 Union St · 16,000 sq ft

Occidental Fine Arts Center

311½ Occidental Ave S

Low-angle view of the curved Coliseum exterior with ornate stonework, tall grid windows, and blue sky overhead

Coliseum Theatre

Pike & 5th · Built 1916

Street view of the 1890 Seven Seas Building on First Avenue in Seattle

The Seven Seas Building

1st Ave · A new art venue in the works

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