Grants to Organizations - Cooperative Partnerships

The Washington State Arts Commission works with Cooperative Partners to provide services for artists, arts organizations, and the public throughout the state. Current partners include Artist Trust, Arts Northwest, Centrum, the Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation, and an arts education partnership with ArtsEd Washington. The links below open in new browser windows or tabs.

Artist Trust, based in Seattle, supplies an invaluable service to individuals: holding informational workshops, providing direct funding support, and acting as an advocate on behalf of artists across the state. For more than a decade, Artist Trust has facilitated the Arts Commission’s fellowships to individual artists, and serves as an important partner in providing training, resources, and support for artists.

We partner with Arts Northwest to provide the performing arts field with the annual Northwest Booking Conference. The Conference is an opportunity for performing arts presenters to enhance their professional capabilities and increase booking opportunities.

Blues Legend Louisiana Red performs during the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival at Centrum.

Centrum, located at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, provides artists, students and arts participants a diverse array of cultural enrichment opportunities. Centrum was created in 1973 in a partnership between the Washington State Arts Commission and the Washington State Parks Commission, and later Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Our partnership with the Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation provides an opportunity for arts administrators, artistic directors, artists, arts educators, arts supporters, board members & commissioners, businesspeople, community members, and grantmakers from around the state to participate in three days of intensive workshops, stimulating discussions and peer networking at the yearly Cultural Congress.

Our work with ArtsEd Washington was formalized with a Cooperative Partnership grant that has been funded since Fiscal Year 2008. Our funding supports ArtsEd Washington’s efforts to expand their statewide reach, to coordinate information and activities around our state’s Arts Education Month, and to support the Arts Education Research Initiative through community conversations and messaging with key stakeholders.