Pratt Fine Arts Center Hosts Open House Next Month

On September 7, 2024 Pratt Fine Arts Center swings open their studio doors for three jam-packed hours of art, fun, music and food at their annual Pratt Open House. From 5pm to 8pm, art demos, family activities, and live jazz will spill onto two outdoor stages and fill the public spaces that surround this 48-year-old community art hub. Over-delivering on their promise to make art accessible to all, Pratt enhances the art demos and activities with help from Jackson Street Jazz Walk Olympic Color Rods, Georgetown Brewing Company and Seattle Sourdough Baking Company. Jazz musicians and community-based food and drink amplify the celebratory atmosphere; while Pratt instructors, volunteers and artists engage the curious creative inside everyone in attendance.

All are welcome to explore, create, purchase art and sign up for Fall classes. Professionals will be on hand to inspire, demonstrate, and discuss how they blow glass, pull prints, carve stone, turn wood, pour bronze, draw, and forge red hot steel.

Pratt Park will be a hive of activity with hands-on art activities like beading and coloring as well as Jazz from local musicians including: Buena Vibra and Todo Es (Latin Jazz), Kwetu Band (world music) and Alma Vegas (Mexican, Cuban, Brazilian Jazz).

Artists and instructors hosting demos include:

·       Glass artists David Walters and KCJ Szwedzinski in the hot shop

·       Kerstin Graudins, Nikki Jabbora-Barber and Rickie Wolfe pulling prints in the print studio

·       Anne Randall, Jesse Bert, and Ken Coleman in the jewelry studio

·       Pratt community leaders Henry Jackson-Spieker, Jeanne Marie Ferraro and Lee Campbell lead Pratt instructors in a molten bronze pour

Check Pratt Fine Arts Center for more information on updated schedules and participants. Free admission for all. Activities surround the 1902 South Main Street, Seattle Central District campus. Food and beverages available for purchase. Interviews with Pratt staff and artists are available upon request.