SeattlePrintmakersCenter

141028 Seven reasons why the Seattle Printmakers Center cannot fail 

The Seattle Printmakers Center cannot fail because: 

- it pays its own way, 

Only a small part of its operating expenses are paid for by public money and grants, with almost all its operating expenses paid for by profits of the small businesses that are part of the Seattle Printmakers Center. These small businesses are carefully planned according to the best practices of startups and address both local and global needs.

- it is part of a trend, 

Around the world there is a trend among arts centers to focus on the cultural and educational needs of their locale and, at the same time, find positions in global markets that can be reached on the Internet—markets that can pay for operations.

- it has a solid foundation, 

The roots of the Seattle Printmakers Center became established long ago—fifty years or more—when printmaking faculty at the University of Washington and Cornish College explored the connections among traditional art and craft of printmaking, new technologies that were growing around the greater Seattle area, and the performing arts.

- there is a need, 

Despite that there is an array of choices where people can learn college-level crafts of printmaking, there is much more that can be done. Thanks to the Seattle Printmakers Center’s embracing of new technologies, nowhere else is there as open or promotional resource for sustaining the combination of old and new.

- it has a market, 

People are ready for something new that balances local and global needs, particularly in education, technology and entertainment that the Seattle Printmakers Center will offer.

- Seattle is “in”, 

Around the world, Seattle is regarded as a hotbed of new developments on many fronts, particularly in technology; and it is well-established that printing is the ancestor of all technologies—which is fundamental to the Seattle Printmakers Center both in fact and philosophy.

- it complements existing institutions, 

Other cultural and educational institutions will have a resource for their programs which they do not have at present, such as study collections, open channels of communications and forums where old and new technologies are publicized.