Pratt Fine Arts Center

Pratt Fine Arts Center is a non-profit arts education and resource center in the Squire Park area of Seattle's Central District. The school now serves 3,200 students and 500 working artists."History", Pratt Fine Arts Center quarterly class schedule, Winter 2004, p.1.]

Pratt was founded in 1976 by the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation and named in honor of slain civil rights leader Edwin T. Pratt."A Lasting Tribute", Pratt Fine Arts Center quarterly class schedule, Winter 2004, p.1.] In 1982 it was turned over to a newly created 501(c)(3) non-profit, City Art Works.

Pratt includes facilities for glassblowing, lampworking), glass beadmaking, flameworked glass, metal sculpture, bronze casting, stonecarving, jewelry and metalsmithing, woodworking, printmaking, painting and drawing. The Center has three buildings: the main building in Pratt Park (also named after Edwin Pratt) and two additional buildings in the block immediately south of the park. [ [http://www.pratt.org/PRIMARY/aboutus.html Location] on the official Pratt website. Accessed 24 February 2007.] The latter two were originally part of the adjacent, now empty Wonder Bread bakery. [Lynn Porter, "Wonder Bread site back on the market", "Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce", June 6, 2006 (?).]

Programs include adult and youth education (including free Saturday programs for youth), master artist intensives and visiting artist programs, and studio access programs for working artists. ["Education Programs", Pratt Fine Arts Center quarterly class schedule, Winter 2004, p.3.]

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* [http://www.pratt.org/ Official site]
* Kristin Dizon, [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/259995_prattglass20.html Boys with serious behavioral problems find a creative outlet in glass class] , "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", February 20, 2006