Seward Park Art Studio (Seattle, Wash.)

Began as a fully subsidized branch of Seattle's Arts in the Parks program to offer art instruction, including painting, clay, jewelry, weaving, and photography, to all ages and levels of experience; 1979 joined Pratt Fine Arts Center under the umbrella organization City Art Works; made the Clay Department of City Art Works other media moved to the Pratt facility; 1980 city support of all its performing-visual arts facilities was withdrawn, but the were allowed to remain in city building with the proviso that the programs become self-supporting; 1984 administration of Seward and Pratt was separated when the Seward artists and teachers formed a cooperative, Seward Ceramics Group, to manage their own facility; Seward Park Art Studio incoporated as a non-profit education ceramics institution and run by a board of directors since 1986, paying rent to the parks department.