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Art Works other media moved to the Pratt facility; 1980 city support of all its performing-visual arts facilities was withdrawn, but the were allowed to remain in city building with the proviso that the programs become self-supporting; 1984 administration of Seward and Pratt was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.
From the description of Seward Park Art Studio records, 1973-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70966664
