ShoreLake Arts

ShoreLake Arts is a community-based arts organization whose mission is to cultivate creativity and inspire our community through the arts. In 1989, a group of people seeking to enhance their community formed the Shoreline Arts Council, now ShoreLake Arts, to support, present, and encourage the arts in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. This nonprofit, community-based organization enriches the life of every resident by not only promoting public awareness of the arts, but by making art available in all its forms. As the premier arts coordinator and sponsor, the ShoreLake Arts continues to bring a wide variety of art experiences to Shoreline and Lake Forest Park with events such as Concerts in the Park, cultural celebrations, and an annual film festival. The Gallery at the Town Center presents seven exhibits a year featuring artists representing virtually every medium from paint, to fiber, to photography, to sculpture. ShoreLake Arts also supports Arts Education programs and arts camps for elementary-aged students and teens. ShoreLake Arts also collaborates with other agencies such as the libraries, Shoreline Community College, Senior Center, Kruckeberg Botanic Garden, Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park, The Shoreline Historical Museum and the Cities of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park to ensure a wealth of quality arts experiences throughout the year.

ShoreLake Arts values the arts as basic to the human spirit, as creative connections to a diverse world, and as a measure of civilization. The vision of ShoreLake Arts is that the arts will be a valued and integral part of the Shoreline/Lake Forest Park community, thus ensuring a high quality of life for all residents and the community as a whole. We: promote of public awareness of the arts in the community; coordinate and sponsorship of performances, exhibitions, and other arts programs, activities and events which will benefit and compliment the total community development advocate for support for the arts and arts programs and organizations in the community sponsor, present, promote and support educational programs for the benefit of the community concerning all aspects of the visual and performing arts provide financial and other support for arts organizations, artists, arts activities and projects.