Art Department Internships, Volunteering, and Residency Opportunities

• Seattle Art Museum

• Frye Art Museum

• Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)

• Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum

• National Nordic Museum

• Museum of History and Industry

• Henry Art Museum

• Wing Luke Museum

• Northwest African American Museum

• Burke Museum

• Cascadia Art Museum

• Museum of Glass

• Bellevue Arts Museum

• Museum of Museums

• Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum

• Artist Trust

Galleries

• Comprehensive list of Seattle galleries can be found here

Art Centers

• Washington Art Association & Gallery 

• AMcE Creative Arts

• Artists Cooperative Gallery

• Art X Contemporary

• City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture

• Artists Trust

• Edmonds Center for the Arts

• Methow Arts

• Coyote Central

• Cherry Street Film

• Pike St. Press

• Pratt Fine Arts Center

• Gage Academy of Art

• Artefact

• Pilchuck Glass School (Stanwood, WA) – Offers artist residencies focused on glass art, providing studios, materials, and expert instruction.

• Rockland Woods (Poulsbo, WA) – Offers residencies for visual artists in a secluded forest setting.

• Vashon Artist Residency (Vashon Island, WA) – Provides residencies to visual artists and writers in a tranquil island setting.

• Caldera Arts (Sisters, OR) – Provides a multidisciplinary artist residency in the high desert, supporting artists, writers, and creative thinkers.

• Centrum Artist Residency (Port Townsend, WA) – This residency supports designers with studio space and a vibrant community of artists.

• Allied Arts Residency Program (Bellingham, WA) – Offers space and support for designers to develop their work in a collaborative environment.

• The Hive Residency (Spokane, WA) – Provides a collaborative workspace for designers and artists to create and engage with the local community.

• Pottery Northwest (Seattle, WA) – Seattle’s preeminent non-profit ceramics organization that promotes innovation, arts excellence, and education with a mission of fostering an inclusive community around clay.

• Short Run Comix & Arts (Seaview, WA) – The annual residency offers invaluable time and space for emerging and established women and non-binary artists to do their work without interruption by an increasingly distracting world.

• Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis, OR) – Offers residencies that emphasize the connection between art and ecology, located near the Oregon coast.

• PLAYA (Summer Lake, OR) – Provides residencies for artists, writers, scientists, and naturalists in a remote Oregon desert landscape.

• Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Woodside, CA) – Offers residencies for artists across disciplines in a stunning natural environment near Silicon Valley.

• Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) – Provides residencies for artists, writers, and curators in the Marin Headlands, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration.

• The MacDowell Colony (San Bernardino, CA) – One of the oldest artist residencies in the U.S., offering a quiet retreat for artists across disciplines.

•  Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA) – Focuses on printmaking and digital media.

• National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures