Regular Events at
The James and Janie Washington Cultural Center
House & Garden

  • Annual Garden Party

    Typically, in May each year – Outdoor event featuring special guest speakers; community invited to learn about Dr. Washington and the foundation

  • Annual Dr. Washington Birthday Party Fundraiser

    November each year – Birthday celebration/fundraiser held off site; typically, a gala type event that has a nominal cost to attend and opportunity for donors to make donation to the foundation.

  • Back Porch Series

    Monthly event on Sundays – Meet and Greet with Women at the Washington House ” hosted by: Rev. Dr. LaVerne Hall

    Sweet, Stimulating, Special “Back Porch Talk” between women, for women, by women

History, Art & Celebrations

Event Archive

  • Art Interruptions Group Presentation, 2015

    Seven artists have been selected to create temporary art installations along the Central District Greenway for Art Interruptions 2015. The artworks will inhabit city sidewalks and offer pedestrians a brief interruption in their day. Each artists installation will be on display from September to early January 2016.

    Artists, Naoko Morisawa, Hanoko O'Leary, Carina Del Rosario and Esther Ervin will share stories and slides of their installations and answer your questions about their project inspiration and the process leading to being selected.

    Administered in partnership with Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Art Interruptions is funded by SDOT 1% for Art funds and administered by the Office of Arts & Culture.

  • Open Studio Sale, 2012

    Come get into the spirit and support the James & Janie Washington Foundation's educational outreach programs and your local artists to give a personal touch this holiday season.

  • Reception for June Sekiguchi March Artist-in-Residence, 2012

    June explores pattern in a cultural context. She is interested in the transition where universal patterns evolve into an ethnic identity and how that further synthesizes into a significant personal aesthetic. June combines her global interest and her upbringing as an Asian in of Arkansas in the 60s and 70s. She uses her place of her birth a catalyst which propels her to look beyond the vernacular to global aesthetic traditions as a foundation of her work.