Center on Contemporary Art

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Center on Contemporary Art
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The CoCA gallery is located in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square as of September 2016.
Established1980 (1980)
Location Seattle, Washington
TypeNon-profit art institution
Website cocaseattle.org

The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) is a non-profit arts organization located in Seattle, Washington. CoCA was founded in 1980 by a group of artists, art patrons, and arts activists. Since its inaugural exhibition (James Turrell's "Four Light Installations", 1982, at the Lippy Building in Pioneer Square), [1] CoCA has provided continuous programming that presents work by both established and emerging artists. CoCA originally existed without a permanent gallery space, [2] [3] and the organization has since inhabited numerous locations in Seattle. Its most recent location, as of September 2016, is the Tashiro Kaplan Building in historic Pioneer Square. Today, CoCA serves the community through exhibitions, artist residencies, publications, and discussions.

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Operations

Members, staff, donors and volunteers work to exhibit international, national and local artists in a gallery setting, create events and host annual programs.

CoCA is a tax-exempt non-profit run by a working Board of Directors. [4]

CoCA launched their Archives Project [5] in 2013 as a way to preserve, catalog and share the printed materials, slides, video and other materials gathered over the organization's history.

Exhibitions

Annual programs have included the Northwest Annual, [6] the 24-Hour Painting Marathon and Auction, [7] and the Annual Members' Show. The Northwest Annual was originally under the Seattle Art Museum until CoCA took over the program from 1989 through 2014. The group exhibition showcased current work by local artists of various mediums selected by a juror. Past Northwest Annual jurors include visual artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero in 1989, [8] painter and sculptor Kerry James Marshall in 1999, [9] and Canadian visual artist Ken Lum in 2004. [10] At the 24-Hour Painting Marathon & Auction, originally titled "They Shoot Painters, Don't They?", CoCA invites artists to create work in one day, then auctions the artworks. CoCA also founded and produced Heaven & Earth, a group show of outdoor, temporary installations in Carkeek Park inaugurated in 2009 until the exhibit went independent in 2015. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Malnar, Joy Monice (July 6, 2004). Sensory Design. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN   9780816639601 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "CoCA looks back on 35 years of contemporary art with 'Legacy'". The Seattle Times. October 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Jul 13, Jen Graves •; Am, 2016 at 10:14. "Couch-Surfing Center on Contemporary Art Gets a Center". The Stranger.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "About". cocaseattle.org. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  5. ↑ "Archives". CoCA Seattle. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  6. ↑ "Seattleites are standouts in otherwise flat CoCA Annual". 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  7. ↑ "CoCA New Wave Ball, 2016 Art Marathon & Auction". www.cocaseattle.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  8. ↑ Fluxmotiv. "Harriet Sanderson - résumé". www.harrietsanderson.com. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  9. ↑ Shiffler, Meg. "Visual Arts Listings". The Stranger. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  10. ↑ "Nov. 10-16, 2004". Archived from the original on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  11. ↑ "Heaven & Earth". cocaseattle.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
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