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The Capitol Hill Quality Flea Center lives on in 2025 with the return of the Punk Rock Flea Market

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No construction cranes over Capitol Hill might mean rents are going to keep going up.

But they’re not tearing your favorite bar down.

And the Quality Flea Center will be around for another year on 15th Ave E.

The organizers behind the Punk Rock Flea Market have made official what was already pretty damn clear: The old Capitol Hill QFC the market started calling home isn’t going to be demolished any time soon.

The PRFM is returning to the QFC this month: Continue reading →

Seattle Parks working on plan for new memorial in Cal Anderson marking CHOP and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests — UPDATE

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The CHOP “raised fist” remained for a short time following the camp’s clearance

This May will bring the five year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota cop. June will mark five years from the Black Lives Matter protests that followed across the country and in Seattle centered around the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone and Cal Anderson.

This spring, the Seattle Parks department says it is working on a plan to create a new art installation in the popular Capitol Hill park “to commemorate the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, honor Seattle’s Black and BIPOC communities, and memorialize those lost to gun violence.”

The new project will join the nearby E Pine Black Lives Matter mural in marking the area’s place in 2020’s unrest. It follows the late 2023 removal of the Black Lives Memorial Garden from the park.

This year’s project will create a new memorial. Continue reading →

Love art: Check out tonight’s February Capitol Hill Art Walk

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Thursday night is the February edition of the Capitol Hill Art Walk and Retail Therapy has the idea when it comes to love and art:

Come share space with us. Come be in community. Find your part and path in how involved you want to be. Organize in Solidarity. Fill your cup with joy. Write love letters. Write letters of encouragement. Write letters of disappointment. Move the way love makes you move. Whatever you do. Do not suppress your voice. Not now. Be in good company. You’re not alone.

Seattle’s incomparable DJ Riz Rollins will be in charge of the tunes at the E Pike shop’s pre-Valentine’s Art Walk event.

That’s just one stop on the monthly second Thursday event’s roster for February. You can find the complete listing plus a map of participating venues at capitolhillartwalk.com.

Looking for more things to get out and do around the neighborhood? Check out the CHS Calendar.

 

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New Galerie Orsay Paris-Seattle brings a French connection to Broadway

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Like many first-time Seattle visitors, Simon Lhopiteau was struck by the city’s natural beauty when he first visited five years ago.

“Between the mountains and the water, what I recall is being able to breathe good, fresh air,” Lhopiteau, an art historian, curator, and dealer, recently recalled. “In Paris, it doesn’t exist.”

After moving from Paris to Seattle two years later with his husband, Romain Darde, an international contract attorney at Blue Origin, the vibrant, active, and open-minded art community inspired him to open Galerie Orsay Paris-Seattle on Capitol Hill.

Located in the Loveless Building at the north end of Broadway’s commercial strip, the gallery occupies the vacated storefront occupied for 10 years by the clothing company Freeman. It’s an expansion of Lhopiteau’s Paris gallery, which he opened in 2004.

“When we were considering moving to Seattle, I thought about either getting older in my gallery in Paris or getting younger with a new adventure and a new gallery in Seattle,” Lhopiteau, 59, explained. “I chose to get younger!” Continue reading →

It’s already the first second Thursday of 2025 — Take your first Capitol Hill Art Walk of the year

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Sandbox recently featured the work of Brandon Thomas (Image: Sandbox Seattle)

While the number of participating venues in tonight’s first Capitol Hill Art Walk of the new year falls just short of 25, that is still a hell of a lot of neighborhood art.

Start 2025 off right by checking out a venue or two on this first second Thursday of the year.

There is also a new participant in the Walk. Sandbox Seattle is a new addition to the mix adding a a video and photo studio, co-working space, and lounge at 1417 10th Ave. The studio is hosting a new exhibit from Lucille Groleau “featuring a series of eight oil paintings, six small 8×10 framed paintings and two larger pieces on stretched canvas.” Sandbox is also showcasing a selection of printed photographs from our local studio collective through January.

Learn more and check out a map of all participating venues at capitolhillartwalk.com.

For more neighborhoods things to do, check out the CHS Calendar.

 

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Queertique is creating ‘a physical place’ for queer lifestyle, art, and artisans just below the surface of Pike/Pine

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Once home to the subterranean retail of the neighborhood Castle Megastore sex shop, Queertique is now growing below E Pike as a place for queer creativity, commerce, and community.

Owner Tyler Huang tells CHS he hopes the newly debuted Queertique will grow as a gallery, store, and community hub on the block home to the Wildrose, Bimbos, Big Marios, and Cafe Vita. Built out by Huang and brought to life with art and design from friends and collaborators, the old sex shop space is a reclamation for “independent queer artisans and beyond.”

“First place I bought a bottle of lube,” Huang reminisces. “I’m really happy to be back and keeping it in the community.”

Queertique was born in the desert. Huang said his move to Palm Springs where the lifestyle business was first created involved him bringing a little of the Pacific Northwest’s green spirit to the dry region known as a queer citadel through history and into the present day. Continue reading →

Meet the Capitol Hill artist | Painter Elinore Bucholtz is finding her destiny in art inside a Broadway salon

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Meet the Capitol Hill Artist is an occasional series on CHS documenting the lives of the neighborhood’s artists and the creators behind the neighborhood’s galleries and arts venues

Call it kismet. Earlier this year, 85-year-old painter and Capitol Hill resident Elinore Bucholtz treated herself to a shampoo at a Broadway salon and noticed art on the walls. She asked the owner, Heather Caldwell, if she might consider hanging her abstract paintings. Caldwell liked what she saw, and, last month, Bucholtz hung 10 of her bright and colorful paintings at Capitol Hill’s Kismet Salon & Spa.

“She told me she liked changing things out and wanted to put my work up,” said Bucholtz during a recent interview at the salon. “Really, she gave me the opportunity.”

It’s hardly the first time Bucholtz has displayed her art in the neighborhood. Her work has been shown at Chophouse Row, Starbucks on Olive Way, Ada’s Discovery Café, and Roy Street Coffee & Tea—all during Capitol Hill Art Walk. She’s had solo shows at Joe Bar, Café Ladro in Edmonds, Fresh Flours Bakery on Beacon Hill, and Equinox Gallery in Georgetown. Not bad for someone who moved to Seattle in 2017 and only started to paint at age 56. “I never dreamed of doing art before then,” she said. “I couldn’t draw anything when I was young. I didn’t even doodle.” Continue reading →

There’s an art exhibition opening this weekend below the I-5 freeway between Eastlake and Capitol Hill

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Artist Matthew Offenbacher has chosen an unusual gallery for a painting exhibition in his neighborhood spanning Capitol Hill and Eastlake set to open this weekend.

“It really was calling to me. It’s very much like a lot of spaces the city has been sweeping encampments from,” Offenbacher says of the liminal space of the I-5 Colonnade, the sloping, 7.5 acre park beneath the echoing freeway.

Offenbacher’s Charms exhibition includes seven paintings mounted on columns that support the elevated freeway between Capitol Hill and Eastlake.

“I made these paintings using aluminum foil, holographic film and glitter, and am thinking of them as protection charms for the city,” Offenbacher writes about the showing.

A visual artists who has been creating and organizing in Seattle for more than a decade, Offenbacher said the new show is a return to creating inspired by the 2020 protests, the Seattle police and prison abolitionist groups Defend the Defund, and the Seattle Solidarity Budget.

“I took a big step back and reevaluated my role as an artist,” Offenbacher said. “This show is a first attempt at how to bring these things together.” Continue reading →

Knitting together crochet, coffee, and community, Stitch Cafe now open on Capitol Hill

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With yarns from around the world waiting for busy hands and Upright Tree Coffee brewing, Stitch Cafe is now open for Capitol Hill crafters and those in need of a visit to a “cozy little corner of the world.”

The cafe’s October artists wall is a showcase of what is possible with creations from artists our.common.thread, Stitch Tits, and Peach Needle Art Studio.

CHS reported here in July on the plans for the offee and crochet cafe from first-time owner Sarah Chae who said she was hoping to create a space where the neighborhood can gather to craft — the kind of space she has been looking for in Seattle. Continue reading →

City says annual repainting of Capitol Hill Black Lives Matter street mural to take place this month — if weather cooperates

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The City of Seattle and the group of artists that shepherd the creation are hoping for a run of dry October weather for the annual repainting of the Capitol Hill Black Lives Matter street mural.

The Seattle Department of Transportation says the collaboration with the Vivid Matter Collective to care for the mural remains intact along with help from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture to gather every year to clean up and repaint portions of the street-tall E Pine mural.

SDOT crews were spotted at work on the the clean-up around the mural in September but a planned repainting event never took place due to rain, the collective said.

The city says the repainting “to restore the mural’s colors and vibrancy” requires good weather and is hoped to take place the weekend of October 19th or October 26th depending on the forecast. Current forecasts call for stretches of drizzle that could further delay the effort.

Vivid Matter Collective has yet to announce a new date for its 2024 effort

The Vivid Matter Collective shepherds the long-term responsibility of maintaining the Black Lives Matter mural created by artists and activists in 2020 in the first days of the protests in Seattle. Continue reading →