by Jasmyne Keimig • Mar 12, 2021 at 11:28 am
A big ole artist enclave in the Chinatown-International District is up for sale. Photo by JONATHAN VANDERWEIT
News of the potential sale of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) building rattled the artist community that has called the space home for over a decade. Housed inside the historic building in the Chinatown-International District since 2010, Inscape Arts bills itself as the “largest arts and culture enclave in Seattle,” with upwards of 125 tenants and over 77,000 square feet of space. It s like a last refuge for artists that have had to move out of multiple spaces already, said Dan Hudson, executive director of the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, whose offices are located in the building. Having worked inside the Inscape for years, Hudson is unsettled by what a potential sale could mean for the artists in the building.
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In the ensuing five years, a growing collective of artists and community members came on to invest funding, sweat equity or both in a vacant historic theater. This December, the collective now a total of 33 community partners received city funding to buy the building outright. By the end of 2021, they hope, Black and Tan Hall will open as the community hub they originally envisioned.
“We’ve put a lot of sweat and dreaming into the 5608 property,” says Black and Tan partner Joe Seamons, referring to the venue’s address at 5608 Rainier Avenue South. “I’m excited about walking into our building and there’s a whole slew of programs an after school program, followed by a dinner theater event with food cooked by local chefs, and after that there’s a proper dance, and then there’s a late-night hour,” he adds. “All those things we can make happen in a single night.”