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.