For Candidates

Hello from the Seattle Arts Voter Guide!

Compiled by independent volunteers from Seattle, the nonpartisan guide includes statements by Candidates on how they imagine arts as part of Seattle. The guide neither endorses nor opposes any candidate.

We are inviting you to participate in the guide. Here’s how: 

Email arts@seattleartsvoterguide.com at anytime to share your arts platform that we will post on this website, and share on our social media platforms. Email us with the following:

  • 1) An attachment or link to preferred image or images we can use in listing your platform.
  • 2) Your arts platform / statement on the arts (any word length). Consider engaging with the following questions:
    • What is your arts platform? 
    • How do the arts reflect the voices, perspectives, and communities in your district? What are challenges and opportunities? 
    • How do you envision the arts as part of Seattle, especially as part of critical issues including access, affordability, displacement, education, and racial equity? Do you have any policy ideas around addressing these issues? 
    • The aftershocks of Covid and federal arts funding cuts are still being felt by artists and cultural organizations. Please share policy ideas you may have that aim to stabilize the cultural industry and increase cultural engagement to increase quality of life for communities across King County/Seattle? If you don’t have policy ideas right now, what process would you initiate to determine new opportunities in these areas? 
    • How do you plan to work with governmental agencies including the Office of Arts and Culture and the Seattle Arts Commission? 
    • Describe a meaningful arts experience that has stayed with you over time. How have the arts affected your life?
  • 3) Link(s) to your campaign website and/or social media pages (we will link and tag these in our post with your platform).

We ask that you email us (arts@seattleartsvoterguide.com) as soon a possible to give voters enough time to engage your platform.

As your platform comes in, we will post it on our website, as well as our Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, and Bluesky accounts, and share it with our networks of arts lovers, artists, arts organizations, and community members ahead of the August 5, 2025 Primary Election.

Thank you!!

-Seattle Arts Voter Guide