Featured: Sketch Seattle – an SDF 2023 Pop-Up Experience that was awarded funding.
Funding support is available for Non-Profit/Emerging Designer submitters. This funding reflects our commitment to keeping the Festival accessible to all, not only designers and their firms, but also community groups, emerging professionals, nonprofit organizations, and students. What does this support look like?
WAIVED SUBMISSION FEES
To support our community, we waive the submission fee for non-profits and emerging designers. Submission fees can range from $150-$750. We recognize that this can be a barrier for many members of our community.
Why do we charge a submission fee? We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit and proposal fees from our for-profit partners support our commitment to successfully promote and sustain the Festival and ensures it is free and/or affordable to everyone.
APPLY FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING
Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors and donors, the Seattle Design Festival is able to offer modest financial support to non-profit and emerging Festival partners who require additional financial support. All non-profit and emerging partners are able to apply for these funds, which are extending in addition to their waived submission fee. Successful applicants demonstrate how their proposal will engage youth in the design process, leverage co-design and improve the community engagement process, and inspire action with lasting impact.
“Ultimately, funding support would allow this proposal to offer members of the community a candid opportunity to empower, encourage, and lift one another up after the hardships we’ve all endured.”
“This funding will make a huge difference for us, as we provide creative engagement for kids regardless of their ability to pay, while still paying our staff and teaching artists a fair wage.”
“This being our first time applying to the Seattle Design Festival, we’ll be needing all the help we can get. Thank you for taking our proposal into consideration, we are so excited to see how SDF turns out this year!”
STRATEGIC YOUTH PARTNERS
2021+ 2022
Coyote Central | Build a Community Sculpture with Coyote! Printmaking with Coyote! Bridge the Gap
2023
The Vera Project | Music Stage by Vera
FUNDING AWARDEES
2021
ARCADE | DoD: Dialogue on Design
Architects Without Borders Seattle | Communication Unmasked
Natalie Hodson and Atulya Chaganty | Monophases
Latinx in Architecture | Latinx Placemaking in Seattle
Isabella Ceriale, Isabella Gaule, Sophia Johnson, Peyton Todd, Charmaine Yabut | Hello World!
ecoTHRIVE Housing | What do you need to THRIVE?
UW NOMAS | Person | Person
Sophie Kim | Dear Friend,
Seattle Architecture Foundation | Build Your Best Seattle
Seattle Happy Places | Seattle Happy Hunts
Taylor Yingshi | Plein Air Painting Demonstration
Interior Architecture Grads + Students- Cornish College of the Arts | EMERGENT COMMUNITY
2022
University of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture | Future. Food. Forest. Radical Landscapes for Uncertain Times
Sophia Johnson, Camille Miller, Carly Crooks | Labyrinth
Barehandedart |Ripple Effect
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) | The Building Blocks of Community
Cassidy Forler, Jack Hyland, Colin Veilleux, Qianyi Zhang | Glimpse
ecoTHRIVE Housing | Building a Resilient Village: A Collaborative Design Swarm
KT Hancock & Kelsey Fernkopf | HOTHOUSE
Doe Stahr | Cultural Kaleidoscope
Seattle Fireboat Duwamish | Sign of the Times & Seattle Fireboat Duwamish – Through the eyes of the past
University of Washington Department of Architecture and AIA Seattle Comprehensive Plan Work Group | One Seattle: Re-establishing housing diversity in Seattle’s neighborhoods
Kurt Koegel | Exploring the Body of Connection
Seattle Happy Places | Degrees of Separation // Chains of Connection
Puget Sound Maritime | Sink or Sail: Toy Boat Design Challenge
Not Entirely Dead | A career gap caused by cancer is the elephant in the room.
Parkeology | WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME: PUBLIC ART, ARCHAEOLOGY & URBAN DESIGN
2023
Cornish College of the Arts | Piano Play
Paige Madden | Face to Face
Bellwether Housing | Out of this Universe
Wa Na Wari, Yirim Seck, and Architects Without Borders Seattle | Story Boards
Madalyn Asker, Jacob Peel, Aubrey Moore | UnEarthed
After Hours Design Collaborative | D.I.T
DXARTS Collective | Collaborative Pillars
Studio Waah | Are we even looking?
Jojo & Gee | Sketch Seattle
Picnic Seminar, Coco Allred, Faith Shields, Jelle van Bouwhorst | Picnic Seminar
Sarah Burk and Galen Drew | Ask Alessandra: a Tarot Teller
Slow Tech Studio | Small Talk
Iraqi Arab Health Board | What is in my LUNGS?
Seattle Made | Design Jam
Oliver Norred | Out of Hand: An Imprecise MIDI Controller
Kadambari Mathur | Play, resist, make: Stories that connect.
American Institute of Architects Committee on Homelessness, HouseOurNeighbors!, and RealChange | Social Housing Developer: A Call to Action
Curious Publishing | Curious Publishing Presents: Archiving People and Place Through Printed Ephemera
Ziyuan ‘Zoey’ Zhu, Unwanted Project | Unwanted Project: intentionally climate consciousness with creative upcycling
City of Seattle, Office of Planning & Community Development | What We Need to Thrive in a Future Seattle Downtown
Michael Clyburn and Doe Stahr | Tokitae, and Lady Justice Parade Puppets