Pratt Fine Arts Center

The center employs 155 teaching artists and conducts more than 600 classes annually.

[1] Pratt was founded in 1976 by the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation[2] and named in honor of slain civil rights leader Edwin T.

[3] In 1982 it was turned over to a newly created 501(c)(3) non-profit, City Art Works.

[1] Pratt includes facilities for glassblowing, lampworking, glass beadmaking, flameworked glass, metal sculpture, bronze casting, stone carving, jewelry and metalsmithing, woodworking, printmaking, painting and drawing.

[6] In 2019, Pratt served 960 youth and teens through education programs and granted 139 new independent artists access to its studios.