Description

When the Bellevue Arts Museum was founded in 1975, you have to look at the previous thirty years when the Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Association was created in 1947. As one of the main supporters of the museum is the Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Association, who has been vital in providing public events to the public, and drawing artists from around the region. From the beginning there were essentially two main goals that the association and the museum wished to achieve: "to promote artists and crafts people of the northwest region, and to establish a cultural and educational center serving Bellevue." Since the formal establishment of these two groups, a wide focus as been community-based as seen the in the series of art festivals and events held in the Northwest every year. In addition to that the Bellevue Arts Museum has garnered a strong reputation in the showing of contemporary art through their high quality exhibitions. Today the Bellevue Arts Museum continues that righ heritage in community involvement and arts crafts, as they strive to continue educating and supporting northwestern artists.