Headquarters Washington, United States | Founded 1997 | |
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Similar Copper Canyon Press, Cornish College of the Arts, Northwest African American, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Taproot Theatre Company | ||
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About
Hugo House was founded in 1997 by Linda Jaech, Frances McCue, and Andrea Lewis. These three writers believed Seattle needed a center for local writers and readers to find a community and create new work. In 1999, Laura Hirschfield described the nonprofit organization: "Richard Hugo House is a two-year-old literary arts center in Seattle named after the Seattle-born poet and creative writing teacher Richard Hugo who wrote squarely and poignantly about people and places often overlooked."
Several new programs were created at Hugo House during the 2000s by Program Director Brian McGuigan, including Cheap Wine and Poetry (in 2005) Cheap Beer and Prose (in 2008), and the Made at Hugo House fellowship. McGuigan left Hugo House in 2014.
In 2012, Tree Swenson became the Executive Director of Hugo House.
House
Hugo House occupies a 16,206-square-foot (1,505.6 m2) Victorian house originally built in 1902. Previous occupants of the building include New City Theater and before the Bonney-Watson mortuary and funeral home.
In addition to administrative offices, the House includes:
In June 2016, the organization moved to a temporary space adjacent to the Frye Art Museum on First Hill. The original house on Capitol Hill is being razed and replaced with a six-story residential building that will also house the Hugo House beginning in 2018.
Programs
Hugo House present a number of programs, including: