Cascadia Art Museum, Art museum in Edmonds, United States.
The Cascadia Art Museum occupies a former Safeway grocery store built in the 1960s at 190 Sunset Avenue, its timber frame exposed during a 2012 retrofit that added Pacific Northwest wood. Five galleries rotate annually and quarterly, showing over 200 leased and borrowed works from the region dated 1880 to 1962.
The museum opened in 2015 as a dedicated space for preserving and showing the artistic heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Its creation filled a gap in how the region's creative past was presented to the public.
The museum highlights artists whose work shaped how people in the Pacific Northwest saw themselves and their region. These creators left their mark through paintings, designs, and visual works that still influence the area today.
The museum occupies a former Safeway grocery store at 190 Sunset Avenue in downtown Edmonds, next to the ferry terminal and train station, sharing the building with shops and restaurants. The 2012 retrofit exposed the timber frame and added wood sourced from the Pacific Northwest. Visitors arriving by ferry or train reach the entrance on foot from the terminal.
The building was a Safeway grocery store from the 1960s, slated for demolition before the Echelbarger family bought it in 2012; the retrofit left its timber frame exposed and added Pacific Northwest wood. Curator David F. Martin notes that regional art before 1930 was largely forgotten by museums and collectors.
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