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Special Advertising Section | Sunday, November 30, 20255BY AL KEMPSpecial to Giving GuideSeattle is arts-centric. Visual art, living art, street art, parades, festivals and gatherings are sewn into the city%u2019s DNA.All that artistic endeavor is supported by a massive network of nonprofits that raise money and distribute grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars to artists and arts groups statewide. Let%u2019s take a look at three of them.The business of being an artistAs a busy working artist who creates with mixed media as well as music, Greg Sinibaldi sometimes wishes that for just one day, his only concern could simply be art.At Vibrant Palette, a local art studio, Pixie creates emotive landscapes like this winter scene. (Zachary St. John via Vibrant Palette)0QPRTQ%u0182VUJGNRVCNGPVGFNQECNUGZRTGUUVJGOUGNXGUCPFVJTKXGCUCTVKUVUBut there%u2019s studio space to acquire and maintain, materials to purchase, exhibits to coordinate, books to balance, social media to manage, grants and proposals to write, networks to cultivate, emails to send. There%u2019s so much to juggle, Sinibaldi actually made a list once. It was two pages long.That%u2019s how artist communities like Equinox, where Sinibaldi, has kept a studio for about six months, can be of the most value.Equinox was founded in 2006 in a former factory building in Seattle%u2019s Georgetown neighborhood, and later grew into a 100,000-square-foot artist community that houses more than 125 tenants, dance rehearsal and performance spaces and painting schools.Continued on page 7