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Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

DNDA’s Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

The first floor of Youngstown Cultural Arts Center is home to DNDA’s offices and tenant nonprofit organizations, and we’re not alone. The building is bustling with a lively calendar of classes, performances, and more hosted by renters of Youngstown’s various spaces open for community use, ranging from studios to a renovated theater.

On the second floor is Youngstown’s Cooper Artist Housing, which includes 36 affordable residential units for low-income DNDA teaching artists to continue to create and spread art through the local community. The center also includes an art gallery featuring the work of different multicultural artists throughout the year. DNDA owns and operates the iconic brick structure — located on Delridge Way — which is included in the National Register of Historic Places, with deep roots in the region’s history.

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Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

Is included in the National Register of Historic Places, welcoming more than 25,000 community members and visitors through its doors annually. The iconic brick building at 4408 Delridge Way Southwest is deep-rooted in West Seattle history.

Before re-opening as Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in 2006, the historic building served as an innovative elementary school — beginning as Youngstown School in the 1900s before transforming into Frank B. Cooper School 30 years later. 

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