A small Eastern Washington town is an incubator for Seattle's art scene
Seattle is rich in art, but for some artists it is not an affordable place to keep working.
One solution is to look east, over the Cascades to a place like Tieton. It's a small rural town near Yakima; only about 1,000 people live there.
Today it's home to an arts incubator called Mighty Tieton, started by a man from Seattle named Ed Marquand in 2005.
Independent producer Pheobe Flanigan reported on how this experiment is working out for the Slate's podcast, Placemakers.
She told KUOW's Bill Radke about how a rural town is adjusting to its artistic transplants. How are they navigating the culture clashes?
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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