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The Conru Art Foundation·Contact & Press
The Conru Art Foundation is a Seattle non-profit opening beautiful rooms, historic buildings, artist programs, and public gatherings at a time when the city needs more art, more shared places, and more chances for people to be together.
The mission, in three words
Beauty. Truth. Love.
The mission
Every CAF program starts from the same belief: Seattle is stronger when people have beautiful places to meet, look, talk, listen, and feel part of the city again. The work gathers people around beauty, truth, and love, but the invitation is simple and open: come see real art, real objects, and real rooms with other people.
At a moment when people spend more time apart, and when the world can feel abstract and divided, the foundation is making a practical bet on culture in public. Beautiful Things makes history tangible and is also, simply, a place to see beautiful things. The Salon keeps the door open. These are human anchor points: places where attention, beauty, and shared experience still matter.
Beyond its own programs, CAF works alongside related Conru foundation efforts that have granted about $9.7 million to more than 200 nonprofits since 2019 , including over 100 Seattle non-profits, with donated and activated space as part of the broader work. Public admission to every CAF program is free.
The Programs
Exhibition
Seattle's summer art exhibition inside the historic 1916 Coliseum Theatre. An entire floor of Seattle art, glass, light, and surprise.
Open The Coliseum of Art
Exhibition
A place to see beautiful things: antique objects, mechanical marvels, paintings, and rooms that make history tangible through close looking.
Open Beautiful Things
The Living Room
A 16,000-sq-ft cultural hub on the 5th floor of 110 Union St in downtown Seattle. Salon-style hang of contemporary work year round, atelier sessions and life drawing most weeks, and the social home of the foundation: drinks before tours, dinner after shows.
Open Art Love Salon
Founder & President
Andrew is the founder and president of the Conru Art Foundation. He is personally hands-on across much of the work: curation, building reuse, public programming, and the practical details of opening these spaces to Seattle. Background in tech, now a full-time patron, art collector, and amateur painter, he runs the foundation alongside Nonie Conru and a small Seattle-based curatorial team. He has long worked where technology meets art (he ran the RobotArt robot-painting prize, 2016 to 2018) and writes about AI and meaning at humanist.com/ai.
Available for press interviews on the foundation, the Beautiful Things exhibition, the Art Love Salon, building reuse, and arts patronage in 2026. Read the longer bio →
