Plus, a “call and response” knitting collab and new dance video shot at a historic Vashon Island location.

Plus, cultural things to do during these dark and stormy Seattle days.

Plus: The new show at National Nordic Museum joins a plethora of paper art.

New installations by Northwest artists enliven the Seattle Center grounds, and hearken back to a World’s Fair vision of the future.

Plus, new uses for construction cast-offs in South Lake Union, and the return of Seattle Opera and Lit Crawl.

Plus, a tribute to NW public art legend Phillip Levine in Georgetown, and bevy of body art at Pioneer Square galleries.

Plus, film festivals showcasing topics from Jacques Cousteau to a South Asian coming of age.

Plus, Seattle Center says go skate or go home and new cultural venues are opening doors.

Plus, in-person festivals return to On the Boards, Northwest Film Forum and Intiman Theatre.

Plus: Bellwether arts festival returns to Bellevue, alongside a vivid retrospective of NW painter Alden Mason.

Plus, the “Secret Seattle” walking guide to the best coal chutes, fire hydrants and footbridges in the city.

Plus: A SeaTac earthwork gets honored, dance pops up in Seattle parks and a new labyrinth lands at National Nordic Museum.

Plus: This weekend’s Seattle Design Festival and a Kitsap art mystery solved.

Plus, luminous light stack sculptures at Winston Wächter and signs of the times at Seattle galleries.

With a robust cultural agenda (and too few snacks), an arts editor heads up I-5 north to explore beyond the Seattle bubble.