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Films & conversations
Andrew Conru on art, community and the Conru Art Foundation’s free art spaces in Seattle. Most films can be downloaded. For press coverage and thank-yous, see Kind Words.
Highlights
Andrew Conru, in his own words
2 minutes · October 2026 · phones get a 1-minute vertical cut
Real footage only, captions in the picture: growing up with steelworker parents, building one of the first online dating sites, learning to paint, the “enough” principle, and why he opens free art spaces in Seattle.
Interview footage courtesy of the Asian Photography Association; dinner footage from the Seattle Prize fellows dinner, April 2026.
- Download MP4, 16:9 2:06 · 1080p
- Download MP4, 9:16 0:55 · 1080×1920
A film by the Asian Photography Association · shorter introduction, 25:43
Watch the full original conversation on APA’s YouTube channel →
Featured conversation
Art Connects Us: Andrew Conru in conversation with Diana Yao
Recorded at the ArtLove Salon, Seattle · Published October 9, 2026
From personal healing to building community: Andrew talks with Diana Yao about why he opened free art spaces in Seattle and what art can do for the people who visit them. APA’s English and Chinese subtitles are in the picture; optional English captions are in the player’s CC menu.
Interview by Diana Yao. Videography: Chris Huang, Becky Bi, Junfeng Jiang, Carrie Zhao, Louis Yang. Edited by Stardust 17 Studio. Shared here with APA’s kind permission.
- Download MP4, shorter version 25:43 · 1080p · 561 MB · captions (.srt)
- Download MP4, straight into the conversation 24:54 · 1080p · 540 MB · captions (.srt)
The player shows a shorter version of APA’s film that trims Diana’s opening introduction. APA’s full original (28:56) is on their YouTube channel. Both downloads are trimmed to start closer to the conversation.
Introductions
The places
Short films about each of the foundation’s spaces, mostly in Andrew’s own words. YouTube videos load only when you press play.
Opening day at the ArtLove Salon
Andrew walks through the Salon a few hours before its grand opening: 200 works on the walls, free to visit, and no commission taken from the artists.
Download MP41080p · 101 MB
Inside the Occidental: Beautiful Things
A walk through the museum floor in Pioneer Square, where Seattle from 1850 to 1950 is told in one room.
Download MP41080p · 379 MB
Summer of Awe at the Coliseum
One minute inside the 1916 Coliseum Theater at Fifth and Pike in downtown Seattle, opened this summer as a free art show.
Download MP41080p · 54 MB
The Seattle Project
Andrew on why he collects art that tries to capture beauty, truth and love, with artists at work in their studios. Filmed in 2024, as the foundation was starting; some plans in it have since changed.
Download MP41080p · 113 MB
Conversations & talks
In his own words
Longer pieces where Andrew talks about who he is and why he started the foundation.
Meet Andrew Conru, then a tour of the Salon
A few minutes on who he is and why he builds things, then a walk through the ArtLove Salon.
Download MP41080p · 238 MB
Kicking off the Conru Art Foundation
Andrew’s first public talk about the foundation. Some of the plans he describes have since changed.
Download MP41080p · 326 MB
Interviews and reports
KING 5’s Evening Magazine, Seattle Scott and other coverage of the foundation’s spaces are collected on Kind Words.
Fellows
The Seattle Prize artists
The Seattle Prize gives painters a year in a studio at the Occidental to make their best work.
Beauty, Truth, Love: Meet the Seattle Prize Artists
A tour of the fellows’ studios at the Occidental, with the artists and their work.
Download MP41080p · 146 MB
The Seattle Prize: an introduction
Andrew on what patronage can look like today, then the artists in their studios talking about their work.
Download MP41080p · 351 MB
Fellows Dinner at the Occidental
A candid evening with the fellows on AI, Rehumanism and the future of art, in 19 short clips.
Artist interviews
On Andrew’s YouTube channel.
Kind words
What reporters, partners and visitors have said about the foundation’s spaces: read Kind Words.