Coyote Central
Coyote Central - Central District, 2300 E Cherry St, Seattle, WA 98122
About
Coyote Central offers creative classes where students work in woodshop, glass flameworking, and video game production. In these classes, students access specialized mediums and professional equipment that is typically reserved for adults. The program includes public art opportunities for young people.
Coyote Central’s mission is to spark creativity in young people, putting tools in their hands to build skills and forge their futures. The program provides creative classes and public art opportunities to young people.
Coyote Central acknowledges that it lives and works on unceded Indigenous land, the traditional territory of Coast Salish peoples who have stewarded this land for generations and continue to live there. The program maintains a strong partnership with schools for in-classroom recruiting to reach students from all backgrounds and incomes. It connects kids from all over the city in a common place with professional tools so kids can shed old ways of being or labels that they might be associated with at school.
Coyote Central offers applied learning through skills-based workshops where students apply and strengthen knowledge of core academic material through hands-on projects. Students develop skills in perseverance, time management, communication, and social emotional learning. Small class sizes ensure that all learners are integrated and have a chance to learn, create, and discover what they are capable of. At Coyote, kids get to be exactly who they are without stigma. By exploring unique mediums and building projects designed by and for themselves, kids are able to see what they are capable of. Students access specialized mediums and professional equipment that is typically reserved for adults.
The program is implementing a Youth Advisory Board to prioritize student voice across the organization and conducts talkback sessions and surveys with students and parents to amplify community voice. It adjusts the registration process to reserve spots for harder-to-reach populations and is diversifying teaching artists, staff, and board members to reflect the diverse identities of students. Coyote Central provides trainings for teaching artists on racial equity, micro-aggressions, conflict resolution, restorative justice, gender pronouns, and strategies for supporting youth on the autism spectrum and ESOL students. An Equity & Inclusion Task Force made up of students, parents, teaching artists, board, and staff supports this work.
Family testimonials describe students who struggle in school and feel chastised for presumed shortcomings, and at Coyote they feel celebrated for their strengths. One family shares that their student struggled with social emotional and behavioral norms when entering middle school, and Coyote teamed up with parents and classroom teachers to make a support plan that included challenging the student rather than using a punitive approach. Another family reports that their student struggled to find success in other programs accommodating different learning needs, and that Coyote works to determine her individual needs and helps create a community in which she can be herself and thrive; she returns multiple times every year. A family also states that their student feels they can not only be 100% who they are at Coyote, but that they will also be embraced because of it.
Last updated January 7, 2026.
Coyote Central’s mission is to spark creativity in young people, putting tools in their hands to build skills and forge their futures. The program provides creative classes and public art opportunities to young people.
Coyote Central acknowledges that it lives and works on unceded Indigenous land, the traditional territory of Coast Salish peoples who have stewarded this land for generations and continue to live there. The program maintains a strong partnership with schools for in-classroom recruiting to reach students from all backgrounds and incomes. It connects kids from all over the city in a common place with professional tools so kids can shed old ways of being or labels that they might be associated with at school.
Coyote Central offers applied learning through skills-based workshops where students apply and strengthen knowledge of core academic material through hands-on projects. Students develop skills in perseverance, time management, communication, and social emotional learning. Small class sizes ensure that all learners are integrated and have a chance to learn, create, and discover what they are capable of. At Coyote, kids get to be exactly who they are without stigma. By exploring unique mediums and building projects designed by and for themselves, kids are able to see what they are capable of. Students access specialized mediums and professional equipment that is typically reserved for adults.
The program is implementing a Youth Advisory Board to prioritize student voice across the organization and conducts talkback sessions and surveys with students and parents to amplify community voice. It adjusts the registration process to reserve spots for harder-to-reach populations and is diversifying teaching artists, staff, and board members to reflect the diverse identities of students. Coyote Central provides trainings for teaching artists on racial equity, micro-aggressions, conflict resolution, restorative justice, gender pronouns, and strategies for supporting youth on the autism spectrum and ESOL students. An Equity & Inclusion Task Force made up of students, parents, teaching artists, board, and staff supports this work.
Family testimonials describe students who struggle in school and feel chastised for presumed shortcomings, and at Coyote they feel celebrated for their strengths. One family shares that their student struggled with social emotional and behavioral norms when entering middle school, and Coyote teamed up with parents and classroom teachers to make a support plan that included challenging the student rather than using a punitive approach. Another family reports that their student struggled to find success in other programs accommodating different learning needs, and that Coyote works to determine her individual needs and helps create a community in which she can be herself and thrive; she returns multiple times every year. A family also states that their student feels they can not only be 100% who they are at Coyote, but that they will also be embraced because of it.
Last updated January 7, 2026.
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