Paper Whale is a cultural accelerator based in Bellingham with a goal to inspire creatives in the Pacific Northwest. We began by offering the creative community  a voice to contribute meaningful ideas that help create place and activate underutilized spaces. 

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The name Paper Whale is derived from the following:

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Paper: Bellingham's Waterfront District was formerly a pulp and tissue mill, where we began.

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Whale:  The Blue Whale, in Lummi iconography, represents the “Protector." Paper Whale works to preserve arts & culture in this region so shaped by our connectedness to marine ecology. 

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Paper Whale works to acknowledge the original artists of this place and the land itself as we live on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish People, the Lummi and Nooksack Tribes.

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