First Thursday is an urban Art Walk, which started in 1981 as a way to promote local artists and dealers. Since the 1960s, Seattle's artistic community resides in the havens of the original downtown core, Pioneer Square. Unknown artists put down $65 dollars a piece in order to work in one of the most prestigious artistic buildings, 619 Western. Designed in 1910, this crumbling building is the home or office to 96 listed artists who invite everyone off the street to their grand opening on the first Thursday of every month. 619 is just one of the stops along the way, but it's one of the most questionable and often most missed by tourists. Walking up five flights of stairs and sliding through a maze of corridors to enter room upon room of unique perspectives on the question, "What is Art?" is intimidating to a lot of people. But Seattle responds with a vigorous yelp and laughter falls from the windows as droves of dreadlocks and button-down shirts ponder the meaning of a stripe running down the wall - and what it means to have direction.