Archive for December, 2012
Artist Gary Groves created a series of prints related to the glacial erratic rocks of Eastern Washington and how they impact the landscape. As we teeter on the brink of a new year, these images recall other cliffs that linger in our collective psyches. In describing this particular artwork, Untitled Woodcut #10
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Posted: December 26th, 2012 under Art Beat, Weekly Art Hit.
Tags: artwork, cliff, Gary Groves, portable works collection, rocks
Forty neighborhood arts festivals and events will receive funding through our Neighborhood & Community Arts (NCA) program. The program will invest $48,000 ($1,200 per organization) in events taking place throughout the city over the next year. We received 71 applications for the program; of the 40 funded projects, 14 represent organizations that
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Posted: December 20th, 2012 under Art Beat, Funding.
Tags: events, festivals, Funding, Neighborhood & Community Arts
Winter is coming…and the holidays…and maybe even more snow. Here’s a snowy depiction of Adam Kuby’s artwork Quarry Rings (2010) at Thomas C. Wales Park, a new city park intended to be an urban bird habitat on the site of an old gravel quarry on the west side of Lake Union.
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Posted: December 20th, 2012 under Art Beat, Weekly Art Hit.
Tags: Adam Kuby, bats, bird habitat, Lake Union, Quarry Rings, Thomas C. Wales Park, wetlands
We're seeking two-dimensional or three-dimensional artworks depicting weather-related or atmospheric phenomena for a competitive, direct purchase for Seattle Public Utilities' Portable Works Collection. Artwork should reference air, water, temperature or light and may or may not be representational. All types of media will be considered. Artists working in color are encouraged to
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Posted: December 19th, 2012 under Art Beat, Calls for Artists, Public Art.
Tags: atmosphere, Calls for artists, portable works collection, purchase, Seattle Public Utilities, weather
We’re now accepting project applications for our Youth Arts program. The program supports arts training opportunities for Seattle’s middle and high school youth outside of school hours in a variety of artistic disciplines, including visual and literary arts, theater, music, dance and film. The application deadline is 11 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4,
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Posted: December 13th, 2012 under Art Beat, Funding.
Tags: applications, Arts Education, Funding, Youth arts
The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) are seeking a senior project manager to coordinate arts activities and implement public art projects for the Central Waterfront. This position is currently funded at half-time and is a term-limited position (two years) with benefits. At the end of
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Posted: December 12th, 2012 under Art Beat, News.
Tags: art program manager, central waterfront, city of Seattle, employment, job, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle Department of Transportation
Congratulations to all the same-sex couples who married at City Hall on Dec. 9, and to all the couples now able to marry in the future. To celebrate, here’s Cecilia Cooney-Wickett’s charcoal drawing Pat (Vivian) and Sue (Woehrli). Cooney-Wickett was commissioned in 1986 to create a series of drawings of Seattle area
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Posted: December 12th, 2012 under Art Beat, Weekly Art Hit.
Tags: Cecilia Cooney-Wickett, Pat (Vivian) and Sue (Woehrli), portable works collection, same-sex couple, same-sex marriage
We’re seeking an artist or artist team to create artwork for Landsburg Park as part of Seattle Public Utilities’ (SPU) Landsburg Facilities and Chlorination Project. The Landsburg Facilities site is a pristine forested area in the western foothills of the Cascade mountain range, 28 miles southeast of Seattle in the Cedar River
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Posted: December 11th, 2012 under Art Beat, Calls for Artists, Public Art.
Tags: Calls for artists, Landsburg Facilities and Chlorination Project, Landsburg Park
SmART ventures is a Seattle-based, flexible small awards program that aims to encourage innovative ideas, create community impact, and provide new access for individuals and groups not served by our other programs. Planting small seeds can yield big outcomes. SmART ventures seek to widen arts and culture participation, particularly of diverse or
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Posted: December 10th, 2012 under Art Beat.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, 140 same-sex couples will wed in City Hall on the first day they are eligible to do so. Seattle artist and designer Jennifer Zeyl is transforming City Hall for the event. Award winning set designer Jennifer Zeyl stands in her temporary work space listening to Macklemore, preparing herself
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Posted: December 6th, 2012 under Art Beat.
