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This week in art news: Seahawks + film, piano bar pros, & more!

Seahawks, city help teens discover their talent as filmmakers “A group of Seattle teens on Saturday premiered documentaries they made about the Seattle Seahawks and the relocation of residents at Yesler Terrace. The high-school students, most of them children of East African refugees and immigrants, had never held a microphone,… [ Keep reading ]

Creative Advantage Update

Earlier this fall, the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) provided two community partner meetings on the Creative Advantage to share updates and seek input from teaching artists and arts organizations on further developments for this work. Since that time, there have been a number of developments. A few key items are expanded upon in this update. Please stay tuned for more!

Art and Agriculture come together in ‘agriCULTURE’ art plan

Seattle, with its long growing season and an environmentally-conscious population, provides many opportunities for its residents to participate in urban agriculture, producing food both in our backyards and in our shared public spaces. In 2012, the public art program commissioned Nicole Kistler to be Artist-in-Residence for Urban Agriculture, to investigate… [ Keep reading ]

Recap: Square Feet 2013

“One third of all cultural space in Seattle has been counted so far; we’ve found 2.8 million square feet …and we’re still counting.” – Matthew Richter With construction crews around every corner, it feels like a time of heavy development and change in Seattle. We must ensure that arts, culture,… [ Keep reading ]

Weekly Art Hit: Nobuho Nagasawa’s “Water Weaving Light Cycle”

Nobuho Nagasawa’s Water Weaving Light Cycle, the artwork suspended above the Cherry Street  stairs in City Hall, connects visitors to the ever-changing environment outside.  In this dynamic,visual and auditory experience, blue light pulses along a fiber-optic cable sculpture, imitating flowing water, with movement ebbing and flowing according to outdoor weather… [ Keep reading ]

Seattle hosts Public Art conference

On November 7 and 8, our Office’s  Public Art team hosted a gathering of the Northwest Public Art Administrators Consortium, a regional convening of the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network. Administrators from programs throughout the northwest – Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia – met at MakerHaus, a co-working… [ Keep reading ]

This week in art news: Dawoud Bey, Square Feet, Italian Cinema & more!

Dawoud Bey: The Art of Taking Pictures of People Usually Pictured from the Outside  “The art career of Dawoud Bey—one of the artists to be included in next year’s Whitney Biennial in New York*—begins with someone else’s exhibition: Harlem on My Mind, an exhibition that drew picketers back in 1969… [ Keep reading ]

Weekly Art Hit: Ann Hamilton’s “LEW Wood Floor”

At the Central Library, you don’t even need to open a book to find all sorts of written text.  Ann Hamilton’s LEW Wood Floor (2004) is composed of sentences in 11 different languages, welcoming all visitors to the library. As a continuous tactile field, the wood floor consists of 556… [ Keep reading ]

This week in art news: new KEXP mural, Bo-nita, Future Seattle Landmarks, and more!

The Cost of Being an Artist “Artist and musician David Byrne recently wrote that the cultural life of New York City had been “usurped by the top 1 percent,” implying that our society’s emphasis on the bottom line has compromised our humanist sensibilities. With soaring housing and health care costs,… [ Keep reading ]

This week in art news: Ada’s books, Mahler’s 6th symphony, and more!

In a Rediscovered Trove of Art, a Triumph Over the Nazis’ Will “Otto Dix, in a half-light, glowers from a self-portrait, jaw set, puffing on a cigar, looking infuriated. “What took so long?” he seems to ask, youthful as ever. They keep coming back, these works of art lost to the… [ Keep reading ]