In this issue:
- Message from the director: Mayor directs more dollars to Youth Arts program.
- We have a job opening for a senior public art project manager.
- We’re seeking an artist or artist team to create an artwork along the Burke-Gilman Trail.
- Rebar, a multidisciplinary artist team, was selected to create a temporary artwork for the new Jackson Plaza in front of King Street Station.
- Stokely Towles is sure to make stormwater and our sewer system interesting via a performance artwork slated to debut this fall.
- In case you missed the news, Mayor Mike McGinn recently announced the recipients of the 2011 Mayor’s Arts Awards.
- Artist Nickolus Meisel’s cloud haiku, a series of cast-bronze pillows arranged along the Seattle Streetcar’s Westlake Avenue and Seventh Avenue stop, will be dedicated 3 to 4 p.m., Friday, July 22.
- Choklate will open the free, lunchtime, Seattle Presents summer concert series at City Hall, July 7.
- The Built Environment to open at Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, July 7.
- Looking for funding? Check out the city’s new online grant portal.
- ARTSparks continues in July at Occidental Square, where an amazing array of installations and performances have transformed the urban park into an engaging and experimental art gallery of sorts.
- Seattle Center has a call out for temporaray art projects to celebrate The Next Fifty.
Image: Jennifer Dixon’s FlipBooks is an artwork composed of several sets of signs, each forming an “animated” story along Seattle’s Interurban Trail. We are currently seeking an artist for project along the Burke-Gilman Trail. Photo by Jim Tillman.
