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… [ Keep reading ]
The mobile artwork There’s No Place Like Home, known as the Blue House, will travel to the Green Lake Festival of Lights for its final performance at 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8 on the northwest side of Green Lake near Duck Island. Created by Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders, the nearly… [ Keep reading ]
Does deep community engagement require compromising artistic or organizational goals, or can it make organizations more adventuresome and sustainable? In November, arts and cultural leaders from the Seattle area attended Dynamic Adaptability 2.0: Cultural Organizations As Civic Leaders, a free seminar on audience engagement at Town Hall. Missed it? Check out… [ Keep reading ]
If you’re heading down to Seattle Center for Winterfest or for holiday shows like Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker, we thought you might like to know a bit about the artwork hanging overhead at McCaw Hall. New York artist Sarah Sze created An Equal and Opposite Reaction for the grand lobby… [ Keep reading ]
The mobile artwork There’s No Place Like Home, also known as the Blue House, will travel to Seattle Center for Winterfest at 4 p.m, Saturday, Nov. 24 and to the Green Lake Festival of Lights on Saturday, Dec. 8. Created by Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders, the nearly 14-foot-tall Victorian house is accompanied… [ Keep reading ]
Artist and storyteller Roger Fernandes created the artwork Snoqual/Moon the Transformer as a new gateway to the entry of the Thomas Street Pedestrian Bridge at Thomas Street and Third Avenue West in Seattle’s Lower Queen Anne neighborhood. The artwork will be publicly dedicated at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18. Fernandes… [ Keep reading ]
Celebrating the beauty of autumn and the falling leaves, here’s Seattle artist Bruce Myers’ Leaf Legend created in 1997 as part of three interconnected artworks at Discovery Park Visitor Center (built in 1993). The artwork consists of more than 100 sand cast bronze leaves set into the concrete. Meyers embedded… [ Keep reading ]
After three years of construction, the Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project is nearly complete. At a public dedication, 9 to 10 a.m, Friday, Nov. 16, SODO by Santa Monica, Calif.-artist team merge conceptual design (Claudia Reisenberger and Franka Diehnelt) will be unveiled, along with new sidewalks and landscaping in the lower roadway… [ Keep reading ]
In honor of Election Day, here’s Richard Marquis’ patriotically-themed blown glass Retro Stuff – Stars and Stripes Tea Pot #10 (or coffee pot, however you want to see it…) from 1997. “His teapots are the one body of work that continues throughout Marquis’ career beginning in the mid-1960s when he… [ Keep reading ]
In the spirit of Halloween, here’s a spooky artwork in the Seattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection. The acrylic-on-paper painting The Devil as a Joker (1982) by Ted Wiprud can hardly be labeled as minimal in approach or statement. The devil figure visually consumes the surface of… [ Keep reading ]
