Last month, Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata launched Seattle Art Walks, a website designed to highlight Seattle’s abundant and unique art walks – from First Thursdays in Pioneer Square to Second Saturday Georgetown Art Attack to the annual Madison Park Art Walk on the shores of Lake Washington.
A new temporary artwork, Field Notes: Observing Lake Union by the Studio for Urban Projects, will launch at the grand opening of Lake Union Park on Sept. 25. Meet the artists, get an audio tour map, and contribute to the project hotline (see below) between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Studio for Urban Projects… [ Keep reading ]
Arts Corps, Seattle’s largest nonprofit youth arts educator, celebrates a decade of service to the community with a photo retrospective by Susie Fitzhugh. An artist reception for Reflections: Ten Years of Arts Corps Photographs by Susie Fitzhugh will be 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15, in City Hall’s lobby,… [ Keep reading ]
Stop by Seattle Center’s Theater Commons this weekend to see the temporary sound artwork Windfall before it closes Wednesday, Sept. 15. Since mid-June, the delicate sound of more than 1,000 small, cast-iron wind chimes have filled this new, sustainably landscaped campus entry at Seattle Center. On Sept. 16 and Sept…. [ Keep reading ]
Hear from and ask questions of the four finalists for the role of lead designer for Seattle’s Central Waterfront, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15, at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St. Doors to the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium will open at 6:30 p.m. The meeting is free… [ Keep reading ]
Join Mayor Mike McGinn and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs this Friday, September 3 to honor the 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award recipients and preview the Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibits.
Visual artist and 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award winner Juan Alonso’s new show received a glowing review this week in the Seattle Times. Michael Upchurch writes of Alonso’s “Underground No. 1,” “Subterranean #1” and “Subterranean #2,” “The more you look at them, the more there is to see.”
For those of you who love scavenger hunts, Seattle arts organizations and winning, get ready – because Emerald City Search is about to begin. Emerald City Search is the 5th annual citywide search for a hidden medallion, and this year’s theme is 40 Years of Bumbershoot.
Be sure to get ya boogie on when Seattle Presents hosts Clinton Fearon and Boogie Brown Band in a free concert at Seattle City Hall, 12 to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 26. A key member of the legendary reggae group The Gladiators, Fearon also grooved with Yabby You, Jimmy Riley, Max Romeo, Junior… [ Keep reading ]
Celebrate Salon, a new public artwork by artist team SuttonBeresCuller, 10:30 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 21, at Spruce Park in Seattle’s Squire Park neighborhood. SuttonBeresCuller’s interactive sidewalk artwork invites the public to use chalk to create their own works of art inside a series of frames stamped into concrete…. [ Keep reading ]
