Watch artist Jen Dixon create and install “Playland” in this new video! “Playland” was titled and inspired by an amusement park of the 1930’s. Dixon took old street signs and created collages that were installed last July in the Bitter Lake neighborhood. Seattle Department of Transportation‘s own Therese Casper created… [ Keep reading ]
Walking up to the High Point Community Center, you are greeted by colorful set of table and chairs. Looking more closely, you notice that one chair has been displaced and is perched high above the community center atop a yellow spire that soars from the furniture grouping through the roof…. [ Keep reading ]
Remember, when you were a kid, flipping the corner of a small book really quickly and watching a cartoon come to life in your hands? The grown up (sort of) version can be seen along the Interurban Trail in north Seattle, only this time you need to move through space,… [ Keep reading ]
Somewhat hidden in the Delridge neighborhood – if you can hide a 16’ tall anisoptera (that’s dragonfly to you and me) – is a public artwork that is part sculpture, part shelter, part garden and all drama – West Seattle’s Dragonfly Garden and Pavilion. Tucked behind the behemoth steel factory… [ Keep reading ]
Tried skateboarding lately? Weekly Art Hit heads into the 2000s with the Seattle Center Skatepark artwork Focus (2009) by Perri Howard, located at Thomas Street and Second Avenue North. In 2007, Seattle City Council called for the creation of a new Seattle Center Skatepark after the former skatepark at the… [ Keep reading ]
Celebrate the dedication of new public artworks by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell at the new Rainier Beach Community Center and Pool in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. The Seattle Parks and Recreation community celebration event will be 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 22 at Rainier Beach Community Center,… [ Keep reading ]
You’re invited to the dedication of Celeste Cooning’s artwork Bounty at the Jackson Park Golf Course Perimeter Trail opening celebration, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28. The trail is located at 1000 N.E. 135th Street. Bounty serves as a threshold for the trail and creates a sense of… [ Keep reading ]
If you’ve wandered on the lawn of Seattle Center’s Broad Street Green, you’ve seen Doris Chase’s Moon Gates (1999), a group of three bronze sculptures that play with oppositions inspired by space and form. In the artwork, two sculptures with convex surfaces, one rhomboid and one ovoid, are each pierced… [ Keep reading ]
Cityworks: Seattle Public Utilities Revealed is a series of 66 artworks comprised of 170 black and white photographs by Peter deLory, who was the artist-in-residence for Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) from 1998 to 1999. He explored SPU facilities and operations including Water, Drainage and Wastewater and Solid Waste, talking with… [ Keep reading ]
A blue structure, activated with bright and bulbous flora and fauna, stands in a natural divide between the Maple Leaf Park playground and ballfields. Jean Whitesavage and Nick Lyle’s 12-foot Gazebo (1996) contains sculptural forms of plant and animals indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. Forged steel components of the gazebo… [ Keep reading ]
