Walking into the north lobby of the Seattle Justice Center on 5th Ave. and James St., you will find two nearly identical cones; one reaching down from the ceiling and the other rising from the floor. Aligned so that their tips nearly touch, the construction is 28 feet tall, with… [ Keep reading ]
Every holiday season, I get really excited for the prospect of buying gifts for people I love. Then I remember that everyone I love is really picky, and choosing the perfect present for everyone seems a lot more challenging than fun. I do have a few guidelines I keep in… [ Keep reading ]
At a point where two paths meet in Pratt Park, visitors will come across what seems to be a fallen, cross section of a metal tree – Paul Sorey’s Tree Bench. This twisting branch serves as a non-traditional bench, and also symbolizes the Central Area’s multiculturalism. Sorey believes that… [ Keep reading ]
Burning Love Tatiana Garmendia’s Gorgeous Art Can’t Be Contained in Mere JPEGs I rarely go to Patricia Cameron Gallery, and I was walking by it on the street the other day, not intending to go in, when Patricia Cameron smiled graciously and waved to me, and her kindness made me… [ Keep reading ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
