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This summer the third floor of King Street Station will be awash with public art

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Office of Arts & Culture explores Belonging and Resistance with site-specific and collection works
Opening August 3, 2017

This summer the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s (ARTS) public art program will enliven the third floor of King Street Station with 2D- and 3D works from the City’s collection and site-specific installations. The exhibition, focusing on themes of belonging and resistance, will be free and open to the public, and will open August 3, 2017. An anchor project by artist and educator Pedro Lasch will investigate ideas of nationalism and belonging, and will be accompanied by responses from regional artists. The exhibition will introduce the range of programming that the public art program undertakes to provide art experiences to residents of and visitors to Seattle, including lectures, performances and engagement activities.

The exhibition will be the first art installation at King Street Station by ARTS and will give the public a glimpse of how the third floor will be transformed when it becomes a new arts and culture hub. ARTS, in partnership with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), is creating a permanent cultural space at King Street Station. ARTS engaged in an inclusive, city-wide outreach effort in order to hear from the community about their needs. ARTS’ intention with the new space is to increase opportunities for communities of color to present their work. The dedicated cultural space will provide public access to presentation and creative spaces, ARTS staff and resources, space for city convenings, and professional development and other services that were requested through the outreach process. This innovative plan utilizes an underused city resource to address issues of affordability and livability while preserving the unique creative economy that drives Seattle.

The city’s public art program provides opportunities for individuals to encounter art in parks, libraries, community centers, fire stations, on roadways, bridges and other public venues, enriching citizens’ daily lives and giving voice to artists. Seattle was one of the first cities in the United States to adopt a percent-for-art ordinance in 1973. The program integrates the work of artists in the envisioning of the public realm, advancing Seattle’s reputation as a cultural center for innovation and creativity. Public art projects create a special sense of place and enrich viewers’ experiences of the urban environment. The program specifies that 1% of eligible city capital improvement project funds be set aside for the commission, purchase and installation of artworks in a variety of settings.

The collection includes more than 400 permanently sited and integrated artworks and includes pieces by Isamu Noguchi, Marita Dingus, Mark Calderon, Ann Hamilton, Buster Simpson, and Michael Heizer. Artworks are commissioned through a public process. The city stewards and maintains its artworks through an ongoing program of coordinated conservation activities, which include inspections, major restorative work and routine maintenance.

 

30th Anniversary of Contemporary QuiltArt Association exhibition at City Hall

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May 4 – July 5, 2017; City Hall Gallery
Reception on Thursday, May 4, 4-6 p.m.

An exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Contemporary QuiltArt Association, Coming of Age II, is coming to Seattle’s City Hall on May 4.  The exhibition is a celebration of the many ways that fiber can be used in today’s art quilts. The artworks demonstrate the growth members have made over the last three decades. The exhibit features 38 pieces of fiber art from 25 different artists that live in Washington State.

The Contemporary Quilt Art Association, a non-profit arts organization run entirely by volunteers, is a Washington state group formed in the fall of 1986. This diverse group of artists, teachers, writers, and collectors lives throughout Washington, and view quilts as an exciting medium of expression and a viable contemporary art form. They are proud of the years of CQA exhibitions around the state, the nation, and the hemisphere. CQA includes national and internationally celebrated quilt artists among its members and are equally proud of aspiring and emerging quilt artists, and those who have worked only in traditional quilt-making and are now curious to explore other possibilities.

Artist Statement:

The tanks containing radioactive waste on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation continue to have problems with leakage.  The article printed in this piece is referenced here: Macfarlane, A. (2016, May 4). Nuclear Waste Leak Continues at ‘America’s Fukushima’; 33 Left Ill by Radioactive Fumes. Retrieved July 8, 2016, from www.weather.com

Seattle City Hall Lobby
600 Fourth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104

Image caption:
Ginnie Hebert
Tank Farm, 2016
Fabrics created by artist with the following techniques:  Painted, stenciled, printed, screen printed with dye
Materials used:  Cotton fabric, Procion dyes, acrylic paint, foil, cotton and polyester threads, glow-in-the-dark thread and paint, wool batting

 

Vicki Scuri artist commissioned for SDOT Aurora Ave N Corridor Improvements Project

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The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), in partnership with Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), has commissioned artist Vicki Scuri for a series of site-specific artworks for the Aurora-Licton Corridor Neighborhood Street Fund Project. Scuri will work with SDOT and SDOT consultants from design through construction developing art installations along Aurora Ave. N. between N. 85 St. and N. 105 St. The artwork is expected to be completed in 2018.

Scuri brings over 30 years of experience to this project. Educated in printmaking and design, Scuri’s primary focus is site responsive, collaborative design and public art, with emphasis on community identity through awareness of place, history and culture. Scuri sees infrastructure, best symbolized as the backbone of urban design, as the system upon which society builds its core values, creating meaning, mobility and connectivity. Scuri’s projects, best known for symbolic pattern work; play of sunlight and shadow over sculptural form; and her ability to engage the entire site as a canvas, integrate functionality, landscape and art to create community landmarks. Community identity, site, climate, and environment are important considerations in shaping each project’s unique expression.

This SDOT project began as a community application for improvements along Aurora Ave. N. It was funded by the Neighborhood Street Fund (NSF) Program, for design in 2017 and construction in 2018. The project creates improved crossings of Aurora Ave. N. at N. 92 St. and N. 100 St. for people walking and biking. There is also a significant art component to the project, requested by the Aurora-Licton Urban Village. The goal of this project is to create art that will develop a distinctive spirit for the neighborhood, revitalize and change people’s perception of Aurora Ave. N., create a progression of ideas that extend along the entire corridor, bring color, vibrancy, and day and night presence to all modes of transit: pedestrians, motorists, bus riders.

Scuri was selected by a panel of artists and design professionals, advised by Aurora-Licton Urban Village community members, and city staff. The project is commissioned with SDOT 1% for Art funds.

Photo: Vicki Scuri

Image: Arlington Boulevard, Highway 50, laser-cut steel and LEDs, completed 2015

Jill Anholt commissioned to create artwork for Fauntleroy Way SW

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The Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), has commissioned artist Jill Anholt to develop site-specific artworks for the Fauntleroy Way SW Boulevard Project. Anholt will work with SDOT and SDOT consultants from design through construction to develop permanent public artwork for the Fauntleroy Way SW Boulevard Project. Possible sites include green spaces, median strips, and/or sidewalks, to be determined through collaboration and coordination with the project team. Anholt is beginning her project by investigating the history, multiple uses, and busy right of way along this corridor to design and implement site-responsive artwork.

Anholt is a visual artist based in Vancouver, B.C. who has been creating site specific works in the public realm since 1998. Anholt’s practice ranges from complex integrated works in parks, pedestrian walkways and transit stations, to small scale installations in buildings and public plazas across North America. Her installations explore the relationship between nature and infrastructure, body and place; revealing layers of personal and cultural memory and experience. Environmental sustainability play a generative role in the conceptual development, form, and material expression of many of her works. Along with her art practice, Anholt is an instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.

SDOT’s Fauntleroy Boulevard Project builds upon previous planning work done by the community. Discussions of improvements to Fauntleroy Way began in 1999, when the West Seattle Junction Hub Neighborhood Plan identified streetscape improvements in this area, and continued through the multi-year West Seattle Triangle planning process. The streetscape plan was formally adopted by SDOT and the Seattle Department of Planning and Development (now Office of Planning and Community Development) in 2012. Through several extensive community processes, the residents and business owners in the area have expressed the need for improvements to make this stretch of Fauntleroy Way SW safer for pedestrians and bikes, and highlight its role as a main entrance to West Seattle.

Anholt was selected by a panel of artists advised by community members and city staff. The project is commissioned with SDOT 1% for Art funds.

Photo: Carlos Amat

Image: Marking, carved wood, Fort Calgary, Calgary Canada, completed 2015

Essay White City by Elissa Washuta is now available

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Fremont Bridge writer-in-residence Elissa Washuta’s essay White City is now available for everyone to read. In addition, a podcast of Washuta reading an excerpt of the essay at the Seattle Public Library‘s Central branch is available here.

Elissa Washuta was commissioned by the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), in partnership with Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), to be the writer-in-residence in the northwest tower of the Fremont Bridge from June through August 2016. While in the tower, she researched, and wrote, White City a literary work, based on the history of the Puget Sound, including the lives of this region’s first peoples, the “landscape surgery” that defined the creation of Seattle’s waterways for purposes of commerce and industry, and the city of rapid change that we experience today.

Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a writer of personal essays and memoir. She is the author of two books, Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. Elissa holds an MFA from The University of Washington and currently serves as the undergraduate adviser for the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington and a nonfiction faculty member in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Elissa has received fellowships and awards from Artist Trust, 4Culture, Potlatch Fund, and Hugo House. Born and raised in New Jersey, she called Seattle home for the last ten years, and will join the faculty at Ohio State University in the Fall of 2017.

Jeffrey Veregge selected to create artwork honoring Coast Salish culture at the Salmon Bay Pump Station

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The Office of Arts & Culture in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has commissioned artist Jeffrey Veregge for an artwork to honor Coast Salish culture at the Salmon Bay Pump Station project. Veregge will join the Salmon Bay Pump Station design team to develop artwork for the future SPU facility in the Ballard neighborhood. The artwork and pump station are expected to be completed in 2024.

Jeffrey Veregge is an award-winning Native American comic book artist from the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe in Kingston, Washington.  His work uses Coastal Salish and contemporary graphic design techniques dubbed “Salish Geek” by his fans and peers.  In addition to his work for Marvel, Valiant and IDW Publishing, his art is included in the collections of NIKE, Viacom, Museum of Pop Culture, Yale University, Washington State Historical Society, University of Washington and the Seattle Art Museum. His work has also appeared in numerous websites and publications such as Fast Company Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, io9, Seattle Magazine, Native Peoples, Cowboys and Indians and Wired Magazine. Veregge’s creator-owned six-issue comic series, Demicon, published by Native Realities Press, will debut later this spring.

Seattle Public Utilities and King County are working together to build an underground storage tunnel to reduce combined sewer overflows into the Ship Canal during rainstorms. This project is called the Ship Canal Water Quality Project and includes the Salmon Bay Pump Station (24th Ave NW and Shilshole Ave NW). The pump station will pump stored sewage and stormwater from the tunnel to King County’s West Point Water Treatment Facility.

Veregge was selected by a panel of artists, tribal and community members, city staff and consultants. The project is commissioned with SPU 1% for Art funds.

Photo: Jeffrey Veregge (photo: Rachel Ann Seymour)

Image: Red Wolf, digital drawing, 2015

Two public art projects recognized as part of the 2016 Design Excellence Awards

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The Seattle Design Commission recognized two projects that were enriched with integrated public art in their 2016 Design Excellence Awards, Fire Station 20 and Mapes Creek Restoration. You can view all the recipients here.

The Seattle Design Commission presents the Design Excellence Awards every two years, selecting the winning projects from the many public buildings, parks, open spaces and vision plans completed in Seattle. They choose projects that promote the mission and exemplify the values of the Design Commission: inspired design, contextual integration, innovative sustainability, social inclusion, exemplary partnerships, effective investment and impeccable execution.

The recognized artworks are Rob Ley’s Wind and Water at Fire Station 20 and the two Mapes Creek Restoration artworks: Yegizaw Michael’s Motion and John Grade’s Gyre.

Wind & Water by Rob Ley
Fire Station 20, 2014
Photographed by Lara Swimmer

Wind and Water at Fire Station 20 comprises more than 100 one-inch stainless steel tubes and stands over 14 feet tall, suggesting the flow of water or the movement of the wind. The sculpture engages passing pedestrians and frames the entrance to the building. The fire station also includes state-of-the-art sustainability upgrades and increased space for more fire engines.

The Office of Arts & Culture commissioned Wind and Water with Department of Finance and Administrative Services Fire Facilities and Emergency Management Levy 1% for Art funds. Photos courtesy City of Seattle.

Yegizaw Michael, Motion

Integrated into the Mapes Creek Restoration is Motion by Yegizaw Michael, which consists of over 450 disks of colored concrete and stainless steel that are inlaid throughout the 52nd Ave. S. walkway. The disks appear to flow between a set of concrete pipes that are inset in the north and south ends of sidewalk, calling attention to Seattle Public Utilities’ combined sewer line along the Mapes Creek Walkway that flows to the King County pump station.

John Grade, Gyre

John Grades’ work Gyre, also at Mapes Creek Restoration, is a stainless steel and wood sculpture suspended over the mouth of Mapes Creek in Beer Shiva Park in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. A master in working with wood, Grade meticulously crafted Gyre with tongue-and-groove slats surrounding a stainless steel frame. The artwork’s gently twisting form conjures a sail, rudder or elongated fin, and references the spiraling eddies of the water below and in adjacent Lake Washington. Sculpted with old-growth cedar salvaged from the Cedar River Watershed, the source of most of Seattle’s drinking water and vital to the area’s salmon habitat, Gyre reinforces the connection between the source of the region’s water and its destination.

The Lower Mapes Creek project is project of Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), and both Gyre and Motion are funded by SPU’s 1% for Art funds.

Side note: the two-other project recognized by the Design Commission, Sound Transit’s Light Rail Station at the University of Washington and the Leaves of Remembrance project both included artworks.

Seattle Office of Arts & Culture presents The Nightmare Quilt (Revival), 1988-2017 by artist Beverly Naidus in Seattle Presents Gallery

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February 20 – April 14, 2017 at Seattle Presents Gallery in the Seattle Municipal Tower

 

The Seattle Presents Gallery will showcase a new installation The Nightmare Quilt (Revival) 1988-2017 by Beverly Naidus this spring.

In 1988 Naidus created a dual sided large scale quilt of 54 panels from canvas scraps and twine. Originally displayed on a bed in a gallery, one side of the quilt depicted her fears for the future and concern for the present. When visitors lifted up sections of the quilt to see the other side, they discovered her dreams. Too unweildy to move individually, visitors needed to ask for help to uncover the entire quilt of dreams, physically manifesting the artists’ intent to convey that we can’t achieve our collective dreams for the future unless we work together collaboratively.

In the Seattle Presents Gallery, Naidus created 27 new panels of nightmares and dreams, updating the quilt to speak to our community’s current fears, hopes and dreams. She also enhanced the installation to create a stronger atmosphere for the quilt, adding in a mixed media wall of tattered clothing and textiles.

Beverly Naidus, associate professor at the University of Washington Tacoma and an interdisciplinary artist, writer and facilitator of an innovative studio arts curriculum, has been creating interactive installations, digital projects, artist books and narrative drawings for over three decades. Much of her work is audience-participatory, inviting people to tell their own stories in response to the theme being explored. Inspired by lived experience, topics in her art focus on environmental and social issues, including how we are individually and collectively affected by racism, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in mainstream museums, university galleries, alternative spaces and city streets. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, numerous essays on socially engaged art and pedagogy and some recent pieces of speculative fiction. She has taught at several NYC museums, Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology.

Seattle Presents Gallery will be open to the public on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12 – 2 p.m. and by appointment at 206.684-0182 or email arts.culture@seattle.gov. The Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with the Office for Civil Rights, is committed to providing equitable support for arts and cultural organizations. The Seattle Presents Gallery features both emerging and established artists and curators and encourages public engagement in arts and cultural experiences that explore ideas surrounding equity and social justice.

Installation photo courtesy the Office of Arts & Culture.

Celebrating Black History Month in Seattle 2017

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February marks the beginning of Black History Month, but residents of Seattle are able to celebrate and learn about the rich cultural history of Blacks and African-Americans all year long. In honor of Black History Month we have compiled a few events to mark on your calendar in February. 

ONYX Fine Art 12th annual exhibit
Thru February 18, 2017 King Street Station, 3rd Floor
303 S. Jackson St.
Seattle, WA 98104
FREE

Truth B Told, exhibiting visual artistic expressions by artists of African descent in the Pacific Northwest.

Northwest African American Museum
What the Griot Said: Black History Month Storytelling at NAAM with Eva Abram
Thursday, February 2, 12 – 1:00 p.m.
2300 S Massachusetts Street
Seattle, 98144

Gifted griots—or storytellers—will enchant young and old with tales recounted following oral traditions. Children of all ages are invited to experience the ancient art of storytelling with stories from around the world or just around the corner. This is our first program for Black History Month to kick off February at the Northwest African American Museum! The storytelling will be accompanied by a public docent-led tour for adults, introducing our new exhibit, An Elegant Utility. Open to all ages.

Rosenwald film screening
Presented by Atlantic Street Center
Thursday, February 2, 6 p.m.
LHPAI
104 17th Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98144
FREE

Rosenwald is the incredible story of Julius Rosenwald, who never finished high school, but rose to become the President of Seers. Influenced by the writings of Booker T. Washington, Jewish philanthropist Rosenwald joined forces with African American communities in the Jim Crow South to build 5,300 schools during the early part of the 20th century.  There will be a Q and A session with Philip Rome, Julius Rosenwald’s great-grandson. To RSVP contact Marcella Taylor at (206) 454-3923 or marcellat@atlanticstreet.org 

Through the Eyes of Art
MoPOP
Friday, February 3, 8 – 11:00 p.m.
325 5th Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
$15 ($12 MoPOP members)

Presented by MoPOP and Brandkings, the city’s premier Black History Month celebration will look at the topic of building a strong black economy. Featuring a speech by CNN correspondent and Seattle native Angela Rye, live performance from Josephine Howell, and a special reunion show by Seattle hip-hop group Ghetto Chilldren. The Servant of the People Award will be presented to Ezell’s Famous Chicken co-founders Lewis Rudd, Darnell Rudd, and Faye Stephens. The evening will be hosted by Isiah Anderson.

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Seattle Art Museum
Thru April 23, 2017
1300 First Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of this city’s most beloved artists, Jacob Lawrence, the Seattle Art Museum presents Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series. Acclaimed as Lawrence’s masterwork, this epic series chronicles in words and pictures the exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North in the decades after the First World War. Tickets and program information can be found at www.seattleartmuseum.org 

I Am Not Your Negro
SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Opens February 3, 2017
USA | 2016 | 95 Minutes | Raoul Peck
Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary.

Panelists are scheduled to be in attendance for a discussion following the 7pm screening on Feb 3. Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished – “Remember This House,”  a radical narration about race in America, through the lives and assassinations of three of his friends: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X. using only the writer’s original words.

Black History Month Cultural Xpressions
Sundiata African American Cultural Association
Friday, February 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
Art Show and Reception

Saturday and Sunday, February 11 – 12, opening at noon
Live performances
LHPAI
104 17th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98144

Dialogues in Art: Exhibitions on Racial Injustice
Xenobia Bailey artist talk
Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk: A Quantum Leap, Starting From The Top…!!!
Seattle Presents Gallery
Friday, February 10, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Free

Xenobia Bailey has created an immersive installation featuring African-American homemakers and caregivers that honors and celebrates their innovative, soulful lifestyle. The installation references connections to the African-American community and Seattle’s history. These life-sized figures play an important role in cultivating and rebuilding homes and communities, while providing nurturing and guidance for African-American youth.

Dialogues in Art: Exhibitions on Racial Injustice is a yearlong series of exhibitions that explore artists’ and curators’ interpretations of racial injustice and systemic racism impacting Black and African-American people throughout America.

Resonance a celebration of Black American composers
Two performances presented by North Corner Chamber Orchestra
Saturday, February 18, 2 p.m.
New Holly Gathering Hall
7054 32nd Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98144

Sunday, February 19, 7:30 p.m.
LHPAI
104 17th Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98144

Tickets are available at www.nocco.org and at the door. Group pricing available. $25 general; $15 seniors and ages 19-30. Free for ages 18 and under and music students.

 

Seattle Center welcomes five new artists for the 2017-18 Poetry Garden Art Series

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February 2017 through May 2018

 

SEATTLE, (Jan. 23, 2017) — The Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) and Seattle Center (SC) have commissioned five artists to develop temporary artworks for the 2017-18 Poetry Garden Art Series on the Seattle Center campus: David Kelly-Hedrick, Barbara de Pirro, Susan Palmer, Jennifer Szabo, and Xavier Lopez.

The theme for this year’s series of artworks is Seattle Center Festál Turns 20. Festál presents world festivals throughout the year highlighting the distinct cultures and common threads of ethnic communities in our region through traditional and contemporary art, music, foods, youth activities, workshops and more. This illuminating series of 24 ethnic cultural festivals seeks to connect people in ways that build understanding, dispel stereotypes and generate pride among the generations who participate in these shared experiences. For the 20th year of Festál, the selected artists will take various approaches to celebrating the value that cultural festivals bring to our community.

The Office of Arts & Culture and the Seattle Center have a 40-year history of partnering to bring permanent and temporary artworks to the Seattle Center campus. In 2015, the two organizations jointly invested in emerging artists by providing training and commissioning seven artists to create site specific temporary artwork for the campus. The 2017-18 Poetry Garden Art Series is a continuation of this investment.

The Poetry Garden was envisioned at its inception to be a site for temporary art activations. The garden, in the heart of the Seattle Center campus, is composed of crushed granite paths punctuated by 12 sculpted, polished, pink granite boulders engraved with an eclectic selection of poems by various authors. The boulders were sculpted and sited by artist/sculptor John Hoge.

Schedule:

 

Xavier Lopez
February 6 – May 6, 2017
Conceptual artist Xavier Lopez will create an installation that will invite people visiting the garden to write a message, thought or wish down on a small piece of paper and place it in one of 40 bottles hanging in the garden.

Lopez is a contemporary, Latino, conceptual mixed-media artist living in Seattle. Lopez received his MFA from the University of California, Davis. Lopez’s art-making, while still personal and autobiographical in the broadest sense, eschews the obvious tropes of masculinity, hegemony and race. He most recently worked with La Sala for their La Cocina project where he put together and performed in a night of all Latinx performance art. He is a recipient of the 2016 Artist Up Grant Lab Award.

 

Jennifer Szabo
May 8 – August 4, 2017
Jennifer Szabo’s artwork aims to capture the impact Festál has over time (one calendar year) encapsulated in a single moment and place by creating a colorful visual calendar in the garden.

Szabo creates art that is focused on the intersection between nature, time and culture. Working in the field of Landscape Architecture, her passion for placemaking and belief that our human interaction with the natural world is vital inform her art. She seeks to celebrate these connections as well as ask the viewer to consider their role in these interactions. She creates integrated art that reaches into, sculpts and communes with nature to evoke memory and presence. Szabo completed her degree at the University of Washington in Seattle.

 

 

David Kelly-Hedrick
August 7 – November 3, 2017
David Kelly-Hedrick will install fresh lines of poetry written by contemporary poets from Seattle and around the Pacific Rim. The lines of poetry will be inscribed on salvaged planks of wood gathered from Puget Sound beaches and then will be placed in the garden to shine and weather.

Kelly-Hedrick is an English teacher, writer, and artist. He enjoys an artistic practice where those three passions intersect and is especially interested in promoting some of the amazing voices in contemporary poetry.

 

Barbara de Pirro
November 6, 2017 – February 1, 2018
Barbara de Pirro will create a series of multi-colored ‘eco-banners’ abstractly representing the multi-cultural mix of people and events that are a part of our community and the focus of Seattle Center Festál Turns 20.

de Pirro creates environmental, mixed media sculptures and installations. Her artwork has been commissioned and exhibited in museums, galleries, sculpture parks, art centers and public art organizations. She is a member of Northwest Designer Craftsman, Surface Design Association and National Basketry Organization. In 2010 she received a GAP Grant and in 2016 she received a Fellowship Residency through Artist Trust. De Pirro’s artwork has been published in multiple publications; including Textile Art Around the World, Green Art: Trees, Leaves and Roots, World of Threads, Fiber Art Now and Surface Design Association.

 

Susan Palmer
February 2 – May 6, 2018
Susan Palmer will create a colorful abstract pattern of laminated quilt blocks that will hang the garden.

Palmer was born in Seattle, and has lived in the northwest most of her life. She has created quilts for over 25 years and has been a professional quilter for the last 10 years. Palmer was an originator of the Mukilteo Quilt and Garden Tour. Her quilts have been accepted in many local and national shows, where she has won many awards. She was one of 30 artists that was accepted in the 2015 Seattle Art and Culture Public Art Boot Camp.