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Public Art Quarterly: Winter Edition

Most of us take time in December to reflect and look back at the last year and seek some form of closure. The Public Art Division may look back and reflect on how our year went, but our projects don’t follow a fiscal year or Gregorian calendar. They move in… [ Keep reading ]

Tactile Art Exhibit Inspires a More Accessible World

By TeenTix Newsroom Writer Pearl Fields Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers is an innovative, tactile art exhibit that enables blind and low-vision people to enjoy art alongside sighted people. The creative exhibition accomplishes this goal by encouraging visitors to touch the art in addition to admiring it. Although its focus… [ Keep reading ]

Visitors touched the art during October’s First Thursday

On Oct. 3, over 500 community members celebrated the opening of Please Touch: Together, Breaking Barriers and the closing of FRESSSSSH! at ARTS at King Street Station. Please Touch challenges the traditional boundaries of art appreciation by inviting visitors to engage with artwork through touch. Please Touch has called various Seattle… [ Keep reading ]