Five local artists will bring The AMP to life The Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), in partnership with The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway commissioned five artists to create a series of small-scale temporary artworks and performances for the AMPlify Memory Project. Beginning June through November 2019 the temporary art… [ Keep reading ]
Tacoma artist Christopher Paul Jordan has been selected to create a centerpiece artwork for The AIDS Memorial Pathway project on Capitol Hill. The artwork will be sited in a central plaza above the Sound Transit Capitol Hill link light rail station, surrounded by new multi-story residential buildings currently under construction…. [ Keep reading ]
The AMP: The AIDS Memorial Pathway Master Art Plan by Horatio Hung-Yan Law Amidst all the cranes and dizzying development taking place on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, there is an exciting new project called The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway. The AMP is community-driven and community-funded, and its goals are to use… [ Keep reading ]
Community leaders, in partnership with the City of Seattle, are poised to move forward on a plan to create an AIDS memorial on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. In March 2018, The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway and Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture issued a call for artists to submit qualifications for… [ Keep reading ]
In Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, there’s a sidewalk that teaches you how to dance. If you see folks waltzing on Broadway, they’re probably dancing to artist Jack Mackie’s Dancers’ Series: Steps (1982) — eight sets of inlaid-bronze shoeprints in the pattern of a couple’s dancing feet. The shoeprints are “step‑by‑step”… [ Keep reading ]
Capitol Hill’s Pike/Pine corridor was recently named one of the top 12 ArtPlaces in the United States. The neighborhood boasts a number of arts destinations, including the public artwork Waterworks by Douglas Hollis. Waterworks is at Cal Anderson Park just north of Pine Street and east of Broadway. If you’ve… [ Keep reading ]
Most Seattleites and tourists to the city have journeyed at least once to see the panorama of the city replete with the Space Needle, as framed by the circular sculpture at Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park. Affectionately referred to as the “donut” by locals, Black Sun (1969) by Isamu Noguchi is… [ Keep reading ]
