The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture invite you to sit in on Public Art 101 for Artists, a free web seminar (or “webinar”) produced by Americans for the Arts. The webinar is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl. S…. [ Keep reading ]
In this issue: Message from the director: Reflections on arts and culture in Seattle. Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs budget update. Join in an upcoming community forum on increasing access to quality arts learning in Seattle Public Schools. Artist Brian Goldbloom will create an artwork for the new Fire… [ Keep reading ]
Join us in celebrating Rescue, a new public artwork by Seattle artist Kay Kirkpatrick, 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 25, at Crown Hill’s new Fire Station 35 at 8729 15th Ave., NW. Kirkpatrick will be on hand to talk about her work following the formal program. Rescue marks and shelters the… [ Keep reading ]
Join us on Sept. 25 as we celebrate two public art projects at the grand opening celebration for Lake Union Park. Field Notes: Observing Lake Union is a year-long temporary public artwork that honors the ecology and history of Lake Union. Beginning Sept. 25, the cell phone audio tour will… [ Keep reading ]
Last month, Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata launched Seattle Art Walks, a website designed to highlight Seattle’s abundant and unique art walks – from First Thursdays in Pioneer Square to Second Saturday Georgetown Art Attack to the annual Madison Park Art Walk on the shores of Lake Washington.
A new temporary artwork, Field Notes: Observing Lake Union by the Studio for Urban Projects, will launch at the grand opening of Lake Union Park on Sept. 25. Meet the artists, get an audio tour map, and contribute to the project hotline (see below) between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Studio for Urban Projects… [ Keep reading ]
Stop by Seattle Center’s Theater Commons this weekend to see the temporary sound artwork Windfall before it closes Wednesday, Sept. 15. Since mid-June, the delicate sound of more than 1,000 small, cast-iron wind chimes have filled this new, sustainably landscaped campus entry at Seattle Center. On Sept. 16 and Sept…. [ Keep reading ]
The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs’ September eNewsletter is now online and is chock-full of great information on the upcoming Mayor’s Arts Awards; new signal box artwork in the Central District; Storefronts Seattle; art dedications, closings, and celebrations; and more.
Visual artist and 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award winner Juan Alonso’s new show received a glowing review this week in the Seattle Times. Michael Upchurch writes of Alonso’s “Underground No. 1,” “Subterranean #1” and “Subterranean #2,” “The more you look at them, the more there is to see.”
Celebrate Salon, a new public artwork by artist team SuttonBeresCuller, 10:30 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 21, at Spruce Park in Seattle’s Squire Park neighborhood. SuttonBeresCuller’s interactive sidewalk artwork invites the public to use chalk to create their own works of art inside a series of frames stamped into concrete…. [ Keep reading ]
