Art Interruptions Rainier Valley 2018 Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
For Immediate Release
August 6, 2018
Contact: Erika Lindsay
206-684-4337
[email protected]
Temporary art on the new Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway
Opening celebration for Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway and Art Interruptions on Saturday, August 11th from 12 – 4pm at the Rainier Beach Playfield
SEATTLE – The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), in partnership with the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), will be celebrating the opening of the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway and Art Interruptions on Saturday August 11th from 12 – 4 p.m. at the Rainier Beach Playfield.
The Neighborhood Greenway is a route over 6 miles stretching from the Rainier Beach Branch of the Seattle Public Library to Mount Baker. The route includes improvements like crosswalks, curb ramps, speed humps, and pavement repairs that make walking and biking around the neighborhood easier.
SDOT and ARTS commissioned seven emerging public artists to create temporary art installations along the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway for Art Interruptions 2018. The artworks inhabit city sidewalks and parks and offer passers-by a brief interruption in their day, eliciting a moment of surprise, beauty, contemplation or humor. Participating artists are Susan Ringstad-Emery, Angie Hinojos Yusuf, Karey Kessler, Miya Sukune, Isobel Davis, Lana Blinderman, and Lawrence Pitre. Art Interruptions is funded by the Seattle Department of Transportation 1% for Arts Funds.
All community members and kids are invited to join in the celebration on August 11. The following organizations will be at the event:
August 6, 2018
Contact: Erika Lindsay
206-684-4337
[email protected]
Temporary art on the new Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway
Opening celebration for Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway and Art Interruptions on Saturday, August 11th from 12 – 4pm at the Rainier Beach Playfield
SEATTLE – The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), in partnership with the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), will be celebrating the opening of the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway and Art Interruptions on Saturday August 11th from 12 – 4 p.m. at the Rainier Beach Playfield.
The Neighborhood Greenway is a route over 6 miles stretching from the Rainier Beach Branch of the Seattle Public Library to Mount Baker. The route includes improvements like crosswalks, curb ramps, speed humps, and pavement repairs that make walking and biking around the neighborhood easier.
SDOT and ARTS commissioned seven emerging public artists to create temporary art installations along the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway for Art Interruptions 2018. The artworks inhabit city sidewalks and parks and offer passers-by a brief interruption in their day, eliciting a moment of surprise, beauty, contemplation or humor. Participating artists are Susan Ringstad-Emery, Angie Hinojos Yusuf, Karey Kessler, Miya Sukune, Isobel Davis, Lana Blinderman, and Lawrence Pitre. Art Interruptions is funded by the Seattle Department of Transportation 1% for Arts Funds.
All community members and kids are invited to join in the celebration on August 11. The following organizations will be at the event:
- Parks Department – face painting
- Trees for Neighborhoods – sign up to receive free trees
- Bike Works – mobile bike repair
- Family Bike – bike expo where families get to test out riding bikes together
- Cascade Bicycle Club – bike rodeo and helmet decorating
- Seattle Department of Transportation –games
- Office of Arts & Culture – art scavenger hunt with a chance to win a prize
- Play Streets - demonstration
Come see me at Centers of Gravity, Opening Night June 9, Shoreline City Hall
“CENTERS OF GRAVITY” ART EXHIBITION OFFERS 45 STUNNING CHOICES for CITY’S PERMANENT COLLECTION
Shoreline, WA –
In science, a center of gravity is a point or place where an object can be balanced. The City of Shoreline’s first exhibition devoted to the creation of a permanent collection strives to create a balance of media and artistic backgrounds in keeping with a 21st century city with rapidly changing demographics. The exhibition opens Saturday, June 9, from 5:00 pm -7:30pm, at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline, 98133; on the third and fourth floors with artists in attendance. Regular gallery hours will be 9:00-5:00 M-F and by appointment on weekends until September 17, 2018, when unsold work will be returned. The City plans to spend up to $10,000 on the artwork to begin its permanent indoor collection, complementing its 26 permanent outdoor sculptures, and will announce its selections in July.
From over 105 artist submissions and more than 500 artworks, jurors David Francis and Jason Huff (Seattle Arts and Culture) selected a final group of 30 (45 artworks) that each explore contemporary art as a balancing of objectives and a blending of disciplinary focus. Many of the artists have backgrounds in other fields and experiences in other countries, reflecting a global village of contemporary art. As Huff writes in his juror’s statement, “Given the city's commitment to equity and inclusion, it was important to make sure that the artists whose works are part of this selection reflected diversity of people and communities that make up Shoreline.” Themes vary from nature, to history, identity, and the design of spatial representation.
ARTISTS:
Gala Bent, Patti Bowman, Weldon Butler, Minh Carrico, MalPina Chan, Diem Chau, Maura Donegan, Shruti Ghatak, Justin Gibbens, Clare Johnson, Jody Joldersma, Amanda Knowles, BethAnn Lawson, Rich Lehl, Terry Leness, Vikram Madan, Carol Milne, Daphne Minkoff, Naoko Morisawa, Saya Moriyasu, Kemba Opio, Megan Reisinger, Jane Richlovsky, George Rodriguez, Samantha Scherer, Tee Gee Story, Thuy Van Vu. Matthew Whitney, Suze Woolf, Angie Yusuf.
Shoreline, WA –
In science, a center of gravity is a point or place where an object can be balanced. The City of Shoreline’s first exhibition devoted to the creation of a permanent collection strives to create a balance of media and artistic backgrounds in keeping with a 21st century city with rapidly changing demographics. The exhibition opens Saturday, June 9, from 5:00 pm -7:30pm, at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline, 98133; on the third and fourth floors with artists in attendance. Regular gallery hours will be 9:00-5:00 M-F and by appointment on weekends until September 17, 2018, when unsold work will be returned. The City plans to spend up to $10,000 on the artwork to begin its permanent indoor collection, complementing its 26 permanent outdoor sculptures, and will announce its selections in July.
From over 105 artist submissions and more than 500 artworks, jurors David Francis and Jason Huff (Seattle Arts and Culture) selected a final group of 30 (45 artworks) that each explore contemporary art as a balancing of objectives and a blending of disciplinary focus. Many of the artists have backgrounds in other fields and experiences in other countries, reflecting a global village of contemporary art. As Huff writes in his juror’s statement, “Given the city's commitment to equity and inclusion, it was important to make sure that the artists whose works are part of this selection reflected diversity of people and communities that make up Shoreline.” Themes vary from nature, to history, identity, and the design of spatial representation.
ARTISTS:
Gala Bent, Patti Bowman, Weldon Butler, Minh Carrico, MalPina Chan, Diem Chau, Maura Donegan, Shruti Ghatak, Justin Gibbens, Clare Johnson, Jody Joldersma, Amanda Knowles, BethAnn Lawson, Rich Lehl, Terry Leness, Vikram Madan, Carol Milne, Daphne Minkoff, Naoko Morisawa, Saya Moriyasu, Kemba Opio, Megan Reisinger, Jane Richlovsky, George Rodriguez, Samantha Scherer, Tee Gee Story, Thuy Van Vu. Matthew Whitney, Suze Woolf, Angie Yusuf.
My artwork stems from an appreciation for the built and natural environment. I often explore similar ideas across disparate media resulting in watercolor and acrylic paintings, wood carvings, and kinetic sculptures. Working with various types of materials challenges my thinking and forces a new perspective. As a past architect, buildings often appear in my work, either as fanciful creations, or as observations from life. As an avid hiker, my work focuses quite a bit on the natural world and its plants and animals. My work is rooted in compassionate observation, which is seeing the subject as a single unique entity as well as being a keeper of memory and history.
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul." John Ruskin