Showing posts with label painted piano. Show all posts
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Photos: Merrill likes books and music

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Photo by Cynthia Sheridan

Merrill stops to tickle the ivories as she exits the Shoreline library, 345 NE 175th St. Stacked on the piano is a pile of books she will enjoy ‘reading‘ at home. Merrill and her mom are frequent visitors of the public library system.

She is playing one of the Painted Pianos which has popped up all over Shoreline this summer. Soon they will be removed so you have just a 32nd beat to find them. Webpage.




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Painted piano at Sky Nursery - Support Your Local Pollinator

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Piano art by K J Bateman
Photo courtesy City of Shoreline

Ok - here's the painted piano that is actually at Sky Nursery - with the sign to prove it!

This one is Support Your Local Pollinator by artist KJ Bateman - quite appropriate for a nursery.

The Cynthia Knox piano - Notable Clucks - is actually at Central Market - as several readers pointed out very politely.

The painted pianos are a public art program of the City of Shoreline. The pianos are donated, tuned, and reimagined by local artists.

They are left in public locations all over Shoreline for people to enjoy - and play.

They will be in place until September 23, 2019.

--Diane Hettrick


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Correction: Painted Piano at Central Market

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Notable Clucks by artist Cynthia Knox
at Central Market

Check out all the painted pianos in Shoreline - here's the map.


Pianos go into storage September 23, 2019.



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Painted piano: Spartan Rec Center

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Voyager 3
Artist Megan Reisinger at Spartan Rec Center


Now Seattle is doing painted pianos. Good for them.

Are you appreciating ours? This piano is at the Spartan Rec Center and the artist is Megan Reisinger. Entrance to the Spartan Gym is from NE 185th on the Shoreline Center campus at 1st NE.

Here's the map for the rest of the pianos. 



The pianos will go into storage on September 23, 2019.



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Painted Piano: Shoreview off-leash park - music for dog's ears

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Photo courtesy City of Shoreline


Nancy Bishop-Harvey is the artist for the piano at Shoreview off-leash Area. There have been no reports about how the dogs like the music, but the opportunity is there to find out.



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Photo: Piano #11 and friend

Monday, August 5, 2019

Photo by Jeff Dairiki

The piano is called "NW Melodies" and the artist is Marsha Lippert. The piano is at the North City Water District.

The pianist did not give his/her name but posed charmingly.



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What to do on Sunday: 2019 Pop Up Piano map

Sunday, August 4, 2019


Sunday seems like a nice day for piano music - and here are a dozen pianos, just waiting for you to find them.

For those who complained about the unclothed manikin on the Shoreline Library piano, I am happy to let you know that the headless torso is now wearing a shirt.

I know that Aidan set a high standard (see previous article) but I'm still waiting for photos of you playing one of the pianos.

DKH



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Photos: A fun way to practice painted piano lessons

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Aidan got a lot of practice in today!
Jennifer Caceres and her grandson Aidan went on a scavenger hunt to find every painted piano in Shoreline.

They succeeded - and it looks like they even found an extra one kept from previous years.

"Pictures of my grandson enjoying Shoreline's annual Pop Up Piano scavenger hunt. 

"Such a fun way to practice piano lessons!"
🎹🎶🎼😁



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Painted Pianos

Monday, July 22, 2019

The Painted Pianos have been installed in their summer locations. People are encouraged to play the pianos but if your childhood didn't include piano lessons, admiring the art is sufficient.

Arcane Comics in Parkwood Plaza
Photo by Steven H. Robinson

“Fantastic Green Spaces” by Joseph Brooks is now in place in front of Arcane Comics at Parkwood Plaza 15220 Aurora Ave, Shoreline 98133.

Marijke Keyser's organ looks different from every angle. Here are photos of the front, the side, and the back. This is the only organ in the show. It is on the north side of City Hall Council Chambers, by the Veteran's Memorial.

Photo by Steven H. Robinson
Photo by Steven H. Robinson

Photo by Steven H. Robinson

There are 11 pianos around Shoreline - visit them all - you have until September 20, 2019.

Central Market
Arcane Comics
Sky Nursery
Monka Brewing
North City Water District
Richmond Beach Library
Shoreline Library (to be relocated)
Shoreview Dog Park
Spartan Community Center 
City Hall
Modern Glaze


Want your picture in the paper? Send us a photo of you with one or more of the pianos.

7-23-19  Added name and location of piano

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Painted pianos return to Shoreline

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Marijke Keyser carving her piano
Photo by Steven H. Robinson

Artists have been hard at work, creating art pieces out of functional pianos - and one organ - for display and use around Shoreline this summer.

Nancy Bishop-HarveyLaura Brodax, OK.J. BatemanMarijke Keyser have been sharing a work space and dealing with issues like paint that doesn't cover varnish!

Nancy Bishop-Harvey enjoys the shared space. "It’s enjoyable and interesting to share the work space with other artists. We all have something to share with each other in the creative process."

Photo by Steven H. Robinson

K.J. Bateman prepping her piano for a Pollinator Themed design of bees and butterflies.


But all will be ready for placement - scheduled to happen this week.

Thanks to artists for their amazing work and resilience in changing times for art-making, to all those who offered to donate beloved but no longer needed pianos, to local businesses who serve as hosts the pianos.

Here's where the pianos will be - visit them all - pose with them and send us photos!

Central Market
Arcane Comics
Sky Nursery
Monka Brewing
North City Water District
Richmond Beach Library
Shoreline Library (to be relocated)
Shoreview Dog Park
Spartan Community Center 
City Hall
Modern Glaze


Pianos will be in place until September 20, 2019.




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Piano in the garden: pop up piano at Sky

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Photo courtesy Sky Nursery


Pop Up Pianos in Sky Nursery’s front porch

From the streets of London, L.A., and Vancouver, to our very own Shoreline, street pianos have emerged in the 21st century as a primary means of reclaiming urban space.

Altered and decorated by local artists since 2012, when the project was founded by Ros Bird, please welcome 8 returning pianos by filling our environment with music and song.

click for a map of the other Shoreline pianos



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Pop-up pianos are back in Shoreline

Friday, July 20, 2018

For the 7th year of its artist street-piano program, Shoreline returns work by:
  • Marsha Lippert, 
  • Jennifer Carroll, 
  • Cynthia Knox, 
  • Kelly Lyles, 
  • Joe Brooks, 
  • Megan Reisinger, and 
  • Heather Carr.


Ed and Jon Ann Cruver found one of the pianos at Central Market and Ed immediately sat down to try one out.

"We always have fun running around town trying them out," said Jon Ann. "My husband plays, I take his photo!"

Ed Cruver playing the piano at Central Market
Photo by Jon Ann Cruver

One down, seven to go!



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Piano Time: have you found all the pianos?

Monday, August 10, 2015

Land Free Home Brave by Jennifer Carroll
Photo courtesy 

Celebrate Shoreline once again includes the artist-decorated painted pianos of Piano Time. This one, called Land Free Home Brave by Jennifer Carroll is at the Shoreline Library, 345 NE 175th St, Shoreline 98155.

Open to anyone to play!



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Piano Time hits the right notes with visitors and home town players

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

NW Melodies by Marcia Lippert
in place at Goodwill

Once again Piano Time was a big hit! The third year of this “street piano” adventure brought artists, musicians and community together for an interactive experience. Eleven artist-decorated pianos were placed around Shoreline, cared for by adjoining businesses and neighbors and enthusiastically played by thousands of Shoreline residents and visitors throughout the month of August.

Pianos were generously donated to the cause, artists were selected from a Call for Artists, a collaborative committee of City staff, musicians, artists, Prosser Piano staff and community set the plan in motion, and numerous local businesses enthusiastically agreed to participate to make this all-August project a success. In addition Piano Time was supported in part by Prosser Piano, GBC International Bank and a generous 4Culture Group Arts Award.

If you didn’t get to see all the pianos you can find images on the Public Art page of the City’s website. 

Sports and Tunes on Backyard Birds
By Susan Pope at Paramount Park


Each piano had a “note book” attached and collected comments from both pianists and performers – children, teens, adults, seniors, beginners to professionals. The comments were wildly enthusiastic with many wishing the pianos could remain in place indefinitely and definitely supported their return in 2015.

Piano Time 2014 celebrated with bookend concerts at Arts al Fresco on August 7 with three pianos in play, and the Michael Stegner and Friends trio in the City Hall courtyard concert on August 27. Along with noon and evening concerts in the parks, musical theater outdoors at City Hall, new Gallery and Sculpture Stroll exhibit openings, plus chalk art on the trail, this was definitely an art-filled summer to remember.

Piano Time 2014 Notebook Quotes:

  • We’re so glad you do this every year!
  • I love this piano idea. Thank you Shoreline!
  • I love the fact you can just be walking by and see someone playing a piano on the street at any time of day/night! This is such an amazing idea!
  • Love tangrams. Such cool art.
  • What a great way to make our neighborhoods fun & vibrant! Thank you for doing this!
  • Thank you to everyone who made public music possible!
  • My friend is moving to college tomorrow and this is our last hurrah.
  • I love that you provide a piano for those who are without.
  • This piano is awesome. I don’t have a piano at home, or get to practice very often. Thanks a lot!
  • What a great idea to bring the piano out, help influence kids to do something good.
  • My 3-year-old loves this piano.
  • These pianos are fantastic and I love seeing them all around Shoreline.
  •  I look forward to seeing these pianos again sometime. Then I can share my pieces with the world and fill the parks with wonderful songs by Beethoven, Bach, Chopin and Mozart. Please keep doing this and thank you for giving others who don’t have an opportunity to play the chance to play.
Infinite Arrangements by Elise Koncsek
at Gateway Plaza

  • Great to hear Mason play in the sunshine on a bike ride!!!
  • Thank you for doing this art project. I look forward to this sunny month with pianos all year long.  I love not having to pack gear around. The pianos are just there already. Thank you for all the effort moving, setup, creation lots of work. I go find a new piano each day and do some morning music for all to hear. These pianos add beauty to the gray drab suburban landscape. I cover any pianos I see when it rains trying to help them last for years to come. Thank you.
  • Love this idea! Had a woman sit on a bench and play her harmonica along with the piano! Art rules!
  • Back to re-live our first date.
  • To be honest I gave this up a long time ago. I wish I hadn’t done that. I wish I could play Canon in D major again, one more time.
  • This is great. Maybe attach a beginner song book so visitors can play.
  • We came all the way from San Ramon, CA to play this piano.
  • Thanks Shoreline! From a composer
  • Played two jazz standards. Love this idea!
  • Came from Portland to Seattle for fun, but got a lot more than we hoped. Wonderful idea!
  • We love this interactive art installation!
  • We drove out from Buckley for these!
  • Thank you for a moment of grace and pleasure in music.
  • Yay! Happy to find this piano at my favorite grocery store. Stopping here on my route for a treat. It’s great to find it in the early morning so I could play part of the Impossible Dream that I remember (when no one is listening). Kinda shy player.
  • It felt peaceful playing piano by the “ocean”.
  • Whoever dolled up the piano did a great job. Thanks, Shoreline.
  • We played and played. We loved it so much! We had so much fun!
Backyard Birds
By Susan Pope

  • A very nice lady taught me “doe a dear” and she is going to teach me lessons! Can you believe it! I cannot believe what a piano can do to a person! Thank you ever so much!
  • I am 41 and enjoy this piano every time I come to the park The piano is so sweet and pretty that must be played with love. Thanks for bringing it here so we can share it.
  • Thank you so much, we enjoyed this late-night musical performance opportunity.
  • Love this piano. The backyard birds are beautiful. We have found 5 so far. Such fun  - like a treasure hunt. Enjoy playing outside.
  • Thank you for making our vacation special.
  • Thank you for providing this piano. My daughter absolutely loved it. Best thing ever.
  • The birds on this piano make me wanna fly.
  • Thanks so much for sharing this piano. It makes for a long line of happy kids and endless music, a great addition to a sunny day.
  • We love this project. Keep up the great community work!
  • I love the birds and flowers. The tone of the piano is amazingly good considering it lives outside. I have played piano for 68 years and am glad to see people still enjoy it.
  • I want the piano here forever!!!
  • My daughter loved playing the piano! I think lessons will be in her future! Thanks for inspiring a young musician. Piano is absolutely gorgeous!
  • I like the imaginative decoupage effects! I’ll come back to play this one.
Fancy Footwork by Kelly Lyles
The Park at Town Center

  • I’ve really enjoyed the pianos around the area. At first I didn’t play at the library park too often because of the seven or eight missing keys, but it was great at the end of the month to have the keys fixed. But anyway, I hope this program continues for many more years. I love playing these pianos and listening to the different styles of music that comes with each musical passerby. So again, thank you Shoreline.
  • Loved being here – very healing for some old fears and made new happy memories in their place. Wonderful 55th birthday gift.
  • I’ve been playing piano since I was 3 years old. It’s brought me around the US, to Germany with Macklemore and even earned a Grammy nomination with Macklemore from playing “Same Love” on The Heist. It’s amazing what music can do for people and where it can bring you. I encourage people to follow their joy in music and let it inspire, heal and uplift you!! Josh Rawlings 
  • Music is, at the best of times, an expression of heartfelt emotion to be used as an extension of oneself. At the worst of times it is a plague – nothing more and nothing less. Perhaps actions such as these will allow us to cleanse from ourselves the impurity of insincere music. I truly hope so. Good luck, music lovers.
  • Had so much fun playing a duet with Mom.
  • Possibly my favorite piano ever!! I played 2 jazz standards. Four missing keys made it tough.
  • Thank you so much for Piano Time. I was so excited Sky gets to host this beautiful flower piano this year! The action on the keys feels really nice. I am cashier at Sky and also a pianist on the side. Love to play the music that makes people happy!
  • Yea! Mom and I enjoyed finding and playing on all the colorful pianos last year—so happy to see them again! Thank you!
  • So happy to see the piano on display! So good to take part in this fun event.
Wonderland by Heather Carr

  • This is a great idea! I hope that if they are not already in Seattle they can get them too.
  • I played these jazz standards for a flowery piano: Days of Wine and Roses, Poinciana, Red Roses for a Blue Lady
  • Thank you 1000 times plus. This is amazing!
  • What a wonderful idea—becoming a tradition, perhaps Goldberg variations are beyond me, but casual chord changes sound good on … does this piano have a name? Alice?
  • Beautiful tonal quality!...I wish they had something like this in San Diego, California!... visiting family here!
  • I’m jealous of everyone for playing so well. I Just tapped some keys, remembering old tunes. (6 days later) Back again! I’ll play a little more, try to get better. It’s cooler out here than in my house!
  • This piano is beautiful and it’s sunny out and August in Seattle, right here writing in this silly piano book, right now is perfect.
  • My granddaughter loves to sit down and play her nice pieces before entering the store. Nice thing!
  • We just love the pianos! Thank you Shoreline for such a fun and interactive art project! We always meet the nicest and most interesting people at the pianos. Kudos to you!
  • We drove up from Bonney Lake WA. What a wonderful way to bring such creative minds together for something that looks and sounds so great!


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Piano Time Painting in Process

Friday, July 18, 2014

Clarkia Cobb painting music and mandelas

Shoes, birds, tangrams and more! Five newly-donated pianos for Piano Time 2014 are now in the painting site and the artists are hard at work. This year’s concoctions include themes of northwest garden birds, tangram puzzles to work, walking, dancing and fashion shoes, music history and flowers.

You can watch the artists at work in the donated storefront at 1508 NE 179th Street in North City between the water store and the nail salon. They are there at various times but with just ten more days to complete their creations you’re apt to find at least someone painting when you stop by. 

Thanks to families who donated beloved, but no longer needed pianos, Prosser Piano for the piano pick-up, delivery and tuning, to the property owner for donation of the painting space and to a 4Culture Arts Project award and a GBC International Bank sponsorship for helping make this entire project happen.

Come celebrate Piano Time at Arts al Fresco on Thursday, August 7th at Shoreline City Hall and the Park at Town Center from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Arts al Fresco is the kick-off event for the eleven day Celebrate Shoreline celebration this year and includes the new Sculpture Stroll artwork, a meet-the-artists open house in the Gallery at City Hall, live music, artists-in-action and food.

The five new pianos along with six from last year will be out in public places all of August for everyone to play. Maps with locations and information will be available on August 7th. 

For more information contact Ros Bird, Shoreline Public Art Coordinator.



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Pianos still needed for summer Piano Time in Shoreline

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Tide Pool by the Sea Hags 2013

Do you know a piano that is well-loved but no longer in use and would love to be painted and played outdoors? The City of Shoreline is planning its third annual Piano Time “street piano” event for August 2014. Visual artists will paint or otherwise decorate the pianos but they must be in reasonable musical shape and not need any major repairs.

Professional pianists will play at the Arts al Fresco opening on August 7th and the finale concert on August 27th. The rest of the month you and other passers-by may tickle the keys. Back by popular demand the goal of this project is the same: to enliven our summer environment with colorful sounds and sights. 

Lounge Lizard by Carol Meckling 2013

If you know of a piano that might be just right for Piano Time, email Ros Bird, Public Art Coordinator, with the details and contact information or call 206-801-2661. Prosser Piano will help us check it out for suitability.


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“Piano Time” in Shoreline - the painted pianos are coming back

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Dawn Clement on NW Melodies
by Marsha Lippert

Piano Time will be back in August but a few more pianos are needed for artists to paint. Do you know a piano that is well-loved but no longer in use and would love to be painted and played outdoors?

The City of Shoreline is planning its third annual Piano Time “street piano” event for August 2014. 

Visual artists will paint or otherwise decorate the pianos but they must be in reasonable musical shape and not need any major repairs. Pianos with plastic rather than ivory keys preferred.

Professional pianists will play at the Arts al Fresco opening on August 7 and the finale concert on August 27. The rest of the month you and other passers-by may tickle the keys. Back by popular demand, the goal of this project is the same: to enliven our summer environment with colorful sounds and sights.

If you know of a piano that might be just right for Piano Time, email Ros Bird, Public Art Coordinator, with the details and contact information at rbird@shorelinewa.gov  or call 206-801-2661. Prosser Piano will help us check it out for suitability.


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Never too young to appreciate art and music

Tuesday, August 27, 2013


Two and a half year old Simhadri of Ridgecrest 'performs' on the painted piano outside the Richmond Beach Library.

According to his dad, "We took him to the unveiling at 'Arts Al Fresco' and since then he has been looking forward to bumping into one of the many painted pianos in Shoreline. He was here for the Summer Concert Series on August 7th."

Corrected 08-28-2013 10:57pm

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Evening Magazine filmed in Shoreline for Wednesday's show

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Jim Dever and the crew from KING's Evening Magazine were filming around Shoreline Tuesday morning for tomorrow's show.


They are showing off our pianos and Piano Time Project and different scenes throughout the show will be from in and around Shoreline.

Evening Magazine airs weeknights at 7pm on KingTV5.

Photos by Keith McGlashan








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Play the piano at the Shoreline Library, with no Shhhh-ing

Sunday, August 11, 2013



Come to the Shoreline library and play the piano! This is a unique piano created by artist Jennifer Carroll as part of Piano Time 2013, a program by City of Shoreline and 4Culture.

The library is at 345 NE 175th at the corner of NE 175th and 5th NE.


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