Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts

Help choose which art piece to add to city's collection

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Photo by Steven H. Robinson
Welcome to the selection process for a new piece of art for the Shoreline Portable Works art collection. 

With your selection of one of these pieces of artwork you can assist us in selecting an artwork to add to the Shoreline Portable Works Art Collection. 

Once preferences are tallied the Arts and Culture Committee will bring this selection to the Parks Board for approval of purchase.

Vote for one of these artworks, by Vincent Keele, to be added to the Portable Art Collection.



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Parkwood Elementary is home to "Discovery Forest" by artist Sumi Wu

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Discovery Forest artwork and photo by Sumi Wu

Parkwood Elementary is home to "Discovery Forest" by artist Sumi Wu, in partnership with the Washington State Arts Commission

"Discovery Forest" asks you to see how individual, small elements contribute to the larger overall imagery of the artwork. The artwork is made of seven, six-sided, painted steel columns with small cut out shapes throughout. 

As you walk around the balcony level at the school, the columns create different scenes. Small-scale images of nature native to the Pacific Northwest add up to form the larger imagery.

You can learn more about the piece and Sumi Wu, including a time-lapse video of the installation here:
https://www.arts.wa.gov/my-public-art-portal/

Committee members who brought this art to Parkwood were:
  • Solie Calhoun, Parkwood Student
  • Tainia Tuilevuka, Parkwood Student
  • Christian Mason, Parkwood Parent
  • Laura King, Shoreline School District Art TOSA
  • Taylor Seda, Parkwood Multi-lingual Learner Teacher
  • Jimena Lozoya, Parkwood Registrar/Secretary
  • Carl Yost, Parkwood Music Teacher
  • Ann Torres, Parkwood Principal
  • Marla Miller, Shoreline School District Deputy Superintendent
  • Chuck Zimmer, Art in Public Places Program Manager


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New Mural at Compass Ronald Commons

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Artist Sydney Simmons with her Ronald Commons mural - photo by Karoline Simmons

Article and photo by Kathy Plant

A colorful new mural is now brightening the playground/garden area of Compass Ronald Commons thanks to the design and painting work of college student Sydney Simmons. 

Sydney and her family are members of Shoreline Covenant Church so when Corinne McKisson, Program Manager, expressed a desire for a mural, the church's Serve Locally Committee knew exactly who within their congregation could meet that need. 

Sydney came up with an engaging design and quickly created the mural.

Ronald Commons is an affordable housing development in Shoreline at 178th St between Aurora Ave N and Linden Ave N. Approximately 50 children reside in the development but they will not be the only ones appreciating her cheerful mural. 

Thanks Sydney for using your talents to benefit our community.

Correction: the photo is by Karoline Simmons

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2022 City of Shoreline Public Art and Cultural Services survey

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Lauren Iida Shoreline panels 2016-2017
2022 City of Shoreline Public Art and Cultural Services Survey
 

Dear Shoreline Arts and Cultural Services Community,

We're grateful to so many of you for involvement in our programs over the years; you have made our City a welcoming place for arts and culture. As we emerge from the long hibernation of the pandemic, we're excited to look ahead.

We need your help to shape the future of arts and culture in Shoreline!

We are creating a new Public Art and Cultural Services Plan that will serve as a guide for the next six years (2023-2028); the data gathered here will help shape the Plan and identify community priorities.

Please take 3-5 minutes to respond to the survey available at the links below. Answers are anonymous and not identified by individuals. Please note, the survey will close by March 10, 2022. Thank You!

English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J2NKN9X

The Salmon Hunt at Kayu Kayu Ac Park
Photo by Wayne Pridemore

2022 Encuesta de Servicios Públicos de Arte y Cultura


Estimada comunidad de servicios culturales y artísticos de Shoreline,

Estamos agradecidos con tantos de ustedes por participar en nuestros programas a lo largo de los años; usted ha hecho de nuestra Ciudad un lugar acogedor para las artes y la cultura. A medida que salimos de la larga hibernación de la pandemia, nos emociona mirar hacia el futuro.

La Ciudad de Shoreline está creando un nuevo Plan de Servicios Culturales y de Arte Pública que servirá como guía para los próximos seis años (2023 - 2028). Las respuestas son anónimas y no identificadas por individuos. La duración de la encuesta es de 3 a 5 minutos. 

Tenga en cuenta que la encuesta se cerrará el 10 de marzo de 2022. Gracias!

Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J2WMMWY

--City of Shoreline Public Art and Cultural Services



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Process of Nature: Artmaking with Invasive Species - visit the artist at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Photo courtesy of the artist, 2021; Scotch Broom blossoms in paper making process

The City of Shoreline Public Art Program is delighted to announce the second of four artist residencies occurring at the Art Cottage at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park, each two months in duration and experimenting with materials, methods, and the creative process.

For June, July, and the first week of August please visit Francesca Udeschini on Saturdays between 1 and 5pm to watch or create art-making (social distancing protocol with masks) along the themes of her residency, using invasive plants to create ink and paper.

Francesca Udeschini is a sculptor, photographer, printmaker, and scientific illustrator living in Seattle, Washington. She received a BFA in Visual Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where she studied oil painting and fresco techniques.

After completing her BFA, she was awarded a 9-month residency in the city of Bienno, Italy. There, she was commissioned to create a permanent installation of portraits of local townspeople in the city’s Historic Mill Museum.

Photo courtesy of the artist, 2021; Scotch Broom blossoms in paper making process

She also helped found the Bienno Borgo degli Artisti Artist Collective, where she worked with other artist to put on cultural events for the city.

In 2017, she received a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, during which time her work was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

In June 2019, she received a professional certificate in Natural Science Illustration from the University of Washington.

Her studio currently resides in north Seattle. Udeschini’s residency in Shoreline is made possible through the City’s 1% for Public Art Program and 4Culture Cultural Facilities Grant.

Richmond Beach Saltwater Park Art Cottage, 2021 NW 190th St, Shoreline, WA 98177



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Left at London debut album virtual release party and presentation June 3

Sunday, May 30, 2021


Left at London Debut Album
Virtual Release Party and Presentation

June 3, 5:45 – 8:00pm
Sponsored by Shoreline Public Art


For the past several months at the cottage at Saltwater Park, Indie Pop musician Left at London worked on finalizing her first full-length album. Joined by friends and collaborators, she will present the 33 minutes of T.I.A.P.F.Y.H. in its entirety following a series of short introductory sets by Adult Mom; American Loves Me; Jamvvis; Rose Catalyst; Phixel; and Peter Kuli. 

These musicians, curated by Left at London, span a range of musical genres, from indie pop, electronic, and hip hop, to electronic hip hop, hyperpop, and electronic pop (approximate order of appearances). 

In recognition of Pride Month, about half of the musicians identify as LGBQT+. A live question and answer session immediately follows the presentation of the album. The artist’s previous material can be sampled at https://www.leftatlondon.com

The Listening Party follows the raising of the Pride flag at City Hall as part of the City’s Pride Month celebration, which also includes the following:

Shoreline yarn-bombers creating fiber rainbows at Town Center Park and across the city. One contributor is participating in Love Across the USA’s nation-wide project led by nationally recognized street artist London Kaye. http://www.loveacrosstheusa.com

Homemade Pride Flag Art Activity Kits distributed June 26 – 27 by ShoreLake Arts at the Shoreline Arts festival at Animal Acres in LFP as well as at the Shoreline Farmers Market later in June. https://www.shorelineartsfestival.org/



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Public Art as Art

Friday, February 5, 2021

 
Art and Moon
Photo by Shirley Monson

"Shoreline Soundshell Internatural Station“ sculpture is installed in the Park at Town Center (between Aurora and Meridian near Shoreline City Hall.

Created and designed by Rhiza A+D, an architecture-public art-design team from Portland, Oregon.

Photographer Shirley Monson took one section of a much larger piece to create this interesting photo.



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Join the poets from poetry-in-the-parks on Wednesday in free webinar

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Paramount Open Space photo courtesy
City of Shoreline
Free webinar this Wednesday December 2, 2020, 4-5 pm
, on the poetry project in Shoreline Parks in cooperation with Michigan Tech University.

Preregistration required through Direct Zoom webinar link: https://michigantech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qh6rpPpfSq6IEnxMHWpUDA.

"Voices in the Forest" is a poetry-in-the-parks project conceived of and curated by Shoreline Public Art Coordinator Dr. David Francis for visitors to urban parks and forests throughout the City of Shoreline. 

The poetry also lives online as text and audio in multiple languages. 

Join several of the poets (Raùl Sanchez, Hop Nguyen, and Prof. Anne Beffel) with Professor Carlos M. Amador for a livestreamed interview with the project curator and a reading of a group of poems seemingly about the same subject: a lone willow tree at the edge of a meadow [in Paramount Open Space] that each writer examined from their unique perspective. 

Their shared subject matter will allow us to compare and contrast our experiences, creative processes, and our resulting poems.

For more information, please see the project website at https://www.shorelinewa.gov/government/departments/parks-recreation-cultural-services/events-arts-and-culture/public-art-program/voices-in-the-forest

This event will stream via zoom webinar, register by clicking the "view/stream" button, or if you would like a more interactive viewing experience, the event will also stream on the Rozsa facebook page.



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Public Art: Shoreline Soundshell Internatural Station

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Photo courtesy City of Shoreline

The "Shoreline Soundshell Internatural Station“ sculpture has been installed in the Park at Town Center.

Created and designed by Rhiza A+D, an architecture-public art-design team from Portland, Oregon with several decades of experience and public artworks nationwide.

The site-specific, abstract sculpture references the Modernist elegance of the trolley cars that traveled along the Interurban, with bench seat, bright color, curvilinear structure, and leaded window glass (laminated, dichroic blue glass sourced from Bullseye glass in Portland). 

Photo courtesy City of Shoreline

The shape also evokes a cockle shell and invites visitors to walk inside and view the surrounding landscape as an “internatural” environment (as the title mentions).

The artwork was made possible by the City’s 1% for art program, largely saved up over five years from the third mile of Aurora. A jury panel of local arts activists, Arts Council member, and Park Board member, selected Rhiza from about 100 applicants nationwide.

Site additions will include several mounds and interior brick work using spare Ronald Place bricks, scheduled for spring 2021.



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Positive ponies

Monday, June 22, 2020

Photo by Steven H. Robinson

The ponies have been trying to keep everyone positive and cheerful. 

How's that working for you?



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Fence art: We Love LFP

Monday, June 15, 2020

Photo by Steven H. Robinson

A cheerful example of the spontaneous public art abounding during this pandemic, a new art installation has appeared on the fence at Lake Forest Park Elementary.

Easily visible from southbound Ballinger Way, this appears to be created with Solo® cups through the holes of the chain link fence.



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Chalk art

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Photo by Bill Schnall


Now that we have time and are walking our neighborhoods, with chalk and endless pavement anyone has the opportunity to create art.

This is in the parking lot at the Innis Arden Clubhouse.






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Guerilla Art on utility poles by Einstein Middle School

Monday, June 1, 2020

Photo by Steven H. Robinson


Thanks to the 1% for Art in construction budgets, we have a lot of public art in the area. It is carefully chosen and placed by city staff. Artists and paid and honored.

Photo by Steven H. Robinson


This art is free, spontaneous, and anonymous. It was placed on a utility pole by Einstein Middle School on 3rd Ave NW. 

Photo by Steven H. Robinson


The school has been under construction for over a year. The front buildings were recently demolished. And students have not been at the school since the district shut them down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A little guerilla art lends a cheerful note.



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Sunshine is a good reason to check out Shoreline's public art works

Friday, April 24, 2020

Interactive map here with information about each piece

If the sun isn't out, then know that Saturday April 25, 2020 is International Sculpture Day; which is also a good excuse to check out some of the 40+ public art and sculptures in the City of Shoreline. 

Some pieces are playful, some merely beautiful. Some provide deeper context and help create meaning. During the current pandemic and all its challenges, public art remains accessible.

Photo courtesy City of Shoreline
Visit John Zylstra's temporary sculpture at Town Center Park along Midvale and Aurora, "Tsunami Memorial," which has become a de facto shrine to a loved one lost to the virus, including several flower vases left at the base of the sculpture. 

Since the sculpture is a kind of ritual bell in honor of the people who died in the Tsunami disaster at Fukushima, Japan in 2011, it can double as a shrine to our collective grief.

As hard as it is to imagine the loss experienced by some in our community, it is revitalizing to see public art serves it greatest purpose, which is adoption by the community in unexpected and surprising ways that help affirm art's enduring capacity to provide solace during difficult times.

Here's the link to the map which shows the location of all the sculptures, and murals. Create your own art walk.



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New art piece on loan in Hillwood Park

Monday, December 23, 2019

Balloons by Will Schlough
on loan in Hillwood Park


David Francis, Shoreline public art coordinator, reports that there is new public art on loan at Hillwood Park, 331 NW 193rd St, in Shoreline.

Will Schlough has installed “Balloons,” a three-part sculpture made of brightly painted concrete and a repurposed fire hydrant. 

The sculpture evokes themes of functionality and whimsy as it plays with expectation and scale. 

Schlough is the same artist behind the Richmond Highlands Gateway Mural at Spiro’s Pizza. (See previous article)

“Balloons” will be on display through 2020. More about the artist here.



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Wandering Diatoms find a temporary home in Rotary Park tree canopy

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Kait Rhoads installing her glass art in the
trees of little Rotary Park on NE 185th
Photo courtesy City of Shoreline


Internationally recognized glass artist Kait Rhoads has developed several new large-scale installation pieces, including Wandering Diatoms, a series of eight five-foot long spirals that resemble the enlarged forms of microscopic diatoms like those found in the Salish Sea.

Wandering Diatoms find a temporary home in
the trees of Rotary Park
Photo courtesy City of Shoreline
 

Composed of various colors of green plastic bottles, the sculpture calls attention to the importance of the smallest lifeforms responsible for our clean environment.

As the artist mentions in her statement, diatoms found in “kelp and phytoplankton create 70% of the earth’s oxygen.”

The artwork will be on display through the winter and spring at Rotary Park along NE 185th just west of 10th Ave NE, the pocket park by the old Mower shop.



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Photo: Welcoming figure

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Welcoming Figure
Photo by s cho


Inspired by the last sunny day, photographer s cho captured this image of a public artwork at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park, 2021 NW 190th St.

Welcoming Figure, Steve Brown, Andy Wilbur, Joe Gobin, artists

cast bronze

King County Public Art Collection, managed by 4Culture 1998




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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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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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Photos: Orcas are repaired and installed

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Photo courtesy RBCA


From RBCA

The Richmond Beach Community Association's missing orcas have been repaired and are now re-installed at the Richmond Beach Congregational Church.

It is good to have them home.



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