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Watch the bus shelter and trees by Ronald Bog - Community Art is alive in Shoreline

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Panels for the bus shelter

Less than two weeks until SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog happens on September 7th from 1-5pm. 

Recycled CDs covered with yarn and fabric

This summer leading up to the free-to-the-public celebration day has included many art parties around town at local events such as Solarfest, YMCA day camp, the Farmer's Market at City Hall, local knitting group meetings, and gatherings at Ronald Bog Park on N 175th St.

Tree project ornaments
Under coordinating artist Kathy Plants' direction, hundreds of Shoreline residents aged 4-88 years old have transformed a mountain of discarded cd's and donated yarn into 450+ wildly colorful fuzzy ornaments to be installed next week on the tree-lined block in front of Ronald Bog Park. This corridor will be further transformed with texture-rich fabric covered wood panels temporarily installed at the Metro Bus shelter and the Shoreline Ponies will have surprise enhancements for the festival as well.

Felted rocks for the rock wall

On festival day, local volunteer resident artists will lead FREE two-dimensional and three-dimensional art-making booths and make music together. Local sculptors will display their large works that include a brightly colored enormous curvy wrapped tree branch, a giant human-sized nest, a colorful felted rock wall, and more.

Wrapped rocks, ready for felting

The day promises to be one that ignites creativity and celebrates community! For more info, contact Cynthia Knox, 206-218-3302.


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The Musicians of 2013 SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog

Monday, August 19, 2013

Acoustic music by local musicians to be featured at Ronald Bog this September 7th, 1-5pm.


a capella sounds of 5bit
at the SummerSet Arts Festival

SummerSet Arts Festival 2013 offers multiple music tents sprinkled around the park. The variety is lush – Celtic music by Laurie Riley and Susan Burke, jazz by Brittain Barber and Friends, smooth and funky acapella by 5Bit, and Scandinavian and Irish tunes by Sarah and Steve Funk.

There's more! Kitty-corner neighbor to the park, Aurora Church will play folk music, Ed Goldstick plays tunes from the Great American Songbook: Popular Tunes of the 1920's-1950's, Around the Sound Clarinets will wow us, and Tierra Caliente Mexican music will be performed by Paul Anastasio and Elena DeLisle-Perry.

Bluegrass jam with Tom Peterson

What – you say you like Old Time, Americana, and Bluegrass? All are in for an audio treat with extended jams led by Sheila Blech Long and Tom Petersen, and if you haven't seen the Peterka Family's Kaywompus String Band, you've got to come down and hear the fun for yourself.
For a pre-festival listen, check out Elena DeLisle and Paul Anastasio on soundcloud and 5Bit on Youtube

Laura Riley, harpist

SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog on September 7th, is a free-to-the-public, non-commercial, community event that features an outdoor temporary sculpture exhibition - including a large Shoreline community art project installation, art-making booths for all ages, hula hooping, live music, and more! 

The 2013 festival is sponsored by the City of Shoreline, local businesses, Shoreline Historical Museum, Shoreline-LFP Arts Council, 4Culture, Rotary Club Foundation, CleanScapes, and Meridian Park Neighborhood Association.

To get involved with the festivities or to make a donation to support the ongoing project, contact festival founder and director Cynthia Knox 206-218-3302.


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SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog

Monday, July 29, 2013

The turtle escaped from the Bog to amaze this little one
at Swingin' Summer Eve
Photo by Steven H. Robinson

You are invited to join SummerSet and the City of Shoreline for the second annual SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog. The festival is one day only -- September 7th 2013, from 1-5pm.

This free, community-centric, event invites all to participate in activities designed to ignite your creativity and curiosity through the arts. Featured activities include dancing, drumming, musical performances, a kids art tent, and art making stations for all ages. Arboretum tours, a sculpture exhibition, and a sensory plant labyrinth will round out the festivities.

Highlights for this year's festival celebrate the talents of artists that live and work in our creative community of Shoreline. SummerSet Arts Festival is free to the public through generous sponsorship by 4Culture, Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council, Meridian Park Neighborhood Association and other local organizations and individuals.

The City of Shoreline, Shoreline Heritage Center, and CleanScapes are co-sponsoring the event. Local volunteers have restored Ronald Bog Park (175th and Meridian in  Shoreline) in recent years and the SummerSet Arts Festival will celebrate their ongoing success within the park and community.

Community-based artist, Cynthia Knox, is directing the festival with generous support from the Shoreline Parks Board. Two of her artworks, commissioned as part of the “From the Ground Up” exhibition will be on display during the festival. Come experience her fiber art mastery in the form of a giant nest, and colorful, felted rock wall.

Also featured are community-crafted tree ornaments from castoff clutter. This installation will delight and amaze pedestrians and drivers next to the I-5 entrance ramp.

Artist Lorenzo Moog will be working in fiber, wrapping an enormous downed tree branch.

No lines that an artist will create can equal the lyricism and grace of the curves and line of natural objects while the wrapping of them gives special emphasis to that beauty. The fallen tree is alive again, only this time with both color and line”.

The Sea Hags, a fiber sculpture consortium comprised of artists Ann Blanch, Sue Williams, and Lynn Ahnen-Turnblom will once again enhance the bronze ponies at park's edge.

Landscape designer Susan Ragan-Stuart will create a fantastical outdoor room using live grasses and flowers to create bedding on a king-sized frame. Several other artists will also create site-specific sculptures for the festival that will remain in the park for 6 weeks. A hands-on art table will keep kids busy making kites and other crafts.

Elena DeLisle and many other local musicians will create an outdoor “living room jam” feel with acoustic music-filled tents sprinkled around the park.

The Duwamish Tribe will have an expanded presence at the festival this year, including storytelling and basket-making.

Spreading the word and keeping the community involved, the SummerSet Arts creative team will bring a community art-making table to different locations and events in the Shoreline area during the summer.

Celebrate summer at this community-based arts extravaganza not to be missed! Contact Cynthia Knox or visit the facebook page with questions or if you would like to join the merry band of festival volunteers.


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"Tree Enhancement Project" for SummerSet Arts Festival

Friday, July 12, 2013

Coming soon to a tree near you...

Last September, Kathy Plant attended SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog and got inspired. With retirement only a couple months away, she resolved to get involved with the festival in the coming year. Little did she know at that time that she would become the lead coordinator for this year's N 175th Street Tree enhancement project!

Last year's project was the colorful tree socks and this year's project promises to delight residents as well. Since March 2013, Kathy has been working with festival director and lead artist Cynthia Knox and has designed a community project that highlights individual creativity and also will create a beautiful large installation starting at the end of August.

Kathy Plant, Aureole Lopez-Shulman, and Maria Galvao
creating art for the park (and nearby trees)

This will be the beginning of the art in the park that is SummerSet Arts Festival sculpture exhibition. The streetside installation will bring attention to Ronald Bog Park in preparation of Festival Day on September 7th, 1-5pm.

Shoreline residents ranging in ages of 4-88 years old have already participated in creating pieces for the trees. Everyone is invited to participate in this on-going project in the next 1 ½ months at NW SolarFest, Swingin' Summer Eve, Shoreline Knitters' Thursday afternoon meetings, and August Sunday afternoon art parties at Ronald Bog Park. For more information about the project or to get involved with SummerSet Arts Festival, contact Kathy.


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SummerSet Arts Festival celebrates Ronald Bog in style

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Flying ponies
Artists Ann Blanch, Lynn Ahnen Turnblom, and Sue Williams
Photo by Dorrena Ortega


By Cynthia Knox

On Saturday afternoon, September 15th, hundreds of people poured into Ronald Bog Park on N 175th St. After parking at Meridian Park Elementary, festival attendees walked the partial block to the park entrance and were delighted by the sight of a colorful giant floating turtle clambering off a dock, amazed by fluttering iridescent wings affixed to the Shoreline Ponies sculpture, and charmed by the brightly striped tree socks made by local knitters.

Turtle of My Childhood
Cynthia Knox and Marilyn Roy

Welcomed by the Meridian Park Neighborhood Association tent, visitors then began their self-guided park tour. By the parking lot, a clay turtle mosaic was strung between two trees. This piece was made in partnership with Shoreline Children's Center, and Anne and Paddy Guthrie – local turtle aficionados.

Mosaic by Anne and Paddy Guthrie
Moving further into the park, jellyfish costumes and Marshmallow Lane beckoned those who wanted to play. Karla Johnson, children's storyteller and writer, captivated young people with fun and games at this station.

Labyrinth by the Shoreline Children's Center
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

Next stop was the labyrinth walk created with braided cloth rope also made by Shoreline Children's Center youth and supplemented with an assortment of painted sticks. Adventurous kids donned jellyfish costumes and raced around the twisting labyrinth path.

Dripline by the Unearth Collective
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

A step beyond, beautifully subtle, painted leaves swayed with the breeze. The piece, Dripline, was handpainted the day before by The Unearth Collective, one of the sculptors featured in the festival. 

An homage to the lake's history as a Cranberry Bog
Created by Mary Coss
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

Moving down towards the water's edge, one encountered three shapely hypertufa vessels filled with water and floating cranberries, created by Mary Coss – an homage to the area's past as a cranberry bog. Also floating was Coss's giant seashell, entitled Blood and Water, anchored near shore with a soundtrack that alternately soothed and provoked thoughts of family and times past.

Fly By Night by Carol Milne
While at the shelter one could look across the lake and make out the shape and color of Carol Milne's Fly by Night – Red Dragonfly piece. This piece has the added advantage of being lit by night, adding an extra dimension to the sculpture exhibition that continued for another week.

Art-making demonstrations included: Plein Air painters Ann Blanch, Marsha Lippert, Billie Torbenson, Chinese Painting by Fred Wong of Shoreline-LFP Arts Council, and Fiber Artist Meghan Lancaster. 

Half of the Hula Hoop Twins
Photo by Dorrena Ortega
Hula-Hooper twins Dani and Desiree captivated the crowd with lessons and lent out dozens of hoops in early afternoon. 
The Children's Art Shelter bustled with activity
Photo by Dorrena Ortega

The Children's Art Shelter at Ronald Bog was overflowing with art projects including nature crowns and bubble painting. Andy Beveroth, lead art instigator danced around, supporting children and parents with their creative expression. Handmade flags made by Spartan Rec summer campers fluttered over the proceedings.

Members of the Duwamish Tribe sang and danced
Photo by Dorrena Ortega
Mid-afternoon brought the Duwamish Tribe's beautiful and moving culture-sharing with “Singing Feet”, an award winning multi-generational traditional dance, drum, and singing group. This was followed by a historical talk about the area by Vicki Stiles, Director, Shoreline Historical Museum. For plant and tree lovers, Dick Decker, Boni Biery, and Dick Nicholson offered tours and native plantings information.

There was music everywhere
Photo by Dorrena Ortega
And then there was the music – so engaging! Elena DeLisle Perry organized a wonderful selection of acoustic “old-time” music, bluegrass, jazz, country, Creole/Cajun, Renaissance, classical, and the music of Tierra Caliente, Mexico. that fit so well with the park theme. Locals Ed Goldstick, The Peturka Family Band, WhistlePig, and Brittain Barber, and others played in four tents around the park for 3 ½ hours. Along the way there was a Family Dance in the meadow called by Amy Carroll.

Arboretum - weaving with natural materials
Photo by Dorrena Ortega
The 2012 SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog was funded through a City of Shoreline Neighborhood mini-grant through Meridian Park Neighborhood Association. Other sponsors included: Shoreline Arts Council, Walgreens, Starbucks, Haggen Market, Home Depot, Cleanscapes, Aurora Rents, Aurora Church of the Nazarene, and Shoreline Children's Center. If you are interested in creating next year's festival, please contact Cynthia Knox


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Summerset Arts Festival Saturday, 1-5pm at Ronald Bog

Friday, September 14, 2012

Grove Shrine by Meghan Lancaster

September 15, 2012, from 1-5pm, SummerSet Arts Festival at Ronald Bog, N 175th St and Meridian Ave N. Free. Parking at Meridian Park Elementary.

This event invites all ages to participate in artistic activities including: live music, dance and drumming performances, fun kids activities, and art making stations. 

There will also be park and arboretum tours as well as a sculpture exhibition. Volunteers have restored Ronald Bog Park (175th and Meridian in Shoreline) over the summer and the SummerSet Arts Festival will celebrate their ongoing success within the park and community.




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Schedule for Saturday's SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog

Follow the tree socks to SummerSet Arts Festival Saturday
Photo by Susan Armstrong

Colorful knitted tree socks herald the arrival of SummerSet Arts Festival this coming Saturday afternoon from 1pm-5pm at Ronald Bog Park on N 175th at Meridian and I-5 in Shoreline. 35 Knitters spent 2 1/2 months making 54 socks. Susan Armstrong organized the order of the socks and directed the installation last Saturday with much encouragement from passing drivers.

Now it's time to follow the socks to the park for the festival!

The festival schedule includes:
  • 4 tents of Live Acoustic Music including: country, jazz, bluegrass, old-time, cajun, folk, and Renaissance music
  • Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
  • All Ages art-making
  • Jellyfish Storytelling
  • Live Landscape Painting
  • Park and Arboretum Tours

Highlights include:

  • 1 - 3pm - Hula Hooping performance and demonstration
  • 2 - 2:20pm - Duwamish Tribe "Singing Feet" Drumming and Dance Troupe Share Culture
  • 2:30 - 4pm - Bluegrass Jam led by Jack Boyer
  • 2:30 - 3:30pm - Brittain Barber Jazz Duo
  • 3pm - Historical Talk about Ronald Bog - Vicki Stiles, Director, Shoreline Historical Museum
  • 3pm - Family dance led by caller Amy Carroll and accompanied by Whistlepig
  • 4:15pm - 5pm - Paul Anastasio and Elena Delisle-Perry play Music from Terra Caliente, Mexico

Come down, meet your neighbors and enjoy a late summer afternoon together. Mike's Hot Dogz and Yvette's Ice Cream will be on hand, and picnicking is also very welcome. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and spend the afternoon enjoying the recently restored Ronald Bog Park! 

Parking is available at Meridian Park Elementary School located on Meridian Ave N just south of N 175th St. For more information, call 206-218-3302.

SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog is sponsored by Meridian Park Neighborhood Association through a City of Shoreline mini-grant. Shoreline Parks Department endorses the event and Shoreline - LFP Arts Council is a co-sponsor.


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SummerSet Arts Festival at Ronald Bog this Saturday

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Meghan Lancaster will create a "disappearing art work"
similar to this Grove Shrine

On Saturday, September 15th, 2012, from 1-5pm, the Meridian Park Neighborhood will celebrate at Ronald Bog Park with the first ever SummerSet Arts Festival. 

This free event  invites all ages to participate in several fun and artistic activities including: live music, dance and drumming performances, fun kids activities, and art making stations. 

Anne Guthrie and Andy Beveroth work with artist Meghan Lancaster

There will be park and arboretum tours as well as a sculpture exhibition. Volunteers have restored Ronald Bog Park (175th and Meridian in Shoreline) over the summer and the SummerSet Arts Festival will celebrate their ongoing success within the park and community.

Local resident and artist Cynthia Knox is pioneering the festival with the approval of the Shoreline Parks Board. Artist Meghan Lancaster will create a Disappearing Artwork sculpture from natural materials found within the park that will remain until they naturally disintegrate. During the festival she will guide visitors to complete this sculpture. 

The Unearth Collective will also create a site-specific piece that will remain in the park. 

Glass and light sculptor Carol Milne will create a piece to be viewed across the park lake on the distant shore. 

Mary Coss creating her giant conch shell

Seattle artist and advocate for community art Mary Coss will be installing a giant conch shell on a floating pier in the bog. The shell will have a soundtrack so visitors can also experience her sculpture through music and poetry.

She is “committed to placemaking as a way to humanize the built environment. Art can be a vehicle to transform a community, and when done in collaboration with good design, it can contribute to a community with a soul. My experience integrating artwork into the urban setting has made apparent to me the impact of art on neighborhoods and the people who live there, I believe in its value.”

The Floating Shell being position on the Bog

The Shoreline Children’s Center is creating a labyrinth installation as well as a clay turtle mandala. A hands-on art table will keep kids busy making kites and other crafts. Performing artists will bring music and entertainment. Among them, Brittain Barber will lead a jazz duo and local Shoreline resident Elena DeLisle-Perry will provide bluegrass and old-time music including a square dance.

A 'yarn-bomber installs a tree sock on N 175th
Photo by Susan Armstrong

Spreading the word and keeping the community involved, Cynthia Knox continues to bring a community art-making table to different locations and events in the Shoreline area during the summer. The pieces created at the art-making table, like tree socks, will be featured in the festival. 

The SummerSet Arts Festival has found tremendous support; it has received a Shoreline Dept. of Neighborhoods mini-grant through the Meridian Park Neighborhood Association. The City of Shoreline and the Shoreline-Lake Forest Parks Arts Council are co-sponsoring this exciting summer event. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and a picnic and plan to spend a wonderful afternoon in the park!


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Festival at the Bog on September 15

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Festival knitters at a weekly session at Haggen's Cafe
On September 15th, 2012, from 1-5pm, the Meridian Park Neighborhood will celebrate at Ronald Bog Park with the first ever SummerSet Arts Festival. This free event invites all ages to participate in several fun and artistic activities including: live music, dance and drumming performances, fun kids activities, and art making stations. There will also be park and arboretum tours as well as a sculpture exhibition. Volunteers have restored Ronald Bog Park (175th and Meridian in Shoreline) over the summer and the SummerSet Arts Festival will celebrate their ongoing success within the park and community.

Local resident and artist Cynthia Knox is pioneering the festival with the approval of the Shoreline Parks Board. Artist Meghan Lancaster will create a Disappearing Artwork sculpture from natural materials found within the park that will remain until they naturally disintegrate. During the festival she will guide visitors to complete this sculpture. The Unearth Collective will also create a site-specific piece that will remain in the park. Glass and light sculptor Carol Milne will create a piece to be viewed across the park lake on the distant shore. 

Mary Coss working on her shell
Seattle artist and advocate for community art Mary Coss will be installing a giant conch shell on a floating pier in the bog. The shell will have a soundtrack so visitors can also experience her sculpture through music and poetry. She is “committed to placemaking as a way to humanize the built environment. Art can be a vehicle to transform a community, and when done in collaboration with good design, it can contribute to a community with a soul. My experience integrating artwork into the urban setting has made apparent to me the impact of art on neighborhoods and the people who live there, I believe in its value.”

The Shoreline Children’s Center is creating a labyrinth installation as well as a clay turtle mandala. A hands-on art table will keep kids busy making kites and other crafts. Performing artists will bring music and entertainment. Among them, local Shoreline resident Brittain Barber will lead a jazz duo and resident Elena DeLisle-Perry will provide bluegrass and old-time music including a square dance.

Spreading the word and keeping the community involved, Cynthia Knox continues to bring a community art-making table to different locations and events in the Shoreline area during the summer. The pieces created at the art-making table, like tree socks, will be featured in the festival. The SummerSet Arts Festival has found tremendous support; it has received a Shoreline Dept. of Neighborhoods mini-grant through the Meridian Park Neighborhood Association. The City of Shoreline and the Shoreline-Lake Forest Parks Arts Council are co-sponsoring this exciting summer event. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and a picnic and plan to spend a wonderful afternoon in the park!


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Weaving together a neighborhood through community art-making

Wednesday, August 15, 2012


Artist Cynthia Knox gives a knitting lesson at
Shoreline Farmers Market

After years of watching the parade and hearing about the Fremont Powerhouse and community art-making, Meridian Park Neighborhood studio artist Cynthia Knox signed up last year to assist an artist friend in finishing her giant puppets for the Fremont Solstice parade and was introduced to community art-making and community artists.

“It was a complete eye-opener – being with these artists who were so generous with their knowledge while teaching others, and valuing the group experience over the controlled perfection of the “product”. I witnessed how newcomers with little or no experience and plenty of self-doubt were transformed in their confidence levels around their own creativity and saw how much joy it brought them. Art-making in this community context is the modern day equivalent of a village doing a barn-raising or coming together to create a village-wide evening dance event. The point is, all are invited to create it, then enjoy it”.

Another seminal moment for Cynthia was seeing first-hand that disaster brought out the best in neighbors when her street flooded in 2007. “While we had been a friendly neighborhood, waving to each other from our driveways, we got to know each other on a much deeper level and supported each other like never before as a result of dealing with the shared experience of having ruined furniture and irreplaceable creative works devastated by the water that came into our homes. 

I thought to myself, why is it we have to have a disaster to be more connected to each other?”

Festival knitters at Haggen's cafe
These two experiences propelled the beginnings of the SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog. As neighborhood members have contributed ideas the festival has evolved. The event features a summer of community art-making that is already underway knitting tree socks, building a giant floating turtle sculpture, and making environmental art. The art-making kicked off at the Shoreline Farmer's Market in June, visited the Swingin' Summer Eve, and Shakespeare in the Park events, and is currently parked at Haggen Foods on Thursday afternoons and Ronald Bog Park on Sunday afternoons.

Art-making parties are currently being publicized on Facebook at the SummerSet Arts Festival events page and flyers around town. Art installation for the event begins the second week in September and the process culminates on September 15th 1pm-5pm with a day of celebration at the newly restored Ronald Bog Park at 175th and Meridian.

Art-making for the festival is already underway, with Shoreline Children's Center making a portable labyrinth, and clay turtle mandala, and Spartan Rec Day Campers making decorative flags featuring the animal life at Ronald Bog Park. At SummerSet Arts parties, knitters have been gathering Thursday afternoons at Haggen Market and Sunday afternoons at Ronald Bog Park - making tree socks for the event. These art parties continue through the end of August. All are welcome and no experience is necessary to join in!

All Meridian Park Neighborhood and Shoreline residents and businesses are invited to share your talents at the free September 15th festival event. What's needed? Musicians and music-lovers, art-makers and art-appreciators, folks who love to lift heavy things, folks who like to watch other people work and compliment them, logistically-minded people, party planners, dancers, folks who like to wear costumes, organizers, drivers, you name it – there's a place for you to make a difference and have fun! Contact project coordinator Cynthia Knox at cynthiasjk@yahoo.com.



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Art Party at Ronald Bog on Sunday August 5th, 1pm-4pm

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Art Party at Ronald Bog on Sunday August 5th, 1pm-4pm


Do you like to play with stuff outside? Come down to Ronald bog Park and explore art-making with artists Jeff Tangen and Cynthia Knox. Using natural materials found in the park, we will create a piece to be displayed at SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog in September. Wear comfortable clothes and bring work gloves if you have them. Also handy, a chair or blanket to sit on. For more info contact Cynthia.


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Yarn bombers unite for tree socks

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Katherine D'Orazio (left) and Marion Mohrlok (right),
both of Shoreline, knit tree bombs at Swingin' Summer Eve.


Yarn-Bombers Unite for Tree Socks!

Would you like to contribute your knitting skills to a worthy and artistic cause?  Tree socks are a part of the sculpture installation at Summerset Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog on September 15, 2012. 

Knitting parties are being held every Thursday afternoon 1pm-3:30pm at Top Foods at 175th and Midvale in the Market Street Cafe, and also at Shakespeare in the Park on Wednesday, July 25th at Richmond Beach Library Park.

This tree has been Bombed!

These socks are fast and easy - size 11 needles or large Knifty Knitter loom - and yarn is provided so you can play with stripes of your own design. Email Cynthia to say, "Yes, I'm in!", and get more information about supplies and the pattern.  These are needed by September 1st, for installation on September 12.

And of course, you are all welcome on the day of the festival to admire the trees and your excellent handiwork.



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Glass artist Carol Milne sculpts with light for SummerSet Arts Festival

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Corrected 07-20-2012 12:27am

Carol Milne, glass sculptor, will exhibit at SummerSet


Carol Milne is an internationally exhibited glass sculptor working in North Seattle creating with her favorite medium, hot glass. Milne has displayed her award-winning work in galleries and art festivals in many corners of the United States and as far afield as Japan and Korea. With glass she has tackled a number of forms including shoes, knitted baskets, disembodied hands, teapots, and more. Three of the production processes she uses in her glass work are kiln cast glass, hot cast glass, and hot stitch knitted glass. 


Milne says “I like glass because it can take on an infinite number of forms and textures. Glass can show an interior image and exterior image simultaneously. It's translucent and transparent. It plays with light. It looks cool when it's hot.” 


While Milne can certainly be considered a glass artist, she also lives in the realm of a fiber artist – using knitting and weaving as ways of working with her material of choice.

The SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog offers Milne a new challenge – translating her love of glass and light into a large scale for the outdoor setting. For warm-up, she is creating an enormous piece for Bellwether, the outdoor sculpture exhibit presented by the City of Bellevue’s Arts Program. Her Bellwether work features sculpted stone-like thick tentacle blades curling from the earth. The surfaces are treated with a knitted covering of shock cord and rope lighting to create a wonderful woven glow. We can't wait to see what Milne comes up with for the SummerSet Arts event! Her work along with 4 other sculptors will displayed at Ronald Bog Park starting the second week of September of this year.

To see more of Carol's work visit her website. SummerSet Arts Festival:Celebrating Ronald Bog, a free to the public event, begins in September with a Celebration Day of music, dance, art-making, and nature appreciation on September 15th. Shoreline residents are invited to join in art-making at month of July Cromwell Park concerts, month of August Sunday afternoons at Ronald Bog Park, and other Shoreline events. For more information contact Cynthia Knox, project coordinator.


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Local sculptor featured in SummerSet Arts Festival this fall

Thursday, June 28, 2012

"Red Glow" by Jeff Tangen
Shoreline metal sculptor Jeff Tangen has shown his work regionally since 1994 in venues such as the Peace Arch in Blaine, Washington, Edmonds Arts Festival, and Bumbershoot Festival at Seattle Center. This year he will be exhibiting his works in Shoreline at the year-long Outdoor Sculpture Stroll and in September at SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog.

On a quiet street in the Ridgecrest neighborhood, Tangen has a spacious studio with a multitude of gathered metal blades, fasteners, wires, and colorful toy parts, in a vast variety of shapes. Tangen strives to make the environment better with his art and he does this by primarily using recycled materials. His orderly studio is outfitted with all the tools required to turn this assortment of parts into entertaining and sometimes kinetic sculptures. In addition to his artistic practice, Jeff Tangen and his wife Marla run a cat boarding business named Purrfect Cat Boarding. The cats have deluxe accomodations and an enviable play area.

For Tangen the sculptor, the creation process starts with a key element and he builds the artwork around it. For his sculpture “Red Glow” scheduled for the Ronald Bog SummerSet Arts Festival, the key elements are the colored glass lenses. When sunlight shines on them they glow, reminiscent of stained glass windows. The lenses are placed above eye level requiring the viewer to look up, thus increasing their impact – similar to looking up at church windows. The lens holders, or pods, are made from discarded tools and pieces of scrap metal. At first glance the individual elements of the pods aren't noticeable, but the identification of the these parts draw the viewer in and prompt more visual investigation. “Red Glow” has an organic shape but it also has the sense of being a machine. Tangen enjoys this conflict and loves hearing people try to decide if the piece is a mutant plant or a crazy stoplight!

SummerSet Arts Festival: Celebrating Ronald Bog connects people, place, and nature through art. Art-making for the event takes place over the summer at the Farmer's Market, Top Foods Cafe, and Ronald Bog Park. Installation begins the second week in September and the event culminates in a celebration day of music, art-making, and dance on September 15th from 1-5pm. The park is located in Shoreline at 175th and Meridian near Interstate-5. The event is free and open to the public. Parking for the event is at Meridian Park Elementary School. For information about how you can participate in the event, contact project coordinator Cynthia Knox.



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