Seattle: a center for And there’s more art out there. The city’s collection encompasses more than 400 permanent public artworks throughout Seattle, and Seattle innovation and creativity. across King County there are more than 300 permanent works from the county’s collection. Stroll through downtown Seattle and you will see proof of city’s MAP ingenuity in public art. Artworks located on plazas and in streetscapes, This map is divided into 10 areas: Seattle Center, South Lake Public Art parks, and civic and corporate buildings enrich Seattle’s urban Union, the Waterfront, Belltown, Denny Triangle, Pike Place landscape. This guide features over 200 artworks in downtown Seattle Market, Central Business District, Pioneer Square, Chinatown/ from the collections of the city of Seattle, King County (administered International District and SoDo. Enjoy your exploration of our city Your guide to public art in downtown Seattle by 4Culture), and other select organizations. through the lens of art. Seattle’s public art program integrates artworks and the ideas of artists into public settings. Established in 1973, the public art ordinance specifies that one percent of eligible city capital improvement project funds be set aside for the commission, purchase and installation of artworks, enriching the public experience and giving voice to artists. Established by ordinance in 1973, Public Art 4Culture commissions contemporary art for shared public space in King County, ensuring that King County buildings, public places and infrastructure include the work and thinking of artists. 4Culture maintains King County’s public art collection, which helps define county buildings as cultural spaces. ON THE COVER Alexander Liberman’s Olympic Iliad (see page 4 for description). Photo: Jordan Nicholson. INSIDE COVER Jean Whitesavage and Nick Lyle’s Rain Forest Gates (see page 19 for description). Photo: Chris Bennion. Teresita Fernández’s Seattle Cloud Cover (see page 9 for description). Photo: Aaron Brethorst. Office of Arts & Culture City of Seattle 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 1766 P.O. Box 94748 Seattle, WA 98124-4748 www.seattle.gov/arts (206) 684-7171 About this guide This map was originally produced in 2008 and updated in 2016 by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Do not reproduce without permission. Artworks included in this guide are in the city of Seattle’s public art collection unless otherwise noted. Make your smartphone a smARTphone. Learn more about the artworks you see by downloading the public art app STQRY. Available in more than 60 languages on the iPhone, Android and Windows mobile operating systems free of charge, STQRY will help you find artworks and provide information about the artist, materials and background. PERRI HOWARD’S FOCUS (SEE PAGE 3 FOR DESCRIPTION). PHOTO: MATTHEW LEE JOHNSTON. A2 SEATTLE MARION OLIVER McCAW HALL CENTER 8 Dreaming in Color, Leni 9 An Equal and Opposite Schwendinger, 2003. Light Reaction, Sarah Sze, 2005. on large-scale mesh scrims. Mixed-media suspended SEATTLE REPERTORY FOUNDER’S COURT KREIELSHEIMER PROMENADE. sculpture. MARION OLIVER THEATRE MCCAW HALL LOBBY. 4 Encircled Stream, Ned 1 Neon for the Bagley Kahn, 1995. Anodized Wright Theatre, Stephen aluminum and granite water Antonakos, 1983. Neon feature. tubing. BAGLEY WRIGHT THEATRE, BUILDING FAÇADE. 5 Cairn from the Lang Fountain, Francois Stahly, CORNISH PLAYHOUSE 1962. Carved stone cairn. 2 Fountain of the Northwest, 6 Untitled, Horace James Fitzgerald, 1962. Washington, 1995. Cast Cast bronze fountain. bronze and granite PLAYHOUSE COURTYARD. medallions, cast concrete seating. 3 Barbet, James Washington Jr., 1964. Carved stone 7 Fu Dogs, artist unknown, sculpture. PLAYHOUSE COURTYARD 1963. Concrete sculptures. ENTRANCE. PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ENTRANCE. ROY ST REPUBLICAN ST • 1 Seattle Repertory • 2, 3 MERCER ST Theatre Cornish Playhouse• 7 • 4-6 • 8 • 9 • 16 11 Pacific • • 10 • 15 Northwest Marion • 17 Ballet Oliver McCaw Key International Hall Arena • 12 Fountain • 13 • 18 Mercer Arena PHOTO: BILL MOHN/COURTESY OF SEATTLE OPERA. THOMAS ST AROUND KEYARENA • 14 Fisher Pavilion • 37 SEATTLE • 38 • 20 • 19 10 Fountain of Creation, 13 Acrobat Constellation, Armory CENTER • 22 • 24 Everett Dupen, 1962. Bronze Timothy Siciliano, 1995. Seattle • 25 • 39 • 36 KEYARENA NORTH COURT. Children’s • 27 sculptures. Aluminum and painted Theatre Monorail Chihuly • 28 steel sculptures. KEYARENA Garden 23 • 24 HARRISON ST 11 Play Ray Plaza, Vicki Scuri, EAST PLAZA. • and Glass EMP • 31 1995. Colored concrete and Pacific Space • 34 Needle stainless steel plaza. KEYARENA 14 Focus, Perri Howard, 2009. Science • 21 2nd AVE N Center WEST PLAZA. • 30 Laminated glass fence and • 32 • 26 skate panels. Seattle Center • 35 • 33 12 Hydraulis, Clark Wiegman Collection. SEATTLE CENTER BROAD ST and Trimpin, 1995. Steel, SKATEPARK. (See photo on page 1.) 5th AVE N aluminum and copper BROAD ST installations with water. 15 Pool, Randy Hayes, 4th AVE N TAYLOR AVE N DENNY WAY KEYARENA EAST LOBBY. 1985. Painted plywood. NORTHWEST ROOMS. 6th AVE N CLAY ST • 29 2 3 SEATTLE CENTER (CONTINUED) AROUND THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNTAIN ALONG FIFTH AVENUE 16 Fountain of Seseragi, 18 Neototems, Gloria 25 Artists at Play Playground, 28 After All, Life is Change, Gerard Tsutakawa, 2000. Bornstein, 1995. Bronze and Trimpin and Judith Caldwell Dick Weiss, 2008. Stained Bronze fountain. NORTH OF THE concrete sculpture. SOUTH OF THE and site design by Site glass window wall. FIFTH INTERNATIONAL FOUNTAIN. INTERNATIONAL FOUNTAIN. Workshop, 2015. Commissioned AVE. NORTH GARAGE AT HARRISON STREET. and funded by the Wright Family 17 Kobe Bell, artist unknown, 19 Twine and Branch and and Center Art, LLC. 29 Chief Seattle, James Wehn, date unknown. Cast bronze Biography of a Branch, 1912. Cast bronze sculpture and wood bell. NORTH OF THE Deborah Mersky, 2002. 26 Broad Street Facility, with gold leaf on granite base. INTERNATIONAL FOUNTAIN. Mosaic and painted wall Carolyn Law, 1985. Vinyl- TILIKUM PLACE, FIFTH AVE. AND DENNY friezes. FISHER PAVILION, INTERIOR covered steel fencing. FIFTH AVE. WAY. AND EXTERIOR. NORTH AND BROAD STREET. 30 John T. Williams Honor Pole, Rick L. Williams (lead AROUND SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE 27 Grass Blades, John Fleming and r/b/f architecture with artist), 2012. Red cedar, paint. 20 Bird Song Listening 22 Untitled artworks, Garth Susan Zoccola, 2003. Painted Station, Douglas Taylor, Edwards with Ray Serrano, steel sculpture. Seattle Center 31 Impatient Optimist, Janet 2008. Wind-powered steel 1993. Painted steel cutouts Collection. FIFTH AVE. NORTH AND Echelman, 2015. Spliced and sound sculpture. NORTH OF and ceramic murals. EXTERIOR OF HARRISON STREET. braided PTFE, UHMWPE, CHILDREN’S THEATRE AT FISHER PAVILION. CHILDREN’S THEATRE. and polyester fibers with colored LED lighting. Bill and 21 Sonic Bloom, Dan Corson, 23 Neototems Children’s Melinda Gates Foundation. 2013. Steel, fiberglass, Garden, Gloria Bornstein, photovoltaic, LEDs, sensors 2002. Bronze sculpture. EAST OF and interactive sound system. CHILDREN’S THEATRE. BROAD STREET GREEN Commissioned by the Pacific Science Center. NORTHEAST CORNER 24 Seattle Mural, Paul 32 Black Lightning, Ronald 34 Moses, Tony Smith, 1975. OF PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER. Horiuchi, Olivo Santagostino Bladen, 1985. Painted steel Painted steel sculpture. and Paul Thiry, 1962. Venetian sculpture. glass mosaic. MURAL AMPHITHEATER. 35 Olympic Iliad, Alexander 33 Moongates, Doris Chase, Liberman, 1984. Painted 1999. Bronze sculpture. steel sculpture. (See photo on cover.) ARMORY 36 Human Forms in 38 Migrare, Kelly McLain, Balance, Rita Kepner, 1995. Painted sand-cast glass 1975. Stone sculpture. sculpture. WEST FAÇADE. SOUTH ENTRANCE FOYER. 39 Seattle Center Totem, 37 Queue VI, William Duane Pasco, Victor Mowatt Sildar, 1975. Laminated and Earl Muldon, 1970. wood sculpture. NORTH ENTRANCE Painted western red cedar FOYER. carving. SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BUILDING. PHOTO: COURTESY DAN CORSON. 4 5 59 SOUTH SOUTH LAKE LAKE • 55 B3 • 60 Lake Museum of UNION BROAD ST Union History and UNION (SLU) Park Industry • 54a MERCER ST VALLEY ST REPUBLICAN ST • 56 • 51 • 54b HARRISON ST • 44 • 54c • 53 • 50 • 47 • 57 • 41 6th AVE N • 42 • 49 58 AURORA AVE N 8th AVE N • DEXTER AVE N 9th AVE N • 43 • 46 DENNY WAY • 40 • 52 WESTLAKE AVE N THOMAS ST PHOTO: BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER. 48 TERRY AVE N • BOREN AVE N JOHN ST 40 Wood Pile, Jenny Heishman, 46 Articulated Start, Eric Eley, FAIRVIEW AVE N 2012. Fabricated stainless steel, 2011. Mild steel, stainless steel • 45 MINOR AVE N bronze and urethane paint. and urethane enamel paint. YALE AVE N Commissioned by Vulcan Real Commissioned by Vulcan Real Estate. BOREN AVE. NORTH AND THOMAS Estate. IN PUBLIC PLAZA OFF BOREN AVE. STREET. NORTH. 52 Threshold, Leo Saul Berk, 57 Head in the Clouds: 41 Cabin Corners, Jenny 47 Beacon, Cloud, Toto, Jamie 2009. Salvaged wood and Nebulous, Dan Corson, Heishman, 2010. Fabricated Walker, 2010. Fabricated epoxy resin. Commissioned by 2015. Glass, transparetny aluminum and epoxy paint. aluminum and epoxy paint. Vulcan Real Estate. 120 WESTLAKE conducting film, aluminum, Commissioned by Vulcan Real Commissioned by Vulcan Real AVE. NORTH. photovoltaics, LEDs and Estate. BOREN AVE. NORTH AND Estate. 550 TERRY AVE. NORTH. electronics. Commisioned by REPUBLICAN STREET. 2 53 Origami Tessellation 3 Vulcan Real Estate. NINTH AVE. 48 Baladeuse, James Harrison, 4.3.4 (Fractured), Ellen NORTH AND HARRISON STREET. 42 Labyrinth, Linda Beaumont, 2006. Art glass and stainless Sollod, 2012. Stainless steel. 2003.