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 the MAP city’s ingenuity in the public art. Artworks located on plazas and This map is divided into 10 areas: Seattle Center, South Lake Public Art in streetscapes, parks, and civic and corporate buildings enrich Union, the Waterfront, Belltown, Denny Triangle, Pike Place Seattle’s urban landscape. This guide features nearly 200 artworks Market, Central Business District, Pioneer Square, Chinatown/ in downtown Seattle from the collections of the city of Seattle, King International District and SoDo. Enjoy your exploration of our city Your guide to public art in downtown Seattle County (administered 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 Lieberman’s Olympic Iliad (see page 4 for description). Photo: Jordan Nicholson. INSIDE COVER Jean Whitesavage and Nick Lyle’s Rain Forest Gates (see page 21 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 2013 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. 25 6th AVE S AVE 6th PHOTO: YAM BRAND. YAM PHOTO: 4th AVE S AVE 4th 192 2nd AVE S AVE 2nd • 191 193 • • PHOTO: COURTESY SEATTLE MARINERS. 190 181 • • S KING ST 182 Qwest Field • 183 • 184 OCCIDENTAL AVE S AVE OCCIDENTAL • 185 • Qwest Events Center 3rd AVE S AVE 3rd 186 • S ROYAL BROUGHAM WAY Safeco Field 187,188 • 1st AVE S AVE 1st SODO EDGAR MARTINEZ DR S 189 • Art Listing 1 2 3 ALOHA ST p2 Seattle Center 74 Plaza Seat Cubes, 133 Cultural Heritage REPUBLICAN ST 1 Neon for the Bagley 24-Hour Street Grid, and Sister City HARRISON ST Lockers, 911 History VALLEY ST Wright Theatre Collection MERCER ST Wall 2a Fountain of the 134 Jail House Garden A 75 Benches 135 ROY ST Northwest Torus Torum 2nd AVE W THOMAS ST 2b Barbet 76 Pillar Arc 136 Rhododendrons 3 Encircled Stream 77 Reflection Fountain 137 Untitled #625 78 4 Cairn from the Lang Three Sets of Twelve 138 Lunar Promenade 1st AVE W Fountain 79 Leaf 139 Sandworm MYRTLE EDWARDS 80 Quiltroad MAP BASE COURTESY OF VISIT SEATTLE. 5 Untitled 140 Truth Crushed to the PARK QUEEN AVE N 6 Fu Dogs 81 Winding Ribbon Earth Will Rise Again JOHN ST BROAD ST 7 Dreaming in Color p12 Pike Place 141 From these Hills, 1st AVE N 8 An Equal and from these Waters Market WARREN 142 Standing Tall Opposite Reaction 82 Untitled Totem Pole 2nd AVE N BROAD ST 9 Fountain of Creation 143 Confluences VALLEY ST 83 Farmer’s Pole 10 144 Brewing Storm, Play Ray Plaza JOHN ST 84 Untitled Fence B DENNY WAY 11 In the Event Pacific Coast Trail WESTERN AVE 85 Tree of Life MERCER ST 12 and Stand of Firs, OLYMPIC Hydraulis 86 SCULPTURE Rachel Cumberland PARK BROAD ST 4th AVE N 13 Acrobat Constellation 87 Song of the Earth 145 Longacres, Kent 5th AVE N REPUBLICAN ST 14 Focus 146 ELLIOT AVE Rotations CLAY ST 15 Pool p13 Central TAYLOR AVE N 147 Tumbling Figure: 5 16 Fountain of Seseragi Business 6th AVE N Stages THOMAS ST CEDAR ST HARRISON ST 17 Kobe Bell District AURORA AVE N 148 Songbird ALASKAN WAY 8th AVE N 18 Neototems 88 Hammering Man MINOR AVE N 149 City Light, City 9th AVE N 19 DEXTER AVE N Twine and Branch, 89 Mirror Bright VINE ST DENNY WAY PONTIUS AVE N YALE AVE N Biography of a Branch 90 Governor John 150 Fortson Square 20 Human Forms in Harte McGraw 151 Prefontaine WALL ST Balance C 91 Eat, Drink, Be Merry EASTLAKE AVE Na Fountain WESTLAKE AVE N 21 Queue VI 92 Untitled Platform 152 7th AVE Pioneer Square First 6th AVE TERRY AVE N 22 Migrare Murals Hill Streetcar E N 23 BATTERY ST Seattle Center Totem 93 Untitled Platform 153 Seattle Totem Pole BOREN AVE N Benches BELL ST FAIRVIEW AV JOHN ST MINOR AVE N 24 94 154 WESTERN AVE Bird Song Listening Untitled Wall Tiles ALASKAN WAY Pergola BOREN AVE Station 95 Westlake Star 155 Chief Seattle BLANCHARD ST MINOR AVE TERRY AVE 25 Untitled Axis/Seven Hills Fountain 5th AVE 9th AVE 26 Neototems Children’s 96 Children’s Art Tiles 156 4th AVE 8th AVE Day/Night 3rd AVE Garden 97 Washington 157 Anawog LENORA ST2nd AVE 27 Seattle Mural Centennial Bell 158 Seattle Fallen D 1st AVE 28 Sonic Bloom Garden Firefighters 29 Black Lightning 98 Lebeg (slight Memorial 30 movement 159 Killer Whale, Bear, VIRGINIA ST OLIVE ST Moongates WESTLAKE 31 Moses in the air) Tsonqua, Sun and AVE N 99 32 Olympic Iliad Maw-Matic Raven STEWART ST 33 100 The Boxers 160 Firefighter Silhouette Broad Street Facility POST ALLEY 101 161 PINE ST 7th AVE 34 Grass Blades Games Firefighters’ 102 Memorial 35 After All, Life is “A” Procession 162 Change 103 Selections from the Call and Response 163 SEATTLE Truism, Living and Sentinels 5th AVE 36 Chief Seattle AQUARIUM PIKE ST Survival Series 164 bamboo, luminous 37 John T. Williams WASHINGTON 104 E Honor Pole Untitled (Three 165 The Plaza at King STATE Stained Glass Street Center WATERFRONT CONVENTION PARK UNION ST CENTER p6 South Lake Windows) 166 Earth, Wind and Union 105 Seattle George Water 38 Wood Pile Monument 167 Rain Forest Gates 39 Cabin Corners 106 Skytones 168 Windvanes UNIVERSITY ST 40 Labyrinth 107 The Garden of 169 Moto 41 Articulated Start Remembrance 170 4 (Where shall I go SENECA ST 108 42 Beacon, Cloud, Toto Pendulum Clock ahead?) 109 Naramore Fountain 1st AVE SPRING ST 43 3rd AVE Baladeuse 2nd AVE 110 The Urban Garden p22 Chinatown/ 44 POST AVE Convergence ALASKAN WAY 111 Fountain of Wisdom International 45 Ping Pong Plaza WESTERN AVE 112 Babe, The Phoenix F MADISON ST 46 Placeholders District FIRE ALASKAN WAY VIADUCT Fairy, and The Magic STATION 47 Threshold 171 Untitled Dragons Grove MARION ST 48 Origami Tessellation on Lampposts 113 Literacy/ESL/World WASHINGTON 2 172 Historic Chinatown STATE 3 4.3.4 (Fractured) Languages Floor 49 Gate (Chong Wa FERRIES COLUMBIA ST Lost in Thought 114 Braincast 50 Blanche Gate) CHERRY ST p8 Waterfront 115 Making Visible the 173 Heaven, Man and JAMES ST 51 Undercurrents Invisible: What the Earth YESLER WAY Community 174 Jackson Street 52 Adjacent, Against, JEFFERSON ST Upon is Reading Colonnade G 53 Eagle 116 Of Memory 175 Japantown/ID First 117 TERRACE ST 54 Wake Astronomy by Hill Streetcar Day (and Other 1st AVE S 55 Neukom Vivarium 176 Chinatown/ID Oxymorons) First Hill Streetcar 56 Seattle Cloud Cover S WASHINGTON ST 118 S KING ST Three Piece Sculpture 177 Untitled Walkway 2nd AVE S 57 Father and Son #3: Vertebrae and Benches ALASKAN WAY S 58 S MAIN ST Bell Harbor Beacon 2nd AVE EXTENSION S 119 Seattle Financial 178 Wellspring 59 The Wave Wall Center ALASKAN WAY VIADUCT 179 Thread KING ST 60 Waterfront Fountain S JACKSON ST 120 Seattle Tulip 180 Bridge Between STATION 61 Ivar Feeding the Gulls 121 Landscape of Time Cultures 62 Marion Street OCCIDENTAL AVE S Overpass Mural p16 Pioneer Square p24 SoDo H S KING ST 63 Parking Squid 122 Codes & Protocols 181 Earth Dialogue 123 Points of View 182 lumen S WELLER ST p10 Belltown 124 Witness and Dilemma, 183 Written into the 4th AVE S 64 Second Avenue Project Levels, Weights and QWEST Earth FIELD MAYNARD AVE S 65 First Avenue Project 5th AVE S Measures 184 Colossal Heads 7th AVE S 66 Beckoning Cistern 125 Seattle Justice Center AIRPORT WAY S 185 6th AVE S rockshadow S LANE ST 67 Wave Rave Cave Elevator Lobbies QWEST 8th AVE S 186 Occidental Suite 1st AVE S EVENTS 68 GyroJack 126 Day and Night 187 Batter’s Fence S ROYAL BROUGHAMCENTER WAY 69 Angie’s Umbrella 127 Blue Glass Passage 188 The MITT S DEARBORN ST 70 Popsicle 128 continuum 189 The Tempest 129 return p11 Denny Triangle 190 Motion Song 130 Evolving Wing and the SAFECO 71 Three Women: Girl, 191 I EDGAR MARTINEZFIELD DR S Gravity of Presence Bloom Young Woman, 192 131 illumine Newsreaders Mother and Child 193 Round and Round 3rd AVE S 72 Universal Adapter 132 Water Weaving Light Cycle 73 Sequence/ Consequence Make your smartphone a smARTphone. 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