Did you know that you can walk from Seattle to Snoqualmie? In this guest blog post, Trails Project artist Susan Robb invites you to join her and artist Stokley Towles to do just that.
3 days, 35+ miles, 40 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie by Regional Trail
By Susan Robb
Join me and Stokley Towles on an adventure in our own backyard, an unscripted encounter with a place we think we already know. Help form our band of “trail tramps” as we walk the King County Regional Trail System through urban and rural neighborhoods. We’ll be camping in unlikely city parks, taking cooling dips in the Tolt River, and watching art films under the stars. (Don’t forget to pack a little bling for the “formal” dinner at Tolt-MacDonald Park.)
The Long Walk starts in Seattle at 9am on Friday, July 23rd 9am on Friday, July 23rd. We’ll arrive at Snoqualmie Falls on Sunday, July 25th in the afternoon. A support van will carry our camping gear and related items. Breakfast (Saturday and Sunday) and dinner (Friday and Saturday) will graciously be provided by Caffe Vita and Via Tribunale.
Click here to reserve your spot on The Long Walk and join us for a short (but necessary) informational meeting on Wed, July 7 at 7pm at 4Culture.
Contact me – sus...@susanrobb.com – with questions.
A team of artists commissioned by 4Culture and King County Parks are creating a series of artworks on and about the King County Regional Trails System. Over the course of Summer 2010, you are invited to share and participate in their visual, audio, textual and walkable creations – on the trails and online.
image (c) “Keep on Truckin’ / Walkin’!” courtesy Susan Robb
4 comments
john berry says:
Jun 25, 2010
I think that you should give Robert Crumb a credit here, such as:
Logo inspired by Robert Crumb’s “Keep On Trucking”.
Because the hand lettering, and image are direct copies of his work and should be acknowledged as such. This is an artwork which has been plagiarized a great deal, and it dismays me to see someone again capitalizing on it. It happens to be the main reason that Robert Crumb left America to live in France, fyi.
Lets perhaps try to have something original that expresses the theme.
Tamar Benzikry-Stern says:
Jun 25, 2010
Thank you for your comment, John. Blog4Culture is all about sharing news and promoting dialogue, so let’s dialogue about this!
Please consider the difference between plagiarism and thoughtful and thought-provoking appropriation. Susan’s playful adaptation of Crumb’s iconic and oft borrowed imagery, re-visions and re-contextualizes it – creating a new work apt for the particular Long Walk experience she and Stokley will be leading in July. Their band of trail walkers will indeed have to, to borrow/apply from Crumb “keep on walking”!
Deb S says:
Jun 29, 2010
Wow this looks like so much fun, I see that it’s already “sold out” So I hope there are future opportunities like this in the future.
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