4Culture’s Site-Specific Summer is up and rolling at full speed! We have two very big, very exciting projects happening in July, click on the project title to learn more about the who/what/where/when.
artSparks seeks to infuse new creative energy in Pioneer Square this summer, creatively engaging the community, “sparking” public interest, and enlivening this historic district. The vision is to bring art in all its forms to Occidental Square Park (on the corner of Occidental Ave S & S Main Street); to create a public space where art and life entwine and art works as a vehicle for positive social change. Coming up this month:
MiLa’s Prismatic Lightscape June 20 – July 11 *up now!
Christopher Reitmaier’s Difference and Repetition June 28 – July 4
City Meditation Crew’s Radiant Silver Circle July 7-9
Celeste Cooning’s Celebration and Fanfare July 12 – Aug 1
A.K. “Mimi” Allin’s Walking in War and Peace July 12 – 18
Sol Hashemi’s Driving My Sculpture July 24
The Saar Pioneer Cemetery Living History Project
July 15, 17 and 18th
In 1873, former King County Councilman Peter Saar buried his wife on a small hill on their property because the Mess Cemetery was inaccessible due to raising flood waters in the Kent Valley. During the next 76 years approximately 141 people were buried at this site now called the Saar Pioneer Cemetery. The South King County Genealogical Society in collaboration with Book-It Repertory Theatre will present a living history of six people buried in the Saar Pioneer Cemetery. Each character will tell the tale of the part they played in the Kent community as you move throughout the cemetery.
Images courtesy of Room For Assembly and the South King County Genealogical Society, respectively
2 comments
john berry says:
Jun 25, 2010
This is a post for the hiking trails to Snoqualmie Article.
Robert Crumb Artwork-I saw the Robert Crumb art for the hiking trails to Snoqualmie, and then I realized that someone copied his famous “Keep On Trucking”. I think that you should give credit for someones work when it’s appropriated so blatantly, don’t you?
For example: Logo inspired by Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb has had this image stolen by many people who gained financially from it, it was part of his reasons for leaving America, and going to live in France. It dismays me to see this happen in Seattle where there are many people very knowing about these issues.
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. I think 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”!