August is a great month for you Site-Specific lovers. There are a number of unique projects to choose from located all around King County!
Susie Lee – Still Lives
Public Reception: August 9, 2-4pm
Washington Care Center Lobby
2821 S. Walden St. Seattle 98144
A unique collaboration between a visual artist and a nursing home has resulted in a provocative series of video portraitures about aging, time, image, memory, and relationships. Media artist Susie J Lee began the Still Lives project in April with residents of Washington Care Center (WCC), a nursing and long-term care facility in Southeast Seattle, to explore questions about what we hold onto and what we let go over the passage of time. Still Lives is sponsored by SEEDArts and 4Culture’s Site-Specific and Individual Artist Projects programs.
Auburn’s ArtRageous: Artists in Action Fair presents Traveling Arts Encampment
August 7, 11-4pm
Les Grove Park, Auburn
11th & Auburn Way S
The Traveling Arts Encampment is an interactive temporary art installation, inviting artists and the festival attendees to create tents and shelters. Using non-traditional materials, the installation will imagine and inspire a new type of shelter. Artists will create the tents prior to the festival that will serve as the inspiration for creation throughout the day. To participate and to create a tent prior to the event for installation, contact tent...@gmail.com.
Auburn’s ArtRageous: Artists in Action Fair is a FREE one-day art extravaganza that celebrates the visual arts and invites attendees to both observe techniques and create their own artwork. ArtRageous is generously support by granting to the Auburn Arts Commission through 4Culture’s Sustained Support Program.
Mandy Greer – Mater Matrix Mother Medium
Installation begins August 16
Pickering Barn, Issaquah
1730 10th Ave. N.W.
Mater Matrix Mother Medium is a process-based temporary art installation by Seattle Artist, Mandy Greer. The installation is a 300-foot long fiber river made of recycled yarns and fabrics crocheted by the community into the trees of that community. MMMM celebrates our creeks and watersheds and the communities that protect them. You can become part of the river by joining Mandy on July 29th from 12:30-4:30pm at the Issaquah Senior Center or on August 22 at the Issaquah Farmers Market for Community Crocheting.
artSparks Continues in Occidental Park
Christopher Ezzell’s Occidental Square Tea House - Installation from August 2-9, Tea Demonstrations August 2-7 at Noon and 5:30pm.
Jonelle Johnson’s Walk in the Park – Installation starting August 9
Sol Hashemi’s Driving a Sculpture – August 14 from 11am to 5pm
Ben Waterman Risking to Care for a Place – Installation August 16-22
Michelle Arab’s Wind Map of Occidental Square Park – Installation August 23 – September 26
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Still Lives image by Ryan Adams, MMMM image courtesy of Mandy Greer
