Portland artist Brian Borrello has been selected for a year-long residency with the King County Parks and Recreation Division focused on the Regional Trails System (RTS). Borrello is charged with developing an arts master plan that includes an overarching scheme/ethos that can help articulate the identity of this unique amenity, as well as defining a long term and synergistic approach to public art programming within the system, including the formation of recommendations for the inclusion of artworks in multiple media and in specific locations.
Brian Borrello is a studio artist, designer, educator, public artist, and self-proclaimed “community visioneer”. His work focuses on the interrelationship between human culture and the natural world. In his art for the public realm, he seizes place-making opportunities by activating image, form and symbol in response to history, community and context. Over the course of his residency, the artist will be posting to Blog 4Culture with updates on his experiences with the Parks Division and on the RTS itself.
Photos by King County Parks and Recreation Division & Brian Borrello
