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Posted in Arts, Feature Stories, Recommended Events on Aug 27th, 2010
artSparks 2010
Occidental Park
If you haven’t made it down to Occidental Park this summer, this is your last week for a number of great projects, but never fear there will be more projects happening until October! Below is a preview of…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Aug 17th, 2010
WONDERLAND: ALICE ADVENTURES
3015 NW 54th St., Ballard Seattle, Washington
August 21, 2010 and August 22, 2010 at 5:00pm
FREE!
Join theater simple and 4Culture Site-Specific in a fanciful journey through WONDERLAND: ALICE ADVENTURES, theater simple’s newest fun-in-progress experience. A free theatrical park adventure, WONDERLAND…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Aug 10th, 2010
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…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Aug 6th, 2010
Still Lives video portraits exhibit by media artist Susie J Lee
Monday, August 9, 2 – 4pm
Washington Care Center
2821 S. Walden St. Seattle, 98118.
Free to general public
A unique collaboration between a visual artist and a nursing home has resulted in an innovative…
Posted in Arts, Feature Stories, Recommended Events on Jul 28th, 2010
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…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Jul 19th, 2010
A guest blog by Site-Specific/ArtSparks artist, Mimi Allin (Since July 14, Allin has been performing in Occidental Park as part of the ArtSparks program. There are two days left to catch the project in person, or you can read about her…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Jun 28th, 2010
As of Monday, June 28 there are three installations in Occidental Park as part of the artSparks 2010 program! And as a special treat on First Thursday, all three artists will be in the park to give you a personal tour…
Posted in Arts, Feature Stories, Heritage on Jun 23rd, 2010
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…
Posted in Arts, Public Art, Recommended Events on Jun 4th, 2010
On Saturday, June 5 at 9:00am the Kent Arts Commission will celebrate the installation of Sweet Suite for Downtown Kent by Elizabeth Conner. The artwork dedication will take place alongside the five illuminated sculptures, which are located Town Square Plaza, on…
Posted in Arts, Feature Stories on May 24th, 2010
June – October, 2010
4Culture Site-Specific is thrilled to kick off its summer season with the return of the artSparks series. This year artSparks will focus solely on bringing art of all kinds to Occidental Park in the heart of Pioneer Square. …
Posted in Arts on Apr 28th, 2010
We just learned that 4Culture will be recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence grant! The $35,000 award will support the development of our Mobile Media initiative. The funds will help 4Culture commission and present new media…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Apr 22nd, 2010
Great article in the Seattle Times about the celebration at the Herbert Bayer Earthworks this evening.
When inviting artists to come and work at the Herbert Bayer Earthworks, I think about the interplay between art, landscape and community. The line-up for…
Posted in Arts, Heritage, Recommended Events on Mar 24th, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 3 pm
Next Sunday, Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre kicks-off 4Culture’s 2010 Site-Specific season by taking us back in history. The company (ages 11 – 19) will re-enact the 1970 historic takeover of Fort Lawton with a musical twist. Resurrection…
You’ve read the book, you’ve seen the dramatic reading, now experience Two Wheels North through the Seattle Times’ “Newspapers in Education” excerpts. The NIE pieces appeared in the Times while Book-It Repertory Theatre’s adapted staged readings of the book toured sites around…
Posted in Arts, Feature Stories, Recommended Events on Dec 1st, 2009
Site-Specific has two new projects happening right now that you don’t want to miss. And you don’t even have to go out in the rain to check them out… these two projects are online media-based projects that you can attend…
Posted in Arts, Feature Stories, Heritage, Preservation, Public Art on Nov 6th, 2009
Recently, Nancy Guppy and the team from Seattle Channel’s Artzone spent a day at 4Culture filming a quick segment about what 4Culture is (and does). They’ve posted it on their website, take a look!
Posted in Heritage on Sep 30th, 2009
An “action-packed staged reading” sounds like a contradiction in terms, but that’s not the case with Book-It Repertory Theatre’s adaptation of Two Wheels North, which premiered September 25. With fast-paced exuberance, the 75-minute traveling show, adapted and directed by Annie…
Posted in Arts, Recommended Events on Sep 30th, 2009
I’m so excited to launch our brand new site-specific website! Now it’s easier than ever to find free, 4Culture-presented events near you. New features include: a detailed project profile for each upcoming event, tools that let you share event listings…
Posted in Arts, Feature Stories, Heritage, Recommended Events on Sep 21st, 2009
It’s finally here; the week that Book-It Repertory Theatre’s Two Wheels North dramatic readings premiere at Nordic Heritage Museum on Friday at 7pm.
Sponsored by Heritage 4Culture and Site-Specific, nine other performances around the county will follow this fall. On Sunday, the…
Posted in Public Art, Recommended Events on Sep 11th, 2009
September 22, 2009, 7 – 9pm
Vermillion
John Boylan hosts periodic Conversations on a wide range of subjects. On Tuesday, September 22nd the Conversation will be on Public Art, and the discussion should prove lively. Guests will be Carol Goldstein, Public Art…
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