PUBLIC ART
Collection: Richmond Beach Park Shoreline, Washington
Shoreline’s waterfront is the site of Richmond Beach Park and its dramatic cast bronze sculpture designed in the Coast Salish style.
Brown, Gobin & Wilbur, Welcoming Figure, 1998
© Steve Brown, Joe Gobin and Andy Wilbur, Welcoming Figure, 1998, Cast bronze, King County Public Art Collection, Photo by Joe Manfredini
This ten-foot high sculpture of a Coast Salish man and woman was created in honor of the First People of Puget Sound. Steve Brown, Joe Gobin and Andy Wilbur carved Welcoming Figure out of red cedar, considered the "Great Life Giver" to the local Salish people. Designed in the Coast Salish style, the sculpture depicts the woman holding a large steering paddle, and the man wearing a Salish-style canoe as a headdress above his woven cedar bark hat. Richmond Beach Park was selected by a Tribal Advisory Board as the project site to honor the importance of waterways and canoeing in Salish culture. For thousands of years the beach was a campsite for local people who traveled in dugout canoes to harvest clams and shellfish. The canoe culture is still very much alive in the Puget Sound region.
Brown, Gobin & Wilbur, Welcoming Figure, 1998
© Steve Brown, Joe Gobin and Andy Wilbur, Welcoming Figure, 1998, Cast bronze, King County Public Art Collection, Photo by Joe Manfredini
This ten-foot high sculpture of a Coast Salish man and woman was created in honor of the First People of Puget Sound. Steve Brown, Joe Gobin and Andy Wilbur carved Welcoming Figure out of red cedar, considered the "Great Life Giver" to the local Salish people. Designed in the Coast Salish style, the sculpture depicts the woman holding a large steering paddle, and the man wearing a Salish-style canoe as a headdress above his woven cedar bark hat. Richmond Beach Park was selected by a Tribal Advisory Board as the project site to honor the importance of waterways and canoeing in Salish culture. For thousands of years the beach was a campsite for local people who traveled in dugout canoes to harvest clams and shellfish. The canoe culture is still very much alive in the Puget Sound region.
Brown, Gobin & Wilbur, Welcoming Figure, 1998
© Steve Brown, Joe Gobin and Andy Wilbur, Welcoming Figure, 1998, Cast bronze, King County Public Art Collection, Photo by Joe Manfredini
This ten-foot high sculpture of a Coast Salish man and woman was created in honor of the First People of Puget Sound. Steve Brown, Joe Gobin and Andy Wilbur carved Welcoming Figure out of red cedar, considered the "Great Life Giver" to the local Salish people. Designed in the Coast Salish style, the sculpture depicts the woman holding a large steering paddle, and the man wearing a Salish-style canoe as a headdress above his woven cedar bark hat. Richmond Beach Park was selected by a Tribal Advisory Board as the project site to honor the importance of waterways and canoeing in Salish culture. For thousands of years the beach was a campsite for local people who traveled in dugout canoes to harvest clams and shellfish. The canoe culture is still very much alive in the Puget Sound region.