The International Sculpture Center held their Sculpture In Public conference this past October 15 - 17 at the Seattle Art Museum. The topic was sculpture parks and gardens with Seattle being selected to host this year to honor the new Olympic Sculpture Park. The program focused upon how the Museum developed the Park and the collection now installed. The keynote speaker, Ned Rifkin, Under Secretary for Art at the Smithsonian Institute, enthralled the sellout crowd with a brief history of modern sculpture.
4Culture and the Seattle's Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs saw the opportunity to introduce the conference attendees to Northwest sculptors. A continuous loop of over fifty artists’ work, showing a diversity of styles, materials and approaches, was presented on the last morning of the conference.
Six artists were asked to be on site to show their work in-depth via laptops. The early morning show of local work brought in a crowd of over 100 artists, curators, and art administrators. The comments were very positive, with many people taking notes while viewing the presentation more than once. In response to requests for access to the images, we present them here.