4Culture News
Art and Stewardship at the South County Recycling & Transfer Station
The South County Recycling & Transfer Station (SCRTS) is now open, offering visitors more than a place to recycle and dispose of waste. Permanent public artworks integrated throughout the site connect the facility to local ecology, Indigenous knowledge, and the labor of the people who built it.
Continue Reading ›Memories, not memes: Reilly Jensen’s witty and wild Eldermaxxing asks us to ditch the screen and live IRL.
Reilly Jensen pays attention. She traces her creative origins to her rural Kansas upbringing where she found interesting ideas and inspiration in the overlooked and ordinary—in the detritus of everyday life, the inherited habits and artifacts of small town life, and in the quiet, tactile rituals that shape each of our personal stories. Her father was a guy who “put stuff together”—a man who tinkered and collected things not because they were valuable, but because they were interesting.
Continue Reading ›Help Shape Moving Stories
Beginning this summer, six artists are riding buses, exploring neighborhoods, and listening to stories shared by riders, operators, and neighbors as part of Moving Stories, a new public art initiative developed by 4Culture in partnership with King County Metro.
Continue Reading ›Meet the White Center Ponds Banner Artist Cohort
4Culture and King County Water and Land Resources Division (WLRD) are thrilled to announce the selection of five artists who will create artwork for a series of banners to be displayed as part of a rotating banner art installation. This installation will celebrate the redesign and reimagining of the White Center Ponds stormwater facility and greenspace.
Continue Reading ›New Public Art at Pier 50: Taylor Cameron’s Tidepool Pathways
Every day, thousands of people move through Pier 50 on Seattle’s waterfront, crossing between city and Sound. For most, it is a point of departure and arrival. For Snoqualmie artist Taylor Cameron, it is also a place shaped by tides, marine life, and the enduring relationship between people and water.
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