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Published by 4Culture on October 09, 2025

Evan Blackwell immortalizes an Algona site with wood carvings and cast ceramics

Leaves, twigs, and a plastic bottle coated in white material hang from metal rods outdoors, attached with binder clips and clothespins. The background is grassy and out of focus.

Clusters of long pine needles, maple leaves and spinners, and various other sprigs and stems hang from a slim piece of metal outside Evan Blackwell’s studio in Shelton, WA. Dipped in white porcelain, they’ve been left to dry in the late September sun. “They’re like ghost plants,” Blackwell says. “They feel like bones, like skeletons or remains.”

Published by 4Culture on September 25, 2025

Art on the Move: How portable works rotate through King County spaces

Two men push a large, wrapped object on a wheeled cart across a city street on a sunny day, with trees and buildings in the background. — 4Culture Public Art Collections Manager Guy Merrill and Public Art Collection Registrar Pete Fleming transport artwork from 4Culture to the King County Executive's Office in June 2025. Photo: 4Culture

If you found yourself in Pioneer Square on a hot and sunny weekday last June, you may have seen something a little unusual on the street: a cart loaded with art, all of it carefully wrapped in plastic and bubble wrap, rolling up the hill from 4Culture’s office to the King County Chinook Building on 4^th Avenue.

Published by Christina DePaolo on August 28, 2025

Hey Kent, 4Culture is coming to you!

Flyer for 4Culture Open House on Thursday, September 25th, 6:30-8 PM at Green River College, Kent Campus, 417 Ramsay Way, Suite 112, Kent, WA. Includes Kent and 4Culture logos on a blue patterned background.

Join us on Thursday, September 25, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Green River College, Kent Campus, in the Emerald City Room, for an evening of connection, conversation, and community. We’ll also have our friends from the City of Kent to discuss their arts grant opportunities!

Published by 4Culture on July 23, 2025

Muckleshoot carvers uplift sustainability and connection with new Algona artworks

Two people sit side by side on a large wooden beam in a woodshop, surrounded by tools and wooden planks. Both appear thoughtful, looking towards the right, with soft lighting highlighting the workshop environment.

On a beautiful, sunny afternoon on the Muckleshoot Reservation in late May, a small group of tribal members has gathered in their carving workshop—a big open space that used to be a horse barn. Tools line the perimeter and hang from the walls. Wooly, a black Lab mix, wanders freely through the open doors. And a pair of massive red cedar logs lays at the center of the room: one a nearly finished story pole and the other a blank canvas, a pencil grid sketched on its surface in preparation for carving.

Published by 4Culture on July 22, 2025

Information Immortality: Althea Rao experiments with living data centers in Commit to Memory, Know it Will Perish

A display case with translucent sheets of bacterial cellulose and a magnifier on top. A label describes the items as Bacterial Cellulose (Pedia) with details about their creators and location.

A few years ago, Althea Rao was talking with a researcher friend about a concert Beyoncé had recently played at Lumen Field when he started to describe the collective memory shared by the people who’d seen the show—specifically the physical heft of it.

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