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Seattle art hits the street.(Brief Article)
Seattle, Washington, has about 500,000 residents, shiny skyscrapers, a huge university, a busy-waterfront, and lots of shops and restaurants. But many people say Seattle has a small-town feeling.
The people of Seattle give it that feeling. They pick up litter. They preserve old neighborhoods. They care about their city.
One thing that makes Seattle special is its public art. Public art is art that everyone can easily see. The art might be on a sidewalk, in a park, or in the lobby of a building, such as the post office. Seattle has an ...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Mclennan, Douglas September 22, 1997 700+ words
...completely away from commissioning public art. Or, more usual around Seattle, public-art commissioners have retreated to erecting...feed the imagination either. Recent public-art projects at Seattle Center generally and KeyArena specifically...
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...Eva M. Olson, Seattle, Bay Press, 1995...fairly conventional public art programming, unveiled...centered tradition of public art. The history and...this "new genre public art" and the beginnings...by Bay Press in Seattle. Culture in Action...
- Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art.
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- Rising in Phoenix A model for public art
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christine Temin, Globe Staff July 24, 1994 700+ words
...solstice. Phoenix has had public-art turmoil, too, chiefly...came late to the idea of public art. By the time its arts...costs for artworks; Seattle founded its Percent program...commissioned a piece of public art on wheels that he'd...
- Debate Rages Over Definition of `Public Art'
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition August 10, 1994 700+ words
...BARBARA GOLDSTEIN, Public Art Program Manager, Seattle Arts Commission...Goldstein [sp] is public art program manager for the Seattle Arts Commission. Seattle's had a Percent...Goldstein says public art programs were created...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christine Temin, Globe Staff April 24, 1994 700+ words
...of the most innocuous examples, public art is controversial. Innocuous is what some Seattle business people thought those banners...however, the site of the most infamous public art battle of the last decade, over...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo July 9, 2003 700+ words
...provide more opportunities for public art than the city has seen in...cities that have exciting public art programs, such as Phoenix, Seattle, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore. That would take a public art plan and a funding strategy...
Source: HighBeam Research, Seattle art hits the street.(Brief Article)