Parkeology

1930s park ethics

More earthwork design ideations with a contingency of younger landscape designers present at the Bitter Lake Community Pancake Breakfast.

Brainstorming ways to transform 50,000 cubic yards of extra soil at the Bitter Lake Reservoir Improvement project into fun hills, dells and mounds to play and rest on. A collaboration with the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle Public Utilites, and Seattle Parks and Recreation.

Sculpted sand one day will become sculpted land in the Bitter Lake neighborhood of Seattle! Since August 2023, Parkeology lead artist Kate Clark has worked as a Community Engagement Artist-in-Residence to support the Bitter Lake Reservoir Improvement project.

With the reservoir being redesigned, more public park space is opening up- including 50,000 cubic yards of extra soil! So why not transform the soil into an earthwork?

We made model of the future reservoir that contains this equivalent amount of earth represented by sculpting sand. We've been meeting with Bitter Lake community members to play with ideas for how this land could be shaped into nooks for for exploration and rest. Here are some of the ideas people came up with! Workshop support with Abraham Awalom. Model CNC by casework by .a.beck

This artist residency is a partnership with and

A few mid install shots of our piece Woodpecker Housing for All. Sited in Seattle at , this project reveals some of the 50+ creatures that inhabit cavities pileated woodpeckers dig in trees. Complete with talking tube because why not. In a few months, the weathering steel will transition to a lovely rusty red.

The concept for this project was developed with .art 🦆 creature sculpting by 🐾 fabrication by

Display inspo at the

So happy our crates found new lives as props for an Indiana Jones themed genre night at ⚰️ and a successful crate truck tetris session with book nerds, still got it, still got it!

❗Free crates ❗
Anyone need some beautiful Italian made art shipping crates?

Must pick up in Seattle. Dm if you're interested! Dimensions variable.

Playing with the translation from drawing to sihouette. With the Mira Mesa Community Park project, we've been collaging and combining imagery and drawings developed during the fellowship and community art week last summer with 🦋 Here are some drawings by fellow translated into space with renderings by

More press about our installation at the Bellevue Arts Museum

Rain got you holed up? Wait it out with these indoor arts events It's shaping up to be a very wet weekend here in the Puget Sound region. If you're channeling your inner Mossback and working up the nerve to wander about, we have some recommendations for you. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm asked Crosscut Arts and Culture Editor Brangien Davis for her picks.

If you're in the PNW anytime until April 2022, go visit our installation at the Bellevue Art Museum! Here's a lil review that (pardon the pun) digs into the backstory of this project called Everyday Artifacts: Working Class Waste from 1890s Seattle.

ArtSEA: What 1890s garbage says about today’s Seattle | Crosscut Plus, a “call and response” knitting collab and new dance video shot at a historic Vashon Island location.

Tonight! join us online for a Movement Workshop with Choreographer Jay Carlon, for nondancers and dancers alike.

Tuesday July 13th, 7-8 PM via Zoom, registration required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd--vpjIuGdAE841oXJiB-SR8hmTB11A7

Choreographer and Carlon works Artistic Director Jay Carlon leads us on a movement based workshop to connect with Mira Mesa Community Park in new ways. Born and raised on California’s Central Coast, Carlon’s work is inspired by growing up the youngest of 12 in a Filipino, Catholic, and agricultural migrant-working family.

CARLON works are interrogations, interventions, and thoughtful provocations that aim to provide audiences and participants with a sense of belonging and a space for healing.