Rachel Gallaher
Dive into the Design Behind Seattle Aquarium’s New Ocean Pavilion
A team of designers, artists, architects, scientists, and engineers worked together to complete the multi-year project
“When we started the project, the viaduct was still there,” says architect Osama Quotah, a partner at LMN. “We were imagining a project that would happen in a condition that didn’t exist at the time.” As part of the larger waterfront overhaul, the pavilion needed to fit into the existing fabric of downtown Seattle’s western border, which includes the ferry terminal, Pike Place Market, the Great Wheel, and public piers full of shops and restaurants…
Seattle Once Banned Underaged Dancing — This Podcast Explains It All
Written by local journalist Jonathan Zwickel, Let the Kids Dance traces the origins and legacy of Seattle’s Teen Dance Ordinance.
Nearly 40 years ago, in 1985, the city of Seattle passed Ordinance 11237, the Teen Dance Ordinance (TDO) — a piece of legislation that essentially banned teen dances outside of schools and barred anyone under the age of 18 from attending a concert without a chaperone. If visions of a young, tank-top-clad Kevin Bacon clandestinely rage-dancing around an abandoned warehouse are starting to edge into your mind, then you’re not far off from reality…
Belltown Blooms
Celebrate Seattle’s creative core at the Mural Festival
Stroll down the streets of Belltown over the next five days, and you’re likely to see scissor lifts and cherry pickers hoisting local artists up the sides of buildings, with paint cans tucked around the corners of alleys, and a new bloom of vibrant color throughout the entire neighborhood…
Seattle Art Fair Opens With a Strong Showing
With work from around the world — and strengthened ties to the local creative community — the annual event drew big crowds on night one
Seattle Art Fair is officially open, kicking off its weekend-long run with a packed party at the Lumen Field Event Center last night. Abuzz with the who’s who of the Seattle art scene perusing booths from more than 90 international galleries, the fair had a fresh energy that seemed lacking over the past few years….
An Abundance of Art in Seattle this Week
Highlights from the Seattle Art Fair and other happenings in the creative community
It’s a busy week for art in the Emerald City. The summer’s flagship event, the Seattle Art Fair opens its eighth iteration this week with a bevy of new programs, collaborations, and creative partnerships. Held once again at the Lumen Field Event Center, the fair is just a stone’s throw away from Pioneer Square, where…
Dynamic And Engaging: The Call Of Calder
As a teenager, former Microsoft executive Jon Shirley fell in love with the works of Alexander Calder. He’s now sharing his passion with the public.
For me, moving around The Eagle, taking it in outside of traditional gallery walls and interacting with it, choosing how I saw the work, was a totally new way to experience art…
The Art in This Leschi Yard is Literally Immersive
One local collector’s transformed front yard features a new swimming pool with a custom installation
When architect Ian Butcher signed on to design an outdoor space for a local philanthropist and art collector, it turned out to be a double dose of revisiting the past…
Finding Freedom
Seattle author Stacey Levine’s new book, Mice 1961, follows two sisters during a single day of their fraught relationship
From the get-go, Stacey Levine’s latest novel, Mice 1961, plunges the reader into a story of motion. “I’m interested in playing with language,” says Levine, who, in addition to authoring several novels and a book of short stories, teaches English composition and creative writing at Seattle Central College. “I’m also intrigued by the drama of small, unnoticed, everyday life things.”
Tacoma Art Museum Reckons With the Roots of One of its Biggest Collections
TAM’s latest show reconsiders the meaning of Western American art
On the night of Nov. 3, 1885, a mob composed of hundreds of people marched through Tacoma, expelling members of the Chinese community from their homes, intimidating them (with weapons and threats) into leaving the city permanently, and then burning down the remaining houses — often with all of the victim’s possessions still inside. The…
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