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City Hall Lobby Gallery &
Anne Focke Gallery

600 Fourth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104

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Monday - Friday
7 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Gallery Information

(206) 684-7171

Public Art in Seattle

Through March 2

Missed our 40th anniversary exhibition Seattle as Collector: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40 at Seattle Art Museum last year? See some highlights from the show at City Hall.

The exhibition Public Art in Seattle offers an overview of the city's public art program with photos, drawings, proposals and maquettes for more than 60 permanent artworks located throughout the city. Also on display are materials used in artwork conservation.

See maquettes by Lee Kelly and Ron Bladen, expressing in miniature what was eventually realized as the outdoor sculptures Untitled (1975) by Kelly at Louisa Boren Park and Black Lightning (1991) by Bladen at Seattle Center's Broad Street Green. Also on view will be pieces of temporary artworks that have become part of the Portable Works Collection. Mandy Greer's Mater Matrix Mother & Medium left behind fragments of a yarn "river" that was crocheted by many hands and strung through an urban forest in summer 2009.

In 1971, city leaders signed legislation to create the Seattle Arts Commission—known today as the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. In 1973, Seattle was among the first cities in the country to adopt a percent-for-art ordinance. Today, the city's public art collection includes more than 2,800 artworks in the Portable Works Collection and nearly 380 permanently sited public artworks. Nearly forty years later, the city remains dedicated to creating exceptional art experiences in people's everyday lives.

Artists in the exhibition: Pete Beeman, James Bender, Douglas Bennett, Ron Bladen, Gloria Bornstein, Beliz Brother, Elizabeth Conner, Dan Corson, Peter de Lory, Marita Dingus, Monad Elohim, Cathy Fields, Emil and Veva Gehrke, Charles Greening , Mandy Greer, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jenny Heishman, Douglas Hollis, Paul Horiuchi, Lorna Jordan, Andrew Keating, Lee Kelly, Kurt Kiefer, Kay Kirkpatrick, Anne Knight, Carolyn Law, Kim Lazare, Lead Pencil Studio, Helen Lessick, Jack Mackie, Paul Marioni, Sherry Markovitz, Daniel Martinez, Bradley McCallum, Brad McCombs, Lyn McCracken, Daniel Mihalyo, Troy Miles, Victor Mowatt, Earl Muldon , Barbara Noah, Isamu Noguchi, Marvin Oliver, Joseph Park, Duane Pasco, Kristin Ramirez, Jon Rubin, Ginny Ruffner, Buster Simpson, Victor Steinbrueck , Anne Stevens, SuttonBeresCuller, Kate Sweeney, Sarah Sze, Jacqueline Tarry, Ann Troutner, Marie Watt, James When, Edie Whitsett and Renee Yung.