The Lulu Series: Where Art and Nature Meet
12 April 2007
The Making of Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park
The City of Richmond invites you to attend the third lecture in The 2007 Lulu Series: Art in the City. Hear guest speaker, Chris Rogers, Project Manager for the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA and Director of Capital Projects and Government Affairs for the Seattle Art Museum, talk about the creation of the Olympic Sculpture Park and the numerous issues that needed to be resolved during its eight years in the making.
The Lulu Series: Art in the City is an annual free series of lectures. This presentation takes place:
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007 Time: 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Location: Richmond City Hall
Council Chambers
Located at 6911 No. 3 Road
The Olympic Sculpture Park is a nine-acre park located on the Elliott Bay waterfront in one of downtown Seattle’s fastest growing residential neighbourhoods. The project was initiated in a partnership between the Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization, the City of Seattle and the Seattle Art Museum in an effort to protect and enhance public green space, and contribute to Seattle’s rich history in public art.
The park was designed by Weiss/Manfredi architects (NY) and was recently awarded the prestigious Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design from Harvard University. The park features a series of native plant gardens and a restored shoreline for salmon, providing a diverse setting for a wide range of modern and contemporary sculpture. Site-specific commissioned art works include those by Louise Bourgeois, Mark Dion and Teresita Fernandez, as well as works by Richard Serra, Alexander Calder and Mark diSuvero.
Creation of the sculpture park required resolving a series of complex issues associated with the site, including addressing its industrial past as a fuel storage and transfer facility, bridging a major roadway and railroad tracks to reach the shoreline, planning for future mass transit service to the site, and stabilizing city infrastructure after a major earthquake in 2001. In its first three months of opening, the park has been visited by over 200,000 people and has significantly influenced Seattle’s future vision for its central waterfront.
The Lulu Series is generously sponsored by 2nd Globe, Indianapolis.
This is a free public lecture and seating is limited. Please RSVP at 604 247-8320 or suzanne.greening@richmond.ca.
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