Jen Graves – http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/havent-things-already-gone-south/Content?oid=13598821

Amanda Manitach – http://www.cityartsonline.com/blog/2012/05/softer-side-death

You can find her at Seattle Center on the north side of EMP.

Special thanks to Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and Michael Ryndinski  at Decorative Metal Arts.

Parking Squid will soon take to the streets!

She will be installed in Seattle Center the morning of May 4th as part of Seattle Center’s Next 50 a “dialogue about the social and intellectual capital that feeds our region’s –and the world’s – creative energy.

Parking Squid, may well be a friend to those giant squid lurking in the depths of Puget Sound. Her raised, bike-wheel clutching tentacle beckons cyclists creating a locus for meeting and interaction while her architectural uniqueness within the city positions Parking Squid as an easily identifiable landmark; a potential “Seattle icon.”

Ride on down and say hello to her!

For more info about giant squid

Tolt Pipeline Trail, The Long Walk, 2011

Stock up on moleskin and start breaking in your walking shoes, The Long Walk is ON – July 26th-29th!

Once again I will lead 50 trail trampers on a 4-day, 45-mile pedestrian adventure through the cities, suburbs, farmlands, and forests of King County using the Regional Trails System. In this work of land art that combines elements of performance and social engagement, the group and I will slow down, delve deep into the meaning of landscape, and create a temporary, interstitial culture.

Creative projects for this iteration of The Walk will include Beers Made by Walking by Colorado Springs-based Eric Steen, Seattle artist Web Crowell’s bicycle-driven seltzer delivery system, Art House Brooklyn’s Sketchbook Project, and much more.

If you don’t feel up to four days of trekking, you can always join in The Long Walk’s exploration of place at McCormick Park in Duvall for the open-to-everyone Mid-Point Mash-Up on Friday, July 27th. This year’s Mash-Up will include workshops, installations, and a bizarro variety of musical theater performed by The Snoqualmie Floodplain Cabaret (including Jed Dunkerley, Sari Breznau, and players from across the country) that calls for tight harmonies, odd props, spontaneous fits of landscaping, and pianos found in unexpected places (look up?!).

Registration for The Walk opens in mid-June. Details will be published in 4Culture’s next e-news http://blog.4culture.org and online at thelongwalkseattle.com. Participation is free, but limited to 50 people on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you’re one of the 60,000 people attending The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA take a moment out of the insanity to catch your breath and relax under the shade of the Toobs.

THE LONG WALK, 2012:

OPEN CALL FOR SITE SPECIFIC, PERFORMANCE, AND SOCIALLY ENGAGED PROJECTS

The Long Walk seeks proposals for projects involving social-engagement, site specificity, lectures, performance, psychogeography, workshops, video, natural architecture, audio, ritual, and installation.

Proposals due: Monday, April 30, 2012 5:00 PM PST

Event dates: Thursday, July 26th – 29th, 2012

Available artist fees: $500.00 – $2,000.00

The Long Walk, now in its third year, is a time-based, socially-engaged, and participatory event where artist Susan Robb leads fifty participants on a 4-day, 45-mile journey through Western Washington using the King County Regional Trails System (RTS). Over the course of the four days, the group walks from Puget Sound through cites, suburbs, farmland, and forests, culminating their journey at Snoqualmie Falls. Susan identifies locations for the walkers to camp each night, invites chefs to prepare food with the group, and commissions fellow artists to create work along the route, at the campsites, and with trail-side communities.

Email info@thelongwalkseattle.com with either a URL hosting your work or 6 .jpgs of recent work. Please include a CV and a short letter of interest/proposal (400 words or less) detailing a project and the site or sites you are interesting in engaging with from those described below.

SITE A: Golden Gardens Park, Seattle
The beach where The Walkers gather in the early morning on “day 1″ before we head off on our journey.

SITE B: Mini Ferry, Sandpoint Magnuson Park, Seattle to Log Boom Park, Kenmore
The walkers board a 50-passenger paddlewheel ferry in the morning on “day 2″ and take an 1.5 hour ride in the morning mist across Lake Washington.

SITE C: Sammamish River Trail, Bothell to Woodinville
This section of the RTS (almost 10 miles long) offers great public exposure. It has extraordinary views of the river, the broad Sammamish River Valley, Cascade foothills and Mt. Rainier. It is extensively used by bicyclists, joggers, skaters, walkers, and commuters.

SITE D: McCormick Park, Duvall
This park features a sandy beach with Snoqualmie river access, tall grasses, cleared play areas and a historic 1920s train depot. It is the location of The Long Walk’s “Mid-Point Mash-Up”, a community event where the walkers get a chance to mingle with the citizens of Duvall.

SITE E: Tolt MacDonald Park, Carnation
Once one of several large, permanent wintering villages used by the Snoqualmie Indian Tribes, this beautiful park is the site of The Long Walk’s “formal dinner” held under an open-sided barn.

SITE F: Snoqualmie Falls, Snoqualmie
The terminus of The Long Walk is this 268 ft. (82 m) waterfall on the Snoqualmie River. The Falls have diverse cultural meanings. For the Salish people, they are a traditional burial site, “the place where First Woman and First Man were created by Moon the Transformer”, and “where prayers were carried up to the Creator by great mists that rise from the powerful flow.” For those interested in pop culture, The Falls appeared prominently in the cult television series Twin Peaks and for the civil engineer, they are the site of are two hydroelectric power plants operated by Puget Sound Energy.

The Long Walk is commissioned by 4Culture and the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks.

In Portland, OR from May 18 – 20, 2012 I will be participating in Open Engagement an international conference on socially engaged art. I will be presenting as part of a panel called A Surrounded Space that Expands in the Direction You Walk moderated by Dillon de Give that includes James Rojas, Stephanie Springgay, Moira Williams, Hannah Jickling, and Travis Souza. You can register to attend here http://openengagement.info/registration

http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/are_you_doin_some_stuff_a_journey_into_the_slow_movement_movement