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Olympic Sculpture Park
Seattle Art Museum | Opened 2007 | Free & Open Daily, from dawn to dusk Once a contaminated industrial site, now a 9-acre urban oasis, the Olympic Sculpture Park transforms art-viewing into a walk in the park — literally. Opened in 2007 and run by the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), it stitches together city, shoreline, and…
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Seattle Center Totem
The 30-foot-high pole features a Hawk, Bear (holding a salmon), Raven and Killer Whale. Why is it weathering naturally instead of being renovated?
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Axis Lounge
Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan created Axis Lounge inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s song. Axis Lounge’s light colors vary from night-to-night, depending on Arena happenings and civic events. Different color combinations mark special observances and team colors. Red and blue lights play on NHL Kraken games, while green and yellow lights play on WNBA Storm games.…
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Chris Cornell statue
Born and raised in Seattle, Chris Cornell was one of the most prolific songwriters and iconic voices of the modern rock era. “Black Hole Sun” is known for being the pinnacle of Soundgarden’s career. The song reached # 1 on Billboard’s mainstream rock charts and # 2 on their modern rock charts. Soundgarden received a…
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Neototems
Seattle artist Gloria Bornstein based the piece on a Salish legend that whales once used an underground spring to pass between the two bodies of water. In the early 20th century, ethnographer John Peabody Harrington described a black hole on the beach of Seattle’s waterfront, “two blocks up from Pike Street,” called Sh tsh pau,…
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Neototems Children’s Garden
Seattle artist Gloria Bornstein’s creation is a fairy tale garden extension of Neototems. It depicts a whale surrounded by five small bronze fantasy sea creatures in a tidal pool. The baby whale 🐋 depicted in the Children’s Garden is a calf from the pod represented in Bornstein’s Neototems. Killer whales, also known as orcas, have…
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Poetry Garden
The Poetry Garden features twelve granite boulders engraved with poems by various authors, sculpted by John Hoge. Shaded by London Plane and Zelkova trees, the garden also has a rare Medlar tree on its west edge.
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Resting sloth
Find all creatures from the mural. This is a spot where a new building will go, but development takes a while, Henry said. While the lot sits empty, the Canadian development company asked him to create a mural to brighten the space. The mural stretches along the wall at First and Cedar, adding color and…
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New Horizons
Find all the fish hiding among the flowers. At the New Horizons youth shelter on Third and Cedar, Henry created a mural focused on friendship, diversity, and hope. After meeting with the shelter staff to understand their values — including themes of release and freedom — he developed a design using playful metaphors: a turtle…
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Power Box on Occidental Square
Complete the Power Box Jigsaw Puzzle! In 2020, Henry was commissioned to create a mural for an electric box in Occidental Square, part of a larger City of Seattle project to transform power boxes into pieces of public art. His design celebrates the diversity of people who come to the city, symbolized by a turtle carrying…
