The ID PROJECT pop up showroom comes to Belltown

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

Our newest pop-up shop opens in Belltown on June 27, showcasing regional furniture designers and launching the ID LAB collective, bringing architects and designers together with local makers in pursuit of design excellence.

Opening reception Thursday June 27 from 5:30-8PM!
1919 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA

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ID LAB EXHIBIT

June 27 – September 20
FEATURING:
ample | chadhaus | iacoli & mcallister | parts of portland | revolution design house | urbancase

SUBMATERIAL EXHIBIT
September 5 – September 20

OPENING RECEPTION with
David Hamlin:
Thursday September 5, 5:30 – 8 pm

SAMPLE SALE
September 21 – September 24

Please check for upcoming events through the fall!

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Storefronts additions for June First Thursday!

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

Storefronts Seattle is proud to announce two new projects in Chinatown and Pioneer Square opening tonight for First Thursday.

Timothy Furstnau is an Oakland and Seattle-based artist presenting STEERTS YTIC, an installation at 411 Maynard Avenue South in the Bush Hotel.

Photo: Timothy Furstnau

Reading backwards from the outside, STEERTS YTIC is a tongue-in-cheek advertisement for all our city streets have to offer us in the diverse and varied qualities that make Seattle city life interesting.  Quite funny and subtle in life, it’s highly recommended to go by and take a look, especially at the door.

Through August 12, the Bush Hotel, 411 Maynard Avenue South. 

Rulon Brown RESTLESS

Local artist and musician Paul Rucker opens his Open Studio Project tonight at 301 Occidental Square, including the debut of RESTLESS, an interactive installation by Rulon Brown.  An exercise in “exploring, trying, presenting, and leaning into the hard edges” through visual art, interactive sound, video, and site-specific work, the Open Studio Project will feature upcoming performances by Rucker, Rulon Brown, Jeff Busch, and Bill Horist, as well as jewelry by Rulon Brown, nightly performances, and other invited artists.

Upcoming events:

June 6
Hours for First Thursday
5pm- 9pm

June 7-16
RESTLESS performances
Gallery doors 5:30pm, show at 6pm

June 15
Matinee performance
Rulon Brown with Paul Rucker, Jeff Busch, & Bill Horist.
2pm  

301 Occidental Avenue South

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Storefronts Seattle is proud to announce the 2013-2014 artist roster!

Posted on May 31, 2013 by
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Storefronts Seattle is proud to announce its

2013-2014 Artist Roster


Sixty-seven incredibly cool projects from local and national artists will activate empty storefronts throughout Seattle’s retail cores this year.

Get your first sneak-peek here.

Storefronts Seattle. Saving America, one storefront at a time.

Storefronts Seattle is an urban renewal program devoted to re-invigorating the public’s experience of our retail cores. We place artists and their projects into vacant retail storefronts in various downtown neighborhoods. Storefronts is a project of Shunpike.

In the coming year, you’ll see an 18-foot-wide glowing long-eared owl.  You’ll see a video installation that watches the audience and reacts to them in real-time.  You’ll see 20 eight-foot-tall carousel horses placed throughout a storefront.  You’ll see a boutique that sells nothing but hand-cut “boot keepers” (trust us, this one is going to be the break-out fashion project of the year).  You’ll see a Tiki Town photo studio, a gaggle of new galleries, an almost infinite number of new installations, and more.

We have recently finished our annual call for artists’ proposals and panel review, and what follows is the roster of projects to emerge from that process. Some of these projects are static display Installations, created by an artist (or group of artists) that is experienced by the public through closed doors.

Some of the projects are Creative Enterprises, which are the open-door, regular-hours galleries, boutiques, museums, and other pop-up operations and installations that the public can go into and experience immersively.

These projects fill available vacant storefronts spaces in our program neighborhoods (which are always expanding, but currently include Pioneer Square, the International District, South Lake Union, Belltown, and Capitol Hill). The projects change on (roughly) three-month rotations, keeping the streetscape lively, energized, activated, bright, walkable, clean, and safe.

Storefronts - www.storefrontsseattle.com - is dedicated to supporting the vitality and artfulness of Seattle’s most trafficked areas. We present short-term pop-up arts activations of vacant real estate, partnering with neighborhoods, local property owners, and artists to inject a bit of brightness into some of out retail cores’ dark corners.

Shunpike - www.shunpike.org - is the nonprofit agency that fuels innovation in the arts. Its fiscal sponsorship and Arts Business Clinic programs provide operational and strategic resources to hundreds of arts groups and projects each year. Through Storefronts, Shunpike expands the incubation services it provides to creative entrepreneurs, and serves as the essential hub for the business, neighborhood, government and arts community stakeholders participating in the program.

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Installations Roster 2013-2014

Natasha Bacca
www.natashabacca.com
Memento Mori

Evan Blackwell
www.evanblackwell.com
Transduction

Susan Brown
Steampunk Travel for Ladies & Gentlemen

Shannon Carpenter
www.re-title.com/artists/Shannon-Carpenter.asp
The Swimming Pool

Rob Roy Chalmers
www.robroychalmers.com
The Sporozoan Swarm

Peter Christenson
www.leftofcentre.org
Bacon, Supermonkey, and Neo-Marxism for Tarnished Souls

Ling Chun
www.whoisherry.com
The Wave

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti
www.chutiwongpeti.info
Untitled (Wishes, Lies and Dreams >> Beautiful New World…)

Anna-Lizette Conner
www.annaconnerandco.wordpress.com
Luna

Greg Corso
www.sportscollaborative.com
In Bloom

Sky Darwin
www.facebook.com/ShiftwoodSculpture
Shiftwood Sculpture: Illuminating the Stories of the Landscape

Aitana de la Jara
www.aitanadelajara.com
The 99 Critical Shots in Pool

Karen deLuna
www.delunatic.net
Ning Ning

Ellen Dicola
www.ellendicola.com
Palimpsest: All the Places I’ve Lived

Joseph Ekloff
www.ekloff.com
Javafish

Adele Eustis
www.adele55.com
Glo-Nests

Sydney Farrer
www.vimeo.com/61976831
Laurel’s Bath

Ryan Finnerty
www.finnertyfinnerty.com
Storefronts Portraits

Bill Finger
Storefront Landscape

Pete Fleming and Allyce Wood
Irreversible

Allison Foshee
www.alisonfoshee.com
The Motherboard

Elizabeth Gahan
www.elizabethgahan.com
Synthetic Growth

Jenifer Gavlin
www.playful-potter.com
Forest

Aaliyah Gupta
www.aaliyahgupta.net
Weather

Jeff Harms
www.jeffharmsart.com
Ganzfield III

Vin Hill
www.vincentjhill.com
watching

Fran Holt
www.FranHolt.com
The Secret Lives of Carousel Horses

Karrie Hovey
www.karriehovey.com
To Be Determined

Joyce Hsu
www.naabeehouse.com
combobulated

Clare Johnson
www.clarejohnson.com
Drawing from Literature

Sarah Jones
www.sarahjonesstudio.com
Botanicals

Jessi Li and George Rodriguez
www.jessi-li.com
The Odyssey

Kelsey Lieb
www.kelseyleib.com
Spirit Vessels

Sarah Lovett
www.lovettarts.com
Giant Long Eared Owl Puppet

Anna Maddocks
www.annamaddocks.com
We Build a Home to Let in the Wind

Ken Marulis
When Words Fail, Route to Root

Jen Mitsuko
www.mitsukophotography.com
The Lovers

Katherine Noel
www.cargocollective.com/katherinechristmas
Let the Pages Tell the Story

Joe Page
www.joe-page.com
Flow Chart Series

Paige Pauli
www.honestfabrication.com
Enteroctopus Dofleini

Luis Pinto
Finding the Spirit in the Space

Annie Price
www.serendipitydancebrigade.org
Solo v Duet

Joel Pryde
www.cargocollective.com/joelpryde
Cubic Rain

Ingrid Shults
www.lab238.com
Look at Me: Listen to Me: Speak to Me

Kathleen Skeels
www.kathleenskeels.com
Hard Times

Kristin Thomas
www.kristingergen.com
Snowflakes: Observational Tips and Tools

Sylwia Tur
www.sylwiatur.com
Templates

Cynthia Turner
SmartFolds

Ioana Urma
www.ioanacolor.com
The Kiss

Rodrigo Valenzuela
Maria TV

David Walega
www.artforanimalssake.com
A Day in the Life

Rickie Wolfe
www.rickiewolfe.com
Large Scale Ink Drawing


Creative Enterprise Roster 2013-2014

A-Rock-and-Seeds Growing Kits
a boutique shop by Libby Gerber
www.libbygerber.com

Amigos Gallery and Skate Space
a gallery by Sasha Barr
www.thisisthenewyear.com

Delicious Science – Food as a Living Art
a working food art studio by Maxime Billet
www.modernistcuisine.com

Design / Dialogue / Think Tank
an exhibit and resource space by the Seattle Architecture Foundation
www.seattlearchitecture.org

Dugay Na
an open studio storefront by Romson Bustillo
www.facebook.com/pages/Romson/13466533706

Favorite Arts Projects Space
a gallery and workshop by Tova Cubert
http://www.shunpike.org/who-we-help/our-clients/favorite-art-projects/

The Gallery Inhabited
a furniture and art gallery by Sarah Brooks
www.artsyo.com

Interstitial Theater’s Gallery
a video and new media gallery
www.interstitialtheatre.org

Keeper Goods Shop
a boutique shop by Phyllis Chu
www.keepergoods.com

Laser Cutter Café
a maker space by Derek Gaw
www.derekgaw.com

Local Goods
a boutique shop by Catherine Hubert
www.catherinehubert.com

Pop-Up Museum of Heritage
a cultural history museum by Joan Rudd
www.joanruddsculpture.com

SpoCS
a people of color salon by Karen Toeringand c Davida Ingram
www.spocsalon.blogspot.com

Tiki Town
a photo studio by Seattle Retro Photography
www.oldschoolpinups.com

Vertex Gallery
a digital arts gaming gallery by Jonathan Cooper
www.vertexgallery.net

 
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And more paper cuts!

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Isaksen self portraitEva Isaksen has been altering her beautiful installation in the Vulcan building in Chinatown, cutting circles into her multilayered printed installation profiled here in December of last year.  As part of an ongoing conversation with the work, she is excavating new layers and images underneath over time, arresting passersby on their way to King Street Station with reveal of new colors and textures.

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And introducing…Belltown!

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Storefronts Seattle is proud to announce the first two of three projects in the Belltown neighborhood!

Ingrid Lahti
One Pacific Tower, 2006 First Avenue, Belltown
Through June 2013

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Ingrid Lahti traditionally works in neon, but has branched out into illuminated lighting gels in her new installation at First and Virginia.  Inspired by the saturated color in Matisse paintings and Chinese artwork, Ingrid views the illuminated window pieces as a study on the emotional effects of color and light, fitting seamlessly into the vibrant neighborhood in Belltown.  

These installations glow brightly at night, adding to the street-level nightlife of Belltown and kicking off a summer in Seattle with a burst of color.

Chris Papa
2505 Second Avenue
Through June 2013

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Chris Papa, a local printmaker and sculptor, has installed 5 sculptures at Second and Wall, featuring playful sewn wood sculptures conflating art, craft, and architecture.   Interested in the connotations of sewing as domesticity and mending, Chris utilizes these mundane materials to link art and life and emphasize the connections between art and craft in minimalist forms.

As Chris explains, “I generate sculptural form using eccentric construction techniques such as the stitching together of wooden panels in this group of work. Simple geometric forms – boxes, a cylinder, a plane – are implied by the modular structure. My aim is to present a highly idiosyncratic sense of order full of contradictions that shifts between categories and interpretations.”

 

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Our Fabric Stash Grand Opening March 23 in the International District!

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Our Fabric StashGrand Opening March 23, 2013 from noon – 6PM

Ongoing Hours: Tuesday – Sunday Noon – 6PM
666 South Jackson Street, Seattle

Storefronts Seattle, a project of Shunpike, is proud to partner with Our Fabric Stash-http://www.ourfabricstash.com- the new go-to pop-up shop for shared fabric and crafting materials. Join with Seattle’s thriving crafting community, take a ton of material out of the waste stream (and out of your closet), and meet your crafting neighbors at this unique resource for designers, open to professional and amateur alike.

Our Fabric Stash is an innovative, community-based consignment enterprise that began life as a twice annual event in Seattle in 2009. In its new pop-up location in Chinatown, it will be offering consigned fabrics, notions, and textile-related supplies at 666 Jackson Street. Become a member and recycle your unneeded materials, or come by and browse through the stash to find some brilliant new treasures and meet fellow stash-a-holics.

Project lead Deborah Boone has taken a slightly dumpy, run-down retail space on Jackson Street, and in less than a month has added a new floor, has painted, installed cabinetry and display shelves… She has, in short, completely turned the space around, creating a gem of a retail space out of the raw materials of chronically vacant space.

Join us for the opening this Saturday, March 23, and get a chance to see the project in person.

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Somewhere Out There at the Publix Hotel

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Somewhere Out There by Ryan Everson. (Image: R. Everson)

Somewhere Out There
A new work by Ryan Everson at the Publix Hotel
504 5th Avenue South through summer 2013

photo by R. Everson

Ryan Everson is a Boulder, Colorado artist showing in Seattle for the first time through the Storefronts program. His work responds directly to the environment where it’s sited, and was developed after site visits to the old Publix Hotel and to South Lake Union, where we hope to install the piece later in the year.

The work consists of two large freestanding marquee signs, announcing the phrase “Somewhere Out There.” The letters (in Jersey font, in case you were curious) are cut from solid wood and inset with several hundred light bulbs.

“I chose the phrase ‘Somewhere Out There,’” says Everson, “because of Seattle’s history, and the Publix Hotel’s history, of harboring seafarers. Thinking of a life at sea and the boat being a sort of untethered, moveable island lead me to think of uncertainty of place.”

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