Join us on Sunday, September 24th for a FREE public Opening in the Washington Park Arboretum!
WHERE: Washington Park Arboretum 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA 98112
ACTIVITIES:
- Fall Plant Sale: 10A-2P, near the Graham Visitors Center
- Free Hop-On/Hop-Off Tram Tours: 11A-1P
- Free Docent-led tours: 11A-1P
- Food Trucks (Food for purchase): 11A-1P
- Jazz Music By Michael Powers: 11A-1P
Union, is a stunning largescale outdoor sculpture created by one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, Seattle-based John Grade. The sculpture, comprised of over 6,000 individual cast resin parts framed in laminated ceiba wood, will be suspended dynamically from two large nets spanning more than 100 feet between eight trees in the middle of Washington Park Arboretum.
Grade inspiration for Union was a fallen western red cedar in Seattle’s Discovery Park. The top of the trunk of the fallen tree was divided into two slender leaders. Broken by the fall, both leaders revealed their concentric growth rings. Grade focused on the differences between each of these cross sections and divided Union into two magnified representations of each leader.
Union will be open to the public, dawn to dusk, once installed. A map will be available in the Graham Visitors Center.
