The Power of Embedded Artists
In 2009, Public Art 4culture commissioned artist Leo Berk to develop a public art ‘kit of parts’ for short span bridges in King County, WA. Berk worked collaboratively with the King County Bridge Unit...
View ArticleUnderneath, Above, & Beside Bridges: An Artist in Residence Begins Research
Leo Berk From Leo’s journal as mentioned in a previous post: If you’ve driven around King County, WA, in the last five months, there’s a good chance you drove right over me. I’m in the research phase...
View ArticleBridges, Archaeology, & Public Art
In King County, WA, building roads and bridges gets us closer to understanding our region’s prehistoric time. I found this out by taking a drive with Tom Minichillo who is the archaeologist for King...
View ArticleEmbedded in Transportation
Vaughn Bell For the last couple years I have been the “staff artist” in the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), working on arts planning and as liaison for the 1% for art program and...
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