Jun 23, 2012 | 2-5pm
Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center
Presented in Partnership with:
City of Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Seattle Parks and Rec
Oct 31, 2012 | All day
Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center
Presented in Partnership with:
City of Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Seattle Parks and Rec
CoCA - Center On Contemporary Art
Rootbound: Heaven and Earth IV
For its fourth year, the Center on Contemporary Art activates Carkeek Park with Rootbound: Heaven and Earth IV. The exhibition features a two-mile trail littered with experimental performance art and site-specific sculpture. Rootbound: Heaven and Earth IV runs from June 23 – October 31, 2012, but be aware: many pieces incorporate decay and erosion, so they won’t be around for all four months.
Rootbound features four returning artists and 14 new ones from around the Puget Sound and greater Northwest, including Julie Lindell, Joe Reno, Suze Woolf, Rebecca Maxim, Fox Spears, and many others.
This fourth iteration, there will be an Opening Reception on June 23, 2012, from 2-5pm at the park’s Environmental Learning Center.
Maps and more information can be found on the Heaven and Earth website: www.heavenandearthexhibition.org.
This project is presented by 4Culture Site Specific in partnership with the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Carkeek Park Advisory Council, and the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs.
As one of Seattle's first arts non-profits to offer the choice of an alternative, noncommercial space for the exploration of ideas in contemporary visual art (not a collective as such), CoCA's history in the city and region date back to the early 1980s, when it hosted such luminaries as James Turrell. After a long, slow decline that saw CoCA develop the artbar model in a variety of spaces in Capitol Hill and South Lake Union, the organization became revitalized with an effort to locate new exhibition spaces and revenue streams in 2008-2009 that resulted in outreach to city parks and artists' communities in eastern Washington. In 2010, CoCA began to occupy the former Elliott Bay Bookstore space in Pioneer Square and explore a new base of operations as a true "center" offering artist workspace, workshops, bookstore / resource center and more.
