Seattle's Urban Villages

Georgetown Art & Garden Walk...a walk on a unique side of Seattle!

Georgetown gets to show off a second time in as many weeks with its'  12th annual Georgetown Art & Garden Walk following June 23rd's first ever Artopia.

Last year, was a day of sun and fun exploring the streets and gardens of Georgetown.  There were nooks and crannies to look into, and art to discover all over.  The event is Sunday, July 8 2007 from 10AM to 5PM and you can get maps at the Georgetown Bank of America at 1112 S. Bailey St.

Here are some photos from last year....

Boots of the famous "Hats and Boots" in Oxbow Park.

Georgetown P-patch is next to the boots...

Cool backyard garden retreat...

Artful Georgetown house!

Seattle Art Museum - SAM's - Grand Opening Weekend

SAM - Seattle Art Museum's Grand Opening Weekend

Well, the party was an "artful" success and SAM is open again at last!  Over the weekend the Seattle Art Museum celebrated it's re-opening by throwing a 35 hour party for free to every one who showed up.  I went with a friend Saturday night, but the line to get the free entry ticket was loooong with lots of Saturday Night revelers, so we went to a downtown theater to see a late night showing of "Spiderman" (umm, not very good).   

My friend returned very early Sunday morning to visit SAM, and I went later at noon although first, I had to stop by my recent Buyer's new home in Madison Valley (one of Seattle's Urban Villages) to drop off their Home Book.  After driving to Downtown Seattle, I walked over to Pike's Place Market to pick up some lunch on my way to the Museum.   Lucky me...no line and got right on in....

WOW! The Grand Foyer was spectacular with Cai Guo-Qiang's installation: "Inopportune: Stage One" 

This piece is a series of Ford Tauruses suspended above the crowd in sort of a stop-action, frame by frame of  the Tauruses tumbling over and over with light beams radiating outwards from the cars.  Great tension with these large, heavy metal objects dangling over the crowd...then my phone rang and my new Buyers (looking for a smaller Seattle home) were back in town and ready to see the new house that had just come on to the Seattle housing market Friday night.   So off to meet my Buyers and show the house...we did write up an offer for it later that evening. 

This has been a fabulous year for the Seattle Art Museum with it's first Grand Opening earlier this year of the Olympic Sculpture Park in Belltown in January.  I can't wait to return and check out the new and larger SAM!

The Grand Opening of SAM: The Seattle Art Museum

I AM SAM, YOU ARE SAM, WE ARE ALL SAM TOGETHER....

The Grand Opening of SAM: The Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum, SAM, will be celebrating it's Grand Opening May 5th & 6th.  The museum has been closed for it's expansion, and is now almost ready for it's Grand Opening Debut next week.  This has been a very busy year so far for SAM, because earlier this year in January the Museum celebrated the Grand Opening of it's new outdoor sculpture park in Belltown.  The Olympic Sculpture Park opened during a sunny winter weekend with large crowds of Seattleites roaming the Park. 

SAM will be open for 35 straight hours beginning 10AM on Saturday May 5th until 11:59 PM on Sunday evening.   There will be music, and other live entertainment for Art lovers and admission to the main museum will be free.  The special exhibits in the Galleries will require entry tickets.  Should be a fun adventure in Downtown Seattle so come by!

One of the benefits of living in one of the close-in Urban Villages in Seattle (Belltown, Queen Anne, Capitol Hill are especially close by) is that it's easy to enjoy great events like this one will be.