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| Established | 1979 |
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| Legal status | 501(c)3 non-profit, registered in Washington State |
| Focus | art, artists, and community |
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| Website | fremontartscouncil |
The Fremont Arts Council (FAC) is a community-run organization that supports arts and artists. The Council resides at the Powerhouse in Fremont, Seattle, Washington with members throughout the city.
The Fremont Arts Council was founded in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, in 1979. Since 1994, the FAC has been headquartered out of The Powerhouse. [1]
The Fremont Arts Council sponsors several annual events including the Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant, May Day, Troll-a-ween, Petit-Troll: Mini Mardis Gras Parade, and Luminata.
The Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant and Luminata are held annually on the Summer Solstice and autumnal equinox.
The Council hosts public workshops and organizes classes out of the Powerhouse with a focus on public art. Several local artists teach regular classes on giant puppets, reed luminaries, and textiles [2]
FAC has been responsible for the installation and maintenance of several public artworks in the Fremont area. These include the Fremont Troll, Waiting for the Interurban, The Center of the Universe Sign, and several nearby murals.
One of Seattle's most popular public artworks, the Fremont Troll, is a mixed-media megalithic statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the Aurora Bridge. (Troll Avenue was renamed in its honor in 2005.) It is clutching an actual original Volkswagen Beetle, as if it had just swiped it from the roadway above. In light of Seattle P–I columnist Emmett Watson's periodic promotion of the KBO, the vehicle had a California license plate.
The piece was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council in 1989, and built in 1990. The Troll was sculpted by four local artists: Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead. The Troll is 18 feet (5.5 m) high, weighs seven tons, and is made of steel rebar, wire and ferroconcrete.
"Waiting for the Interurban" is a 1979 cast aluminum sculpture collection by Richard Beyer in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It is located on the south side of N. 34th Street, just east of the northern end of the Fremont Bridge. It consists of six people standing under a shelter and waiting for public transportation—specifically, the Seattle-Everett Interurban.
The sculpture is a few blocks west of Troll Avenue N., the location of the Fremont Troll.
Fremont is a neighborhood in the North Central District of Seattle, Washington, United States. Originally a separate city, it was annexed to Seattle in 1891. It is named after Fremont, Nebraska, the hometown of two of its founders: Luther H. Griffith and Edward Blewett.
The Fremont Troll is a public sculpture in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
Wallingford is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, lying on a hill above the north shore of Lake Union about four miles from the downtown core. The neighborhood developed quickly during the early 20th century after the establishment of the University of Washington to the east. With trolley tracks laid through the neighborhood as early as 1907, Wallingford is a classic streetcar suburb, typified by its many 1920s era box houses and bungalows. Commercial development is primarily concentrated along North 45th Street where a number of iconic structures stand including the neon "WALLINGFORD" sign, the Wallingford Center, and the original Dick's Drive-In. With its central location, numerous public amenities, including the Gas Works Park, and views of both the Olympic and Cascade mountains, Wallingford has long been home to many middle and upper-class families. While Wallingford is mostly residential in nature, the neighborhood's southern edge, along Lake Union, has historically been an industrial and commercial business strip. In recent years, numerous office buildings have been developed as an extension of the burgeoning business center in neighboring Fremont. In 2014 Brooks Sports moved its headquarters from Bothell to a new six-story office building at the southwestern edge of Wallingford.
Seattle is a significant center for the painting, sculpture, textile and studio glass, alternative, urban art, lowbrow and performing arts. The century-old Seattle Symphony Orchestra is among the world's most recorded orchestras. The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, are comparably distinguished. On at least two occasions, Seattle's local popular music scene has burst into the national and even international consciousness, first with a major contribution to garage rock in the mid-1960s, and later as the home of grunge rock in the early 1990s. The city has about twenty live theater venues, and Pioneer Square is one of the country's most prominent art gallery districts.
Jeanne Fleming is an American Celebration Artist from New York City, who organized the Harbor Festival Fair in 1986, the Official Land Celebration for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty and who is currently director of New York's Village Halloween Parade.
The Solstice Cyclists is an artistic, non-political, clothing-optional bike ride celebrating the summer solstice. It is the unofficial start of the Summer Solstice Parade & Pageant, an event produced by the Fremont Arts Council in the Fremont district of Seattle.
The Fremont Solstice Parade is an annual event that occurs each June in Seattle, Washington.
Waiting for the Interurban, also known as People Waiting for the Interurban, is a 1978 cast aluminum sculpture collection in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., just east of the northern end of the Fremont Bridge. It consists of six people and a dog waiting for public transportation — specifically, the Seattle-Everett Interurban. While the interurban railway ran through Fremont from 1910 until 1939, it stopped on Fremont Avenue rather than N. 34th Street, which the statue faces.
A street fair celebrates the character of a neighborhood. As its name suggests, it is typically held on the main street of a neighborhood.
The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution. After the revolutions of 1989 and dissolution of the Soviet Union, a wave of de-Leninization in Eastern Europe brought about the fall of many monuments in the former Soviet sphere. In 1993, the statue was bought by an American who had found it lying in a scrapyard. He brought it home with him to Washington State but died before he could carry out his plans to formally display it.
Islewilde is a community-created art and performance festival that takes place each August on Vashon Island, WA.
The Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade is a community-made parade in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. Produced by local arts organisations Handmade Parade CIC, the parade celebrates the creativity, variety and the uniqueness of Hebden Bridge and its surrounding areas. The parade takes place in June each year.
Founded in 1998, the History House of Greater Seattle is a historical museum dedicated to the history and heritage of Seattle and its neighborhoods.
Richard Sternoff Beyer was an American sculptor from Pateros, Washington. Between 1968 and 2006, Beyer made over 90 sculptures.
The Wall of Death is a permanently sited public art installation located under the University Bridge in Seattle, alongside the Burke-Gilman Trail and NE 40th Street in the University District. It was designed and built by Mowry Baden and his son, Colin, in 1993.
Talos No. 2 is an outdoor 1959–1977 bronze sculpture created by the American artist James Lee Hansen. It is located in the Transit Mall of downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
Angie's Umbrella is a 30-foot (9.1 m) tall metal sculpture by Jim Pridgeon and Benson Shaw, installed in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Shear Draft is a steel sculpture by Thomas Lindsey, installed in Seattle, Washington, United States.
