The Arts Illuminate at Redmond Lights
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY November 7, 2017
CONTACT Lisa Maher, Communications & Marketing Manager lmaher@redmond.gov 425-556-2427
Redmond, WA – Mark
your calendars as Redmond Lights returns on December 2,
2017, in
celebration of the City's diverse winter traditions, cultures and faiths. In
addition to traditional light displays, this year’s
event will continue to incorporate public art. New temporary artist-commissioned
light installations in addition to installations by Redmond Poet Laureate Shin
Yu Pai and Redmond Artist in Residence Maja Petric will be featured. More
installation details and locations are listed below beginning with the City
Hall Campus and ending close to Redmond Town Center.
Redmond Poet
Laureate Shin Yu Pai’s exhibition Animating
Archives: Contemporary Chlorophyll Prints will be on display at the Redmond
Senior Center during the event and features a chlorophyll print collaboration
with artist Megan Bent.
On the
Municipal Campus, the Seattle Design Nerds will feature their illuminated
interactive installation Plushcadia.
This installation returns from So Bazaar and incorporates a new community mural
that the visitors can help create.
Installed
below the NE 85th Street bridge along the Luminary Walk, Jennifer
Szabo’s installation will emulate the night’s sky, illuminating the Sammamish
River below. Further down the Luminary Walk, Beth Gahan’s lanterns will be
suspended above the Sammamish River Trail. Different shapes and patterns with moving
and projected lights will create an eye-catching installation.
Suzanne
Tidwell returns to Redmond Lights with two installations. Let it Snow will be installed near the intersection of the Redmond
Central Connector and the Sammamish River Trail, a dazzling installation of
larger-than-life snowflakes. Another installation by Tidwell, Ornaments, features a whimsical series
of 3D spheres along the Redmond Central Connector.
Big Sassy,
your friendly neighborhood Sasquatch, returns to Redmond Lights with a new
addition, Baby Sassy! Keep an eye out
for the pair along the Redmond Central Connector trail. Sassy was designed by
Eastside artists Kristie Smith and Vikram Madan.
Redmond’s
new artist-in-residence, Maja Petric, will create a site-specific light art
installation I Saw My Birth, Love, and
Death in the Sky in the Heron Rookery. Visitors will be guided into the clearing
between the giant trees of this urban forest where they can look up at the sky
and be immersed in the constellation of projected stars. The number of stars
will equal the population size in the US. Whenever a baby is born somewhere in
the US, a star will appear in the sky. Whenever a person dies, a star will
disappear in an audiovisual depiction of a supernova explosion.
For more information about Redmond Lights,
please visit www.redmondlights.com. For
questions and additional information about art at Redmond Lights, contact Lisa
Maher, Communications and Marketing Manager, at lmaher@redmond.gov or 425-556-2427.
This press release is available on www.redmond.gov.
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Sassy and
Baby art installation. Photo credit- City of Redmond
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