Art Up / Open Up - Holiday Art Walk Kick-Off

Art Up Greenwood-Phinney presents “Art Up/Open Up”

A recent poll of Annual Art Walk Participants found that there are many businesses interested in participating in a monthly art walk. The majority consensus for the monthly date is 2nd Friday’s from 6-9pm. Our first art walk will take place on Friday, December 12, 2008.

If your business is interested in participating, please send us your art’s information by December 1st. Arts submission deadlines for listing in the monthly art walk will be at the 1st of the month, each month. Businesses may choose to participate as they see fit (i.e. quarterly, every other month, etc). Art’s listings accepted include: visual art, live music, literary readings, and performance art. To submit listings please email: artup@greenwood-phinney.com or fax: (206) 233-2654 to request a submission form.

The kick-off celebration will promote and encourage buying local for the holidays and we encourage all businesses regardless of whether they will be participating in the art walk to stay open from 6-9pm on December 12th and offer special sales/promotions during this opening. To participate this way, please email: artup@greenwood-phinney.com with your interest.

Each month a map with updated listings will be available for art walk attendee’s to download at this blog site. The listings will be clearly designated with symbols representing the different types of arts listed at each business.

Art Up Announces New Greenwood-Phinney Monthly Artwalk

A new monthly artwalk will be kicking off on Friday, December 12th from 6-9pm. Along with the artwalk participants, all stores in the Greenwood-Phinney neighborhood are encouraged to participate for the holiday kick-off by staying open and offering special promotions for the artwalk goers. The new monthly artwalk will occur the 2nd Friday of each month.

Stay posted to this blog as more information is added. This will also be the site to download your monthly artwalk listing and map.

Urban Artists "Spray It" in Greenwood-Phinney

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CONTACT: Michele Persinger
Bherd Studios
(206) 234-8348
speakandbherd@hotmail.com
http://www.bherdstudios.com/

Urban Artists “Spray It” in the Greenwood-Phinney Neighborhood

Seattle, WA, August 9, 2008 – Urban artists and Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce celebrate urban street art with a neighborhood mural unveiling and street art exhibition at Bherd Studios Gallery in Greenwood.

The ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at Bherd Studios (315 NW 85th Street, Suite B) in conjunction with an urban art exhibit called “Spray It, Don’t Say It” on Saturday, August 9th from 3pm – 9pm. The exhibit will feature artwork from internationally known Jef Aerosol, whose work in Europe with street stencil art inspired urban artists world-wide. His work can be seen on walls in numerous cities including Paris, London, Chicago, Amsterdam, Venice and more. Jef is a true legend in the street art world. Along with Jef, national and Pacific NW artists will be featuring their works both in the style of stenciled and free-hand street art. Artists include LittleGirlLost, CASH, DreXeL, SouLe, MassRad, Asher, JoaB and Greg Boudreau. The exhibition will continue through September 5.

The Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce recently created a new program called “Art Up Greenwood-Phinney” to combat the rise in tagging and vandalism in the neighborhood. Art Up not only focuses on the removal of tagging and vandalism, but is working towards creating a positive outlet for young urban artists. The chamber will be working with the local Jr. High and High Schools to target high risk offenders and help them to focus their energies in a positive way – creating art for the neighborhood. The mural celebration on August 9th is a sample of what the Chamber has planned for the community and is intended to draw interest from residents of all ages.

For more information about this event, please visit the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce website at http://www.greenwood-phinney.com/ and click on the “events” section.
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Art Up Mural - Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

The Greenwood-Phinney Chamber in conjunction with Bherd Studios will be unveiling a new mural for our neighborhood as part of the Art Up kick-off on August 9th. Much anecdotal evidence has been shared over the last few months from various sources including the City of Seattle Graffiti Prevention department that murals are hit less than blank walls and help establish an example of a positive outlet for youth vandals. In addition, Art Up plans to introduce the program to the local Jr. High and High School in the next month and a half by meeting with their school principles.

More information to come on the mural celebration.

City of Seattle crew will be back in our neighborhood painting out tagging and cleaning on August 6th. If you see them come through, please stop and thank them for their help.

Graffiti Update for Greenwood-Phinney

Work crews have made their first round of clean up through the Greenwood Phinney neighborhood from N 90th street to N 59th street. The crew picked up garbage, swept and painted out graffiti on area businesses. 12 waiver forms were signed by businesses for painting out graffiti. We still have a long way to go to get more businesses to sign the forms. Anyone who is interested in helping this process along, please contact: artup@greenwood-phinney.com

As many in our neighborhood have seen, the old McDonald's building had been hit hard with graffiti. This will be resolved very soon as the company is coming out to "de-McDonald's" the building (take down the trademark roof, signage, etc.) and they will paint out the graffiti and put a fence around the building while they are going through this process. The new property owner has been contacted and said that he is going to sign the waiver form so that Art Up volunteers can paint-out graffiti as needed.

On the Phinney side of the neighborhood, there is good news about the zoo mural. A crew has washed away the gray paint that covered the mural.
To read more visit:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008038573_zoomural08m.html

City of Seattle Graffiti Work Crews - Summer 2008

A work crew arranged by the City of Seattle to clean-up the streets and paint-out the graffiti will be in Greenwood-Phinney neighborhood. The crew is working a couple different neighborhoods including ours and will have a Wednesday rotation throughout the summer. We should be seeing them at least 2 times between July and August. And they could be in our neighborhood as soon as July 2nd.

In order for the crew to paint-out the graffiti, the business/building owners need to have a permission form signed and turned into the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber. The chamber will have a booth at the upcoming Car Show on Saturday, June 28th where they will be handing out these forms. If you are interested in helping the chamber reach out to the local businesses, please stop by the booth that day.

The crew is also in need of a 1/2 way point to take a break and eat their lunch. If anyone can recommend an area about 1/2 way up Greenwood-Phinney, please let us know by emailing: artup@greenwood-phinney.com

Zoo Mural Uncovered in Seattle

Within a couple of minutes Thursday afternoon, it became clear the beloved mural by the Woodland Park Zoo — the one the city's Graffiti Rangers mistakenly covered up in early May with gray paint, creating a neighborhood uproar — could be saved...

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