pier 86
feasibility study
team
Framework, Lead
Perri Howard, Velocity Made Good
Stevan Johnson, AIA, Johnson Architecture and Planning
Paul Diedrich, PE, Grid Engineering
client
Friends of Art on Pier 86
Fiscal Sponsor, Seattle Parks Foundation
link
document
A Community-Led Effort for Art Writ Large
The idea of art on Pier 86 has been alive since the grain terminals were built forty-six years ago. With the many changes along the waterfront since that time, and the high expectations for the Central Waterfront after the removal of the Viaduct, the idea of art on Pier 86 has found new enthusiasm through Friends of Art on Pier 86 and an organized approach to testing feasibility, options and funding.
Framework was contracted by Friends of Art on Pier 86 who received a grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to study feasibility of public art on Pier 86, with support from the Port of Seattle and fiscal sponsorship from the Seattle Parks Foundation. The study led to approval by the Port on projected art on the grain terminal, and Friends of Art on Pier 86 found funding for two projection art installations shown during the month of December in 2018.
One installation, SIGNALs, by artists Nicolas Sassoon of Vancouver BC and Rick Silva from Eugene, Oregon, showed immersive audio-visual renderings of altered seascapes. In the second installation Northwest artists Chris Rojas and Craig Winslow celebrated the waterfront’s history with projections or historical moments, mapping and 3-D imaging. The installation is visible from Centennial Park, Myrtle Edwards Park, Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown, Queen Anne, West Seattle, and the ferries moving across Elliott Bay.
With a canvas that is 222 ft tall and exhibits that will run for a total of 11 days, this program is likely the largest and longest public video art exhibits to date in the Seattle area.