Art at the Northgate Branch, Community Center and Park

For The Seattle Public Library, Dana Lynn Louis created "Circulation," a vertical installation of colored circles of glass fused onto glass panels. It is integrated into the book drop at the plaza entry to the branch. Conceptually, the piece refers to the collection, digestion and dissemination of knowledge that occurs daily at the library.
 

For Seattle Parks and Recreation, Nikki McClure created "The Eddy," a series of blue-gray metal waves inset with colored glass bubbles. "The Eddy," which is in the plaza, rises out of the back of a concrete wall that curves toward the entrance of the community center. It is back-lit so it is visible at night. "The Eddy" creates a place of rest on a site with many uses.
 

For the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Linda Wysong created a connection to nature with "Perch." The art elements include 12 glass blocks that depict Wysong's interpretation of a black-capped chickadee, three brightly colored steel birdhouse sculptures and two resting places made of hammered copper tree forms.

The blocks are embedded in the sidewalk along Fifth Avenue Northeast. The birdhouses and resting places are on the pedestrian path on the slope south of the community center along Northeast 105th Street.