The Sounds of Sculpture…

The weekend event celebrates the installation of Coss' piece at the Sculpture Park....

There’s going to be music, food & and art at the Sculpture Park out at Roche Harbor this Sunday from 5-8pm. It’s $5 to enter the park; kids enter free. Music by the LITTLE WING BAND — a Tribute to Jimi Hendrix as well as local faves The Chameleons. Here’s more from the Islands Museum of Art’s director Jennifer Elise:

The first ‘Sounds of Sculpture’ Event at the Sculpture Park, located at Roche Harbor begins this Sunday, 4-9 p.m. with hot live music, food, and a celebration of the installation of ‘Tides of March,’ an artwork installation by well known Seattle Artist, Mary Coss.

Saddened by the loss of life and displacement following the Japanese Tsunami, Seattle artist Mary Coss paid homage in this sculpture installation to the people of Japan, who are a part of our global family.

Using a sawzall, Coss transformed fallen logs into bones.  The carved bones were placed into a human scaled steel handbag which appears to have drifted into the Puget Sound on the ripples of the Pacific, after the Tsunami.  There the sculpture sits in the Bay.

The ‘Sounds of Sculpture” Event at the park features this installation, hot live music, food, festivities, and an opportunity for you to leave your wish at Westcott Bay for the Japanese people who suffered so much in the Tsunami.

Artist June Sekiguchi, whose family comes from this devastated area, joined Coss in this installation.  Together they created the Japanese Star Festival ritual of Tanabata at the IMA Sculpture Park at Roche Harbor.

Plan now to attend this August 7th event and add your wish to this ongoing collection of wishes which will eventually find its way to Japan and a group of children who have lost a parent in the Tsunami.  The ‘Sounds of Sculpture’ Event includes live, hot music, food, and this wonderful Artwork in Process on Westcott Bay.  In addition, over 28 new pieces of sculpture have been added to the Park, along with a Starfish area for children to build their own sculpture after traveling the paths with parents.

Two future additional Sunday ‘Sounds of Sculpture’ events should be placed on your calendars now: September 4, Labor Day and October 2, ARTSTOCK Week-end, both are Sundays.

The Park is open dawn to dusk every day and the IMA Museum on Spring Street is open for the Kurt Wenner ‘Asphalt Renaissance’ Exhibition, Thursdays through Mondays, 11:00- 5:00 p.m.  Also, check out the IMA website at www.sjima.org, or call Jennifer Elise, IMA Director at 360.370.5050 or email her at admin (at) sjima.org for further information.

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