Kubota Garden Show Call for Art 2023

Kubota Garden is a 20-acre Japanese garden in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. A public park since 1987, it was started in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota, a Japanese emigrant. Today, it is maintained as a public park by the Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Kubota Garden Foundation. This public garden boasts paths meandering over 2 red bridges, 11 ponds featuring 140 maple varieties, 30 hydrangea varieties in addition to many other seasonal flowering plants and trees.

The Kubota Garden Foundation is jointly sponsoring a SCULPTURE WALK with the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association.

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Kubota Garden
9817 55th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98118

The Kubota Garden Foundation is jointly sponsoring a SCULPTURE WALK with the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association.

To support this partnership and production of Art in the Garden/Sculpture Walk, the Kubota Garden Foundation will
• Obtain a permit with with Parks Departments for use of the Terrace Overlook 
• Promote the event to our members and visitors to the Garden through email, press notice, website and social media channels
• Arrange for Garden Greeters to welcome visitors and provide space for event and NWSSA information
• Provide signage directing visitors to the Terrace Overlook

NWSSA will be responsible for
• Recruiting and serving as the primary point of contact for artists
• Artists talks and a tour for visitors who are visually impaired, if possible
• Oversee and direct load-in and strike
• Insuring the art displayed at the Garden
• Making a $300 gift to Kubota Garden Foundation

Sculptures must be for sale; 10% to City of Seattle, 10% to NWSSA = 20% taken from sale.
This is an NWSSA Member Show Opportunity
Please contact Markos Weiss for more information concerning this call for art and volunteers.