Art

Long-time readers know we're big fans of the Wallingford Art Walk: wandering from shop to shop, grazing on nibbles, drinking cheap wine from plastic cups, chatting with the neighbors...and art! After a winter hibernation, Wallingford's First Wednesday will be returning in May, and don't worry, we'll be reminding you when the time is ripe. In the meantime, if you're a business that's interested in participating, the deadline to let them know is March 31st. Visit the Wallingford Art Walk web site…

Robert Delaware has been snapping photos of street art around the city and posting them to Brightkite, a service that allows you to "tag" messages and photos with the location they were sent from. Here are a few  of the shots he's taken from around Wallingford: Now, regular readers will know that we're huge fans of street art (newer readers, check out some of our older posts on the topic, including Wallingford Art, More Outdoor Art, Mystery Painting, Easy Chair, More…

Hey, who's that standing next to Mayor Mike McGinn? Why, it's Helen Ippolito of Wallingford's Hamilton School. Along with Page Robinson of Hamilton, she was one of the winners of the City's Neighbor Appreciation Day Art Contest. As one of the top two winners, Helen's art will be featured on greeting cards distributed at libraries and community centers around the city. Nice. Oh, and that's Councilmember O'Brien on the other side of her. His art appears nowhere that we're aware of.

Now this is the kind of thing we love to see in Wallingford: more public art. We just received a call for proposals from artists for a mural to appear on the bridge between Fremont and Wallingford on N. 46th Street. Here are the details: CALL TO ARTISTS- 46TH ST. MURAL PROJECT: A mural to bridge the Fremont and Wallingford communities in Seattle, to bring a positive visual message to pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists traveling under Highway 99 (Aurora Ave.) at…