Explore Videos

The Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects join artists, civic and tribal leaders to celebrate the installation of new permanent public artwork on Seattle’s waterfront.  

As part of the Oscar Tuazon artwork that spans from Columbia Street to Spring Street, the installation of two Indigenous cedar carvings by Randi Purser of the Suquamish Tribe and Tyson Simmons and Keith Stevenson of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe will be completed. In consultation with the Suquamish Tribe and Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, this collaborative project with the carvers invites visitors to learn from the longhouse and envision Indigenous futures on the Salish Sea. The two carvings will be added on the west side of the beams, facing the Park Promenade and Elliott Bay.  

These artworks are funded with Central Waterfront 1% for Art funds and administered by the Office of Arts & Culture and the Office of the Waterfront and Civic projects.  

Speakers and attendees include:

Angela Brady, Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects  

Oscar Tuazon, artist 

Cedar Sigo, poet and member of the Suquamish Tribe 

Randi Purser, artist and member of the Suquamish Tribe  

Chairman Leonard Forsman, Suquamish Tribe 

Gülgün Kayim, Office of Arts & Culture 

Tyson Simmons and Keith Stevenson, artists and members of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe  

Councilmember Donny Stevenson, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe