South Tacoma Sounder Station Gets Public Art
We found ourselves in South Tacoma this morning for a meeting. Afterward, one of our local elected officials and I had to check out the new Sounder station on South 56th Street. What did we see? Public Art. The Ilan Averbuch piece is … quite a bit larger than the model we’ve seen online. Impressive. We like.
8 comments
A Andrew December 13, 2008
Art is good, but it looks sort of communisty era USSR. Will be interesting to see once its all done.
J John Sherman December 13, 2008
It’s just the Sounder tribute to Tacoma Citizens for present and future tax payments and like the statues last forever.
J Jacquie Hackett December 15, 2008
As usual Sound Transit is throwing good money after bad. What a waste of money!
A Amber Gunn December 15, 2008
Are you joking? I’d rather have my money back.
We pay enough tax dollars without having to erect giant horse shoes for the public subsidization of artists who can’t sell their pieces in the private sector for profit.
Wonder how much those rusty shovels cost.
I’m pretty sure we can find more important uses of our tax dollars.
P P December 15, 2008
I’m pretty sure we can find more important uses of our tax dollars.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t ST subject to the 1% for public art requirement. In which case, they had to do art. Or are all the ST critics simply hating on anything sound transit independent of whether the art is decent or not?
J John Sherman December 15, 2008
Question #5: Did the Citizens vote for this 1% public art requirement as they voted themselves to be taxed more for transit? If not, just who made that art required decision?
L Lynn Di Nino December 24, 2008
I drove past S 56th and Washington and was delighted to see this dramatic sculpture. I had no idea what it was about until I read about it here. I’d like to know more about the artist. There’s something really cool about big heavy boulders suspended in the air. . .
D Dave L. December 24, 2008
I read about it here but didn’t pay attention to where it was. But I drive that street a lot and it caught me by surprise. In a good way. I like it a lot.