Artist, author, and critic Gary Faigin is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Gage Academy of Art, offering classes at its campuses in South Lake Union and Georgetown.
Both the very best and the most run-of-the-mill public art can be viewed at the four stations just opened along Link Light Rail Line 1, starting at Northgate and ending at Lynnwood.
The large, ambitious Poke in the Eye exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum (through Sept. 2) is an exercise in historical revisionism, making the case that Northwest artists have been unfairly excluded from the Funk Art movement, historically associated with the Bay Area.