Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park Art & Design Walk 9/7, 10:30am-12pm [cid:image003.jpg@01D56251.5C00FFA0] When: Saturday, September 7th, 10:30am-12pm Where: Dune Peninsula, 5361 Yacht Club Rd, Tacoma, Washington 98407 - meet at the entrance to the park Parking: Ruston Way and Schuster Parkway will be closed to vehicular traffic for Downtown to Defiance (www.cityoftacoma.org/downtowntodefiance<http://www.cityoftacoma.org/downtowntodefiance?fbclid=IwAR0CZkI77q6GANuokkpxtiFiov_0os1hl8ggTusDN6Y934PEq_X8OIit3G8>), so car access and parking will be limited. Parking map can be found below. Walking, biking, and scooting is encouraged! More info: www.facebook.com/events/502094483922578/<https://www.facebook.com/events/502094483922578/> Free and Open to the Public. Join us for a walk led by the architect and artists who worked on the new Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park. Artists Adam Kuby and Nichole Rathburn will share the process and inspiration behind two new artworks: Alluvion and Little Makers (in progress). You will also hear from Kuby and project architect Clayton Beaudoin of Site Workshop about their collaboration on integrated design concepts found throughout the park. In Adam Kuby's artwork Alluvion, a vertical steel pipe evokes the 562' tall smelter smokestack that once stood nearby. Each subsequent row consists of the same 15' long pipe cut into smaller and smaller segments, the last row comprised of 256 separate pieces. The artwork resonates with other elements of the park that the artist helped design such as the rock slopes and concrete benches--and speaks to the processes of accretion, layering, erosion, disintegration, oxidizing, and rusting that have formed (and transformed) this place. In progress public artwork Little Makers, by Tacoma-based artist Nichole Rathburn, reflects on themes from Frank Herbert's landmark science fiction novel, Dune. In the book, sandtrout were responsible for depleting the planet Arrakis of water. Rathburn draws parallels between the attempts to terraform the landscape into a livable environment on the fictional planet Dune, and the real-life creation of the Dune Peninsula park on the former slag pile from the ASARCO Smelter. The resulting sculpture is reminiscent of large larval sandworm forms, cast in bronze and placed to look as though they are diving in and out of a sail mound in the park. Both artworks were commissioned by Metro Parks Tacoma. ABOUT DUNE PENINSULA AT POINT DEFIANCE PARK Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park will complete the connection between Point Defiance and the Ruston Way Waterfront. The project transforms a Superfund site contaminated by heavy metals from the ASARCO smelter. It includes a bike and pedestrian path and bridge, and the development of an 11- acre park on the peninsula. The park was named after the Frank Herbert novel, Dune, which was the first of its kind with an environmental theme. According to Herbert's son, Brian, who wrote a biography of his father, Frank Herbert's devotion to the natural world evolved from his Tacoma childhood and his recollection of the foul smoke that spewed from the stack of the former ASARCO smelter. As part of the park design, artist Adam Kuby was brought on as a member of the design team to contribute artful, integrated design elements to the project. Kuby was also commissioned to create a signature artwork and an Art Brief with suggestions for possible projects for local artists. For more information, including planning documents, visit www.metroparkstacoma.org/dpd-waterfront<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metroparkstacoma.org%2Fdpd-waterfront%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1D1OIXpDYn5Oxh3H9xYVvXEVE-pDKPn-bahRoPXoTEwU0NnDBSQCO7qMU&h=AT1YHfy0zqOwrBVTAymUr5PyYuqGCUITUWsdSxOO9Ut5C0l_tn-5wMdiNIKuPoMVxK0DMRpxOiruPO3K9lC-CX7yWwi_LuEd5Wop9DiYUrg7tPNGzea6PMev4a-b_qPd>. PARKING [cid:image004.jpg@01D56333.E4F7BAA0] REBECCA SOLVERSON Public Art Specialist Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality 253.591.5564 TACOMA VENUES & EVENTS<tacomavenues.org> Tacoma Dome<http://www.tacomadome.org/> | Greater Tacoma Convention Center<http://www.tacomaconventioncenter.org/> Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality<http://www.cityoftacoma.org/arts> | Special Events<http://www.cityoftacoma.org/specialevents>