Ms. Vaughn E. Bell
Embedded in Transportation
Posted by Apr 12, 2011 0 comments
Ms. Vaughn E. Bell
For the last couple years I have been the “staff artist” in the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), working on arts planning and as liaison for the 1% for art program and integrating design enhancements on SDOT projects.
I connect with a wide range of projects, from multi-modal trails and sidewalks to large bridges, and seek opportunities to incorporate art into the right-of-way.
I am embedded in the DOT offices, with a desk alongside the project managers in the Capital Projects and Roadway Structures Division.
In my art practice outside of the SDOT art role, I create immersive environments and installations, often involving living plants, which touch on our often paradoxical relationship to land and environment. How people relate to the urban spaces they inhabit and move through is always of interest to me.
In one project, I created a portable version of Mt. Rainier on a leash, available for walks in the city and accompanied by its own mountain soundtrack.
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