Spring has Sprung!!!!

The trees are in bloom in the park and it's starting to look like spring is here. 

We have set a date for a community celebration in the park Sunday June 22 from 3-7pm to celebrate all the pieces finally getting installed into the park. 

That is of course after you participate in the North Portland Sunday Parkways. 

It feels like spring, all the grass is looking green, the plants are beginning to bloom everything looks fresh and new. If you look close you can see 2 of the sculptures in the back of the park near the apple tree. The path wonders up to the apple tree at the east end of the park. 

 This is the table that is at the east end of the park. The pattern is based on a traditional string quilt pattern. It's made out of an old cargo container door. The door was filled with cement and then the mosaic pattern was pressed into the cement. The design uses stain glass, mirror and old plates. 

The piece by Jason Jones that was tagged has been covered so that no one else tags it, one tag lead to another tag. So the piece is now a Christo…wrapped in a plastic bag that is attached with duct tape. I guess that is one way to stop graffiti. 

The last sculpture is now in the park. It's called High Chair Low Chair by Jim Schmidt. It's in the back corner next to the apple tree. It's nice to finally have all the pieces installed. The Friends of the Pittman Addition has worked very hard from getting the concrete pads installed, volunteering to weed the landscape and installing plants, writing a grant to pay artists for the work and then finally through the permit process when it came time to install the art work. 

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone for seeing it through and working through all the set backs and keeping a positive attitude. 

WE DID IT!!!