CityWorks projects give Coyote youth from Studio Coyote or Hit the Streets a chance to take their newly acquired skills and enthusiasms to the next level.
ColorGraphics Art Exhibition
On May 18th, an exhibit of paintings by ten CityWorks youth will be feted at a grand opening at ColorGraphics (1421 S. Dean St., off S. Dearborn). Working with artists Liza von Rosenstiel and Tip Toland, the young artists spent one intensive weekend depicting Aesop's Fables on rice paper with tempera washes and black ink applied with sumi brushes - to great results.
Please join us at the opening on May 18th, 4:30 to 7:30, to celebrate their great work.
Seattle Center's WinterFest Promotion
Seattle Center commissioned 8 Coyote youth working with two professional artists to transform 20 ice skates into icons of the different cultures represented in the annual WinterFest celebration. The remarkable resulting images were used on all of the Center's Winterfest promotional materials - including the giant banners hung across Mercer Street!
Macy's Display Windows
Coyote young artists have become the stars of Macy's Windows on Diversity campaign. Since 2001, the window displays of the downtown store have been filled through the month of July with rich interpretations of worldwide architecture, fashion, design, and life-size self-portraiture.
In a whirlwind weekend, thirty of our Latino, African, Native American, Caucasian, Pacific Islanders, and Asian young artists pair up in six unstoppable teams that are inspired by professional artists as talented as Liza von Rosenstiel, Stuart Keeler, Stuart Nakamura, Romson Bustillo, Gene Gentry McMahon, Eric Salisbury, Marita Dingus, Deborah Mersky, Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes and Peter Gross. As professional and driven as great artists everywhere, these teams use recycled materials of every description to create signature pieces to fill a total of 28 display windows, stretching around the entire city block.
Treehouse for Kids - New Mural & Logo
TREEHOUSE FOR KIDS, a local support service for foster kids, commissioned Coyote Central to create murals for their headquarters in the Central Area. Artist Liza vonRosenstiel worked with six Coyote youth - Theary Ath, Brianna Sims, Theresa James, Zorah Fung, J’Von Buckley, & Bereket Gebrehiwet, as well as teaching assistant Nayo Satterlee - to paint the Treehouse logo in their lobby and to create a set of paintings showing kids doing what they love to do best for the Treehouse donation warehouse.
Holiday Windows at Barneys New York
Twelve Coyote artists filled the windows of Barneys New York in December of 1998 right here on Seattle’s own Fifth Avenue. Their fanciful inventions of animals, in the form of framed ink drawings, painted wooden sculptures, and hammered metal mobiles, were made in the studios of two prominent Seattle artists, Liza von Rosenstiel and Timothy Siciliano. Installed and highlighted by intense red backdrops and mirrored globes, their windows were named “Best of the Season” by the Seattle Downtown Association.
Seatwall at Madrona Playfield
Six Coyote ceramics artists brought their special talents to ceramic sculptor Tip Toland to handbuild and install ceramic surfaces for three chairs within the seat wall at the Madrona Playfield. The three teams chose Northwest themes to inspire their designs: sealife, jazz, and the music of the city.
Movie Screen for Entros Supper Club
The lengths to which Coyote goes to make art! In 1998 Coyote gathered six artists to make a 12-foot by 12-foot frame for a movie screen out of dried beans, noodles, and grains. Because of the great sportsmanship of professional artist Tip Toland, six young artists learned the meaning of perseverance as they created a one-of-a-kind movie screen of tiny mosaic designs.
Walkway for Miller Community Center
A major element of the playfields at Miller Community Center on Capital Hill is the forty-foot long mosaic walkway that was handbuilt by eight young Coyote artists and some forty additional friends who helped in the installation. Working with nationally known ceramics sculptor Tip Toland, they volunteered their time much of August 1998 to design and handbuild eight 5’ X 6’ ceramic panels that are set in concrete. Their artwork depicts a visual journey through the sea, from shoreline to the bottom of the ocean, with each of their murals descending deeper and deeper toward Atlantis.
Seatwall at Madrona Playfield
Six Coyote ceramics artists brought their special talents to ceramic sculptor Tip Toland to handbuild and install ceramic surfaces for three chairs within the seat wall at the Madrona Playfield. The three teams chose Northwest themes to inspire their designs: sealife, jazz, and the music of the city.
