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US: Seattle, WA – Rainbow Colors in Chihuly’s Macchia Forest

Monday, August 26th, 2019

When Dale Chihuly was developing his Macchia forest he had a goal to use all 300 glass colors available in the hotshop. He was able to push the scale of these shapes up to four feet in diameter.

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US: Seattle, WA – Chihuly’s Macchia Forest Room

Monday, August 26th, 2019

Macchia Forest was created when Dale Chihuly noticed that stained glass windows look better on cloudy days. He developed a method of placing a thin white cloud between the glass colors to achieve a more vibrant effect.

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US: Seattle, WA – Umbrellas in the Sky

Monday, August 19th, 2019

Yes it rains a lot in Seattle so why not an umbrella sculpture?

Tags: art, art installation, building, city, city view, facade, rain, rain for days, rainy, rainy city, rainy days, rainy seattle, sculpture, Seattle, seattle rain, seattle street, sights, sightseeing, tour, tourist, touristy, touting, umbrella, umbrella art, umbrella sculpture, view, walking tour, Washington, Washington State

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US: Seattle, WA – Facing You

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

Rainbow glass art in Seattle. It’s called Facing You by Marvin Oliver.

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US: Seattle, WA – Seattle’s Gum Wall

Monday, August 12th, 2019

Really. It ‘s all gum. Seattle’s Gum Wall is pretty in a pop art kind of way – until you get really close.

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Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Bears Videotaping Cubs Fishing

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

Someone in Sault Ste. Marie has a great sense of humor. We loved the statue of the adult bear with a camcorder on his shoulder videotaping two cubs. It’s down by the waterfront in Dr. Roberta Bondar park.

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Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Group of Seven Food

Monday, August 5th, 2019

At the Heritage Discovery Center we were treated to a meal described in the journals of Group of Seven painters who created their art here about a hundred years ago. The first course for us had been an entire meal for them – about ten pounds of onions. Though it doesn’t sound tantalizing, it was scrumptious, as they caramelized the onions and served them with homemade bread and butter.

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Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Group of Seven Play

Monday, August 5th, 2019

To fully understand the impetus and experience of the Group of Seven Canadian painters’ time in Algoma County, the Theatre in Motion is featuring a one-man show called Moments in Algoma, This group of Seven “experience” has an actor portraying painter Lawren Harris. It’s being shown at the Heritage Discovery Center.

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Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Photo of Three of the Group of Seven

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Here are three of the famous Canadian Group of Seven painters who started painting the Algoma scenery starting in 1918 with J.E.H. Macdonald. The others in the group are: Lawren Harris, Franklin Carmichael, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnson, Arhur Lismer, and Frederick Varley. They hitched a boxcar onto the Agawa Canyon train going up to the mines in Northern Ontario.

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Canada: Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Inside Group of Seven Boxcar

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

The Group of Seven were Canadian painters who, in the early 20th century, especially enjoyed painting Canadian scenery. A few at a time, the men would live in this spartan boxcar which would get hitched to a train. They would be let off on a rail siding for a few days to paint scenery to their hearts content.

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