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4Culture
101 Prefontaine Place South
Seattle WA 98104
206 296.7580
info@4culture.org
Public Art 4Culture Staff
General Public Art inquiries
publicart@4culture.org
206 205.8024
Cath Brunner, Director of Public Art 4Culture, brings over 20 years experience as a built environment innovator. Cath’s specialization in managing large-scale integrated public art projects includes expertise in construction project management, strategic art planning, advocacy through program development, creative process facilitation, and public policy development. In addition to leading Public Art 4Culture, Cath continues to act as a project manager for many projects including, SeaTac International Airport, Harborview Medical Center, Bellevue City Hall, and Brightwater. Cath enjoys helping government agencies, private developers and elected officials understand the economic, social and environmental benefits of incorporating public art into the built environment. She also lectures on the topics of place-making through public art development, integrating art and architecture in public and private construction, and public art best practices.
Greg Bell brings over twenty-five years of professional experience in the fine art and museum fields. Greg oversees purchases for the King County Public Art Collection, supervises its rotation throughout County facilities, and develops an annual stewardship and maintenance plan. He also runs Gallery4Culture, a recognized hot spot for courageous installation work and emerging local artists. In 2006, Seattle Weekly named Gallery4Culture "Best Small Space for New Work." Greg’s curatorial and exhibition design work is complemented by an ongoing studio practice as well as continued involvement as a teacher throughout regional fine art programs and institutions. Greg brings previous experience as Curator of Contemporary Art and Exhibition Designer for Tacoma Art Museum and as Director of Kittredge Gallery at University of Puget Sound.
Willow Fox has recently joined the Public Art 4Culture team after working as an intern with the program while she completed her degree at Cornish College of the Arts. She is the administrative coordinator of Public Art 4Culture, managing the digital library, editing and distributing the Public Art Calls List, and providing technical support for all artist selection panels. Willow has experienced the other side of the desk too, working as a free-lance artist in Oregon for seven years before moving to Seattle. Some of her projects include two painted 30'-tall purple theater curtains under a freeway overpass in Eugene, OR and an interactive mural on the side of a veterinarian clinic in Corvallis, OR, depicting the Willamette River with some of its native flora and fauna. Despite a hectic schedule working in the studio and at 4Culture, Willow recently graduated summa cum laude with a studio focus on sculpture, video, and installation work.
Tina Hoggatt is Outreach and Education coordinator for Public Art 4Culture. In 2006, Public Art 4Culture began a comprehensive initiative to build strategic partnerships, seed pilot projects, facilitate events and develop multi-media web enrichment. Tina was hired to design and manage this important education initiative. Her continued practice as a public artist and arts educator informs her commitment to innovation through collaboration. Public Art 4Culture Outreach & Education seeks to enhance the King County Public Art Collection as a community resource and to reveal the remarkable collaborative and creative process that is public art.
Sean Stearns is the Web and IT Manager at 4Culture. He designs and produces 4Culture’s website, eNews, and related projects in close collaboration with staff. Driven by a background in time-based arts, video, and graphic design, Sean continues to develop new information architecture and technology management strategies toward maximizing the impact and accessibility of 4Culture’s programs. Sean invests free time working with a patients’ rights organization here in Seattle. He has been working in the local, non-profit arts community for over 15 years.
Renee Tanner specializes in managing projects with partners who are new to the public art development process. She has over 15 years of experience coordinating and working with citizens, neighborhood groups, government officials, and corporations. Her expertise is in fitting Public Art 4Culture’s best practices with each community's unique decision-making systems to produce high quality works of art. Recent successes include integrated public artworks at the new Redmond City Hall and the new Federal Way Community Center. She currently manages projects for King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division, Water and Land Resources, Parks, Solid Waste Division and Department of Transportation. Renee also manages the 4Culture Artist Registry, a comprehensive source of pre-qualified artists prepared to realize both public and private art commissions. Renee maintains a home-studio in South Downtown Seattle.
Paige Weinheimer assists 4Culture staff in development and implementation of 4Culture’s dynamic programming and pilot projects. As coordinator of the Puget Sound Emerging Arts Leaders network, Paige brings first-hand knowledge of emerging trends and initiatives among next-generation leaders, as well as experience in the realities and rewards of coalition building. Paige also manages the Poetry on Buses project, produced in partnership with King County Metro, now with the event programming partnership of Seattle Theater Group at The Moore. Paige is committed to the Puget Sound Region and has devoted her career to working on culturally-centered, cross-disciplinary urban development strategies. She studied music composition at Pomona College.
Bill Whipple maintains the King County Public Art Collection. That means installing, repairing, surveying, delivering, storing – anything involving tools other than a computer. He has worked at all the major Seattle art museums, starting back in 1970, and was a member of the founding Artech crew. When he’s not dealing with other people's art, or occasionally stumbling upon his own art in the public collection, he makes sculpture, usually viewer-activated, mechanical constructions. His work has been shown at various galleries, art festivals, and museums in the region, and he’s completed several site-specific public art pieces, which, like most other public art projects, occasionally need maintenance.
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