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Mobilize the Signal Cabinets! % for Art project, Seattle Department of Transportation and Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs

Pedestrian Safety Decals Rainier Ave S. Corridor
Pilot Project for the City of Seattle

PRINT DETAILS:
Five Drawings, screenprinted on reflective white material with graffiti film overlay and adhered to the narrow side of signal cabinets along Rainier Avenue South.

This project is installed! The adhesives went up on May 12, 2008.

The inspiration for this set of drawings was the notion found in research done by the Seattle Department of Transportation that 'failure to yield', on the part of pedestrians and motorists alike, led to the majority of the fatal collisions along the Rainier Corridor. Those words, failure to yield, are so indicative of the increasing pressures in our lives that cause us to take dangerous risks. These drawings are intended to remind us of safe practices and the beautiful complexity of users in the right of way. They intend to say, yield. Remember your family. Remember the children. Walk Safe. Drive Safe.

-Anne Hayden Stevens, SDOT Artist in Residence 2006-07

Project Proposal: This project proposes to increase awareness among roadway users along corridors in the City of Seattle through art. In this project, five different drawings will be adhered to the narrow sides of traffic signal control cabinets along the Rainier Avenue South corridor. This project is envisioned as a pilot that could be adopted by communities along other busy city corridors.

Project Goals:

+ Use art to develop functional imagery in the right of way

+ Increase driver awareness of other users in the right of way.

+ Use visual language to communicate to a multi-lingual community.

PROJECT HISTORY
Installation: May 12, 2008
Second Artwork revision: February 11, 2008
First artwork revision to SDOT: December 11, 2007
First artwork proposal: November 28, 2007
Contract completion: October 2007
Proposal presentation to the Public Art Advisory Committee City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs: July 17, 2007