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Metropolis POV: Redesigning City Centers, Rejuvenating Riverfronts
08.11.2010 Mithun, In The News
Writer Avinash Rajagopal covers two of Mithun’s current planning projects for Metropolis Magazine’s blog, P/O/V:
Mithun […] will be a consultant on both the State Center Complex in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Great River Park Project in St. Paul, Minnesota. As large-scale exercises in urban redesign, the two projects couldn’t possibly be more different, so Mithun’s multidisciplinary researchers and designers will definitely have their work cut out for them.
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Threshold Presents Julia Freeman
07.07.2010 Threshold
Julia Freeman is a Seattle based artist originally from Kansas City, Missouri. Her work is a continuous blend of printmaking, collaging, painting and drawing.
_“Conceived as a self-reflexive portrait of familiar/personal alienation, theses pieces became for me
a meditation on the supports we build because we must: uneasy attempts at stability, built rapidly
and often shoddily for perceived needs of the moment.
This series explores my sense of vertigo as crisis—reading movement where there is none, not
knowing up from down—and also as something which opens the possibility of lightness, of the
uncertain potential of losing stability.
The fabrics used here—collected from my own and my family’s clothing—play with familiarity
disguised, the original traits present but distorted, obscured and made distant.”
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-Julia Freeman
Show dates: July 1st – August 12th, 2010 p.
U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee speaks to Mithun Staff
05.17.2010 Mithun
Mithun was honored to welcome Congressman Jay Inslee to their offices on May 3rd, 2010. Congressman Inslee, who has represented Washington State at the federal level for more than a decade, is a leading member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and an active green jobs and clean energy proponent. The co-author (with Bracken Hendricks) of the book, Apollo’s Fire, Igniting America’s Clean-Energy Economy, Congressman Inslee spoke candidly about his stance on breaking the United States’ dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuels.
Bert Gregory Named a 2010 Cascadia Green Building Council Fellow
05.17.2010 Mithun, Bert's Blog
The Cascadia Green Building Council recently announced its 2010 Cascadia Fellows, including Mithun CEO and President, Bert Gregory, FAIA. The Cascadia Fellowship is awarded annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to the green building movement either regionally or nationally, and are recognized leaders within the greater green design community. The Fellows embody Cascadia’s conviction that individuals and organizations can lead a transformation of the built environment by acting as levers and catalysts for change.
Below are the recipients of the 2010 Cascadia Fellowship:
Peter Dobrovolny
Jack Hébert
Mark Edlen
Bert Gregory
Blair McCarry
Threshold Presents Larry Halvorsen
05.12.2010 Threshold
Larry Halvorsen, a Seattle sculptor, has been working to evolve his technique and signature style for over 30 years through studio production. His approach to creating work for the Threshold lobby was to take advantage of the unusual spaces by creating site specific work.
“Ancient stone tools, ritual objects, architecture and forms from nature are the inspirations for my sculptures and sculptural vessels. I am attempting to carve out my place as a contemporary object maker, with honor and deep respect for those who came before. The carving on all my pieces is the result of a lifelong exploration of line and pattern.”
-Larry Halvorsen
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 20th from 5-7pm
Show dates: May 20th – June 30th, 2010 p.
Mithun’s Band The Mediocres Going International?
04.30.2010 Mithun, Noteworthy
OLÁ AQUI É RON DOS MEDIOCRES E VOCÊ OUVE ROCK HISTÓRIA NA CRUZEIRO FM. [translates to: "hi, here is Ron The Mediocres and you are hearing Rock Historia on Cruzeiro FM"]
Mithun’s in-house band, The Mediocres, isn’t exactly a house hold name in the rock-n-roll world, but international exposure might not be that far away. Ron van der Veen, drummer and manager for the band, received an email last month from a radio disc jockey in Sorocaba, Brazil, requesting an interview. Ary Andrade is the producer and DJ of a popular radio show on Cruzeiro.FM called "Rock Historia". Transcript follows.
Threshold mentioned in The Stranger
04.30.2010 Noteworthy, Threshold
Artist Ellen Ziegler’s current exhibit at Mithun’s Seattle office was noticed recently by The Stranger.
Ellen Ziegler’s ambitious drawing series evokes the visual and auditory hallucinations that occur during the period between waking and sleeping, known as the “hypnopompic state”.
Drawings are made on asphalt roofing paper (tar paper) with metallic pigments and other media. The smell of tar evokes for Ziegler the primeval ooze of the La Brea Tar Pits in her native Los Angeles, where dinosaur bones continue to be excavated. This underground source of fossils, fuel and prehistory is analogous to the upwelling of images from the unconscious mind.