Wetland Art Installation Commemorates Citizen Activism In June, a team of local artists called Re-Collective created an art installation—the Gate to Nowhere—on one of the soon-to-be-removed “ramps to nowhere” in the Arboretum wetlands. The team wrapped one the ramp’s support piers in mirrored plastic so that the piers would the watery surroundings and “disappear.” The …

Remembering John Bollard: The Kiwi Who Inspired Pacific Connections The Foundation would like to acknowledge the passing of John Bollard. He died in Seattle on June 28, aged 86. A native of New Zealand, John moved with his wife Eve to Seattle in 1961 and was a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the UW …