New artwork will greet Lynnwood light rail riders

LYNNWOOD — Two sculptures, one of a hummingbird and the other a kitchen window, stand outside the Lynnwood Transit Center.

Behind them, two 30-foot-tall street lamps — in the style of an oil lamp — light the nearby bus stop. Above, colorful artwork from Preston Singletary and David Franklin, titled “Generational Confluence,” covers windows around the light rail station.

All are part of a Sound Transit effort to add public art to its stations. The agency commits 1% of construction budgets for large projects to art. On Tuesday, 17 days before light rail service begins in Lynnwood, agency officials and artists came to the station to speak on the pieces.

“Community representatives and art and design professionals chose eight Pacific Northwest artists to integrate art into the station designs so that the stations themselves integrate into the communities we serve,” Sound Transit board chair and King County Executive Dow Constantine said.



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