Option A. “LOVE, COFFEE, GRUNGE, RAIN OF DREAMS, CONTEMPORARY, ENERGY COLORS, PAST AND FUTURE, GEOMETRIC BUILDINGS, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT.” — Lauro Samblás Option B. “The mural is of someone pulling up another; a close up of oversized hands assisting someone who is falling off the ledge. Being of assistance to those around us has long been intertwined into the fabric of the Capitol Hill community. Witnessing a stranger in distress is a call to action. Apathy is no longer an option in these times. Seattleites understand that our city is stronger when we are actively supporting our neighbors and the passerby.” — Olivia Knapp Option C. “The design I created incorporates the colours included in the pride flag. Caption Hill has been an area known for supporting and bringing awareness of pride culture. This mural was created to emphasize the on-going support and love within the community.” — Rhys Douglas Farrell Option D. “I admire Chief Seattle’s daughter, her stubbornness not to leave the land where she was born and lived, and deciding to spend her life in very poor condition, yet where her roots where. She lived very close to Capitol Hill, and she is buried at the Capitol Hill cemetery.” — Giuseppe Percivati

Urban Artworks has decorated some of Capitol Hill’s biggest blank slates with artwork and messages that have become part of the neighborhood’s fabric. Here’s the color the brought to 12th and Pine with the “Read Up, Hands Down” project on the Richmark Label building.

The nonprofit made a splash this summer with its “Keep Cap Hill Queered” mural on the eastern face of the former 95 Slide at Harvard and Pike before its demolition to make way for a new 7-story mixed-use project.

Urban Artworks is now collecting votes for a new, enormous mural design planned to cover the western wall of the Pike Flats building currently under construction at the corner:

It’s an exciting time for Urban ArtWorks and Carr & Johnson! After an international call for artists four finalists have been chosen for a new mural to be completed summer 2018. The finalists were asked to conceptualize a site specific work for the corner of Pike and Harvard on Capitol Hill. Below are the artists’ submission renderings along with examples of previous work. We will be featuring more information on the artists in the next few weeks, but for now we just want to know which concept appeals to you the most.

You can check out the designs and vote here.

Voting got off to an in-person start earlier this month at the Redhook Brewlab. Redhook should be interested in the outcome. The resulting work will tower over the small-batch brewery’s E Pike patio.