National Geographic has a cool selection of vintage U.S. Parks posters. The posters were produced in response to the Great Depression as part of the WPA, artwork was created for public buildings while assisting struggling artists. Our current Great Recession has inspired more and more people to get out and enjoy a relatively cheap national … Continued
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Stunning Time-lapse Video of Yosemite National Park will Take Your Breathe Away
Being on Half Dome that night felt like being on another planet, a smooth granite surface under our feet and endless space spinning overhead. The morning’s sunrise felt like the first proper sunrise we’d ever witnessed. —Project Yosemite Project Yosemite captures spectacular vistas in photographs and time-lapse video; it shares what you will find in … Continued
Seattle’s National Park Family Day is this weekend at Rainier Community Center!
National Park Family Day is a FREE, family-friendly event that brings your northwest national parks to you! It has been said that the National Park System, which includes many of our nation’s most precious, revered and significant treasures, reflects who we are as a people and as a nation—that America’s spirit is reflected in the National … Continued
Happy Mount Saint Helen’s Eruption Day
30 years ago today….. BOOM! From Wired: The area around the mountain was devastated by the collapse of the northern flank of the mountain in what amounted to one of the largest landslides ever recorded, which buried 24 square miles of land under as much as 600 feet of debris. The nine-hour eruption blew 520 … Continued
Fort Vancouver Family Day Poster
This is a fun free community event. Last year Riley and I participated by leading an Art in the Park workshop with kids and adults. Lots of learning about Parks in the Northwest, bat caves to crawl through, gold to sift, and signing with Recyleman and the Dumpster divers! If you live in or near … Continued
Poster Design Concept
Here is our first draft for Seattle’s National Park Family Day. (Sans all of the sponsor logos.) I am sure it will evolve. I think it would look great silk screened. Maybe we’ll have to get our silk screening set-up going soon!
A Celebration of NW National Parks!
photo: Olympic NP, Shi Shi Beach. We were lured here in 2007 by a park ranger who said it was The most beautiful beach in the world. NPCA and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park host Seattle’s first annual NW National Park Family Day, at Steward Park on May 2nd. I can’t think of a … Continued