The Fremont Arts Council (FAC) is a community-run organization that supports arts and artists. The Council resides in the

Fremont, Seattle, Washington Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States. Originally a separate city, it was annexed to Seattle in 1891. It is named after Fremont, Nebraska, the hometown of two of its founders: Luther H. Griffith and Edward Blewett. Geo ...

, but its members are from throughout the city.

History

The Fremont Arts Council was founded in the Fremont neighborhood of

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...

, Washington, in 1979.

Events

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The Fremont Arts Council sponsors several annual events including the

Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant The Fremont Solstice Parade is an annual event that occurs each June in Seattle, Washington. The Parade was founded by Barbara Luecke and Peter Toms in 1989. Luecke and Toms were inspired by the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade and Ce ...

, May Day, Troll-a-ween, and the Winter Solstice Feast. The Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant is an arts festival held annually. Luminata is held annually on the autumnal equinox.

Public Art

FAC has been responsible for the installation and maintenance of several public artworks in the Fremont area. These include the

Fremont Troll The ''Fremont Troll'' (also known as ''The Troll'', or the ''Troll Under the Bridge'') is a public sculpture in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States. The Fremont Troll is an example of hostile architecture, having ...

and Waiting for the Interurban.

Fremont Troll

One of Seattle's most popular public artworks, the Fremont Troll, is a

mixed-media In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art incl ...

megalithic statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the

Aurora Bridge The Aurora Bridge (officially called the George Washington Memorial Bridge) is a cantilever and truss bridge in Seattle, Washington, United States. It carries State Route 99 ( Aurora Avenue North) over the west end of Seattle's Lake Union and ...

. (Troll Avenue was renamed in its honor in 2005.) It is clutching an actual original

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, as if it had just swiped it from the roadway above. In light of Seattle P–I columnist

Emmett Watson Emmett Watson (November 22, 1918 – May 11, 2001) was an American newspaper columnist from Seattle, Washington, whose columns ran in a variety of Seattle newspapers over a span of more than fifty years. Initially a sportswriter, he is primari ...

's periodic promotion of the KBO, the vehicle had a California license plate. The piece was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council in 1989, and built in 1990. The Troll was sculpted by four local artists:

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, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead. The Troll is high, weighs two tons, and is made of steel

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, wire and

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Waiting for the Interurban

" Waiting for the Interurban" is a 1979 cast aluminum sculpture collection by Richard Beyer in the Fremont neighborhood of

. It is located on the south side of N. 34th Street, just east of the northern end of the

Fremont Bridge Fremont Bridge may refer to: * Fremont Bridge (Portland, Oregon) * Fremont Bridge (Seattle) The Fremont Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge that spans the Fremont Cut in Seattle, Washington. The bridge, which connects Fremont Avenue North and ...

. It consists of six people standing under a shelter and waiting for

public transportation Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typical ...

—specifically, the Seattle- Everett

Interurban The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 a ...

. The sculpture is a few blocks west of Troll Avenue N., the location of the

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