Norie Sato Explained

Norie Sato (born July 19, 1949) is an artist living in Seattle, Washington. She works in the field of public art using sculpture and various media–including glass, terrazzo, plastic film, stone, and metal–and often incorporating lighting effects, landscaping, mosaics, prints, and video. She frequently collaborates with architects, city planners, and other artists and specializes in integrating artwork and site specific design.[1]

Life

Sato was born in Sendai, Japan and moved to the United States with her family when she was 4. After spending some years in Michigan she graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1971. She moved to Seattle in 1972 and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Video from the University of Washington in 1974.[2] Since that time she has lived and worked in Seattle and has been involved with public art.

Work

Sato has managed, designed, and contributed artwork to urban infrastructure projects, parks, universities, aquatic centers, galleries, museums, transportation systems, airports, libraries, and other civic structures. She has worked extensively in light-rail public-art projects in Phoenix, Portland, Tempe, Salt Lake City, and particularly her native Seattle where she was hired by Sound Transit for its Link Light Rail project in 1998 as a system artist collaborating with fellow artists Dan Corson, Sheila Klein, and Roger Shimomura.[3]

Selected works

Awards

Shortly after moving to Seattle, one of Sato's prints won a first prize at the 1973 Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair.[1] She was awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1979 and 1981.[10] [11] She received the 1983 Betty Bowen award,[12] the 1998 The National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association Honor Award,[13] the 2013 Twining Humber Award from Washington State Artist Trust,[14] the 2014 Public Art Network Leadership Award from Americans for the Arts,[15] and the 2014 Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Individual Artist Award.[16] [17]

Sato served on the Visual Arts Advisory Panel for the NEA in 1983.[18] She is a former member of the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Council.[19]

She is a commissioner of the Seattle Design Commission. In 2024, she voted in opposition to replacing a parking garage next to the Pacific Science Center into a 151-unit apartment building, arguing the apartment building will be a "massive presence [that is] missing any articulation that brings delicacy."[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10941 Norie Sato at historylink.org
  2. http://www.museums.iastate.edu/AOCFactSheetsPDF/New%20Fact%20Sheet%2009/onenowall.pdf Iowa State University: Art on Campus Program: Norie Sato, About the Artist
  3. http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/longtime-light-rail-artist-norie-sato-is-curator-of-link-station-art/ Longtime light-rail artist Norie Sato is ‘curator’ of Link station art; Seattle Times, July 11, 2009
  4. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jun/20/lindbergh-field-meditation-chapel-reflection/ Meet the airport's first meditation room; San Diego Union, June 20, 2014
  5. Web site: Charlotte City Center Partners: Romare Bearden Park . 2015-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150328005150/http://www.charlottecentercity.org/events/vision/romare-bearden-park/ . 2015-03-28 . dead .
  6. http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-international-airport-unveils-glass-murals-at-terminal-2/Content?oid=2167804 San Francisco International Airport unveils glass murals at Terminal 2, San Francisco Examiner, January 13, 2011
  7. http://culturenow.org/entry&permalink=06779&seo=Windswept-Air_Norie-Sato-and-Port-of-Portland Culture Now: Windswept Air, 2010 - Artworks: Glass
  8. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHBYH_Spirit_of_Inquiry_University_Rural_Metro_Station_Tempe_AZ Spirit of Inquiry - University/Rural Metro Station - Tempe AZ
  9. http://fortworthtexas.gov/citynews/default.aspx?id=129234 Meet artist at Chisholm Trail Parkway Run & Ride event
  10. http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1979.pdf Annual Report of the NEA 1979
  11. http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1980.pdf Annual Report of the NEA 1983
  12. http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/about-sam/art-submissions Seattle Art Museum: Betty Bowen award: Past Winners
  13. http://www.news.wisc.edu/869 Biochemistry art installation wins national honor
  14. http://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/past#twining_humber_award Artist Trust: Award Winners/Past
  15. http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/promotion-and-recognition/awards-for-arts-achievement/annual-awards/public-art-network-award/norie-sato Americans for the Arts: Norie Sato
  16. http://stamps.umich.edu/news/norie_sato_awarded University of Michigan Stamp School of Art & Design: Norie Sato Awarded
  17. http://www.arts.wa.gov/about-us/news/governors-arts-and-heritage-awards---honorees-announced Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Individual Artist Award
  18. http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1983.pdf Annual Report of the NEA 1983
  19. http://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/press-releases/americans-for-the-arts-honors-arts-leaders-with-the-annual-local-arts-leadership-awards Americans for the Arts: Recipients Named in the 2014 Annual Local Arts Leadership Awards
  20. Web site: 2024-08-01 . Will a proposed apartment high-rise block out a Seattle Center treasure? . The Seattle Times . en-US.

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