Documented artwork / architectural steel screen sculpture
Grass Blades
Credit as documented: John Fleming, with Rohleder Borges Fleming Architecture and Susan Zoccola (painting consultation)
Grass Blades marks Seattle Center's Harrison Street entrance with a flexible screen of painted steel. John Fleming designed it to guide pedestrians into the park while concealing a parking lot. Its colors sit against the nearby Museum of Pop Culture, with the Space Needle another surrounding landmark. Seattle Center dates the work to 2002 and identifies itself as commissioner. It credits RBF Architecture with project management and Susan Zoccola with painting consultation; Fleming names both as project partners.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2002 (Seattle Center)
- Materials
- painted steel
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 145-foot screen length; 110 steel blades, each 30 feet tall (Seattle Center).
- Dimensions apply to
- Overall length and component height, as separately described by the site owner; not a solid-panel specification.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
2002
Harrison Street entrance, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
- Site
- Harrison Street entrance, Seattle Center
- City
- Seattle
- State / region
- WA
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
- Commissioner
- Seattle Center
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The site owner describes 110 blades, each thirty feet tall, distributed along a screen 145 feet long. These are blade height and overall screen length, rather than dimensions of one solid panel.
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Sources
- www.johnflemingartist.com ↗ · Checked 2026-10-16
- www.seattlecenter.com ↗ · Checked 2026-10-16
- www.seattlecenter.com ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17