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Concrete Tile Workshop on Friday, May 16

Looking for an excuse to get out of the office next week? Join us on Friday, May 16 for a fun day making art! We will get our hands dirty making playful clay molds for 32 concrete tiles that will be part of the Pear Tree development in Yakima.

With help from an NEA grant, Pomegranate Center is working with the nonprofit developers, residents and local school children to create artistic enhancements that add beauty and local identity to this transitional housing neighborhood. The completed tiles will be incorporated into eight mobile light posts with passive solar lights. More »

A Symphony on a Banjo

Message from Milenko

Early on in my work, I read and was greatly influenced by the little-known work of Fred Polak, a Dutch sociologist. My library included a well-read copy of The Image of the Future (which is now out of print and difficult to find). Polak does an impressive job of looking at the relationship between images of the future and cycles of culture:

“The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as the society’s image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive.”

Pomegranate Center’s work in facilitation, public process and community-based design is built on a basic philosophy that imagining, clarifying and owning a shared picture of what our communities can be is a powerful, and vital, step in moving us toward that desirable end. More »

Spring comes early! Pomegranate Center at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show

If you are in the Seattle area and looking for an early spring fix, visit the Northwest Flower & Garden Show! Pomegranate Center’s handiwork - five carved and stained cedar columns - will be on display in the Washington Park Arboretum display. More »

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