Here’s your chance to choose public art for downtown Olympia

Sprinkled around Percival Landing in downtown Olympia is a series of pedestals with a purpose.

The pedestals, or plinths, hold sculptures made by artists hoping to have their work purchased by the city of Olympia for permanent display. The city will buy one of the pieces based on a public vote.

This year there are 18 new sculptures to view and choose from in the Percival Plinth Project.

Voting is open on the city’s Engage Olympia website until July 30. You don’t need to be an Olympia resident to participate.

The Olympia City Council will announce the winner at a meeting later this fall. The sculptures will remain on display until June 2023.

You also can view current exhibitions and past winners on an interactive map on the Engage Olympia website.

This story was originally published July 1, 2022 at 12:54 PM with the headline "Here’s your chance to choose public art for downtown Olympia."

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription