Seattle Parks and Recreation, the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), the Carkeek Park Advisory Council, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture Site Specific are collaborating on an outdoor art exhibit now open at Carkeek Park.

Titled Rootbound: Heaven and Earth IV, the exhibit is one of the country’s only outdoor art exhibits occurring in a public nature preserve.

The temporary exhibit features sculptures along a two-to-three mile trail through Carkeek Park which will remain there until October 31, 2012.

Following a widely acclaimed debut in 2009 that received national attention, CoCA and the five organizations have partnered again to bring another exhibition to Carkeek Park in northwest Seattle.

As before, the theme concerns the natural world in a time of dramatic change. Some of the art is designed to weather in place and erode, while other work incorporates movement and interactive use by visitors.

Local artists featured include Julie Lindell, Alan Fulle, Suze Woolf, Lara McIntosh, Rebecca Maxim, Brenda Scallon, Miguel Edwards, Garry Golightly, and long-time Ballardite Joe Reno.

For more information or to download a map, please visit http://www.heavenandearthexhibition.org/