West Seattle Artist Lezlie Jane will be there for the dedication of her ten bronze panels that depict historical scenes around West Seattle. The panels are mounted on the pillars of the Equity Residential building at the corner of of Alaksa Street SW and California Ave SW.
JuNO the Junction Neighborhood Organization and the West Seattle Junction Association are sponsoring the dedication of Lezlie Jane's historical panels at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in front of the Junction 47 building.
The West Seattle Herald covered the story on March 15.
Jane, whose artwork can be found in many places around West Seattle (her work Luna Girls is just north of Salty's on Alki) was commissioned by Equity Residential to create the panels which include The Alki Point Lighthouse (where for 40 years someone would hang a kerosene lamp), The geographic legacy of West Seattle (celebrating our 4.8 miles of public waterfront), The Duwamish indian tribe, Seattle firefighters (Engine 32), the Street car that in the early years of the 20th Century ran down California Ave SW, City views of Seattle then and now (which includes the ferry Kalakala sailing past a modern skyline), and the famous "Mudhole" on Point Williams now occupied by Colman Pool. That particular panel has a female figure poised to dive in. "That is my Grandmother, Emily Brown from a photograph in 1922 when my Grand parents came from Montana on vacation. My gramma couldn't swim or anything but my grampa, James Hugh Brown was an amateur photographer with his own darkroom. She would pose for him. So I put her on the diving board there. If you stand in that spot, in the background you see "The Brothers" in the Olympic Mountains."
