| WILLAPA BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE PROJECT |

SPRING 2003 and SPRING 2007
WILLAPA BAY , WASHINGTON

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service commissioned our Winter 2003 Design Studio to create an interpretative trail for their Willapa Bay National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters facility. The challenge that our Public Art students faced was to create a public trail that told the story of the animal life in the refuge, but not use traditional verbal and graphic signage. They were asked to tell the stories of the chum salmon stream rehabilitation, amphibians, and birds using sculpture and landforms. Six students were then commissioned to execute and install their works on the site during the Summer Quarter of 2003 as Independent Studies. Students were undergraduates and graduate students from Art, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Horticulture. Faculty: Jim Nicholls, Iain Robertson, and John Young. We were invited back in Spring 2007 to add five more works to the Refuge collection.