WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Art thief steals banner from HPIC fence

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Someone has stolen one of the art banners that’s been beautifying the fence around the fire-shuttered Highland Park Improvement Club. HPIC trustee Kay Kirkpatrick sent the report and images:

(HPIC fence pre-theft – the banner on the right is the one taken)

HPIC trustees are sad to alert folks that someone has stolen one of the current Art Banner pieces from our fence along SW Holden St. This happened on February 13th at some unknown time (a Valentine’s Day gift?). The artwork was part of a series that we have been displaying in collaboration with Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery featuring themes of community and resilience, titled ART FOR BRIGHTER DAYS.

HPIC and Nepantla installed the three vibrant 5′ x 8′ banners displaying the art of three local artists: Raquel Garcia, Jake Prendez, and Rolando Avila. The art was curated by Nepantla and was installed on the construction fences facing Holden, and scheduled to remain in place indefinitely, or until the building demolition occurs.

If you happen to have seen anything, or have seen the missing panel ~ which is the piece on the right (images at bottom of poster) by Rolando Avila, please contact HPIC1919@gmail.com

Star555 February 15, 2024 (10:36 pm)

How sad and how sick someone must be to take these.

aa February 16, 2024 (6:51 am)

No matter the reason for all the criminal activity that we are experiencing Im realizing there is an overarching attitude that if I want it I can take it. Or do it. Or shoot it. Where do you fit in? Do you hold your phone and talk while driving? Race through a light that you know will be red and you do it anyway? My recent astonishment are the people who race down the center turn lane rather than wait in traffic. All of these seemingly small infractions put other people’s lives at risk and people do them all the time. If I want to be there faster, or I want to talk on the phone I will do it. Same thing? Maybe not, same attitude? I think so.

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