Current Exhibition
Future Forward
February 8 to march 23
Artist Reception Sat, february 8
2 - 8 pm, Curator remarks at 5pm
Future Forward is an annual juried exhibition that features artworks exploring the universal yet deeply personal relationship between humans and the natural world. In this third iteration of Future Forward, Mini Mart City Park received over 50 applications from artists working in varied media and at all stages of their careers, highlighting the expansive perspectives and significance of this theme. Many of this year’s artworks explore water’s metaphorical, material, and historical significance, while others focus on reclamation—reimagining natural and manmade materials to reshape our connection with the landscapes we inhabit. Collectively, these works reveal a shared sense of care, reciprocity, and reverence between the artists and the natural world.
Mission
Mini Mart City Park is a place for the arts, education, environmental action, and community collaboration in the Duwamish Valley.
Vision
After more than 15 years of planning, environmental work, and construction, MMCP transformed a neighborhood brownfield and former gas station, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, into a cultural center and pocket park that officially opened to the public in 2022.
Our work is rooted in the belief that it is vital to create community hubs for people to build power and a voice in decisions being made to develop their neighborhoods. Today, MMCP serves as an artist-designed, community-led space advocating for creativity and public health through art exhibits, residencies, education, environmental action, and locally-focused programming in the Lower Duwamish Valley, now and for decades to come.
Goals
01.
CLEAN
Installing state of the art remediation technology in a small neighborhood brownfield will clean the earth under the site.
02.
BUILD
A structure where people come together to strengthen their community ties.
03.
EDUCATE
A place to learn about art, architecture & healthy urban environments
04.
ART
A permanent cultural center for Georgetown and the greater Duwamish Valley
Connect with the past. Dream up your future.
History & Future
In 2005 SuttonBeresCuller had a vision to identify and purchase a property in King County and rehabilitate it, proving the potential of art to propel a project that simultaneously repairs damaged land while providing shared, multi-use community space.
In 2008, we identified the Mini Mart City Park site and began environmental assessment work. In 2013, SuttonBeresCuller formed the Mini Mart City Park 501(c)3, which purchased the site.
With the support and engagement of the Georgetown community, Mini Mart City Park is now open to the public . Working with goCstudio we have developed a design for a pocket park and arts-oriented community center.
Incorporating sliding walls and a green roof to create a porous, modular space that blends indoor and outdoor activities such as gallery shows, movies in the park, potlucks, community meetings, readings and live music, Mini Mart City Park embraces the site's history, bring communities together to dream up their futures, and literally clean earth with art.
