INTRO How it all started
Virginia and Bagley Wright, Mary and Jon Shirley, Mimi Gardner Gates, Martha Wykoff


The Olympic Sculpture Park opened to public on January 20-21 2007. Virginia and Bagley Wright, Mary and Jon Shirley, Mimi Gardner Gates, Martha Wykoff were instrumental in making this happen. Virginia and Bagley Wright, Mary and Jon Shirley (former president of Microsoft and Chairman of the Seattle Art Museum Board of Directors),Mimi Gardner Gates and Seattle Art Museum director (and wife of William Gates Sr.) were the first to think about the idea of green space for a large monumental sculpture in Seattle.


Art at Sculpture Garden