Artwork copyright Anna Valentina Murch. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Anna Valentina Murch. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Anna Valentina Murch. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Anna Valentina Murch. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Everett Arbor, 1989

Anna Valentina Murch
British (born 1948, died 2014)

Location: Everett Community College, Everett

About the Artwork

Everett Arbor is an environmental installation by artist Anna Valentina Murch. It is comprised of four flared trellis structures emerging from cedar benches, on which climbing clematis grows. Murch describes her piece as a "Vertical Garden" that celebrates the changing seasons. She continues that the piece "symbolizes a place to meet, pause or rest by the center walkway of campus... These linear forms of stainless steel rod are reminiscent of fish weirs, and baskets, native to the area; and like them retain the gesture of their making."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Everett Community College.

About the Artist

Artist and teacher Anna Valentina Murch (1948-2014) created architectural, site-responsive, and environmental installations that enriched and enlivened public spaces.
Born in Scotland, Murch attended the University of Leicester, Royal College of Art in London, and the Architectural Association in London (all in England), before moving to San Francisco in 1976. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, University of California at Berkeley, and Mills College in Oakland, California.