Artwork copyright Pat Tolle. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.

Artwork copyright Pat Tolle. Photo courtesy of the University of Washington.

Artwork copyright Pat Tolle. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.

Squak Country, Bothell, 2002

Pat Tolle
American (born 1948)

Location: University of Washington - Bothell and Cascadia College, Bothell

About the Artwork

Artist Pat Tolle consulted maps and historical accounts to create this five-canvas depiction of the Sammamish Slough, referred to as "Squak" by local Native American Tribes. The piece is installed at the North Creek Event Center, a shared building between the University of Washington's Bothell campus and Cascadia Community College. The work juxtaposes past and present, depicting landmarks such as the "steam scow" and the UW campus along the arterial roads that connect the five panels.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with University of Washington.

About the Artist

Mukilteo, Washington-based artist Pat Tolle creates figurative and landscape paintings. She studied at Brooks Art Institute, Santa Barbara and Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles. She previously lived in Kauai, Hawai'i, before moving to the Northwest in the early 1980s. She describes her work as "a marriage of recognizable actuality to abstract wonder."