Join us for the opening of a multi-artist exhibition at Mini Mart City Park.
Once Wild River is a multi-artist exhibition by Timothy White Eagle, presented at Mini Mart City Park from May 9 to June 21, 2026 with an opening reception 4pm – 8pm May 9th. The exhibition marks the culmination of White Eagle’s year-long residency in the Green–Duwamish Watershed, where he has been listening to the river—its wild past, its constrained present, and its uncertain future.
At the heart of Once Wild River is a quiet but insistent truth: the river will one day reclaim its wildness. Concrete is not forever. Steel is not permanent. It’s time to meet the river through the eyes of six primary collaborators working with Timothy White Eagle’s visionary practice.
Through photography, sound art, installation, collage, wild-crafted inks, sculpture, and community engagements, the exhibition explores the tension between the living force of the Duwamish River and the harsh industrialization that reshapes it. The work explores many entry points into the river’s history and present, including toxicity, healing, and possible futures. The works reflect on impermanence, the illusion of control, and the limits of human authority over land and water.
“I made Once Wild River because the river is still here, still moving, still remembering, despite everything we’ve done to try to contain it,” says White Eagle. “This project is about listening to that persistence and honoring the life that refuses to disappear.”
Featured Artists
Timothy White Eagle (Installation)
Adrain Chesser (Photography)
Epiphany Couch (Assemblage)
Laura C. Wright (Inks+Collage)
Sarah Kavage (Sculpture)
Crystal Cortez (Sound Installation)
Duwamish Valley Youth Corps (Photocollage)
About the Residency
Timothy White Eagle is the Green-Duwamish Watershed Urban Waters Federal Partnership/Puget Sound Partnership Artist in Residence (AiR). Building from other federal efforts to incorporate arts to advance education, outreach and implementation goals, EPA’s Office of Water (OW) established an artist in residence pilot initiative to expand efforts to incorporate arts and culture into the EPA’s water place-based programs that support water restoration and natural hazard resilience. This innovative pilot program explores the dynamic intersection of art, environmental stewardship and community engagement within the Duwamish and Lower Green River Watershed.
The AiR effort is funded by the US EPA through its engagement with the Puget Sound Partnership.*
The effort is supported locally by the Emerald Alliance and their Ambassador for the Green-Duwamish Urban Waters Federal Partnership (with fiscal sponsorship by Seattle Parks Foundation).
Mini Mart City Park is an arts-centered community space and pocket park that is also an active environmental remediation site. Mini Mart’s robust programming encompasses exhibition, artist-in-residence, film, and performance in addition to expansive youth arts-and-environmental
education.
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