This project is for the City of Tigard, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The goals of the artwork included the addition of structure and resting spots along a 3/4-mile trail, along with honoring the history of this place, which was originally home to the Kalapuya, one of the indigenous tribes of the Tualatin region, just south of Portland, OR. The basalt boulders are local to the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and are inlaid with stained glass mosaic that evokes flowing water: the essential element for life in the Pacific NW, then and now. Within the undulating mosaic are some other vital flora and fauna of this area, including Rainbow Trout, White Oak, Camas Flower and local pollinators.
Basalt seating on Tigard Outdoor Museum 
This is one site with three boulders waiting to be rested on. 
This Rainbow Trout is also one of my favorites. To achieve a mottled look, going for a trout as seen underwater, I used a broken vase given to me by Kelly Howard, a glass blower in Lincoln City, OR. Her work is fantastic, and visitors can blow glass in the Lincoln City Glass Center. 
I snuck in a bumblebee pollinating a Camas flower. 
The Fenders Blue Butterfly was thought to be extinct until 1989, and is found only in the upland prairies of Western OR. 
