Snohomish County Placemakers

Paying Artists, Making Culture

Ari Glass and Leah Everett are two working artists with a passion for public art. They worked on the latest project from the Snohomish County Arts Commission: five giant painted buoys created as part of a countywide scavenger hunt. Today we talk to them about the importance of public art, paying artists a fair wage, and how public infrastructure can be both functional and aesthetic! (You don’t have to choose one or the other!) Tourism trip inspiration: @discoversnoco Follow the Arts Commission: @snocoartsandculture

Bonus: The Everett Fan Zone! ⚽️

The Everett Fan Zone is about to pop off. 💥🎉 What can you expect when you attend the biggest multi-day waterfront party of summer? Boxcar Park has everything you need to celebrate global soccer festivities and, of course, watch the big games on an even bigger screen. We chat with Tammy Dunn (Snohomish County Sports Commission), Julio Cortes (City of Everett), and Cat Soper (Port of Everett) about all things Fan Zone. Gooooooalll! Follow us on social media @discoversnoco this summer for all the Beautiful Games festivities! Also, we're taking a break from the podcast. We'll catch you all next fall — stay tuned.

Rick Steves!

You know him. You love him. His soothing, NPR-friendly tenor voice puts into a trance and you wake up at a sidewalk café outside the Sorbonne eating a croissant… Rick Steves! Our favorite world-travelling Edmonds resident graciously joins us today to celebrate our 50th (!!!) episode of the Placemakers podcast. This is a super special episode for us, and we hope that you enjoy it, too. Discover Snohomish County where you’ll feel (as Rick puts it) within the “embrace of God.”

Archeology, Unearthed! w/Gretchen Kaehler

Archaeology: can you dig it? Or will it dig you… 🤯 This week we catch up with the county’s archaeologist Gretchen Kaehler to talk about the buried stories of the Pacific Northwest. She may not carry a bull whip or wear a leather jacket, but Gretchen still has adventures in cataloguing and identifying unearthed relics from Snohomish County. In this episode Gretchen busts some myths around her profession (they don’t do dinosaurs), tells us about ritualistically buried otters, shares protocol for excavated human remains, and teases out the difference between pre-contact and post-contact archaeology. Dig in and chill out with this fun fossilized forensic foray into the strata of SnoCo’s past! Get here already: discoversnohomishcounty.com

Placemakers X Destination Marketing Podcast

We recently had the privilege of being guests on the Destination Marketing Podcast to talk about our work in tourism. It was fun to be on the other side of the microphone as interviewees and talk about what we do! We hope you enjoy this special episode as we chat it up with Adam from DMP.