ILLUSTRATION

Steelhead Alley

Directly across from T-Mobile Park, Steelheads Alley is a vibrant meeting spot hosting a dynamic wall mural tribute to the Seattle Steelheads, our city’s 1946 Negro League baseball team. I first wanted to showcase the community aspect of these games, so I recreated the neighborhood’s age-old Sunday baseball game that was played at Garfield Park. Neighbors are watching the game up in tree line, but all the athletes on the field are from our city’s historical diverse Negro teams, first women's softball teams, Native American teams, and Asian teams. What excited me most about this project was the opportunity to recreate and preserve a huge part of our often-overlooked history on such a grand scale — for my local SoDo community and for the state of Washington – in a public spot where many visitors and neighbors can witness it.