Leafy Wader, Donald Lipski, 2025
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As part of the Sound Transit Federal Way Link Extension project artist Donald Lipski created a two-story tall glass desk lamp for the new Downtown Federal Way station in Washington. This station serves Federal Way, a town of 100,000 people located between Seattle and Tacoma. The sculpture entitled Leafy Wader, is a nod to the Puget Sound area as the historic center of the contemporary Glass Art movement in the USA. This was largely driven by the life’s work of Dale Chihuly and the glass world he created in his wake. Lipski has been an Artist in Residence at both Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA (1990), and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA (2014). Lipski has worked with glass in one way or another for half a century, but this is his first substantially glass outdoor public artwork. The title Leafy Wader is an anagram of Federal Way.
Digital renderings courtesy of Donald Lipski.
