About the Artist

Norie Sato is a Seattle-based artist with experience in both the execution of public art projects, from individual to collaborative and team projects, and in the planning of public art projects.

Her public art works include commissions in Seattle, Miami, Salt Lake City, Federal Way (WA), Portland, Ames, Madison, Tempe and Spokane. These public artworks have been both temporary and permanent and include individual works and design team/collaborative projects.

She is experienced in a variety of media; including terrazzo, cast bronze, glass, stone, light and video.

In 1997, she received the George Tsutakawa Award for Advancement of Public Art from Allied Arts in Seattle and the Golden Trowel Award from the Masonry Institute in Wisconsin for her floor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.