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Price Sculpture Forest

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Open every day 8:00am until sunset or 7:00pm (whichever occurs earlier); no dogs; free. Your donations will enable the park to blossom for the community.
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Where Art Enhances Nature and Nature Enhances Art: a fun and surprising outdoor experience to wander trails, learn unique art, and immerse in an old native forest. Price Sculpture Forest was created from a convergence of many events, interests, and partnerships over years of planning, effort, and implementation. This community park was created and opened in Coupeville on beautiful Whidbey Island. Please contact us for any information or if you would like to collaborate and be a part of its ongoing story. The Sculpture Forest provides the local community and tourists with a healthy, relaxing, informative, and fun experience that integrates nature with art. Artists are provided a respected and frictionless venue to display their craft for interested visitors and patrons. The park will eventually become self-sustaining as an integrated participant within the larger Whidbey Island arts and parks community. Other benefits:
> Preserve a healthy 100+ year old forest close to downtown Coupeville
> Preserve a large forested viewscape ridgeline in Ebey’s Reserve
Provide a free outdoor art experience (donations encouraged yet optional)
> Provide walking trails with immersive arts and environmental education
> Support and grow the local arts community
> Create a unique and fun experience for locals and visitors on Whidbey Island

Ways you can participate:
> Sculptors: Display your sculpture for the public to see, including sculpture for sale or on loan
> Sculpture Donors or Lenders: Donate or lend your sculpture to the park, and be publicly recognized for your generosity
> Volunteer: Collaborate with us in creating and maintaining the Sculpture Forest
> Donate: This effort is entirely funded by private donations and has an all-volunteer staff. We look forward to seeing you out on the art-filled trails! Things to know for your visit:
> We are open 365 days per year from 8:00am to sunset or 7:00pm (whichever occurs first)
> Sorry, no dogs or bikes allowed

10/17/2026

💚 We’re almost halfway to unlocking the full $5,000 match for Forest For All. A huge thank you to everyone who has already donated. Because of your generosity, we are building real momentum.

And now, the match has been extended, giving our community more time to help.

Every dollar donated will still be matched dollar for dollar, doubling your impact and helping support trail improvements that expand accessibility and welcome more people into the Forest experience.

Forest For All is about more than a trail. It is about:
🌲 More access
♿ Greater accessibility
🎨 More opportunities to experience art and nature

Help us keep the momentum going:
sculptureforest.org/forest-for-all

10/13/2026

🎉 We have wonderful news to share!

A huge thank you to Island Thrift for awarding Price Sculpture Forest a $5,000 grant in support of Forest For All! 💙🌲

This generous gift will help us move forward with improvements to our trail, creating a safer, more accessible and welcoming experience so that more community members can enjoy art and nature together.

Forest For All is about more than improving a path. It is about opening more of the Forest to more people and making sure this special place can continue to be experienced, explored and enjoyed by our community.

And there is something especially meaningful about receiving this support from right here on Whidbey Island. Island Thrift has a long history of giving back to our community, and we are incredibly grateful that Price Sculpture Forest and Forest For All are now part of that impact.

🌲 More access
♿ Greater accessibility
🎨 Art in nature for more community members
💙 Neighbors investing in neighbors

And we’re not there yet. 🌲
Island Thrift’s generous grant moves Forest For All an important step forward, but there is still more work ahead to complete these trail improvements.

Want to help us keep the momentum going? Every gift, at every level, brings us closer to a safer, more accessible Forest for all.

💚 Support Forest For All: https://sculptureforest.org/forest-for-all/

Thank you, Island Thrift, for helping us create a Forest For All.

10/09/2026

Sharing some more information with you about our latest sculpture, which is a new face in the Forest. 🌲👀

Meet Bernie’s Throne—a new sculpture by Whidbey Island artist Steve Backus, where memory, imagination, local cedar, and community come together in one unexpected work of art.

It began with Martin Schneider, who wanted to honor his father, Bernard “Bernie” Schneider. Bernie’s collection of historic cultural and tribal masks helped inspire the whimsical faces and figures hidden throughout the sculpture.

From there, the story took root.

Steve transformed western red cedar from South Whidbey Island into a sculpture filled with characters, textures, and details that reward a closer look. And getting it into the Forest was an adventure of its own—volunteers carefully guided the massive sculpture along the trails until it finally found its place among the trees.

Now, the sculpture begins another chapter.

Visitors can walk around it, notice a face they may have missed before, sit for a while, and experience a story that began with one family’s memory.

From memory, to cedar, to the Forest.

Bernie’s Throne has found its place at Price Sculpture Forest. 🌿

09/26/2026

Some works of art begin with an idea. This one began with a memory.

Bernie’s Throne began with Martin Schneider’s wish to honor his father, Bernard “Bernie” Schneider, and carry a piece of his story forward.

Bernie collected historic cultural and tribal masks from around the world—an interest that helped inspire the many whimsical faces and figures that now emerge from the sculpture.

Whidbey Island artist Steve Backus brought that memory into form, working with western red cedar from South Whidbey Island and filling it with details that reveal themselves slowly, depending on where you stand and how closely you look.

Its journey into the Forest became part of the story, too. Bringing Bernie’s Throne into the Forest took many hands from preparing the site to carefully guiding the massive sculpture through narrow trails before settling it into its new home among the trees.

Today, something that began as a deeply personal tribute has become something others can encounter, sit with, and experience.

We invite you to discover Bernie’s Throne on your next walk through Price Sculpture Forest. 🌲

09/19/2026

🏆 We’re honored to be named the recipient of the 2026 Arts & Culture Award from the Coupeville Chamber of Commerce!

This recognition celebrates Price Sculpture Forest’s commitment to bringing art, nature, and community together here in Coupeville.

What makes this award especially meaningful is that it belongs to a community: the artists who share their creativity, the volunteers who care for the Forest, the supporters and partners who help it grow, and every visitor who comes to explore and experience the trails.

Thank you to the Coupeville Chamber of Commerce for this recognition, and to our Coupeville and Whidbey Island community for continuing to be part of the Price Sculpture Forest story.

We’re proud to call Coupeville home. 💚

Pictured: Scott Price, Founder and President of Price Sculpture Forest, receiving the 2026 Arts & Culture Award. Also pictured at the Forest with Anillos by Maria Wickwire is PSF volunteer, Marji Friedmann.

Photo credit: Coupeville Chamber of Commerce | Scott Price

mariawickwirestudio Maria Wickwire Studio

09/11/2026

🌿 Your gift can go twice as far. Now through September 30, every dollar donated to Forest For All will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $5,000.

That means:
$25 becomes $50.
$100 becomes $200.
$500 becomes $1,000.

Forest For All begins with trail accessibility because a more accessible trail helps more people experience PSF with greater comfort, confidence, and belonging.

Your gift helps support improvements that make the forest more welcoming and accessible in every season, while keeping PSF free and open for everyone.

This campaign reflects PSF’s guiding theme for 2026–2027: Access and Accessibility

Access to art.
Access to nature.
Access to belonging.

🌿 Help unlock the full $5,000 match by September 30.

Donate today:
https://sculptureforest.org/forest-for-all/

Photo credit: Martin Pearce | Chau | La Conner Retirement Inn

09/01/2026

Why this matters: Because accessibility is not abstract here. It is local. It is visible. It is growing.

Nearly 1 in 3 Island County residents are 65 or older, more than double the national average, and more seniors are visiting us every day from afar for the opportunity to uniquely experience art and nature. Disability rates among our area seniors run 47% higher than state and national averages. And 1 in 4 older adults falls each year, the leading cause of injury for adults 65 and up.

These are not abstract numbers. They are our neighbors, our grandparents, children and families, veterans, and visitors moving through the same natural trail conditions, all trying to enjoy a Forest that is free and open to more than 70,000 visitors a year.

This is why Forest For All starts with ADA-accessible trail improvements, because a more accessible trail helps more people experience the forest with greater safety, comfort, confidence, and belonging.

This reflects PSF’s guiding theme for 2026–2027: and

Access to art.
Access to nature.
Access to belonging.

🌿 Help remove the barrier.

Donate today:
https://sculptureforest.org/forest-for-all

08/12/2026

🌿 The Hidden Barrier

PSF is a place for reflection, movement, and connection with art and nature.

But for many visitors, trail conditions can shape how accessible and welcoming that experience feels.

A path may look simple at first glance.

But for someone using a walker, wheelchair, cane, stroller, or needing steady footing, small changes in the trail can become real barriers.

Mud.
Uneven ground.
Rocks.
Roots.
Drainage challenges.
Soft or unstable surfaces.

These are not always obvious to everyone, but they can affect whether someone feels comfortable continuing the journey.

Forest For All begins with trail accessibility because every visitor should have the chance to experience the forest with confidence, comfort, and belonging.

✨ Forest For All reflects our guiding theme for 2026–2027: and

Access to art.
Access to nature.
Access to belonging.

Help remove barriers and keep PSF open for every body.

🌿 Learn more and donate:
https://sculptureforest.org/forest-for-all/

Photo Credit: Todd Hipsher

08/08/2026

There are days when the Forest reminds us just how powerful community can be.

This week, a wonderful volunteer group from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, representing congregations from across and , came together at Price Sculpture Forest to help care for and beautify Whimsy Way.

They brought energy, generosity, and plenty of hands willing to work, making a visible difference along the trail and helping us continue creating a beautiful experience for everyone who visits.

Afterward, volunteer organizer Becky Jenson shared these kind words with Scott:
“What a vision, and then to put the work behind it and make it such a beautiful place for others to enjoy.”

Becky, we could say the same about your group. ❤️

Thank you to every who gives their time and effort to the Forest. Price Sculpture Forest is shaped not only by the artists whose work lives here, but also by the people who show up, pitch in, and help nurture this special place.

To volunteer:
https://sculptureforest.org/volunteer

🌲 . . . And a lot of helping hands.

08/04/2026

🌿 The community spoke.
You told us what matters: trail accessibility.

That is why Forest For All begins here.

For many visitors, PSF is a place of peace, art, nature, and connection. But the trail experience is not always the same for everyone.

Rain, mud, puddles, rocks, exposed roots, uneven ground, and seasonal drainage can turn a beautiful walk into a challenge.

For some visitors, these are not small inconveniences.

They are barriers.

👶 For a parent with a stroller.
🧓 For a grandparent who needs steady footing.
♿ For someone using a wheelchair, walker, or cane.
🥾 For anyone who needs a safer, stable path.

Trail accessibility is about more than improving a surface.

It is about helping more people move through the forest with confidence, comfort, and dignity.

✨ Forest For All reflects our guiding theme for 2026–2027: and

Access to art.
Access to nature.
Access to belonging.

Now, help open the trail for every body.

🌿 Learn more and donate:
https://sculptureforest.org/forest-for-all/

Photo credit: Allison Daniell

Address

678 Parker Road
Coupeville, WA
98239

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm
Saturday	8am - 6pm
Sunday	8am - 6pm

Website

https://SculptureForest.org/

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