The Sammamish Arts Commission purchased three new gates for the Sammamish community garden, located in the Lower Commons area off of 222nd Place Southeast.

The Commission paid local artist Garth Edwards $8,000 to design and install the aluminum gates, which were installed July 14 and July 18.

Edwards grew up in Portland, Oregon. Since 1980, Edwards said art has been his only job, creating works for various organizations, like Pierce County Courts or the King County Health Clinic.

“I never could have been a gallery artist,” Edwards wrote in his biography.

He’s been working with metals for the past 25 years.

“The Sammamish Art Commission feels that not only the gardeners who rent a plot at this community garden, but all park users will appreciate these functional art gates, in lieu of just workable gates,” Art Commissioner Margaret Rosenow wrote in a press release. Rosenow is also the project manager.