On Sept. 8, the City of Redmond will hold a dedication ceremony for Dudley Carter Park, located at the corner of Leary Way and 159th Place Northeast.

The event will be at 1 p.m. with Redmond Mayor John Marchione making an opening statement. This will be followed by presentations and performances by the Snoqualmie tribe, Carter family members and award-winning Native American storyteller and flutist Paul “Che oke ten” Wagner. There will also be a walking tour of Dudley Carter sculptures, which will finish at City Hall at 15670 N.E. 85th St.

Carter, the park’s namesake, was an internationally renowned local artist specializing in wood carving, a craft that he learned from the Haida people along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, where he resided until his early adulthood. Carter has carved many totems, sculptures and Haida touses in the area.

The park includes Carter’s replica of Northwest Indian Haida House #4, a piece of artwork Carter carved in the 1980s and reconstructed on site in the early 1990s while he was artist in residence at the park.

Dudley Carter Park is just more than one acre of green space with picnic tables along the Sammamish River Trail, at the junction of Leary Way.

Those attending the dedication are asked to park in the municipal campus parking garage at 15670 N.E. 85th St. To get to the park, walk 0.7 mi south on Sammamish River Trail. It will be on the left before the Leary Way overpass at 7447 159th Pl. N.E.