Sandra Cinto’s Encontro das Águas (Encounter with Waters) is inside the pavilion at the top of the park. The Brazilian artist’s installation is a storm of fingery waves rolling, crashing across every wall surface, made with blue paint and silver pen. Drown in it. (And while you’re there, check out an instructional garden from Stranger Genius Award shortlister Sarah Bergmann’s urban restoration installation The Pollinator Pathway.) (Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western Ave, 654-3100, free)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...