Jason Sprinkle

Jason Sprinkle was a Seattlebased sculptor and guerrilla artist. He was most famous for attaching a 700pound ball and chain around the foot of Jonathan Borofskys Hammering Man outside of the Seattle Art Museum and for various other illegal art sculptures left at Westlake Park. These actions ended in July 1996 when Sprinkles final sculpture caused a bomb scare and Sprinkle was briefly imprisoned. After suffering a mental breakdown in jail, Sprinkle stopped making art and became a born again Christian. He died in 2005 after being hit by a train.

Sprinkle was born in Fullerton, California and raised in Seattle. In his youth he earned his GED from Job Corps and learned the craft of welding.

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