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Public Art in Arlington
Public Art Program Staff
Angela Adams,
Administrator of Public Art
Welmoed Laanstra, Public Art Projects
Curator
Brooks Barwell, Public Art Planner
Caroline Danforth,
Associate Curator
Public Art Collections Highlights
North Lynn Street Public Art Project
Artist Cliff Garten is developing a public art proposal for North Lynn Street in Rosslyn. Garten's long-range plan will create a distinctive corridor for this rapidly developing neighborhood through a series of illuminated sculptures.

Download: Cliff Garten's Proposal
North Lynn Street Book
Spielschiff (Play Ship)
Maury Park, Adjacent to the Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard. 703-228-3771
Arlington
welcomes its newest permanent public art project, Spielschiff
(Play Ship in German), installed in Maury Park, adjacent to the
Arlington Arts Center.
German artist Bonifatius Stirnberg created this interactive,
two-level play sculpture with parts that can be repositioned, swiveled,
peered through and climbed upon. Children can command this magical nautical
vessel from the lower level's revolving hull or the crow's next, which is
equipped with kaleidoscopes and a weathervane.
Stirnberg recast Spielschiff from molds he used in 1979 to
create the original piece for Aachen, Arlington's sister city in
Germany. A medallion on the upper level is cast with the word
Arlington on one side and Oche (Aachen in dialect) on
the other, representing the sister-cities relationship. The sculpture was
realized through a partnership with Aachen and Arlington's Sister Cities
associations, and developed as part of Planet Arlington, a series of
activities that explore issues of globalization, immigration and the
environment through the lens of the arts and humanities.
Arlington County Presents Innovative Solar-Powered Art
June 7 - September 1, 2007 :
Traffic Island adjacent to Dark Star Park in Rosslyn
August 2007 - Present:
Crystal City at Route 1 and Crystal Drive

This summer, Arlington County presented an environmental
public artwork at two locations in Arlington County, created by artists
Jack Sanders, Robert Gay, and Butch Anthony. The installations, entitled
CO2LED, were erected in June at the traffic island at Ft. Myer Drive, North Lynn Street, and North
Fairfax Drive, and at the "southern gateway" to Crystal City at the intersection
of Route 1 and Crystal Drive. The art in Rosslyn will be on display through Labor Day, and is presented in
coordination with the second annual Planet Arlington World Music
Festival, held on September 1, 2007 at the Netherlands Carillon/Iwo
Jima Memorial grounds. The Crystal City art remains on display.
See the artists' CO2LED website
for more photographs and information.
CO2LED is designed to promote the use of alternative energy
sources and recycling, as part of Arlington's environmental initiative,
FreshAIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions).
At each site, the artists will erect hundreds of solar-powered LEDs
(light-emitting diodes) secured to rods topped with reused plastic bottles.
They will create a soft, undulating cloud of light. A native American
prairie grass, little bluestem, will be planted beneath the poles. At the
exhibition's conclusion, the plants will be transplanted to sites throughout
the County, and all project materials will be recycled.
Each installation will demonstrate that using energy-efficient,
solar-powered LEDs instead of conventional incandescent bulbs can reduce
emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a global warming gas. Being
solar-powered, CO2LED will produce long-lasting illumination that is
free of toxic by-products. The team collaborated with local solar-power
supplier Jody Solell of Solar
Electrics. CO2LED was developed in conjunction with
Planet Arlington, a year-round
cultural programming initiative designed to explore issues of immigration,
globalization and the environment via the arts. It is sponsored by
Arlington Cultural Affairs.
More Information
NEW!
Arlington Introduces a new visual art tour for cyclists!
Arlington's bicycle map now includes a tour that takes cyclists to
21 visual arts
destinations! The loop goes by works from Arlington's public
art collection as well as two of Arlington's art galleries, the Ellipse Arts
Center and the Arlington Arts Center. This hilly ride begins
and ends at the Ellipse Arts Center in Ballston.
Download the
visual bike tour map, or if you would like one sent to you, email
Paul DeMaio, or call
him at 703-228-5027. They are also available at Arlington
Commuter Stores.
Download Arlington's bicycle map.
Pictured:
Ellipse Arts Center director, Cynthia Connolly, takes a break
after shopping at the Courthouse farmer's market to look at Kendall Buster's
sculpture in Verizon Plaza, one of the artworks on the Visual Art Tour.
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Nancy Holt
Dark
Star Park
1984, restored 2003
1655 N. Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209
Rosslyn Metro
Approx. 29,000 sq. ft. gunite, steel, water and
plantings of winter creeper and willow oak
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Ned Kahn
Liquid
Pixels
2002
1801 N. Lynn Street, Arlington, VA. 22209
Rosslyn Metro
six panels 42' X 25'
brushed stainless steel
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Photo: Jason Horowitz
Kendall Buster
Untitled 2000 Verizon
Plaza, 1320 N. Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA 22201 Courthouse Metro 10' x 10' x 10' welded bronze
rods |
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Jackie Ferrara and
M. Paul Friedberg
Untitled
2004
Arlington Gateway, 901 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203
Ballston Metro
pavers, slate, brick, granite, steel, water, landscape elements |
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Jann Rosen-Queralt
Cultivus Loci: Suckahanna
2004
Powhatan Springs Park, 6020 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22205
Corten steel, jade river pebbles, copper, concrete |
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Winnie
Owens-Hart with ArtsWork apprentices Jeffrey Augustine, Tristan
Benjamin, Marie Cosgrove-Davies, Alexandra Krafchek, Delanta Neal,
Julia Siple and Jeannette Yue
The Family and Memory Bricks
2004
Lee Highway between N. Cameron and N. Dinwiddie
Streets, Arlington, VA 22207
The Family: powder-coated steel
Memory Bricks: terra cotta |
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Sam Christian Holmes
Standing at the Crossroads: Freedman's Village Gate 1997 The courtyard of
Theatre Two at
Gunston, Arlington, VA 22206 8 units of
steel fence, each 6' x 5' steel and tin |
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Butch Anthony
Bike Oasis - Arlington
2006
NW corner of 19th and N. Moore Streets, Arlington, VA 22209
Rosslyn Metro
steel, baling wire, bicycle parts, road signs, metal scraps |
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Photos by Erwin Redl
Erwin Redl
Flow
2006
Shirlington Branch Library, 4200 Campbell Avenue, Arlington, VA
2006
LED installation |
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Martha Jackson-Jarvis
Down Stream
2006
Shirlington Plaza, 4200 Campbell Avenue, Arlington, VA 2006
mosaic fountain treatment |
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Brad Morton
We the People
2006
2727 South Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22206
bronze |
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Graham Caldwell
Up and Down
2006
2200 North Westmoreland Street, Arlington, VA 22213
concrete,
steel, raw sienna/buff pigment, paint |
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by Hilary Regan
Ray King
Flame
2006
950 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203
Ballston Metro
glass, dichroic glass, laminated film, stainless steel cables
and rods |
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