FS2021 #PublicArtFinder pointless prize

[bikesnick]

“The Family” by Winnie Owens-Hart in Arlington, VA.
She is a native of the area and a Professor emeritus at Howard University.

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[Kbikeva]

In case you missed it on photo of the day, our quest was to find a piece of public art created by or subject containing a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color. The searching on-line to find something I could/wanted to ride to was difficult and felt so wrong. I mean, googling “Black public art” or “Latino public art” or “Native American public art” plus the location I was searching made me a little squeamish. Is public art tagged by these terms? As far as I could tell, the answer to that was no. But should it be otherwise? I’d imagine an artist would want everyone who wants to see his or her art to do so, not just a particular audience. At the same time, an artist cannot help but put his or her life experience, including race or ethnicity in the pieces he/she creates. But does the artist want it searched with those terms? These are all challenging questions and I don’t know the answers. I just know I had never thought about them before today’s challenge, so thank you!

And here’s the piece I chose. It’s the mosaic fountain at Shirlington Library. It’s in pretty poor shape, but perhaps spring cleaning will make it shine eventually. The piece was designed and created by Martha Jarvis Jackson, an African-American woman whose studio is in Maryland. http://www.marthajarvisjackson.com It’s a large piece so here are a few views of various parts of it.
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[consularrider]

A tile work on the side of the LIRR Station in Kew Gardens, Queens.

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[Catedrew]

#PublicArtFinder – the Spielschiff (Play Ship) interactive play sculpture on the grounds of the Arlington Arts Center at 3550 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va. More information on it here: https://publicart.arlingtonva.us/locations/spielschiff-play-ship/

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[Hannah Lili]

Just some seagulls on the St. Pete Pier. 🦩

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[tomacsh]

In honor of MLK—Public art, in my neighborhood, lifting up People of Color!
(partial cross-post for #photoscavengerhunt…)
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and a second mural, across the street (Piney Branch & Greenwood); “The American” by Maxx Moses, 2015

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[Sophie CW]

Sculpture, titled “Blossom” by Wayne Healy is located on near the the Rockville Metro on the east side. Called “origami… made in steel” by the artist, images depict the historically Black neighborhood of Lincoln Park, Clarence “Pint” Isreal, a Negro League baseball player who has a park named after him and William Gibbs. In 1936, Gibbs volunteered to become the NAACP’s plaintiff against the Montgomery County, Maryland School Board for pay equity discrimination in a case that would be known as Gibbs v. Broome.
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[Sophie CW]

#Public Art Finder: Mural wall on Lincoln Park Community Center in Rockville represents the neighborhood. Note the painted bicycle on the left near the church!
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[JoM]

The Big Chair in Anacostia was installed in 1959. During the 1968 Washington, D.C. riots the Chair was one of the few landmarks to go unscathed in a neighborhood heavily affected by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death.

[Kbikeva]

Decisions, decisions. I know I only get credit for one #publicartfinder per day but I ran across both of these today so I’m sharing both of them here so you can enjoy them. I’ve not yet found a marker or description of the winged horses piece. It’s at the Northrop Grumman building on Warp Drive (no kidding) in Sterling. You can access it from the W&OD. Check a map to find the short path just east of the Rt. 28 bridge.

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[Kbikeva]

Decisions, decisions. I know I only get credit for one #publicartfinder per day but I ran across both of these today so I’m sharing both of them here so you can enjoy them. I’ve not yet found a marker or description of the winged horses piece. It’s at the Northrop Grumman building on Warp Drive (no kidding) in Sterling. You can access it from the W&OD. Check a map to find the short path just east of the Rt. 28 bridge.

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[consularrider]

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MOTHER & CHILDREN
“Everybody should be free to go to school, to learn, to understand … We need to take care of each other!” Alexandre Keto‘s Afro-fabulist mural at the PS7 school in East Harlem depicts a powerful mother figure watching over and educating her children in a lake. The fantastical setting is Keto’s way of evoking many themes – education equality, care for the planet, and bridging communities of color and of suffering from around the world – in one piece.

On the E 119th St wall of PS 007.

[JoM]

Paint drippings in Hyattsville

[bikesnick]

In Falls Church, VA.
“Up and Down” by Graham Caldwell, 2006

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[historygeek]

Vanadu isn’t strictly public, but it is freely accessible to the public. The cars are all parked in front of the (equally decorative) house of Nicholson street in Hyattsville where it intersects Queen’s Chapel Rd. (artist is Clark Bedford).

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