The Foggy Bottom 2010 Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit Set To Go

ARTS IN FOGGY BOTTOM (a project of the Foggy Bottom Association) will install its 2010 Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit on May 1 in the Foggy Bottom Historic District. The Exhibit will run from May 1 through October 22. Many events around the exhibit are planned including Opening Day festivities and sculptor-led tours. Activities, dates, and times will be advertised through the Foggy Bottom News and other outlets. Stay tuned! ~

Approximately 14 sculptures will be selected through a curated process to be sited on private property. Artists whose work is chosen will receive an honorarium of $1,000, $500 at installation and $500 at de-installation. The sculptures will be displayed for approximately five months beginning in Spring 2010.

A self-guided tour of the exhibit will be available at each site and on the internet. Artist-led tours will be given. Sculptures will be insured while on exhibit.

The Exhibit’s curator is Shirley Koller. Ms. Koller was the curator for the inaugural Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit in 2008 which won the 2009 Mayor’s Arts Awards for Innovation in the Arts. For over ten years, she has curated the Art of Science and Technology Exhibit at The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ms. Koller is an exhibiting sculptor who maintains a studio in Alexandria, VA.
Contact Ms. Koller at 202-333-4817

Arts in Foggy Bottom Project Wins Mayor’s 2009 ‘Innovation in the Arts’ Award

April 1st 2009 – The Foggy Bottom Association’s Arts in Foggy Bottom Project, which organized the curated, six month Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit in 2008 has won the 2008 Innovation in the Arts Award at the 24th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards. (There were five categories with five finalists in each, i.e. 25 organizations/individuals were named finalists from a total of 106 that were nominated.)

Jill Nevius, FBA Sec., is shown above accepting the award on behalf on the Foggy Bottom Association and her Co-Directors, Mary Kay Shaw and Jackie Lemire, VP FBA.

The Mayor’s Arts Awards are the most prestigious honors conferred by the city on individual artists, organizations, and patrons of the arts. Awards were presented in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center Monday, March 23rd, and Arts in Foggy Bottom WON in its category over some very strong competition!

The Association and the Co-Directors of its Arts in Foggy Bottom Project are very grateful for this public recognition.

Spring 09′ FBA Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit

The Arts in Foggy Bottom would like to thank the Foggy Bottom community and the thousands who participated in the self-guided and artist-led tours of the First Annual Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit. We hope this will be the first of many projects that will not only beautify our neighborhood, but also continue to build our sense of community.

Co-Directors Jackie Lemire, Jill Nevius and Mary Kay Shaw

The photo’s below give a look and feel to the event as it happened.




A special thank you to the following individuals for their support of this project ~
Participating Homeowners and Sculptors
The Arts in Foggy Bottom Advisory Committee
The Foggy Bottom Association Defense and Improvement Corporation
• Shirley Koller, Curator • Dale Johnson, Watergate Gallery & Frame Design
• Chas Colburn, Chas Colburn Sculpture Studio
• Tanja Bos, Bospoint, LLC • Alishia Frey, Coqui Marketing
• Casey Wigglesworth & Richard Mercado, Huntington T Block Insurance Agency, Inc.
• Frederic W. Schwartz, Jr., Esq.
• Gigi Winston, Winston & Winston
• Maryalice Giroux & James Hooker, The River Inn Hotel

The sculpture was exhibited May 3rd thru Oct 25th

This six-month exhibit showcased 12 area sculptors whose work was displayed in the front yards of private residences in the Foggy Bottom Historic District. People were invited to enjoy the self-guided tour of the exhibit at any time by picking up a brochure (which includes a map) at each sculpture location or by downloading a printable brochure here on this website. During the run of the exhibit, artist-led tours were offered on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. those tours began at the corner of New Hampshire Avenue and I Street NW. For more information click on the Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit please contact us at arts@savefoggybottom.com

Sculpture Exhibit Artists

Pamela Burris
Accumulative Effect
Pamela Burris earned her BFA in experimental Studio Art from Howard University in 1994. She later returned to Howard University for a Master’s program in studio art, where she chose to major in sculpture. The main body of her work consists of pieces completed in directly constructed mild steel, welded with both oxy-acetylene and arc welding. Pamela received her M.F.A. in 1999 and is currently teaching Art I and computer graphics at Suitland High School in Maryland.
e-mail: pfwburris@yahoo.com

Philippe Mougne
Dance
“My work is inspired by a search for the nexus of nature modernism, and the human condition. For me, sculpture’s attraction is the physical, tactile and sensual nature of the material I am working with. Pure aesthetics, lines, shapes and volumes guide the creation of my pieces. I often work from very simple and small sketches, sometimes barely defined, to allow room for the unexpected…”
e-mail: phmougne@yahoo.com

Robert T. Cole
Leaf
“The real experience for me is to have an idea or vision and then find the best way to cut and hammer metal to make that realization come into being. This method involves problem-solving and a good deal of spontaneous choice. The truest nature of the artist happens when the unconscious is allowed to have a say in the creation.“
e-mail: studiocole@verizon.net

Craig Kraft
Aerial Delineation
Since 1983, the common thread of Kraft’s work has been neon light. He uses neon for its versatility, long lasting industrial strength and vast possibilities of color and the ability to be bent into almost any shape or form. He has gained national recognition for his innovation of creating original works of art that advance the technique of working with neon and rolled aluminum. Kraft has completed monumental commissions for the cities of Rockville and Silver Spring, MD, as well as The Arlington Art Center in Virginia. His outdoor sculpture,“ Aerial Delineation,” was placed high on a ledge in front of The Katzen Arts Center at American University.
e-mail: ckraft@craigkraftsutdio.com

Alonzo J. Davis
Turquoise Trail
The career of Alonzo J. Davis spans four decades. Prolific in both the studio and the public arts arena, he began working in the round, primarily with bamboo twelve years ago. His most recent commissions include “Judicial Balance,” a bamboo construction installed in the Marbury Wing of Prince George’s County Courthouse, Upper Marlboro, MD, and “Come This Way,” a power pole installation for the U.S. Embassy in Lome, Togo, West Africa. Most recently his “Sky Ladder,” installation was at The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC.
e-mail: alonzodavis@yahoo.com

Mike Shaffer
House of Broken Dreams
Mike Shaffer is a graduate of the University of Maryland and holds an M.S. degree from Southern Illinois University where his career in art began. He has traveled extensively to art museums and centers in the United States and has recently studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is active in several arts organizations and serves as President of the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project, a nonprofit arts and cultural center in Montgomery County, Maryland. In his recent work he focuses on lines and horizontal and vertical structures using objects of awards in art, two from the Baltimore Museum of Art, he has exhibited work in over 90 formal exhibitions in the U.S.
e-mail: ms@mikeshaffer.net

Alan Binstock
The Meditator – Reborn
“My studio work is focused on stone, glass and steel with occasional pieces in other materials. The current body of work tends to be self reflective. Each piece is a silent witness, in dynamic tension. Compositions bring the unique qualities which each material manifests into dialogue, and when successful, offer a moment of reflection.”
e-mail: alan@alanbinstock.com

Nancy Frankel
Cosmic Bearings
“Organic geometry, combining my interest in nature and architecture, is an important element in all my work. I am concerned with solid forms and the way they activate the surrounding space, with movement and balance, with gravity and its opposite sense of weightlessness. I work in a variety of materials, including Design-Cast (man-made stone) and steel. My work can be found locally in the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, at the Lerner Corporation, Tysons Corners, VA, and at Horizon Hill Park, Rockville, MD.”
e-mail: frankelscul@aol.com

Sam Noto
Blue
“‘Into the Garden’ is the title of my May/June show at DC’s studio gallery.Examples of my garden sculpture can be viewed at www.samnoto.com I have given several lectures on the role of objects in the private garden. By concentrating on the garden as my showplace, I have been able to focus not only on the problems of materials, space, shape and scale but also the relationship of sculpture to its surrounding environment.”
e-mail: samnoto@aol.com

Garrett Strang
Incision
Garrett’s recent works with stone reflect a relationship to the natural world and our impact on it. A typical work begins with a series of sketches that reveal a contrast of forces and energy inherent within the chosen materials whether stone, steel, and/or wood. In order to craft these visions into original sculptures, he must employ a combination of both current and traditional methods. His works exploit the embodied properties of form, tension, and balance within the medium and juxtaposes these to the immediate surroundings.
e-mail: isii@aol.com

Craig Schaffer
Gallino
“The entire sculpture series is based on fractal forms—the shapes created by the ongoing processes of Life, such as the branching of plants to catch the sunlight, the convoluted unfurling of clouds, the formation and fracturing of mountains from the forces within the earth, and the jaggedness of the coastline as it interacts with the sea. Because of the non-linear, reflexive nature of real life, these processes tend to follow spiral paths. My sculptures all contain spirals that, instead of illustrating any specific phenomenon, grow in the same reflexive manner as real complex systems.”
e-mail: schaffer.sculpture@gmail.com

Ethan Rochmis
Tearing Mt Fuji
Tearing Mt. Fuji is a piece about language. Language allows us to construct any impossibility. Does creating an impossibility make it possible?
e-mail: erochmis@hotmail.com

Shirley Koller
Curator
Shirley Koller is a Washington, DC resident who is actively engaged in blending her talents as a sculptor and curator. Recently her large scale sculpture, Lunar Landing II, (see photograph with artist) was juried into the Alumni Exhibit at The Katzen Arts Center at American University. In her position as curator, she develops and designs art and science exhibits at The American Association for the Advancement of Science in their headquarters building in Washington, DC. Her sculpture will be exhibited in June, 2008 at VisArts in Rockville, Md. She exhibits frequently in local and out of town venues.
e-mail: ShirleyArtKoller@metronets.com