The Foggy Bot­tom His­toric Dis­trict will again be the scene for show­cas­ing an excit­ing col­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary out­door sculp­tures. The open­ing of the 2010 Foggy Bot­tom Out­door Sculp­ture Exhibit takes place on Sat­ur­day, May 1 at 4 pm with curator-led tour begin­ning at the cor­ner of New Hamp­shire Ave and I Street. This six-month-long exhi­bi­tion, cre­ated as “Arts in Foggy Bot­tom” under the aus­pices of the Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion (FBA) in 2008, was the recip­i­ent of the 24th Annual Mayor’s Award for Inno­va­tion in the Arts. Dur­ing the run of the exhibit, artist-led tours of the fif­teen sculp­tures will be offered on the sec­ond Sat­ur­day of each month, start­ing at 11 am.

Brochures pro­vid­ing pho­tos of sculp­tures on dis­play with a cor­re­spond­ing loca­tion map of the neigh­bor­hood may be picked up at each sculp­ture site for a self-guided tour. New to this year’s exhibit is Guide By Cell, a self-guided audio tour with each artist speak­ing on their work, acces­si­ble by mobile phone. The exhi­bi­tion is curated by Foggy Bot­tom res­i­dent Shirley Koller, and all artists are from the met­ro­pol­i­tan Wash­ing­ton area.

Edu­ca­tional pro­grams and lec­tures will be announced dur­ing the span of the exhibit and spe­cial tours for groups will be avail­able upon request. For more infor­ma­tion on events, par­tic­i­pat­ing artists, and to down­load a brochure that will be avail­able here soon on this website.

Arts in Foggy Bot­tom is a project of the Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion. The intent of the Foggy Bot­tom Sculp­ture Exhibit is to serve as a cat­a­lyst for con­nect­ing the res­i­den­tial, busi­ness, edu­ca­tional and arts com­mu­ni­ties of Foggy Bot­tom as well as all Dis­trict of Colum­bia res­i­dents and vis­i­tors. The project is being sup­ported in part by a gen­er­ous grant from the Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion Defense and Improve­ment Corporation.