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Touring the Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit

Guided tours will be held the second Saturday of each month – June through October – at 11:00 a.m. Each tour will start at New Hampshire Avenue and I Street, NW. Tour guides will be sculptors who are participating in the Exhibit.
The tour schedule is as follows:
June 14 – Philippe Mougne
July 12 – Nancy Frankel
August 9 – Craig Kraft
September 13 – Robert Cole
October 11 – Sam Noto
Click on the “Sculptors” link for information on each sculptor.

Where You Can Find It

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  1. Accumulative Effect, Pamela Burris, 842 New Hampshire Ave., NW
  2. Dance, Philippe Mougne, 2415 I Street, NW
  3. Leaf, Robert Cole, 2433 I Street, NW
  4. Aerial Delineation, Craig Kraft, 835 25th Street, NW
  5. Turquoise Trail, Alonzo Davis, 835 25th Street, NW
  6. House of Broken Dreams, Mike Shaffer, 809 25th Street, NW
  7. The Meditator - Reborn, Alan Binstock, 801 25th Street, NW
  8. Cosmic Bearings, Nancy Frankel, 826 25th Street, NW
  9. Blue, Sam Noto, 2532 I Street, NW
  10. Tearing Mt Fuji, Ethan Rochmis, 919 26th Street, NW
  11. Incision, Garrett Strang, 925 26th Street, NW
  12. Gallino, Craig Schaffer, 912 ½ 25th Street, NW

As you come across each sculpture you may wonder why contemporary art in an historic district? For much of its life Foggy Bottom was home to skilled carpenters, ironworkers, bricklayers and builders who worked in the city’s factories and at its trades. The artisans of the industrial age would have appreciated the skills of the artists whose work you are seeing today.

Exhibited here are sculptures that carry on a great tradition of public art that goes back to a time in early history when art was not separate from everyday life. Each sculpture brings new stories and memories to our historic neighborhood and through them enlarges our awareness of the houses, streets and the relationship of art to our lives. We encourage you to stop, look and share the artists’imagination as they bring us myths, stories, social issues, and history as told through color and form, lines and circles, horizontals and verticals, symbols and reality.

We invite you to stroll through our historic neighborhood to explore and view twelve contemporary sculptures by area artists. Use this self-guided tour or join us once-a-month for an artist-led sculpture tour taking place through October.