Home to more than 60 permanent public art projects, Arlington, Virginia, is a community that recognizes the important role art can play in creating meaningful connections between people and places important to civic life. Walk around any of Arlington’s urban villages and you’re sure to spot a sculpture, mural or other artistic creation. Join Arlington County's Public Artist in Residence Graham Coreil-Allen for a walking tour of Rosslyn to learn about the neighborhood’s celebrated public art and robust network of spectacular public spaces.
Graham Coreil-Allen is a Baltimore-based public artist making places more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. Graham collaborates with neighbors to interpret and activate public spaces through art for pedestrian safety and play, interactive mapping, radical walking tours, and neighborhood advocacy. In 2016-2017, Graham developed the County Wandering walking tour series for Arlington and has led these tours in neighborhoods throughout the county.
Marking each of the four corners of the Esplanade Bridge over Interstate 66, these monumental sculptures create a memorable entry into Arli…
_Liquid Pixels_ by Ned Kahn consists of 630,000 one-inch diameter stainless steel discs affixed to pins.
_Quill_ by artist Christian Moeller was created as a perimeter enhancement for the Dominion Virginia Power substation. It consists of nearl…
_Gravity and Grace_ by Cliff Garten is a site-specific, large-scale LED public artwork integrated into the architecture of Central Place Pl…
_Continuum_ by artists Tom Ashcraft and David Chung consists of 17 mosaic panels along Key Boulevard that depict motion through a sequence …
_Anna and David_ suggests movement through the animated poses of two dancing figures. Artist Miriam Schapiro writes about her work:
For _Helix,_ artist John Dreyfuss was inspired by the form of the human skeletal pelvis, so he cast a massive one from bronze.
Artist Chris Gardner imagines this sculpture as “the garden where Cupid grows his arrows.” The arrows also allude to signs that direct the …
Israeli-born sculptor Boaz Vaadia (1951-2017) took his inspiration from both urban and rural environments, specifically the monumental ston…
Encompassing landscape architecture, sculpture, and astronomy, Dark Star Park by Nancy Holt is among the first major examples of “integrate…