Arts In Foggy Bottom

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Sculpt­ing Out­side the Lines was the third edi­tion of the award-winning Arts in Foggy Bot­tom Bien­nial Out­door Sculp­ture Exhibit. The exhibit closed out its run with a series of spe­cial events high­light­ing the syn­er­gis­tic rela­tion­ship of sculp­ture and the per­form­ing arts. With 13 sculp­tures by 15 artists the exhibit ended its six-month run on Octo­ber 20, 2012.

On Fri­day, Octo­ber 19th, at promptly at 6:00 pm. there was a twi­light tour of the Exhibit. Led by cura­tor Laura Roulet, five vir­tu­oso musi­cians from the National Sym­phony Orches­tra per­formed short pieces inspired by five of the sculp­tures in the Exhibit. After night­fall there was also a spe­cial show­ing of Jef­fer­son Pinder’s videos Car Wash, Invis­i­ble Man and Ele­va­tor Music (a work espe­cially cre­ated for the Exhibit) that were screened with a Christie dig­i­tal the­ater projector.

On Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 20th, the spe­cial events con­tin­ued by high­light­ing the rela­tion­ship between sculp­ture and the per­form­ing arts. Vis­i­tors were given an oppor­tu­nity to inter­act with the cura­tor and artists. Artist Linda Hesh appeared at her inter­ac­tive work TRUST and DOUBT at 2:00 pm. Ms. Hesh pho­tographed vis­i­tors as they choose what they TRUST and DOUBT, then uploaded these por­traits to a spe­cial online gallery. From 3:00 to 5:00 pm the East River Jazz, which fos­ters jazz per­for­mance in DC’s Wards 7 and 8, headed to the His­toric Foggy Bot­tom dis­trict and per­formed at sites through­out the Exhibit. The REVISION Dance Com­pany, the res­i­dent com­pany of Dance Place, also per­formed at cer­tain spe­cific sculp­ture sites. The Com­pany used impro­vi­sa­tion chore­o­graphic tech­niques and cre­ated a kinetic and visual rela­tion­ship between the sta­tic sculp­tures and its dynamic dancers.

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion on the par­tic­i­pat­ing artist, their biogra­phies, or to view instal­la­tion videos click here.

Arts in Foggy Bot­tom, East River Jazz and REVISION Dance Com­pany are part of Art4All DC, a cel­e­bra­tion of art, per­for­mances and com­mu­nity across the Dis­trict, a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort of Cul­tural Tourism DC, the DC Com­mis­sion of the Arts and Human­i­ties and media part­ner The Wash­ing­ton Examiner.

Media Con­tact: Robin Jones robin@robinannjones.com

Look­ing back at Sculpt­ing Out­side the Lines

The award win­ning Arts in Foggy Bot­tom Out­door Sculp­ture Exhibit cel­e­brated its third sea­son in the Foggy Bot­tom His­toric Dis­trict with a new theme, a new cura­tor, and some very inno­v­a­tive artists.

Sculpt­ing Out­side the Lines, this year’s theme, is the inspi­ra­tion of cura­tor, Laura Roulet, who will be work­ing with founders and co-directors of the exhibit, Jackie Lemire, Jill Nevius and Mary Kay Shaw to cre­ate another dis­tinc­tive dis­play of pub­lic art from April 21 through Octo­ber 20, 2012.

Sculpt­ing Out­side the Lines show­cased 13 sculp­tures by 15 artists, most of whom are nation­ally rec­og­nized. Foggy Bot­tom will be the show­case for cast con­crete works by Dan Stein­hilber who has had solo exhi­bi­tions at the Hir­sh­horn Museum and Sculp­ture Gar­den and the Bal­ti­more Museum of Art. Bar­bara Liotta, who recently showed at the Phillips Gallery as part of Inter­sec­tions, will cre­ate a large-scale site-specific work.

For the first time, new media was included such as a pro­jec­tion by Jef­fer­son Pin­der, whose exhibits include the Smithsonian’s National Por­trait Gallery and the Stu­dio Museum of Harlem. Joseph and John Dum­b­acher, locally-renowned for their solo exhibit at the Cor­co­ran Gallery of Art, will install a 13′ alu­minum abstract sculp­ture. Dalya Luttwak’s recent solo exhi­bi­tions include the Kreeger Museum, Wash­ing­ton DC. She will cre­ate a site-specific sus­pended “root work.”

The Arts in Foggy Bot­tom is part of Art4All DC tak­ing place Sep­tem­ber 6 through Octo­ber 21 in Cel­e­bra­tion of Arts, Per­for­mance, and Community

Art4All DC, led by Cul­tural Tourism DC in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the DC Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties with the sup­port of media part­ner The Wash­ing­ton Exam­iner, is a city-wide col­lab­o­ra­tion that con­venes arts orga­ni­za­tions and artists to present and ini­ti­ate par­tic­i­pa­tion in the arts across all four quad­rants of the District.

Art4All DC aims to pro­mote arts in the neigh­bor­hoods and stress the eco­nomic impact of the arts.

Please join us in cel­e­brat­ing Wash­ing­ton, DC’s arts, per­for­mance, and com­mu­nity with Art4All DC from Sep­tem­ber 6-October 21. List­ings can be found in The Wash­ing­ton Examiner’s Fall Arts Guide or online at www.CulturalTourismDC.org


Cul­tural Tourism DC, an inde­pen­dent, 501©(3) non­profit coali­tion of more than 230 cul­ture, her­itage, and community-based orga­ni­za­tions help­ing you expe­ri­ence DC’s authen­tic cul­ture and her­itage. For more infor­ma­tion visit www.CulturalTourismDC.org

Arts in Foggy Bot­tom Out­door Sculp­ture Exhibit
Foggy Bot­tom Dis­trict | Wash­ing­ton DC April 21 thru Octo­ber 20

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