Inaugural Opportunities
Happy New Year! Here’s an extra post for you design fashionistas wanting an Inaugural opportunity. You can enter this contest and upload your own design by Jan 6th to see if you’ll have the winning illustration for the new first lady’s Inaugural gown. Click here to read the Washington Post article. Click here for the contest.
Light on Rosslyn
Here’s an conceptual rendering of what the public art display, Corridor of Light by Cliff Garten, will look like, once the project gets fully funded. The glowing light sculptures, remind me of floating jellyfish. They are actually kinda cool, in that they will be 21 feet high and have changing colors to fit the seasons. It is intended to bring some identity to Rosslyn, VA. Something similar (changing light sculptures) already exists in Alexandria at the PTO (Patent & Trade Office) and entrance to the Carlyle development. However, these are stationary and the ones proposed for Rosslyn appear to be projected light images. Happy New Year’s Eve!
WPA
Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created in the 1930’s during the Great Depression to help employ folks, including artists to draw, paint, document and create our nation’s public art and public works in general, like bridges and highways. Hey, here’s a concept maybe worth repeating. There was an exhibit this fall at the University of Kentucky of many of these works. Sadly a well known sculptor, Robert Graham, has just died. His sculptures were used for the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial in DC. This is a wonderful memorial to see at night.
