Public Art

 

 

SWEET NETWORK

Artist: CHALK R!OT

This year’s mural design invites the Silver Spring community to reflect on two important questions:
     1) What do you offer to your community?
     2) What do you receive from your community?

Chalk Riot’s ongoing pavement art project The Sweet Network uses the metaphor of beehives and their builders to visualize what strengthens and connects us. In collaboration with Arts on the Block, young artists illustrated on worksheets responses to the prompt “What do you offer to your community?” and Chalk Riot crew members included those designs inside some of the honeycombs!

We hope that when people travel through this space, they will be reminded of the vast networks of support and care that exist in this world.

CLICK HERE for previous DTSS Street Murals by CHALK R!OT.

 

BLUMEN LUMEN 

Artist: FoldHaus

Blumen Lumen, designed by internationally acclaimed FoldHaus, is unlike any art in the world. It features a bouquet of 18- to 24-foot folded stainless-steel flowers that respond to weather patterns and open and close as the sun rises and sets. At night, their colorful display can be influenced by people’s voices. This impressive kinetic installation located at the bustling intersection of Georgia Ave and Colesville Rd gracefully balances modern technology with nature. Learn more…

Blooms open daily at 8 am and close at 10 pm. They are also responsive to weather patterns provided by the National Weather Service.

 

Artist: JP Muller

Finding new aspects of familiar things and people is a constant source of inspiration, adventure, and amusement. Muller strives for that cerebral connection, one gets during the spark of discovery, especially when shared.

 

Artist:  James Bullough

The Washington, D.C. expat living in Berlin, strikes a delicate balance between realistic portraiture and stylized distortions, incorporating a model for this project with family ties to Silver Spring.

 

Artist:  No Kings Collective

Innovative duo Peter Chang and Brandon Hill, both sons of D.C., have made their vibrant, graphic mark on the District time and time again, from Nats Park to The Wharf and beyond.

 

Artist:  1010

The Hamburg native is known for his giant wall murals that portray hyper realistic motifs of cave forms.

 

IMPERMANENCE

Artist:  David Carlson

Located on the handrails of the Grand Staircase, Impermanence is an abstract art piece featuring recognizable shapes, mostly circles, but also rounded forms and lines which are used to create movement and structure in the space.