ArtsFairfax launches public art challenge
ArtsFairfax launched a Public Art Locator Challenge, a social media scavenger hunt to help the nonprofit promote its Public Art Locator and add to its database of “found art.”
Local art enthusiasts are invited to submit a selfie on Facebook or Instagram with an example of public art from ArtsFairfax’s Public Art Locator or upload new art to the locator. Entries should include the tag @FairfaxArts and the hashtag #PublicArtLocatorChallenge.
Qualifying submissions will be entered into a raffle for gift certificates, show tickets, and other prizes from local arts organizations.
The challenge is open through Sept. 30.
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The Public Art Locator is a free web application identifying the location of street art, murals, and sculptures. So far, 215 artworks have already been mapped.
ArtsFairfax defines a work of public art as “any artwork that is accessible by the general public at all hours, day and night.”
Examples in the Annandale/Mason District area on the locator map include the mural at the ACCA Child Development Center on Columbia Pike, the statue of St. Michael on Evergreen Lane, a mural at the Hidden Oaks Nature Center, and a statue at a Buddhist temple overlooking Columbia Pike.
By creating the challenge, “Arts Fairfax wants to celebrate the art that makes Northern Virginia unique and identify new opportunities for public art installation in our region.”
ArtsFairfax says, “Public art is all around us – you just have to find it.”
What a waste. Art does not make Virginia unique. Public art is not all around us… homeless people are all around us, kids who can’t read are all around us, families struggling to buy a home in a safe neighborhood – are all around us. These distractions snd misguided priorities may be why a tyrant as president gained so much support.