RSS FeedHelp Paint 8th Street NW On Saturday! (Colorfield remix project)
In March, we reported that 8th Street NW was to be “striped” in association with the Colorfield remix project that runs this April to July. We got word that striping will occur on Saturday!
Where: 8th St NW, between D & E St
When: Saturday, May 12th, 6:00am – 7:00pm
Dedication: Saturday, May 12th, 12:00 – 12:30pm
Come and help paint 8th Street!
- From the DC Newsroom: In May 1987, the Corcoran School of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum collaborated to paint a giant color stripe scheme on 8th Street NW between D and E in honor of Gene Davis, an important artist of the color field movement and former Corcoran faculty member. Mokha Laget, long time studio assistant to Gene Davis, designed the project. Now 20 years later, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the Corcoran plan to recreate the 1987 project as an homage to Gene Davis with Mokha Laget as the lead artist for this project once again. She has created an alternative scheme much closer in color, rhythm, musicality and lyricism to Gene Davis’ paintings.
8th Street (between D & E) will be closed during these times:
Info courtesy of the PQNA. Pic courtesy of the DC Newsroom.
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such a very, very cool idea.