02.22.2023
Fairmount Park (Fire Station #11)
Jim Gallucci has been selected to create public art for Fire Station #11 in Norfolk Virginia. The new station will replace the second oldest fire station in Norfolk, VA, centrally located on Lafayette Boulevard in Fairmount Park. Gallucci will design and create...
01.10.2022
Billboard “Blossoms In The Darkness” 2022
Homemade Blueberry Pie Whether her canvas is traditional, an engineer’s mind, a comedic sketch, or a pie, Karen Freidt inspires viewers with a child-iike curiosity and innovative approach. Her diverse successes span the gamut from award winning artist to NASA...
12.20.2021
The End of Massive Resistance
SAVE THE DATE for a Dedication & Celebration: Thursday, April 27, 10am “End of Massive Resistance” Public Art by RE:site Flatiron Park, Norfolk, VA 114 W. Charlotte St., Norfolk, VA 23510 All are invited to join the artists, Mayor Kenneth Cooper...
12.17.2021
Billboard “Underwater” 2022
Digital drawing Artwork will begin to rotate on billboards throughout the Norfolk regional Adams Outdoor Advertising area in 2022.
12.17.2021
Billboard “Convergence of Birds” 2022
Oil painting Artwork will begin to rotate on billboards throughout the Norfolk regional Adams Outdoor Advertising area in 2022.
12.17.2021
Billboard “Landscape of the Imagination” 2022
Collage on wood Artwork will begin to rotate on billboards throughout the Norfolk regional Adams Outdoor Advertising area in 2022.
04.26.2021
Chryshellis (Public Art Partnership project with Coastal Va Plein Air)
The OV Coastal VA Plein Air Public Art planning committee selected Eileen Gay to create a mosaic sculpture for Ocean View Beach Park that represents the authentic, salty integrity of OV. The artwork directly engages visitors, instilling passion and excitement and...
12.9.2020
SENTARA Brock Cancer Center Private Development Partnership Match Project
Jennifer Madden and Jeffrey Reed of Richmond, CA have been selected to create public art for Sentara’s new treatment and care center, a 253,000-square-foot, glass-and-stone building at 6251 E. Virginia Beach Blvd., complete with a healing garden and fountain. To...
02.3.2020
Ocean View Coastal VA Plein Air Partnership Match Project
Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us at the dedication at Ocean View Beach Park on October 30, 2021. Thank you to special guest speaker Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander, Norfolk Art Commissioner Barbara Laws, project partner, Coastal VA Plein Air and artist...
12.2.2019
Billboard “The Space Around You” 2019
Photo of a sculpture created from recycled materials
10.17.2019
Billboard “Solitude” 2019
10.17.2019
Billboard “A Dreamer” 2019
Acrylic painting by Petya Entimova-Ivanova.
10.16.2019
Billboard “Xpressionizm” 2017
“Xpressionizm”, a mixed media painting by Scot Turner
10.16.2019
Billboard “American Glitch: Neo-Regionalism” 2017
American Glitch: Neo-Regionalism by Alan Skees
10.14.2019
Citizen Artist Norfolk (temporary project 2014)
Norfolk Arts awarded Nicole Harp and Knox Garvin a grant to launch Citizen Artist Norfolk—with sculpture, video, and website components—during Visual Arts Week 2014 with the goal of providing citizens a forum in which they could float their best and brightest ideas...
10.2.2019
Bay Oaks Park (Public art by rideartstudio.com coming May 7, 2022)
Pictured above: Bay Oaks public art committee meets virtually on April 8, 2020 to tour the site with artists Jonathan and Saori Russell. Ride Art Studio was selected to create a kinetic public art project for Bay Oaks Park. Their design was approved in July 2020. The...
07.22.2019
The Future is in the Margins
Watch a clip at the dedication 10/24/20 Listen to DeeDee talk about her project: https://norfolkarts.net/wp-content/uploads/DEE-DEE-INTERVIEW.mp4 Deedee Morrison combines history, art and innovation to create site-specific public art that fosters a unique sense of...
04.23.2019
Billboard “Flooded Pier on Wayne Creek” 2018
David Johnson “Flooded Pier on Wayne Creek” Photography
04.23.2019
Billboard “Body Art” 2018
“Body Art” Oil painting Susan Powell Tolbert is an artist and an educator. Her current work explores collage combined with classical painting techniques.
04.23.2019
Billboard “Attucks Archival Ajents” 2018
“Attucks Archival Ajents” Digital Vector Drawing LISTEN Through the application of hard-edged, geometric patterning, Mensah’s work explores a surrealistic abstract world referenced by the digital age. Transparent layering established through color theory...
04.23.2019
Billboard “Art is Everywhere” 2018
LISTEN Acrylic on Canvas “My artwork focuses on dreams, courage, perseverance, beauty and our abilities to create our own stories. Layering and juxtaposition are tools I use to identify abstract roles used to actively describe and forge “selves.” Revealing the...
01.27.2019
Billboard “Trail Magic” 2018
Matt Parker “Trail Magic” Ink Drawing
01.17.2019
Freemason Composition in Primary
Located at an entry point to the historic district, the light rail station artwork promotes the continuity and character of the district. Specifically, the art reflects a mix of both the historic charm and the urban energy and vitality associated with the area and its...
01.11.2019
Portrait of a Neighborhood
In 2011, The Governor’s School for the Arts worked with Ingleside Elementary School to create windscreen designs for the Ingleside Light Rail Station. Fast forward to 2018, Michael Logan (2011 Governor’s school student) now the art teacher at Ingleside...
01.8.2019
Norfolk State Inspiration
Material: Sandblasted glass windscreens were fabricated at Class Glass Inc, Alexandria, VA Panel size, each approximately 2 x 2 ft Design Inspiration: Historical photographs from NSU’s History, representing students, faculty, Dr. Lyman Brooks (president 1938-1975),...
01.8.2019
Getting on Your Optic Nerve
EVMS Light Rail Station Windscreens Clay’s first step in creating windscreen artwork for the EVMS Light Rail Station was to visit Fort Norfolk twice and the Medical Center once and take over 600 photographs between the two. After visiting Fort Norfolk during his...
10.29.2018
Life Drawing: Phoenix Rising
Life Drawing: Phoenix Rising, is one of 5 natural stone mosaics being created for 5 schools in Norfolk, VA by Mark Archambault of Hammerhead Stoneworks in Asheville, NC. The mosaics speak to the idea of students making things; not just the life that they see, but...
10.25.2018
Community Mural created during Imagine 5 Points in 2018
Norfolk Arts selected Christopher to complete this community mural with attendees during the “Imagine 5 Points”, outdoor street museum created in 2018 in the 5 points neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia.
09.5.2018
5 stone mosaics for 5 new Norfolk Public Schools
Marc Archambault of Hammerhead Stoneworks was selected to create 5 natural stone mosaics for 5 new Norfolk Public Schools: Camp Allen Elementary, Richard Bowling Elementary, Southside Stem Academy, Ocean View Elementary and Larchmont Elementary. In addition to these 5...
07.27.2018
Humpbacks off the Virginia Coast
In 2008, twenty-seven years after Wyland’s quest began, the artist and the Wyland Foundation completed the monumental goal of painting 100 life-size public marine murals. These murals were painted in life-size dimensions to increase appreciation and understanding for...
07.27.2018
Regatta (Tower of Lights)
This artwork is a triangular, stainless steel form composed of hundreds of small triangular pieces of polished steel on a tall tapered pole. The small triangles move with the breeze and catch significant light. The work is integrated into the Amphitheatre plaza,...
07.27.2018
General Douglas MacArthur
Compiled by MacArthur Memorial intern Chavon Freeman, Virginia Wesleyan College, April 2009 This bronze statue of Douglas MacArthur, by noted artist Walker Hancock, is a duplicate of a statue of MacArthur at the United States Military Academy at West Point which was...
07.20.2018
Progression of Literature
Diana worked with students to cut and paint metal strips that were then twisted into tessellations representing books.
06.26.2018
Flight of Seagulls (removed 2017)
Barbara Kobylinska and students of the Emerging Leaders program created “Flight of the Seagulls” for the Town Point parking garage. There are twelve colorful ceramic sculptures in all. The project was removed in 2017 due to garage renovations and hopefully will be...
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