04.1.2024
School Administration Building Mural
March 2024 Created inside of the School Administration Building in Norfolk, Virginia. Project funded by the School Administration and the City of Norfolk. Norfolk Arts helped to facilitate the process of selecting the artist for this call for...
03.12.2024
Untitled – Digital Artwork
Title: Untitled3 Dimensions: 2016×2050 Material: Digital Year: 2023 Printed on vinyl wrap in 2024. Silas Baker’s artwork was selected to appear on a traffic signal box in Ward 3 in front of Booker T. High School in Norfolk,...
11.22.2023
St. Paul’s Cultural Trail Artist Roster
Learn more. The City of Norfolk and the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA) have partnered to transform the former Tidewater Gardens public housing community in the St. Paul’s area into a mixed-use, mixed-income community of the future – an economically...
10.14.2023
Traffic Signal Box Vinyl Art Wrap in Ward 3
Thank you to everyone who applied for the opportunity to see their artwork printed on vinyl and installed on traffic signal boxes in Norfolk’s Ward 3! We received 109 submissions. Congratulations to these 9 local artists whose artwork was selected. Watch for...
07.25.2023
2nd NEA Grant Project Project – ongoing through 2024
Norfolk Arts is a proud recipient of a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant which is supporting a series of interactive seminars for the arts and culture sector that includes current and former Norfolk Arts grantees. The outcome of the seminars will result in...
07.25.2023
Ocean View Partnership Project with Coastal VA Plein Air
Pictured above Karen Rudd and Dorothy Coakley re-vamp the Ocean View Mural by Cecilia Lueza in Norfolk Virginia at Ocean View Beach Park. ⭐️Take a look at this Summer Art Camp being sponsored via funding from the 2023 Coastal VA Plein Air farewell event! 🌟We are...
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 was selected to create...
08.28.2022
It’s A Sunny-Side-Up Kind of Day
Amanda Bradley’s graphic artwork incorporates photography & image compositing. This specific image is of a realistic looking balloon (egg yolk) that momentarily finds a cloud and makes it look like a fried egg in the sky. Her hope is that this happy, fun...
12.20.2021
End of Massive Resistance
Pictured above: Artist Norman Lee of RE:Site at the dedication Dedicated: 04/27/23 See photos from the dedication Read this VEER Magazine Article. Location: Flatiron Park, Norfolk, VA 114 W. Charlotte St., Norfolk, VA 23510 A replica of the final piece was temporarily...
12.17.2021
Landscape of the Imagination
Collage on wood
09.15.2021
NEA Grant project Ohio Creek
Christine Rojek has been selected to create this project. A Summer 2024 Artwork dedication is planned to take place during the RiverFest, Community Celebration Event. Christine’s aluminum sculpture, “Taming of the Surge” will be installed in 2024....
04.26.2021
Chryshellis (Public Art Partnership project with Coastal Va Plein Air)
Enjoy these images and videos from the Dedication. 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...
12.9.2020
SENTARA Brock Cancer Center Private Development Partnership Match Project
“Gratitude” by Jennifer Madden and Jeffrey Reed of Richmond, CA was unveiled 05/18/23. WATCH THE UNVEILING. Listen to this speech at the dedication by Jennifer Madden. Listen to this speech at the dedication by Jeff Reed. Jennifer Madden and Jeffrey Reed of Richmond,...
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...
10.16.2019
American Glitch: Neo-Regionalism
American Glitch: Neo-Regionalism Digital Artwork
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...
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...
05.25.2019
David Simkins acrylic painting
Acrylic painting
04.23.2019
Flooded Pier on Wayne Creek
Photograph
01.27.2019
Trail Magic 2018 Billboard
Matt Parker’s ink drawing was selected to appear on an Adams Outdoor Advertising Billboard in 2018.
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...
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