Arlington Art Truck

2019 Activations

Upcoming Activations

 

Ties That Bind: Learn to Sew on a Button and Connect  by Lorenzo Cardim with artists Charlene Wallace and Angela Latson

Learning to repair your clothing is a great way to conserve resources.  For the fall Arlington Art Truck project, artists Lorenzo Cardim, Charlene Wallace, and Angela Latson will teach participants how to sew a button while building community connections.  You'll sew fun colorful buttons of all shapes and sizes onto fabric shaped like Arlington civic associations or neighborhoods to create a map of Arlington.  During this eight week activation, segments of the map will fill up with colorful buttons which collectively represent the diversity of our community.

In late October, at Arlington Central Library’s Community Engagement Space, participants will have the special opportunity to watch the artists sew the individual civic association segments together into a bedazzling representation of the community!

While sewing, chat with neighbors, make new friends, and share ideas on how to conserve resources.

Arlington's Solid Waste Bureau and EcoAction Arlington are community partners this season.  A member of the Solid Waste Bureau will be on site to answer questions about recycling and reducing waste.

About Lorenzo Cardim

Saturday, Sept. 7 - 1-7pm -  Rosslyn Jazz Festival, Gateway Park, 1300 Lee Highway

Saturday, Sept. 14 - 8-noon -  Arlington Farmer’s Market, 1401 N. Courthouse Road

Saturday, Sept. 21 - 11-6pm - Clarendon Day, Clarendon Boulevard and Wilson Boulevard between Washington and Highland

Sunday, Sept. 29 - 12- 5pm -  ValleyFest @ New District Brewing, 2709 S Oakland Street

Saturday, Oct. 5 -1- 6pm -  Columbia Pike Fall Festival, S Adams Street at Columbia Pike

Saturday, Oct. 12 - 9-1pm -  Marymount Farmer’s Market, 2807 N Glebe Road

One day of the week of Oct. 13-19 - Wakefield High School at 1325 S Dinwiddle Street (not open to public)

Sunday, Oct. 27 - 9-1pm -  Fairlington Farmer’s Market, 3308 S Stafford Street

Tuesday- Thursday Oct. 29-31: noon-6pm - see the artists stitching the map together - Arlington Central Library’s Community Engagement Space located in the lobby near the parking lot entrance, 1015 N Quincy Street  Rain or Shine

Mid-December - ?: see the final map sewn together on display in the lobby of  The Bozman Government Center, 2100 Clarendon Blvd.  (open weekdays 8-5pm, closed weekends and holidays)

 

Arlington Abstracted Mural at the Grove by Marc Pekala 

 

Join us at PARK(ing) Day 2019 and stop by the pop-up plaza (15^th Street North and North Uhle Street at the surface parking lot) to celebrate the mural’s premiere and meet artist Marc Pekala.  The Arlington Art Truck will be there with Pekala’s Arlington Abstracted project for anyone interested in designing their own colorful creation.

For the Arlington Art Truck, Pekala reimagined eight iconic signs for Arlington business past and present in his signature abstracted aesthetic.  The signs were broken into tiles that the public was invited to arrange into their own colorful designs.  At the end of the activations, a competition of the best participant designed poster was held with plans for the winning design to be transformed into a mural by Pekala at the pop-up plaza.  The winning design was created by Arlington resident Brandon M. Bailey.

The mural covers three parking spaces transformed into a pop-up plaza adjacent to “The Grove” – the last remaining vestige of the original Arlington County Courthouse site from 1898.  This project is supported by Arlington Arts and the Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development – Urban Design Section as well as the Department of Environmental Services – Transportation Engineering and Operations whose repaving of the parking lot created a perfect mural canvas.

For more information on the Arlington Abstracted project and the businesses that inspired the designs, please visit this link. 

 

Friday, Sept. 20 - 11-2pm -  15th Street N. and N. Uhle Street at the surface parking lot.

 

 

Past Activations

 

Trash Garden by Rachel Schmidt

Area artist Rachel Schmidt will create a landscape inside the Arlington Art Truck from discarded plastics that were used by the artist in her everyday life. Participants will wrap the plastic in paper printed with Arlington fauna imagery photographed by Drew Model and Discovery School students. When placing their final wrapped object into the installation, participants will hear recorded memories of our natural environment. The final installation will contain 53 pounds of plastic- the amount that a County resident throws away in one year.  Through our participation, this project helps us to visualize the landscape of plastic waste to which we all contribute and which never completely disappears. About Rachel Schmidt

Tuesday, April 2 - 9-2:05pm - Discovery Elementary School at 5241 36th Street North (not open to the public)

Thursday, April 4 - 9:20-1:30pm -Drew Model School at 3500 23rd South (not open to the public)

Saturday, April 7 - 9-1pm - Columbia Pike Farmer's Market, 2820 Columbia Pike

Saturday, April 13 - 1-4pm - Arlington Palooza, 901 S George Mason Drive

Wednesday, April 17 - 10-noon - EarthFest @ Arlington Mill, 909 S Dinwiddie Street

Sunday, April 28 - 9-1pm - Westover Farmer's Market, 1644 McKinley Road

Saturday, May 4 - 8-noon - Lubber Run Farmer's Market, 4401, N. Henderson Road

Friday, May 10 - Artist & Curator Talk @ Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Independence Ave. SW & 7th St., Washington, DC 20560

Saturday, May 11 - 9-1pm - Arlington Mill Farmer's Market, Arlington Mill Community Center, 909 S Dinwiddie Street 

 

 

What's Your Sign?  by Paul Shortt

In What’s Your Sign?, the Truck will set up at various locations displaying and distributing signs by Florida-based artist Paul Shortt. Participants can select free, pre-made signs about daily life, consumption and the environment or make their own. These signs provide useful, funny and odd reminders, questioning how we engage in the public spaces that we encounter every day. There will also be a sign making station to create your own signs to take home. Check out the What's Your Sign? project documentation on the artist's website.  About Paul Shortt

Wednesday, May 15 - 11-1:30pm - Central Plaza & 4-7:30pm Clarendon Metro Plaza at 3100 Wilson Boulevard 

Thursday, May 16 - 11-2pm - Food Truck Thursday, 220 20th Street

Friday, May 17 - 6:30-9am - Ride Your Bike to Work Day, Gateway Park at 1300 Lee Highway & 4:30-6:30pm New District Brewery, 2709 S Oakland Street

Saturday, May 18 - 11-3pm - Make Your Mark Festival, 3700 S. Four Mile Run

Sunday, May 19 - 12-6pm - Quarter Fest, Ballston Quarter, 4238 Wilson Boulevard

Saturday, September 21 - last day TBD:  pop-up display in lobby without Truck- while supplies last - Arlington Mill Community Center, 909 S. Dinwiddie Street 

 

Futura Percussion 1860 by Neil Feather

Learn about basic and early principles of electricity by operating a sound machine designed by Guggenheim Fellow and Baltimore artist Neil Feather. This interactive sound sculpture re-uses scientific and mechanical tools like switches and electromagnetic coils – all technology developed before the 1860’s. Activate the sculpture by cranking a bicycle wheel, pushing buttons and switches and turning knobs to make your own sound composition.   If you have questions – ask the artist Neil who will be standing by your side in this journey through science, sound and history! About Neil Feather

 

Thursday, May 30 - 11-2pm – on the plaza at the entrance to the Ellen M. Bozman Government Center, 2100 Clarendon Boulevard - be sure and check out Made in Arlington indoors, same time!

Saturday, June 8 - 9-3pm - Rock 'n Recycle- Solid Waste Bureau Open House, 2700 S Taylor Street, (go to the top of the hill- free parking on levels 2 and 3 of garage on left)

Saturday, June 15 - 1-8:30pm - Columbia Pike Blues Festival, Walter Reed Drive at Columbia Pike

Saturday June 22 - 10-2pm -  in partnership with Shirlington Public Library, plaza in front of 4200 Campbell Avenue

Thursday, June 27 - 3-7pm -  Ballston Farmer's Market, Welburn Square, 901 N. Taylor Street

Tuesday, July 9 - 3-7pm - Crystal City Farmer’s Market, Crystal Dr & 20th Street S

Sunday, July 14 - 9-1pm -  Fairlington Farmer’s Market, Fairlington Community Center, 3308 S Stafford Street

Thursday, July 25 - 6-9pm -  Pentagon City Rock at the Row, 1101 S Joyce Street

Friday, Aug. 16 - 4-9pm - Arlington County Fair, Thomas Jefferson Community Center, 3501 2nd Street S Rain or Shine

Saturday, Aug. 17 - 4-9pm - Arlington County Fair ,Thomas Jefferson Community Center, 3501 2nd Street. S Rain or Shine

 

 

 

Schedule subject to cancellation due to weather, see social media for most immediate updates. Check back soon for additional upcoming events!